In these heartbreaking times, grieving together is essential. The individualism and isolation our of culture creates numbness, apathy, and overwhelm. When we come together to grieve, we clarify our vision and purpose in this time of great change.
We remember how to come home to self and the lost notion of community. We invite you to join us for three days and nights of tending the sacred waters of our e-motions, through ritual, movement, and song. We gather at Earthdance, a beloved place to many and has become home to a lineage of ever-evolving grief work.
Coming together to move, sing, and feel has great power to connect us more deeply to our wholeness and purpose, opening the door to the unique and necessary ways our Soul can contribute to healing on this planet.
If we think of grief as an expression of our love, we remember that grief is one powerful facet of the human experience, inextricably woven with growth, play, pleasure and joy. Rage might arise too. If grief is an expression of love, then rage is an expressed need for a boundary.
So let us come together and stoke the sacred fire of our longing, belonging, grief, rage, repressed resentment, hope, fear, and so much more.
The ritual will begin at 10:00 am and conclude at 6:00 pm
Lunch at 1:00 pm, and dinner at 6:00 pm.
We have been hosting these ceremonies with consistency at Earthdance for a long time now, and the community around this practice is building and expanding.
Facilitated by Chaya Aronson and Kaitlyn Cronin
Charlotte “Althaea” Collins and James Bird Portal will support us with their love, wisdom, and musical accompaniment.
Chaya Leia Aronson, RN BSN has been apprenticing with the womb for nearly 20 years, and has great passion for supporting women / womb bearers to connect to health, pleasure and vitality and can be found mothering, communing with flowers and dancing in her free time. Working with wombs and mothering have been some of her greatest teachers about grief.
She has also been blessed to learn from incredible teachers in her life, including Rosita Arvigo, Tami Kent, ALisa Starkweather, Sheri Winston and Zahava Griss. In grief work, she is influenced by the Dagara teachings of Sobunfu Some.
Kaitlyn Cronin’s work lives in the intersection of mycology, creativity, spirituality and the reintegration of ritual to sanctify potent life transitions. She is a certified death doula and feels pulled to thresholds, transitions and the in-between spaces.
With the mycelial web as her greatest teacher and creation as her devotional practice, Kaitlyn weaves stories through visual art and immersive experience; embedding us into our ecosystems and sparking a remembrance of our interstitial and unique place in the expansive web of life.
Join Aaron Birk for an afternoon of illustration and dance! Let’s dilate our awareness to describe a curving spine, a floating pelvis, an arching rib, or a supporting limb, all with soft lines of charcoal and sweeping strokes of ink. Let’s dissolve our analytical mind and harness the power of gesture — to draw as an embodied witness.
In this 6 hour workshop we will draw and dance. Playing with Contact Improv scores, we’ll move in relationship — to ourselves, to one another, and to gravity. Working with the lens of The Axis Syllabus, we’ll take time to ‘unfold the map,’ exploring the connectivity of our bones, joints and ligaments; spiraling through the space, and unlocking the gentle, curving pathways of our body’s design. Working with charcoal and ink, we’ll practice ‘gesture studies,’ or quick, reflexive drawings that capture the essence of a body in motion.
Let’s slow down. Let’s expand, rest and witness. Let’s move in ways that nurture the body.
All art materials will be provided. Everyone will have an opportunity to draw and to be drawn. All skill levels are welcome. Just bring yourself and a potluck dish to share.
SCHEDULE
Arrival/Check-In: Saturday, November 15th at 9:45am. Class starts at 10am.
Potluck Lunch: Please bring a dish to share.
Departure: 4pm
Natalia Rico 2024
Our Fees Explained
Earthdance is a Public Charity that relies greatly on ticketing income to fulfill its Artistic, Cultural and Educational mission. We want to make our work available to folks with varying economic realities and offer a sliding scale payment for participation in most of our events. Please take a moment to reflect where you best fit on that scale. We ask everyone to stretch where they are able so that those who cannot may still have access to our events.
As you choose your rate please consider the following factors:
Your access to income and wealth, as connected to family and partnership(s), past, present and future.
The historical, systemic impacts of wealth accrual based on culture, race and other marginalized intersections for you and your family.
The regional ease of your attendance, while some community members can drive to Earthdance, others will need to consider tuition based on their ability to travel longer distances.
