Our experience of life is determined by nothing so much as where we choose to devote our time, attention and energy. We can be devoted to many things - the earth, our families, spiritual beliefs, an idea, a practice. The areas that receive the lion’s share of our time, attention, and energy become places of deep devotion which define our lives. Our 14th Annual Gathering is an invitation to pause, move with, and deeply consider your devotions.
In Dance of Devotion we delve into movement practices as pathways that illuminate where and how we place our attention. Bringing our devotions to consciousness empowers us to choose life-paths that foster wholeness, healing, love, and light. The best vehicle for such an exploration is the body. So we put the body in motion, give it breath, and release it to the beat, for “the soft animal of the body will love what it loves;” and in that loving reveals where our true devotions lay.
Set right in the heart of summer, the weekend features five amazing movement teachers, each offering a unique session that embraces the Dance of Devotion.Our Gathering is composed of embodied dancers from around the world and a fabulous catered, outdoor dinner. Join new friends and old, for a remarkable weekend of movement and discovery!
Cost
$195 Early bird* / $225 after July 2, 2018
* To receive Early bird rate, payment in full must be completed by July 2, 2018
Schedule
Friday July 27 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Saturday July 28 1:00pm - 6:00pm followed by catered outdoor dinner party
Sunday July 29 10:30am - 5:00pm
Location
Fusion: The Integrated Body: 302 Columbia ST NW Olympia WA 98501
For More Information Contact Ronny Temple
Winky Wheeler- Soul Motion
Winky Wheeler sees inhabiting the body through dance as a powerful and transformative act on the path of self-discovery, personal change and fully engaged living. She delights in the way our dance moves us and influences the world around us. Winky is co-leader of Momentum: Conscious Movement in Portland and is a certified Soul Motion Teacher with over 20 years of experience. She offers intriguing classes, engaging workshops and created The Morning Sojourn ~ an international event that aims to circle Earth with dance for ten mornings.
Mati Vargas-Gibson
Mati created BodySpirit Dance as a container for moving with the sacred in all aspects of life through dance, ritual, ceremony, and art. She began the shamanic dancing path in 1998 under the tutelage of Gabrielle Roth & The Moving Center Faculty, and has been a Certified and Accredited 5Rhythms® Teacher since 2008. Mati creates dancing and ceremonial spaces where everyone can dive into freedom of movement to still the mind, enter sacred time, and awaken joy, spontaneity, and moving prayer. In movement we gather beyond our usual social frameworks and experience meeting ourselves and others intimately, movement to movement, dance to dance, soul to soul, becoming witness to the essential being in everyone. She currently offers 5Rhythms® classes, workshops and one-on-one sessions, as well as women’s ritual groups, and seasonal, public ceremonial rituals in Dallas, Mexico, and internationally.
Trudes Tango - Open Floor
Trudes is a dancer, a potter, a Sacred Intimate, and a teacher of Open Floor movement practice. She has been dancing with passionate curiosity for over 13 years, and she believes healing and transformation happens through the body. Using conscious movement, ritual, art, touch, and sacred play, Trudes helps others deepen their connection to their own bodies and expand their capacity for intimacy. She believes embodiment practices cannot be separated from social justice issues, and she recognizes the privilege she holds in being able to do this work.
Ronny is a certified 5Rhythms Teacher with a wide breadth of experience in movement meditation and leadership that serves him well as he holds and guides OlyWaves. He is a published author in several genres, successful business owner, strategic planner, world traveler, and master sailor. His most salient experiences though are in the realm of meditation and spirit. Curiosity and compassion eventually led him to people like Krishnamurti, whom he met in the early eighties, and to Osho Rajneesh with whom he practiced meditations such as Vipassana, Sufi Whirling, and Kundalini for nearly two decades in India as well as the U.S. Ronny fell in love with the 5Rhythms practice around 2003 and ten years later is still in the honeymoon phase. A cross between a wise man and a wise guy (OK, a bit more the latter than the former), Ronny focuses on nurturing a light heart on and off the dance floor. His teachings have a decidedly Tantric (meaning, in this context, holistic) flavor to them.