Category: Weekly Dance Classes

The Shifting of the Season

8/23/2022

August by Lizette Woodworth Reese

Sweat Your Prayers in December

12/2/2021

Swaet Your Prayers Class with Sylvie Minot

In Sylvie Minot’s Saturday morning 5Rhythms Sweat Your Prayers™ class, you will be led on a journey of self-discovery as participants come together in community. The class is made up of two waves.

Honoring the Land Through Dance

11/10/2021

Honoring the land through 5rhythms movement

Poet and activist Oak Chezar wrote that we are pieces of ancient Earth, bits of sacred story soaked in intellect and dirt.

Reconnecting With Your Ancestral Tribe Through Movement

10/27/2021

Reconnecting With Your Ancestral tribe Image

Tribes are described as a group of people tied together by kinship relations, and they have a strong connection with the place where they live.

They are usually separated from mainstream society. Members of a tribe may not know about their ancestral history, but they are united by and share beliefs, traditions, or symbolic bonds.

The Green Man and Honoring the Male Lineage

10/20/2021

Honoring your Male Lineage Ancestors Class

In last week's Ancestors series class, we danced with our female lineage. This week, we will focus on our male heritage. Also, gender-fluid, non-binary ancestors are welcome.

Being in such a patriarchal culture, it is sometimes difficult to call on our male ancestors.

Honoring the Ancestral Feminine

10/13/2021

A dancer who has devoted her life to understanding the body through movement and artistic creation to enhance her relationship with the ancestral Feminine as part of spiritual practice is Rev. Doju Dinajara Freire, a Buddhist nun of the Zen Soto lineage.

Invocation of the Ancestors

10/6/2021

Fall here in California is a beautiful time to work with ancestors. The seasonal transition calls us to slow down and nourish ourselves.

In Aboriginal culture, healing is derived from ancestors through spiritual connections to them.

Dances with Ancestors

10/4/2021

I love the aura of the upcoming fall season with the shifting of the light and nature's intense colors.

Even though I live in California, where we don't experience the beautiful color of places with four distinct seasons, I still feel the transition of energy that fall brings.