Updated March 27, 2020
Dear ones, due to the uncertainty of these times, and the continued need for us all to physically distance to minimize the harmful impact of COVID-19, this workshop is cancelled, and will be rescheduled at a later date. All dancers who have already registered will receive a complete refund. Please have patience as I complete these refunds. I hope to have them done within 1 week.
Love and care,
Layah
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Updated March 12, 2020
Dear ones,
So much is changing day to day with regards to the worldwide wave of COVID-19 and what I understand about its movement, and how best to contribute towards lessening its harmful impact.
If we slow transmission down, scientists and doctors are telling us that things will be a lot better for everyone. I feel it is my responsibility as a community leader to help slow the spread so that the health care system overwhelm that is happening in other countries, does not happen here.
As of now it’s not yet clear to me if I will need to postpone this April 18 workshop or not.
So, for the time being, I am extending the Early Bird rate from March 15 until April 10 so that none of us are rushing into any registration decisions. I will re-evaluate if we will go forward with this workshop or not, by/on April 1. If the decision is to reschedule it, all those who have preregistered will receive a full refund.
This is a vulnerable time. A time when we need to feel connected more than ever. We need to feel our feet under us, and our hearts engaged with loving, creative, life force. We need to lean into practices that hold us and help us feel what there is to be felt. We need to find new ways to affirm for ourselves and each other that we are not alone in the Waves. I encourage us all to dance at home! Keep breathing. Keep moving. We will practice alongside each other, through the ethers.
I am looking into the possibility of offering online 5Rhythms classes and workshops in the coming weeks. I will post here about it, and will also send info to my mailing list once plans are fully formed. Please visit https://heartspaceproductions.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=5f54a53bb7c987d3a3342ef1f&id=f28532727a and sign-up for my newsletter if you’d like to receive news about upcoming classes and workshops.
With love,
Layah
Compass ~ Toronto 5Rhythms Waves Workshop with Layah
Saturday April 18, 2020
11am-5pm
Dancemakers Centre for Creation
9 Trinity St, Studio 313, The Distillery District, Toronto, ON
$90 Early Bird (EXTENDED UNTIL APRIL 10)
$125 Regular (after Apr 10)
Life takes us on a winding path.
From stuck-in-the-mud ditches of don’t-know-how-I-got-here, to celebratory strides across long aimed for finish lines, a sense of being lost and found and lost and found again, seems par for this wild course.
How do we find our way in times of trouble and in seasons of ease?
We are gifted with bodies full of instinct and intuition. We are the owners of magnificent navigational systems of signals and symptoms. Can we feel them? Do we follow their guidance?
The 5Rhythms movement practice can reconnect us with our innate vitality and sensate wisdom. There are no steps to follow in this improvisational movement method. Instead, we show up, tune in and move what is alive in us. This is the dance of allowing something deeper to direct. Of sensing and responding. This is a practice of putting down external road maps, and turning towards our own inner compass.
In these teetering times as our species takes a worldwide wander into uncharted challenge, well-tuned intuitive instruments are needed more than ever. Together, let’s cultivate our capacity to listen in and discern right action. Let’s tap in to this messy marvel of life. Let’s get down, kick it, soul seek, sweat induce, dance dive, and meditate our muscles. Let’s move with the messages emerging from within.
Every body, and all movement experience is welcome.
Layah is a healing artist ~ a teacher, dancer, and musician. Layah first fell for 5Rhythms in her late teens and for the last twenty years has steeped herself in movement meditation practice. Passionate about offering people sacred space to experience motion as medicine, Layah has facilitated expressive movement since 2003 for all ages on all kinds of dance floors: classes, gyms, offices, barns, fields, and studios, including at Toronto's conscious dance hubs The Move, and Ecstatic Dance Toronto. Her transformational journeys focus on embodiment, and broadening our physical, expressive vocabulary as a gateway to creativity and healing. Layah is a member of the International Conscious Movement Teachers Association, and a certified 5Rhythms teacher accredited with the 5Rhythms Teachers Association. All study hours with Layah count as prerequisites towards future 5Rhythms teacher trainings.