ANCESTORS SERIES

Join us for a movement series with our Ancestors!

The 5Rhythms Ancestors series explores your often unconscious family/ancestral patterns and offers a way to shift and release them.

Through dance, movement, voice/sound, and guided group exercises, Sylvie Minot uses each of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms—flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness—to honor the past and create new pathways for healing.

SCHEDULE

Sylvie Minot is facilitating a virtual 6-week 5Rhythms Ancestors series over Zoom from October 6th to November 10th, 2021.

Class #1 - Wednesday October 6, 2021  |  7:30 - 9:00 pm pst
                   Invocation of the Ancestors
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Class #2  - Wednesday October 13, 2021  |  7:30 - 9:00 pm pst
                   Honoring the Female Lineage

Class #3 - Wednesday October 20, 2021  |  7:30 - 9:00 pm pst
                   Honoring the Male Lineage 

Class #4 - Wednesday October 27, 2021  |  7:30 - 9:00 pm pst
                   Honoring the Tribe

Class #5 - Wednesday November 3, 2021  |  7:30 - 9:00 pm pst
                   Shapeshifting and Animal Clan
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Class #6 - Wednesday November 10, 2021  |  7:30 - 9:00 pm pst
                   Healing the Land

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You are invited to

• Explore your maternal/paternal lineage and ancestry through movement
• Release and heal family trauma
• Gain freedom from your personal history and stories
• Honor, give thanks, and embody forgiveness and healing for ourselves, our lineage, and the land of our ancestors

Accessible for anyone interested in transformation through movement. This series is an opportunity to tap into the generations of wisdom that live deep within you. 

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Please contact us at info@syzygydanceproject.org for more information.

Each Thursday this page is updated with the latest class information.
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ABOUT SYLVIE MINOT'S ANCESTORS CLASS

Sylvie Minot's Ancestors classes explore your often unconscious family/ancestral patterns and offers a way to shift and release them.

Through dance, movement, voice/sound, and guided group exercises, Sylvie uses each of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms—flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness—to honor your past and create new pathways for healing.

5Rhythms is a simple meditative movement practice designed to release the dancer that lives in every body regardless of shape, size, age, or experience. While the dance itself is simple, it has the power to catalyze deep healing and creative expression.

Classes feature DJ music that is facilitated by the teacher, Sylvie Minot. There are no dance steps to follow, but you are guided in breath and movement through the different musical choices. Each rhythm has its own energy and tempo in which you tap into the wisdom of your body, bring awareness to the patterns in yourself and your life, and find your individual expression. No two classes are the same.

Any level of fitness, agility and ages are invited to participate. All are welcome and no prior dance training or ability is required.

Please note -- for the virtual classes, you don't have to connect via video--you can choose to call in or join by audio only and listen to the class through a headset. Some dancers enjoy being outdoors while they move to the music.

About Sylvie Minot 

Sylvie Minot received her BA in Dance from San Jose State University and is a certified 5Rhythms® Teacher who was also trained in the Heartbeat (emotional) map by Gabrielle Roth.

Sylvie has studied psychology, indigenous healing rituals, energy medicine, and sound healing and is inspired by the teachings of cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien, author Caroline Myss, and sound healer and renowned Peruvian master Tito La Rosa.

​Since 2000, Sylvie has taught weekly dance classes and workshops for a variety of populations. Sylvie is often described as a catalytic shape-shifter because of her ability to meet people right where they are and move with them into new possibilities.

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​“The body holds stories and old wounds, and medicine as well. It has the antidote to heal itself. Through moving, we release our stories and allow healing to come through.”
- Sylvie Minot

Remember by Joy Harjo

Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories.
​Remember the moon, know who she is.
Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away to night.
Remember your birth, how your mother struggled to give you form and breath. You are evidence of her life, and her mother’s, and hers.
Remember your father. He is your life, also.
Remember the earth whose skin you are: red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth, brown earth, we are earth.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.
Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the origin of this universe.
Remember you are all people and all people are you.
Remember you are this universe and this universe is you.
Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.
Remember language comes from this.
Remember the dance language is, that life is.
Remember.


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