A SPRING AWAKENING
5Rhythms Movement Practice
Waves Workshop
With Karyn Tonkinson Gartner
As the earth moves through its seasons, we are being moved with them and with their energetic teachings and blessings. Using the path of the 5Rhythms movement practice, we will take an experiential journey into an exploration of some of the teachings of Spring.
The 5Rhythms – Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness, are the foundation, the gateways and a map of a movement practice that can expand, heal and transform our relationship to our body, heart, mind, soul and spirit. They are a philosophy, a perspective and a practice.
With the 5Rhythms as our map and guide, we will begin arriving by focusing on our breath; discovering, feeling and connecting to our inhale and our exhale, noticing the depth of our breath and finding its natural way of moving. We will then start allowing that breath to move and unfurl us, following our unfolding into a deeper connection to our body and all its parts.
As we give ourselves permission to follow our unfurling and unfolding, we naturally begin to feel a pulse that draws us to aligning our breath to our movement – beginning to give it shape and form – connecting our movement to our heart’s expression. By continuing to allow ourselves to follow the momentum of our body and the pulse of our heart’s expression, we create space for abandoning the thoughts of the chattering mind. As we let go of our attachment to our thoughts, the creative mind begins to find it’s freedom within the form.
Free from our thoughts we find ourselves arriving into our true nature – a unique, one of a kind energy full of soulful individuality, with a lightness and joy of being. From this embodied dance, we can drop deeper and hear the call of spirit…calling us to a place that takes us to our own awakening – Awakening to remembering that we are breath that is allowed to move fully in our body, breath aligned to our hearts expression, breath that can be abandoned of our attachments to our monkey mind, breath that can arrive home to our soulfulness, breath that is connected to spirit.
This is a movement journey that all can take, are able to take and all are entitled to take. During our time together, I invite you to be curious and let what comes from the depths – the core/earth of your being – to awaken and bloom this Spring.
Karyn Tonkinson Gartner, is a 5Rhythms Accredited Teacher trained by Gabrielle Roth, creator of the 5Rhythms Movement Practice. Karyn who has been teaching the 5Rhythms since 1998, was the first teacher and producer of 5Rhythms events in the Midwest. As a teacher, she brings a love of the transformational process of the 5Rhythms path along with a deep understanding of its maps. She is gifted at bringing a visceral understanding of the 5Rhythms to her events through her use of music of all genres. As a producer, Karyn has organized over 50 workshops in the 5Rhythms movement practice with Gabrielle Roth, faculty of the Moving Center School and fellow accredited teachers through her non-for-profit organization – Mandala – Center for Transformational Arts.
In 2002, she completed training in the Open Floor Movement Practice, trained by the Founding Members. She is honored to be a working member of Open Floor International.
She is currently in the Instinctive Meditation Training with creators of this modality, Loran Roche and Camille Murinne.
MARCH 30
11:00 – 4:00pm
4146 N. Elston – Chicago, IL
COST – $125.00