When
Friday, September 1, 2017 at 5:00 PM PDT-to-
Sunday, September 3, 2017 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.
"This retreat deeply nourished me on many levels.
Food for the soul...
I can't wait to do it again!"
-- Previous Participant
ReSource
A 5Rhythms® retreat with Bettina Rothe and Joanne Winstanley
September 1 - 3, 2017 at Stowel Lake Farm
Salt Spring Island, BC
Sometimes our movement practice can support us, hold us steady, and return us to the holy ground of flesh and breath and bone. Other times, it ignites our inner spark, encouraging us to move and connect from the heart. Our practice can cleanse us, soften our edges, and carry us through times of upheaval and change. It can uplift us, expand our vision, open us to new gifts and possibilities, and return us to our very center.
In this year’s retreat, we will enter our practice as a refuge, as a sanctuary – as a way to come back into balance.
Together, we’ll tune our senses toward the intelligence of our own bodies, dropping deep into the resources of community, of movement and stillness, sound and silence. We will invite our movement to both enliven us and reconnect us with our body’s natural capacity to rest, to belong, to give and receive what’s needed. We’ll find a pace that allows the goodness and gifts of this life to catch up with us, so we can open to the resources that are available to us in the present moment.
We invite you to join us for a weekend of nourishment, community, and shared practice... supported by the land, food, and beautiful grounds of Stowel Lake Farm.
Touch down. Drop in. Renew. Reset. ReSource.
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 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, 2017:
Private room: $575/ $605 (SOLD OUT)
Shared room: $515/ $550
Camping: $430/ $465
Commuter (off-site accommodation): $370/ $405 (SOLD OUT)
TRAVEL:
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.
PAYMENTS:
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 "retreat".
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 29th.