When
Friday September 2, 2016 at 5:00 PM PDT-to-
Sunday September 4, 2016 at 5:00 PM PDT
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The Teachers:
Since 2001 Joanne Winstanley has held a steady space for the growth and evolution of a robust 5Rhythms community in Victoria, BC, and shared her love of this practice with thousands of students throughout the region. A natural catalyst, she uses evocative music, clear intention, good humour – and her spidey-senses – to consistently create a field where energy moves and healing happens. As a teacher, student, producer, and collaborator, Joanne holds a deep respect for both the transformational nature of the 5Rhythms practice, and for the unique discovery process of each participant.
Bettina Rothe is a licensed 5Rhythms® dance teacher and has studied healing movement arts, psychology, meditation, and shamanic practices. She has been teaching movement and meditation classes internationally since 1998 including retreats at Hollyhock. Bettina's teaching style is inviting, inspiring and supportive. In her work she balances spiritual elements with practicality, humour and a deep knowledge of human behaviour.
GRATITUDE
A 5Rhythms® retreat with Bettina Rothe and Joanne Winstanley
September 2 - 4, 2016 at Stowel Lake Farm
Salt Spring Island, BC
“Grateful living begs us to see with open eyes,
feel with big hearts, and act accordingly.”
- Mary Oliver
The food that sustains our bodies. The place where we rest each night. The far-reaching web of relationship – distant and close, human and non-human, difficult and easy – to which we belong. Each day, we have much to be grateful for. And yet sometimes, especially when troubles arise or when things seem not to be going our way, we can lose sight of the gifts that surround and sustain us.
So how do we grow our capacity for gratitude, no matter what cards we are dealt?
In this retreat we will use the 5Rhythms® movement practice, creative process, and inquiry to explore gratitude as a quality and a perspective that we can invite, explore, and embody. Together, we will move with the questions: What is gratitude? How do we experience and recognize it? How can we cultivate this quality in body, heart and mind? How can gratitude support us when we are feeling stuck or highly challenged – and how might it help us move in right relationship with our world? How do we approach gratitude as an active practice, rather than as something we ‘ought’ to feel?
We invite you to join us for time to rejuvenate, rejoice, and restore, supported by the land, food, and beautiful grounds of Stowel Lake Farm.
The 5Rhythms® are an exhilarating and liberating approach to movement that is authentic, inspired and catalytic. It is a workout for body and soul, a moving meditation, a spiritual practice designed to release the dancer that lives in every body regardless of age, experience or condition.
No previous 5Rhythms® experience is required. For those of you on the teacher training path, this retreat counts as a WAVES and HEARTBEAT workshop.
This year’s retreat includes 6 movement sessions (held indoors and outdoors), two nights’ accommodation and six home-cooked locally-grown and locally-sourced organic meals.
Stowel Lake Farm, Salt Spring Island, BC
RATES:
All rates include the tuition for the workshop, 2 nights of accommodation and 6 locally grown organic meals that are infused with love. Vegetables grown on the farm are used whenever possible.
The meals are vegetarian with the exception of a salmon dinner on Saturday evening. Rooms are being offered on a first-come-first-served basis.
Early bird prices are in effect until July 31, 2016:
Private room: $560/ $595 (SOLD OUT)
Shared room: $505/ $540 (SOLD OUT)
Camping: $430/ $465
Commuter (off-site accommodation): $355/ $390
The workshop starts with dinner on Friday evening. Please arrive between 3:00 - 5:00 PM to check into your room. The workshop completes on Sunday afternoon at 4:30 PM.
We advise to get reservations for your ferry travel.
If you would like to spend an extra night or bring your partner/ children,
please contact Joanne for details.
We enourage e-transfer payments... please click the "cheque" option in your registration and we will offer you a $5 discount on your registration. Please send your e-transfer to bettina.rothe@gmail.com/ security answer is "gratitude".
Please note that all cancellations will incur a $50 administration fee. Cancellations after August 15th will receive a 50% refund. Because this is a residential workshop with individualized meal and accommodation planning, no refunds can be issued for cancellations after August 31st.
"This retreat deeply nourished me on many levels.
Food for the soul... I can't wait to do it again!"
-- Previous Participant