HeartField Dance with Jo Cobbett

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~ Hopi Saying ~ Jo Cobbett, Certified 5Rhythms® Teacher, is our guest virtual Minister of Music this Sunday! This will be a “Sweat Your Prayers™ dance journey where the music is the primary teacher, encompassing a 5Rhythms® wave, with softly spoken facilitation prompts offered by Jo into the music to invite us in deepening into our movement. Jo says, “Happy Mother’s Day! I’ll be invoking some of the essence of personal mother, Great Mother, and Earth in our journey this Sunday. My ongoing perspective is the heart and how this time and situation meets us here. There’s a heart-line that we’ll be dancing with, like in the work of the Heart Math Institute, an awareness that our heart entrains towards oneness. This is one of the things that inspires us to dance together, that we become a large heart all dancing as one, each an expression of the whole. Mother’s Day is also a remembering of spending time in the womb; in the mother drum heart field, and listening in that embryonic time to our own heartbeat for the many weeks of gestation…reconnecting to the inner nourishment, and the fostered resiliency of our emergence. I’ve been sharing in this ecstatic dance field for a long while; it’s my favorite way of expressing and relating. To drop into a primal state of being and connection, that transcends the surface, collaborating with our souls dancing rather than our personalities, we can become so much vaster and freer from limitations through our surrender into large and dynamic expression. For me ecstatic dance is about oneness, and becoming whole, letting the thoughts and ideas cascade through the body until there is a vitality that we are all a part of and contributing to. When this COVID quarantine began, I was stunned by the distance between us, feeling the hunger for direct connection, but in the course of sharing sessions this past couple of months, I’ve been appreciative of how we are all able to energetically connect, regardless of distance. I’ve had dancers in New Zealand, Australia, Spain, London, New York, Canada all over California and the US joining in and feeling the same quality of freedom, release, and support from the dance gathered in real time that those who gathered in real time feel. I’m hopeful we’ll keep some of these streams going even after we’ve all been freed up to meet in person." HOW TO JOIN VIRTUAL DANCE TRIBE This contribution supports our facilitators, staff and the continued work of hosting Dance Tribe. If you are experiencing economic hardship and are not able to contribute that’s OK, may your dance be your contribution itself. We are using PayPal to receive donations at this time. It is not required to have a PayPal account to donate: go to https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=RCxI1e0R_oq2l7pOIfh9bqXsL1vOZUN6Yqp2Njf1NEip_u_3BVI1_VwnqPUUANd3sjC1-m&country.x=US&locale.x=US INSTRUCTIONS TO JOIN US ON ZOOM 1. Join the Zoom room using the link below. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A NEW LINK EACH WEEK. This is your key to our virtual dance floor. 2. Our opening circle will begin at 11 a.m. on Sunday. You can join us at any time between 11 a.m. - 1p.m. by clicking on the Zoom link. We encourage you to stay for the closing circle at 1 p.m. 3. If you are having trouble specifically with the Zoom platform click here for a video that describes how to join a meeting. If you’re still having trouble email us at [email protected] for support. 4. When you enter the meeting, please ensure that you are muted by visiting the bottom left corner of the screen where you will find a microphone icon. Please let us know via the Zoom chat room if you are having trouble hearing us. 5. You made it! The hardest part is over. Drop in and let your body move freely!! PRO-TIP: if you are experiencing a low-quality connection, install the Zoom software on your computer or device. If you are not using the Zoom app, try streaming through Google Chrome. Changing browsers can help with streaming quality. If you can, disconnect from wifi on your other devices while you are on the call. ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/96980185796 MEETING ID: 969-8018-5796 If you’d like additional tips for enhancing your virtual dance experience go to sbdancetribe.org/join.