Inner LightRadiance Sisterhood Winter Solstice 5Rhythms Retreat with Michelle Mahrer, Sara-Jane Cleland, Geeti Rogers & Aviva Pinkus
June 21 – 24, 2024
Bamarang Bush Retreat, South Coast NSW
“The wound is the place where the light enters you” Rumi
Winter invites us to slow down and allow time for Gestation and Integration. At this potent time of the Winter Solstice, we gather with Sisterhood in wild nature for 5rhythms Dance, Meditation, Song & Ceremony, to Rest, Listen, Recalibrate and Ignite new dreaming.
The 5Rhythms Dance Elemental map of Earth (Flow), Fire(Staccato), Water (Chaos), Air(Lyrical) and Ether(Stillness), Dance Therapy & Nature Practises are our guide to enter our inner world, and reconnect with our own healing forces. Working with qualities of Breath and Spaciousness, we journey into the Stillpoint within us, listening to what is present and calling our attention, creating space for integration and acceptance, where we can hold all parts of ourselves, the light and dark, the wound and healing, the belonging and disconnection.
What are we ready to leave behind at the turning of this cycle? What support do I need to rekindle my inner light? The warmth and safety of our sacred sisterhood circle creates a potent chrysalis for nourishment and transformation, planting seeds for new beginnings.
Our stellar facilitation team brings together an amazing team of highly experienced women who have been working together for many years creating a powerful and potent heartful space.
Radiance5Rhythms dance director Michelle Mahrer is your host and will weave the immersive journey leading the movement experiences working with 5Rhythms Dance, Witnessing movement, Dance therapy and co facilitating the womens circle.
Sara-Jane Cleland will offer early morning Yoga, co-facilitate the Women’s Circle, as well as support the retreat with spaceholding, and the creation and holding of Sacred Space with her stunning installations.
Geeti Rogers and Aviva Pinkus will ignite our voices and hearts with heartsongs and chanting, and offer relaxing sound healings to integrate the movement experiences, with an array of gongs, crystal bowls, percussive instruments and voice. Evocative live soundscapes will also accompany the dance.
Amanda Christensen of Wild Earth has been nourishing us for many years with her delicious wholefood cuisine infused with love.
Location:
Bamarang Bush Retreat
(near Nowra)
The experience includes:
• 5Rhythms dance
. Witnessing movement
. Art making & writing integration
• Yoga
• Women’s Circle
• Nature practises on the land
• Meditation
• Sound Healing
• Day of Silence
• Winter Solstice Ceremony
• Kirtan
• Ritual
• Communal Singing & dancing around the fire
Body work treatments will be available
Cost:
Full workshop
(Includes share accommodation, delicious vegetarian meals & workshop & followup meetings)
4 days/3 nights Fri eve 4pm – Mon 4pm
Full $1175
Early Bird $1050 (Deposit by May 10 )
Camping/Campervan ( only 4 spots available)
Full $900 Early Bird: $825
Book with a friend and receive $100 discount ($50 each)
To confirm your spot please send deposit to
Credit card link
https://www.trybooking.com/CRCOH
or send with bank transfer
to:
Michelle Mahrer
BSB 063128
Acct 10317926
Payment by Credit card is available
Payment Plans Available
Info & Bookings
Michelle [email protected]
O419269986
This is suitable for all levels of physical ability. While no previous dance experience is necessary, in order to participate in the workshop you need to attend at least 2 x 5Rhythms dance or Conscious Dance classes before the workshop.
Testimonials from last retreats
" It was the most powerful and transformative experience in my life so far. The entire weekend was like a spiritual journey for me. I got an intense integration of all the elements with a complete connection and nourishment of my inner child." Gerardo
"Michelle's wisdom and focus is exemplary and catalytic for transformational change." Arthur
Cancellation Policy
More than 60 days full refund
More than 28 days full refund less 15 % admin fee.
Less than 28 days & more than 14 days 50% refund
Less than 14 days no refund or credit
BIOS – FACILITATORS.
