TRANSFORMATION: EXPAND ~ CONTRACT, an extended 5Rhythms Wintering Ritual

About this event
TRANSFORMATION: EXPAND ~ CONTRACT, an extended 5Rhythms Wintering Ritual
Sunday, Dec 10, 3-6pm

Join us as the frost settles and nature withdraws, we dance wave after wave for an extended 3hr practice, exploring the subtle yet powerful movements within our bodies.

"Trance is... a mindful state that only happens when you get out your way and fall into your true self so deeply that something inside clicks and you are simultaneously being and witnessing" - Gabrielle Roth
Facilitated by credentialed 5Rhythms teacher Megan Kelley

Megan offers heart-centered space for consciousness development, expanding capacity to be present and connected to one's inner and outer worlds. Her path journeys the way of the wound to harness raw physicality and intuitive attunement, moving with the rhythms as allies in every aspect of life. Body, heart, mind, soul, and spirit.

Sunday, Dec 10, 3-6pm
All bodies (ages 15+) are welcome! Classes are open to beginners, all levels of experience & count toward the 5Rhythms teacher training requirements.

$35 standard
$40 supporter
$ 30 supported/ NOTAFLOF*
* no one turned away for lack of funds
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Location & Arrival
Summit Presbyterian Church
6757 Greene Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19119

Please plan to arrive early. Music goes on 15 minutes ahead of class to stretch and settle.
No entry after 4pm.

Structure
Wave after Wave, 50 minute Warm-up, short group talk and demo, 2hr Waves practice with somatic invitations

Guidelines
This is a disciplined and dedicated space focused on personal and collective embodiment and creativity.
No live cell phones or recording in the space please.
No chatting on the dance floor.
Everyone is expected to fully participate at the level that is available to them. Listen to your own body, adapt, pause, modify as needed.
This is a substance-free/ sober event.

Prepare
Wear clothing you can freely move/ sweat in.
Bring plenty of water, refills available at water fountain.
We dance in bare feet or soft sole dance shoes. No street shoes. No socks.
Come unscented.
Bring earplugs if you are sound sensitive.

Respect and Responsibility
Together we create a safe, multidimensional space to go deep, explore edges and change. Keep attuned to your own integrity and how you are impacting others. Get consent before making physical contact. Give and accept boundaries. Listen for verbal and non-verbal cues. Honor the sanctity of the space by not expecting/ making romantic or sexual advances. Always make amends when needed.
Please stay home if feeling unwell. Masks are optional.

About 5Rhythms
Created by Gabrielle Roth and practiced by tens of thousands worldwide, 5Rhythms is a philosophy, perspective, performance art and dynamic movement practice rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself. Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor, reaching across all languages, cultures and age groups to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action.

Wherever the 5Rhythms are practiced, a community is born to dance, to sweat, to change, to support, and to provide a safe space for each of us to shatter the ego’s hold and awaken the juicy, unpredictable, fascinating, edge-walking part of ourselves that yearns to be free.

Creativity. Connection. Community.

New to 5Rhythms? Learn why we dance at 5Rhythms.com: https://www.5rhythms.com/gabrielle-roths-5rhythms/why-we-dance-them/

About the Waves™ Map
Waves are the foundation and fundamentals of the 5Rhythms practice. The rhythms of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness® allow us to explore the nature of who we are and how our energy moves in this world as well as being a fun and full way to celebrate being alive. The focus of the Waves level is experiencing the body as a fluid entity, with the outcome that we discover our feet and release the breath.

About Megan
Megan Kelley is an artist, accredited 5Rhythms® teacher and expressive arts psychotherapist living and working in Trenton, NJ. Megan danced her first 5Rhythms Waves in 2013, completed the 2017 5Rhythms Sweat SpaceHolder orientation, and graduated the 5Rhythms Teacher Training in 2021. Megan honors the guidance of past mentors along the dancing path, certified 5Rhythms teachers Rebekah Zhuraw (Philadelphia), Mati Vargas-Gibson (Dallas) & Joanne Winstanley (Victoria, BC) along with current mentor in archetypal somatics, Melissa Meader.