Saturday June 28tht, 2-4 pm
Karuna Center for Yoga and Healing Arts
25 Main Street, Northampton, MA
$20, NOTAFLOF
Please help me welcome our next guest teacher, from the Boston area, Margaux A. Skalecki
About Margaux:
Margaux A. Skalecki, BFA Dance , MA Expressive Therapies
Because of her full trust in the performing arts as massive transformational and healing tools Margaux created Being Seen Being Heard® (playful and profound possibilities of performance and your life), an intergenerational Dance Theater Company. Margaux is a Gabrielle Roth and Jonathan Horan trained and certified teacher of the 5Rhythms. She is certified in 2001 to teach 5Rhythms WAVES® and in 2015 was certified to teach 5Rhythms at the HEARTBEAT® level.
Margaux lovingly brought the 5Rhythms to the New England area in the 1990s. From a myriad of eclectic trainings and experiences Margaux continues to maintain a multifaceted life as performing artist and teacher and constant student of children and adults in the realms of expressive therapies, the performing and healing arts, yoga, song, choreography, mediumship and animal communication. Margaux continues to serve the communities who seek to explore and dive deep to experience the many paths and facets to self discovery and global transformation through the arts. Her CD is Dancing On Holy Ground
About the 5Rhythms:
The 5Rhythms comprise a simple movement practice designed to release the dancer that lives in every body, no matter what its shape, size, age, limitations and experience. The 5Rhythms dance practice was founded by Gabrielle Roth; an urban shaman. The practice itself is simple, there are no steps to follow. The teaching is deep. And it comes from the dancer's wisdom and embodied insight. In each dance, we explore each of the 5 rhythms, not for its mastery, but for its medicine. We will co-create a space to experience the rhythms of flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness (also known as a 5Rhythms Wave).
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What to Expect:
Each class will focus on one of the 5 rhythms and at the same time move through all of the 5 rhythms. Expect to have time to settle in, and move on your own, while also being gently guided by music; verbal prompts or invitations. Dancers may be invited to deepen their inner dance, or prompted to dance in partnership – brief or extended – or to move as part of a larger group. Each class is emergent. The rhythms themselves are gateways to literally thousands of different movement landscapes. Like the body, they are alive and designed to catalyze the dancer’s movement expression in the moment. You are different every time you walk into the dance space; so is the group and so is your teacher. Therefore, each class holds completely unique possibilities.
A word about touch, courtesy & consent:
By participating in this class you agree to be a partner in co-creating a safe and brave space for our collective dance practice. Since this dance practice is non-verbal, please make eye contact with other dancers before touch. Even if it’s your best friend or partner, on the dance floor we honor sovereignty. Someone may be having a deep experience, some dancers dance with eyes closed or half mast and touch could be disruptive or dis-regulating. On the dance floor, please use your eyes as a means for engagement. After eye contact, if you are not open to touch, please say or signal to your partner that you are not a yes to physical contact (ie; offering a Namaste 🙏🏻 or arms crossed or by walking away).
Welcome Statement:
We recognize and welcome all. All races, all religions, all
gender identities, all sexual orientations, all abilities, all
shapes and sizes, all languages, all ages.
The space is accessible to all bodies. If you'll want access to the elevator, please contact me in advance for instructions on use of the elevator.
Land acknowledgment:
This is land belonging to the Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, Nonotuc people. The Native American settlement at what is now Northampton was called Norwottuck, or Nonotuck, meaning: "the midst of the river." It consisted of a core area where clan meetings
and elders' councils were held. This area included communal
cemeteries and probably sweat lodges used for curing.
For more information about indigenous culture in our area,
see The Nolumbeka Project,
https://nolumbekaproject.org/
pocumtuck-homelands-festival/
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