$60 – Financially Strained to $350 – Financially Abundant
***If you find that you are struggling financially or there are other circumstances that are making it difficult to join this special workshop, please email programming@earthdance.net with your situation so that we can create a way to have you join us.***
If you wish to extend your visit and stay overnight: A dorm bed in our Gratitude Lodge is $40. (Rental of sheets and towel is $20) * Includes access to the sauna and kitchen use but does not provide food.
Refund available up to 14 days (November 1st) before the event less a $20 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 14 days (November 1st) from the start of the event.
Partial refunds might be given if a cancellation takes place under extenuating circumstances (e.g. a death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member, serious non-preventable illness or accident requiring hospitalization). Refunds in such cases remain at the discretion of the local organizers and will be decided on a case to case basis according to the timing of the cancellation and other factors. We do not offer refunds if you catch a cold, the flu or COVID after the cancellation date.
Health Precautions
No specific requirements on vaccination status are needed to attend this event. Please take adequate measures to limit your exposure in the days before arriving. If you are feeling sick, or have a known close exposure to someone with COVID in the past 5 days, please sit this one out to keep the community well.
Aaron’s inquiry into Movement Arts encompasses 22 years of research, training, and performance, with a special emphasis on Contact Improvisation and The Axis Syllabus. Beyond the dance, Aaron maintains a 25 year career as a professional Illustrator, Muralist, and Art Instructor. As a teacher, Aaron creates spaces within which his students flourish; His pedagogy embraces an adaptable, responsive curricula, that emphasizes apprenticeship, embodiment, and hand held tools. His branches have extended to Carpentry, Puppetry, Shoemaking, Tango, and Saltmarsh Restoration.
His current inquiry, “Drawing The Dancing Body,” investigates gesture-drawing as a pathway to expansive learning, embodied witnessing and anatomical study.
Aaron lives in Philadelphia, and is working towards his certification to teach The Axis Syllabus. Feel free to email Aaron at dancinglaughingking@gmail.com, or visit www.aaronbirk.com
Loom Ensemble has brought Dance Music and Theater workshops and performances to Earthdance since 2017. This year we are thrilled to welcome LoomSong! Loom Ensemble’s newest project has been slow cooking for a decade – LoomSong is a fresh constellation of longtime collaborators, and a new approach to songs which have been in development for years.
Sasha, Onome and Raffles are LoomSong–a vocal trio exploring the boundaries of the human voice and the intersections between composition and improvisation. Their current repertoire consists of compositions by its members, new improvisational structures, and original arrangements of folk, jazz, classical and world music.
Most recently at Earthdance, Raffles co-facilitated a Winter Jam, Onome co-facilitated last summer’s EarthSing, and Sasha was here with “Tell Me How You Breathe” (and offered music at the ABCD Jam in Montague).
This workshop will offer an opportunity to explore the creative process with LoomSong through voice, rhythm, and movement-based practices for vocal composition and improvisation, drawing from their backgrounds in folk, world music, music theater and contemporary music. Best suited for confident singers: no advanced expertise required, but please come expecting “mid-level nerdery”, as we engage with some of the musical complexity that enlivens their music.
Sliding Scale $20-$60
Community Potluck: 5-6pm
5-6pm Community potluck will bridge any perceived distance between “audience” and “performers” within the embrace of shared food.
Please bring a dish or contribute $10-$15
LoomSong’s Performance: 6-7:30pm
LoomSong’s Performance is a tour de force of vocal pyrotechnics and brain-bending complexity, infused with warm, invitational opportunities to join in and sing along. You are invited not just to sit and listen, but to move, roll, stretch and shake the music through your body as Loom fills the space with heartfelt song! It’s good medicine for these times.
Sliding Scale $20-$60
Open Jam: 7:30pm
Open Jam holds open space for collective “response,” metabolizing LoomSong’s offerings into the realm of embodied practice, shared among all present. This is Earthdance’s regular “Sunday Jam”, with open space for Movement Improvisation, and guided structures for vocal improvisation. You could treat it like a “music jam” and be in your dance practice, you could spend the whole night singing your heart out, or you could flow between the two!
LoomSong is a vocal trio exploring the boundaries of the human voice and the intersections between composition and improvisation. Sasha Bogdanowitsch, Onome and Raffles collectively come from a wide variety of musical backgrounds consisting of contemporary music, world music, folk, jazz, choral music, and music theater; all which figure prominently in forming their unique sound and approach to singing. LoomSong’s current repertoire consists of compositions by its members, new improvisational structures, and original arrangements of folk, jazz, classical and world music. LoomSong concerts are a tour de force of vocal pyrotechnics and brain-bending complexity, infused with warm, invitational opportunities to join in and sing along.
