THROUGH SHADOWS
Where Shadow Meets Movement, and Freedom Emerges
A 5Rhythms® One-Day Intensive
NOVEMBER 8, VANCOUVER
We often crave freedom, release, connection—but what happens when life mirrors back what we don’t want to see?
The stuckness, the control, the overwhelm, the pretending, the disconnection. Too often, we move through our days without noticing the shadow moving through us—shaping our choices, our reactions, our relationships—without our consent. Through Shadows invites us to sharpen our seeing. To pause the autopilot. To recognize when we are no longer fully present, and to meet the patterns we thought we’d escaped with curiosity, awareness, and courage.
This one-day intensive offers a map for navigating the undercurrents that live in each rhythm. We won’t name or shame the shadows—we’ll study them, feel them, move them. We’ll explore the subtle and not-so-subtle ways they show up in our bodies and relationships, and learn how to shift them through conscious embodiment. Because the first step to transformation is simply this: to look. To tell the truth in motion. To meet the shadow not with judgment, but with fierce curiosity—and the willingness to keep dancing.
IN THIS WORKSHOP YOU WILL
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Learn to recognize the subtle signs of shadow when it appears in your life or movement
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Explore each rhythm as both medicine and mirror—revealing where you’re free and where you’re stuck
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Identify patterns and habits that influence your decisions and behavior
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Develop strategies to work with resistance and obstacles effectively
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Strengthen your awareness of how actions and choices are influenced by unconscious patterns
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Discover how engaging with the shadow can improve clarity, focus, and intentional living
* This workshop counts as 1 day of Wave level
pre-requisite toward the 5Rhythms® Teacher Training
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for anyone who feels the call to deepen their dance and their life. It's for those who have danced before and those who have yet to take their first step. It's for the curious, the courageous, the weary, and the wild. Whether you're seeking healing, growth, or simply a space to be, this workshop welcomes you. No experience necessary—just a willingness to move, to feel, and to be seen.
A daylong exploration of movement as a gateway to presence
Immersions offer a potent field for healing and transformation because they allow us to step outside the habitual rhythms of daily life and enter a dedicated space where presence deepens and the body can truly listen. The shared rhythm, vulnerability, and witnessing within a group creates a resonance field where healing becomes amplified—what one releases, another remembers. In this way, immersions are not just personal journeys, but sacred grounds where collective transformation can unfold, and where we remember that we are never alone in our becoming.
Your Guide
GLORIA GLO
Gloria’s devotion to dance as a healing art began at a young age, but it was through 5Rhythms that she came home to her body in a new way. Since dancing her first Wave in 2013, she has immersed herself in the study and transmission of embodied practices—exploring how movement becomes a language for healing, transformation, and deeper connection to self and spirit.
For Gloria, 5Rhythms is a living map—a gateway into embodied awareness, emotional alchemy, and authentic expression. Through years of practice, it has become a foundation for healing and liberation, and a bridge into other creative realms such as Mandalic Visionary Art. This work also called her to co-create a Retreat Center in the heart of the Belizean jungle, where she now offers immersive retreats and embodied movement journeys.
As a certified 5Rhythms teacher, Gloria offers immersive experiences that become sanctuaries for the soul. Her spaces are woven with breath, ritual, presence, and rhythm—inviting participants to feel deeply, express freely, and reconnect with the living intelligence of the body. She holds space with reverence, guiding dancers through cycles of release, remembrance, and renewal. Whether on the dance floor or in the wild heart of the jungle, her invitation remains the same: to move into wholeness, to return to rhythm, and to remember ourselves as love in motion.
This work isn’t just for the dance floor. The shadows we encounter in movement mirror the patterns, fears, and resistances that shape our lives off the floor. By learning to notice them, to meet them with curiosity rather than judgment, we build the capacity to move with more presence, clarity, and freedom in everything we do. Dance becomes a laboratory for understanding, integrating, and transforming the parts of ourselves we often try to ignore.
“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”
— Carl Jung, Psychological Aspects of the Personality