MICHELLE MAHRER is an Embodiment Mentor, 5Rhythms Dance Teacher, Dance Movement Therapist, filmmaker & international best selling author, with over 25 year’s experience teaching in Australia and internationally. She is a pioneer of Conscious Dance in Australia and founded Radiance Dance 5 Rhythms in Sydney 2009 which has growth into a vibrant community offering classes, workshops and retreats both online and in person. Her passion is to help conscious women and men on a path of self growth to reconnect with their essential joy, wellbeing and wholeness. She creates sacred spaces to awaken creative movement that comes from within, bringing back into wholeness all the fragmented parts of self, opening deeper authenticity, self empowerment and freedom. Over the last 3 years she has begun to specialise in womens work having witnessed during Covid the healing and transformative power of women's containers. She recently completed a Feminine Power Womens Transformational Facilitation Training with renowned US teacher Claire Zammit. Her mission is to contribute to the upliftment of humanity through the joy and power of dance, so that together we can become a healing channel for ourselves and all of life, and return to love our true nature.
https://www.michellemahrer.com/
SARA-JANE CLELAND is a Yoga Teacher, Dancing Freedom Facilitator, Naturopath and Massage Therapist who lives on Gundungurra land in the Southern Highlands, NSW. Her journey as a holistic practitioner began 30 years ago as a Yoga teacher. She trained in Sydney with International Yoga Teacher's Association (IYTA) in 1995 and Iyengar Yoga with Nicky Knoff in 1999 including some training with Simon Borg-Olivier. Over the years, she organically evolved to include Bodywork and Naturopathy . In 2016, she discovered 5 rhythms dance on retreat with Gina Chick and became a passionate advocate for conscious dance. At the end of 2018, she journeyed to Byron Bay for intensive facilitator training in Dancing Freedom. She runs monthly Dancing Freedom events and a regular 5 week Women's Embodied Journey through the Elements - offering Conscious Dance to her local Southern Highlands community. She collaborates to offer monthly Red Tent Women's circles and has run yearly Nurture & Nourish Women's retreats for the past 6 years. Her commitment to the practice of Dancing Freedom extends to working on the support team for the Facilitator training in both 2019 and 2022. Since 2019, she has been on the support team for many Conscious Dance Retreats with Michelle Mahrer & Catilin Wood offering her skills as organizer, space-holder, altar creator and importantly the support role for both the facilitators and the participants. Her passion is connection, connection to the innate healing power of the body, connection in community, co-creating and supporting each other, connection to oneself, your whole loving being, so worthy of self-love and creative expression.
GEETI ROGERS
Geeti is a nāda (sound) yoga teacher, kirtanist, sound healer and a Soul Motion conscious dance and Kiryuho movement facilitator. Geeti loves sharing nāda yoga, kirtan and sound healing because of sound’s transformative power to bring deep relaxation, upliftment and unification in our personal and collective energy and consciousness. She holds a diploma in Integral sound healing and offers one to one sessions as well as group sound healings. She especially loves to play the Alchemy Crystal bowls as well as Tibetan bowls, drum and zither. Geeti also sings, plays harmonium, manjira, tanpura, Indian drums and hang. Her devotional and joyful heart shines through her music and voice, allowing people to let go and surrender to uninhibited expression, and be filled with deep nourishment. She has been a member of northern beaches bases Kirtan group ’Sound Samadhi’ since 2012. She lives in Sydney with her partner Gyan and they combine their gifts of music, movement and meditation as ‘Geeti & Gyan’ with the intention of bringing upliftment, beauty and healing to the world through their music and events. They are currently recording their first CD which will be released in 2024
www.geetiandgyan.com
www.facebook.com/geetiandgyan
AVIVA PINKUS -Multinstrumentalist
Aviva Pinkus appreciates how music deeply connects people regardless of their background, and how music is a powerful tool for transcending our everyday concerns. She taught herself percussion and sound healing while travelling the world and playing with extraordinary musicians from many cultures. Playing music always opened doors and created instant bonds. Aviva has a particular interest in Middle Eastern and Indian music. She plays hand drums as well as a wide variety of exotic instruments, taking people into a deeply relaxed and grounded state.
Event Venue
Bamarang Bush Retreat, 95 Bamarang Rd, Bamarang NSW 2540, Australia,Shoalhaven (C), South Nowra
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