About Loom Ensemble
Loom Ensemble. Weaving togetherness.
Loom (noun): -ancient technology associated with the goddess -used for weaving disparate linear elements into a singular, cohesive form–necessary both for meeting basic needs of shelter/protection, and for ceremonial, spiritual and/or magical purposes
Ensemble (noun): -literally “together” -a collective, a group of individuals acting as one -centering shared values instead of individualism
Audience and critic reactions to members of LoomSong:
‘Winning authenticity…” New York Times
“ …has the power to transport the listener to another time and place.” I Care If You Listen E-Zine
“I was brought to an ancestral and inclusive land where every voice makes up part of the whole. I love that I got to experience the joy of creation!” Workshop participant
“My father is deeply introverted and shy, and had never in his 82 years experienced anything interactive like LoomSong before, where he was invited to bring his own voice into the experience. He was so moved!” – Founder of a recent LoomSong concert venue
Cancellation Policy
Refund available up to 10 days before the workshop less a $15 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 10 days from the start of the workshop.
Partial refunds might be given if a cancellation takes place under extenuating circumstances (e.g. a death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member, serious non-preventable illness or accident requiring hospitalization). Refunds in such cases remain at the discretion of the local organizers and will be decided on a case to case basis according to the timing of the cancellation and other factors. We do not offer refunds if you catch a cold, the flu or COVID after the cancellation date.
Health Precautions
No specific requirements on vaccination status are needed to attend this event. Please take adequate measures to limit your exposure in the days before arriving. If you are feeling sick, or have a known close exposure to someone with COVID in the past 5 days, please sit this one out to keep the community well.
Sasha Bogdanowitsch is a composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and educator, whose work includes music for theater, dance and film, interdisciplinary performance, concert music and original songs. His compositional output is heavily influenced by his studies of world, folk, early and contemporary music. Sasha has performed worldwide and throughout the New York area in venues such as: Carnegie Hall, Whitney Museum, Symphony Space, BAM and Roulette. www.timbretree.com
Onome
Onome is a vocalist, improviser, and interdisciplinary sound artist who leads experiences at the intersection of voice, creativity, and mindfulness – for a wide variety of audiences internationally at colleges, corporations, concerts, cultural centers, and retreats. She has partnered with numerous organizations as an artist-in-residence, teacher, and mentor, including the United Nations, Carnegie Hall, Música do Círculo, Grace Episcopal Church, and Bobby McFerrin’s CircleSongs retreat. www.onome.org
Raffles
Raffles is a singer, dancer and theater maker, born and raised in NYC. Co-Director of Loom Ensemble (2010) and Co-Founder of WildHeart (2022) Internationally, they’ve performed with the English National Opera in London; Loom Ensemble’s annual performance season in Dubai, three summers with Theater Slava in Stockholm, and with the Art Monastery Project at dozens of venues in Italy, Belgium, Sweden and Berlin. NYC highlights include Lincoln Center with Urban Research Theatre, New York Philharmonic with Constellation Chor, BAM with Meredith Monk, and La MaMa with Loom. https://www.raphaelsacks.com
Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.
Dancing with the trees: A nature-inspired Ecstatic Dance journey by TreeJ!
This dance will be held in the forest behind Earthdance. We will meet at the Earthdance farmhouse, then group hike about 10 minutes through the forest to an all natural dance floor.
Once we arrive, we’ll begin with a grounding meditation to attune ourselves to the rhythms of nature and the mycelial web beneath us. From there, we’ll flow into a music journey with the forest. We’ll dance around the grand oak tree, surrounded by hemlock, birch, and pine.
This is a rain or shine event ~ come prepared to dance with the elements!
~ A message from the Oaks~ Oak brings wisdom of strength, endurance, stability, ancient knowledge and longevity. Reminding us of our divine and enduring connection to nature.
“I am the steady, faithful Oak. Seek me and sit with me. I am old and strong and grounded. I will take your troubles and let them flow into Mother Earth for their transmutation. She knows what to do with the energy. I am the promise of spring. You can see my energy in the budding flowers. I am the daffodils and the tulips come to life. I am all of the little wild animal creatures in nature, they all come together under my sacred space. Come and sit in my grove, which is the most ancient of temples. Nature is your home; you are safe here and nurtured. Breathe me in and breathe me out. I will help you remember your true nature. You are loved and you are beautiful. You are perfect already. You have everything you need to manifest your dreams and desires. It is time to begin. This beginning is like the acorn that is a mighty symbol of growth and regeneration. What you begin has the potential to grow into a great oak tree of your own manifestation.”
