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Dance of Awareness – Sunday Movement Meditation Practice
September 18, 2022 @ 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm BST
Dance of Awareness™ is an ecstatic dance and embodiment practice… a process for healing, self-expression & creativity in a safe space.
DANCE OF AWARENESS™
- Dance Warmup
- Opening Circle
- The Dance of Awareness Wave (more details about the phases below)
- Closing Circle & Group Sharing
- Class ends
UPCOMING DATES:
- 18 September
- 2 October
ABOUT THE DANCE OF AWARENESS
Dance of Awareness™ is a new approach to working with movement, dance, and awareness. It is a dance and movement practice that aims to increase self-awareness and self-acceptance. And when practiced regularly, can be a very powerful resource for our well-being – body, heart, and soul. Dance of Awareness™ is a joyful exploration of what it is to be in a body, moving in response to inner awareness and outer connectedness.
“This is a dance process for self-expression and personal discovery in a safely held space.”
Dance of Awareness™ has five main streams of influence: Neo-Reichian body-centred psychotherapy; Five Rhythms dance; Authentic Movement; Dance Movement Psychotherapy; and the experiential exploration of Awareness itself.
ROOTS IN DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY
“How did you, become you?”
The Dance of Awareness™ is similar in structure to the Five Rhythms wave developed by Roth (1999), but has been adapted to take account of psychodynamic theory and developmental psychology. The phases of the cycle follow themes of human development from pre-birth through to around five years. This is the time period associated with the growing sense of self which becomes embodied through early experience, and which sets the patterns for adulthood. This gives the mover the opportunity to re-experience the formative years of early development, explore old imprints, and discover new patterns of moving and relating.
The Dance of Awareness™ works with 6 cycles:
Sensing, Grounding, Expressing, Releasing, Connecting and Completing following an energetic wave of charging and discharging over the course of a session.
Dance of Awareness™ is an open and allowing space where the dancer-mover can express and explore both 1) old adapted ways of moving and being and 2) new possibilities in moving, being, and relating.
As you journey through the cycles, and with some direction from the facilitator, explore the creative movement impulses which are ready to emerge.
Dance of Awareness will help you to explore both, dancing out all that is ready to be released, and dancing in more of your life-giving, life-affirming creative potential!
THE 6 PHASES OF THE DANCE OF AWARENESS WAVE:
- SENSING – Sensing the body directly – an internal focus on the physical sensations of flesh, muscle and bone, and an external focus on the five senses;
- GROUNDING – Grounding our bodies in connection to the earth, receiving support;
- EXPRESSING – Expressing the shapes, patterns and movements that are ready to take form;
- RELEASING – Releasing the energy that is ready to move in the body;
- CONNECTING – Connecting deeper into ourselves – and outwards with others and the world;
- COMPLETING – Completing the journey and returning to our true nature.
Through the 6 phases of the Dance of Awareness process, you will be invited to move through the themes of human development from pre-birth up to around five years old. Because the phases of the cycle follow the themes of human development, you are given the opportunity to re-experience your formative years of early development, explore old imprints, and discover new patterns of moving and relating by allowing the dance to emerge naturally.
Dance of Awareness also gives us the opportunity to be aware of the wonders of our own body, our sacred home, living it with kind-heartedness, self-care and compassion.
AWARENESS AS THE GROUND TO OUR BEING
The Dance of Awareness process is underpinned by an emphasis on awareness as the ground to our experience in the world.
As we move through the cycle, from time to time, I will invite you to ‘come back to awareness’, this means experiencing whatever is emerging here and now, and putting to one side beliefs, thoughts and assumptions, in the interests of giving ourselves permission to allow whatever is ready to come into awareness. What presents itself may be a breath pattern, an image, an emotion, or a bodily sensation. The aim is simply to be present with whatever is happening and to fully experience what arises, with an empathic witnessing.
FACILITATOR, VENUE, PRICES:
Facilitated by: Seth Newman
As a coach, Seth is dedicated to helping people calm, empower and rejuvenate their busy minds and bodies to achieve the best versions of themselves. Seth brings a wealth of experience holding heart-centered spaces.
In addition to guiding people on their life journeys, he enjoys helping clients design lifestyles of optimal health and balance with creative living practices.
Seth has been running various body-mind integration classes and workshops for many years. His inspiration comes from many sources including Humanistic & Body Psychotherapy, the Human Potential Movement, 5 Rhythms and Active meditations.
Address: Siobhan Davies Dance Studio (Roof Studio)
Time: 12:30pm -3pm
Strictly no latecomers! – Sorry, please arrive on time! Unfortunately, if you are more than 10 minutes late, you will not be allowed entry, (and there can be no refunds if you are more than 10 minutes late, very sorry!) as we need to make it a calm & peaceful space for people who are already here.
Payment: Please book via Eventbrite (very limited spaces, advance booking is essential as we have limited capacity for these classes)
PLEASE NOTE:
1) Strictly no latecomers! – Sorry, please arrive on time! Unfortunately, if you are more than 10 minutes late, you will not be allowed entry, (and there can be no refunds if you are more than 10 minutes late, very sorry!) as we need to make it a calm & peaceful space for people who are already here.
2) No Refunds. Last-minute refunds are not available as we need to have enough time to fill the space left – at least 1 week’s notice. You are welcome to pass on your ticket to a friend, colleague or family member however please let us know the name and email address of the person attending in your place for track & trace purposes.
ABOUT DANCE OF AWARENESS
Dance of Awareness™ (DoA) is a new approach to working with movement, dance and awareness, developed by Tim Brown and Clare Osbond. It has five main streams of influence: Neo-Reichian body-centred psychotherapy; Five Rhythms dance; Authentic Movement; Dance Movement Psychotherapy; and the experiential exploration of Awareness itself. DoA has been growing since 2003, and is based on experience gained through over 1500 hours of DoA classes, groups and workshops.
For information about Tim and Clares forthcoming groups and classes that are currently happening: https://www.embodiedtherapy.org.uk/