5Rhythms Dance Saturdays with Michelle Mahrer (2nd 4th Sat)

Am excited to be offering a new 5Rhythms dance class on Saturday mornings 2nd & 4th Saturday of the month, with the intention of offering an intimate space for integration of your week, a space to come home to ourselves, to replenish body, mind and spirit. 5Rhythms Dance Saturdays with Michelle Mahrer 2nd & 4th Saturday Dates: July 11, 25, Aug 15, 29, 10.30 – 12.30 pm $30 $25 Concession Book online or cash at the door Venue: Ocean Shores Community Centre Rajah Rd Ocean Shores , across the road from the shopping centre. 5Rhythms is a free form dance practise, a movement meditation where there are no steps. You are invited to follow the flow of your own movement from within, guided by the 5Rhythms movement map that follow the rhythms of nature and its cycles. A 5Rhythms dance wave is a natural wave of movement through rhythms of flow, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness, that inspires dancers to follow the flow of their own dance from within, to be with whatever is arising from within to meet, feel, and let go We dance to come home to ourselves and return to our true essence and wholeness. What to expect? We will dance 2 cycles/waves of movement. The first wave is an invitation to drop into the body, to the breath, to the moment, to let go the week, to slow down and come into awareness and presence to listen to what is here to meet. The second wave will be unguided with uplifting music, a space to open to receive new energy, insight, information, healing, visioning, replenishment or whatever arises in the moment. There will also be space for stillness and integration/shavasana at the end of the dance with a sharing circle if there is time. After the dance you are welcome to join us for lunch at a cafe across the road for social time. I am excited to listen to what the community needs and also bring my own flavor adding to all the other wonderful conscious dance offerings in the shire. More info www.michellemahrer.com Email: [email protected] BIOGRAPHY Michelle Mahrer is an embodiment mentor, 5Rhythms dance teacher, dance therapist and an award winning film maker. She is passionate about the healing and transformative power of dance and has dedicated her life to embodiment as a healing art, as a participant, a dance facilitator and a film maker. She has been leading dance classes, workshops & retreats in Sydney, Melbourne & internationally for the past 25 years and is one of the pioneers of Conscious Dance in Australia cocreating the first conscious dance in Melbourne with Liat Lev in 2000. She is the director of Radiance Dance 5Rhythms a vibrant dance community in Sydney which has been running for 17 years. Michelle offers classes, workshops, womens retreats, and 1:1 dance movement therapy sessions. Michelle had the privilege of learning and working closely with Gabrielle Roth the founder of 5rhythms dance. Gabrielle invited her to direct all her teaching videos. She has made numerous award winning films about dance including "Dances of Ecstasy" a sensory journey into the world of trance and ecstasy experienced through dance and rhythm which features Gabrielle Roth. Michelle is also featured in international best seller book called Warriors of Light where she authored a chapter about her work with dance. www.michellemahrer.com