TreeJ is a muscian, DJ, producer and tree whisperer ~ blending electronica, organic soundscapes and live instrumentation. Find their music on Soundcloud
This series of workshops, threaded through the year, will ground our explorations in The Axis Syllabus (AS) and Dynamic Partnering Practices. The AS explores details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design. The intention is to encourage healthy patterns that support choice and longevity of the body’s tissues while increasing our aptitude to harness and play with momentum and offer resilient support. As we grow in our kinetic potential, we meet our dance partners with increased access to range and choice.
This workshop will weave explorations of healthy and creative relationships between the many parts of ourselves and with other humans in contact improvisation and dynamic partnering practices. We will identify boundaries and limitations as building blocks of resilience. We will explore ourselves and our shared dances as tensegrity structures, cultivating our integrity through tensile resistance. We will investigate the self within interconnected networks and interconnectivity within the self. And we’ll do a whole lot of dancing.
Refund available up to 10 days before the workshop less a $15 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 10 days from the start of the workshop.
Partial refunds might be given if a cancellation takes place under extenuating circumstances (e.g. a death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member, serious non-preventable illness or accident requiring hospitalization). Refunds in such cases remain at the discretion of the local organizers and will be decided on a case to case basis according to the timing of the cancellation and other factors. We do not offer refunds if you catch a cold, the flu or COVID after the cancellation date.
Health Precautions
No specific requirements on vaccination status are needed to attend this event. Please take adequate measures to limit your exposure in the days before arriving. If you are feeling sick, or have a known close exposure to someone with COVID in the past 5 days, please sit this one out to keep the community well.
COMMUTERS:We ask that you please use caution when commuting and limit, if possible, to just commuting to and from your home and Earthdance, staying away from large crowds to maintain the health and well being of the other jam participants.
Daniel Bear Davis (MFA, SEP) is a Movement Educator, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and interdisciplinary performance maker, dedicated to support humans to step into greater aliveness so we can more fully inhabit the details of our lived experience. Daniel has taught Axis Syllabus, contact improvisation, contemplative movement practices, and embodied anatomy throughout Europe, Asia, North America, and the Middle East. When not teaching groups, he has a private practice as a somatic coach, using tools from Somatic Experiencing® to re-negotiate trauma and support resilient nervous systems. His work is also influenced by cultural somatics – the recognition of the larger web of human and non-human relations in which our somatic experience is situated. Daniel’s work seeks to thread the personal within the larger webs of ancestral lineage, nature, culture, and so much more. Whether teaching movement skills, nervous system regulation, or compositional practices, his intention is to foster informed choice and increased possibility through cultivated curiosity and exploration.
Daniel has worked with veterans and non-veterans in collaboration with Krista DeNio and EchoTheaterSuitcase project, and in San Quentin Prison with The Artistic Ensemble. His original performance, On Contentious Grounds, explored intersections between the experiences of students at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and the experiences of oppression expressed in interviews he conducted with Palestinians in the West Bank.
His performance work has been presented at Performaticá (Mexico) in the Imagining Bodies Symposium (Estonia), Dancing in Place Festival (Malaysia), SummerWorks (Canada) the San Francisco International Arts Festial, SoWat Now Contemporary Performance Festival, and Looking Left Festival in California, the SEEDS Festival and E|MERGE Residency at Earthdance Center, MA, and at danceh0l0 in Brooklyn. He has been blessed with opportunities to perform with Guillermo Gomez Peña, Nancy Stark Smith, Nita Little, Pipaluk Supernova/Live Art Installations, Felix Ruckert, Kira Kirsch, Erika Tsimbrovsky, Scott Wells, Cid Pearlman, and many other inspiring body/minds. danielbeardavis.com
Rage Club is a space to come alive. Most of us have spent our lives being told that it’s not ok to feel Anger—that it’s aggressive, dangerous, destructive, etc. This is an outdated relationship to feeling that keeps you numb and cuts you off from a powerful source of energy and information for your life.
Your Conscious Anger is the source of your clarity and aliveness. You do not have to be a violent destroyer. Nor do you have to be a voiceless, polite people pleaser with no boundaries. We’ll explore the Anger that you’ve been suppressing or bypassing all your life by feeling and expressing it without judgement.
Together, we will research: How does Anger show up in your body? What information does it have for you? The key to reclaiming your Life and your Dignity is connecting with your Anger.
In this Introduction to Rage Club, you will:
Connect with your Anger and remove conscious and unconscious blocks to feeling
Get out of your head and drop into your body
Speak while feeling Anger at different intensities
Reclaim your ability to set boundaries and say Yes! and No!
Bring your Anger with Love
Rage Club is a space where extraordinary things can happen, a practice ground for learning how to take responsibility for your life. What you are angry about is what you care about.
Refund available up to 10 days (June 16th) before the event less a $20 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 10 days (After June 16th) from the start of the event.
Partial refunds might be given if a cancellation takes place under extenuating circumstances (e.g. a death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member, serious non-preventable illness or accident requiring hospitalization). Refunds in such cases remain at the discretion of the local organizers and will be decided on a case to case basis according to the timing of the cancellation and other factors. We do not offer refunds if you catch a cold, the flu or COVID after the cancellation date.
Health Precautions
No specific requirements on vaccination status are needed to attend this event. Please take adequate measures to limit your exposure in the days before arriving. If you are feeling sick, or have a known close exposure to someone with COVID in the past 5 days, please sit this one out to keep the community well.
COMMUTERS:We ask that you please use caution when commuting and limit, if possible, to just commuting to and from your home and Earthdance, staying away from large crowds to maintain the health and well being of the other jam participants.
Hannah Hirsh is a healer and practitioner of Conscious Feelings work. She holds space for people to access their feelings and emotions in their physical, energetic, emotional, and intellectual bodies and use them to serve their life. Her work uses a blend of somatic and emotional tools arising from the context of Possibility Management. She delivers transformational processes that empower people to repattern outdated beliefs and connect with their authentic needs and desires. hirshhannah.wixstudio.com/mysite
Daway Chou-Ren
Daway Chou-Ren is a Rage Club facilitator trainer, mythic storyteller, and intimacy navigator. His favorite hobby is going into “liquid state,” the groundlessness that happens when old stories about the world and who he can be dissolve. He used to be an emotions/empathy researcher before noticing that the most brilliant Beings, in the heart sense, weren’t academics but those who were committed to the hard work of ego transformation. He loves creating ecstatic communities with those kinds of folks and guiding people on their transformational paths. www.dawaychouren.com
Meredith Witt
Meredith Witt is a community researcher and former school teacher who cares deeply about helping people become more alive and have better, more connected, and more intimate relationships with each other. She has a passion for helping people re-sensitize and de-numb their bodies so they can experience more energetic, physical, and emotional ecstasy in their lives. www.meredithwitt.com
Join us for an inspiring journey into tiny house design!
In this online design workshop, you’ll learn the entire process—from brainstorming ideas and exploring design alternatives to drawing scaled plans and estimating materials and costs. We’ll also briefly introduce the use of drafting software. Using two simple A-frame structures planned for Earthdance as our case study, we’ll guide you through designing cozy, functional spaces that will serve as private bedrooms for guests and workshop facilitators. By the end, you’ll have the confidence and skills to create your own simple dwelling designs.
This design workshop is in preparation for an event this spring where we will actualize our co-created designs for two A-frame tiny houses. On the weekend of May 8th – 11th, there will be the opportunity to participate in a unique, immersive 3-day experience where we’ll build the A-frame tiny houses together at Earthdance. This hands-on construction workshop will blend practical skill-building with community, movement, and music—stay tuned for further details!
What do participants need to have or bring?
Please bring paper and pencil to sketch out your ideas. Ideally you would also have graph paper and a scale ruler (or regular ruler) if those are available to you, but it’s not necessary for the workshop.
WHEN
Thursday, March 20th from 6-8pm
Thursday, March 27th from 6-8pm
PRICING
This is a donation based offering. We suggest a sliding scale of $15 to $150 per class.
Please give to your hearts content! This will help pay for the building of a new tiny home on Earthdance land to use during our events.
Once you register, we will send you the Zoom link to join.
Brenden McBrier grew up in Denver, Colorado and always dreamed of building his own home and living surrounded by nature. In his younger years, he spent an ample amount of time outdoors having connection with the Earth in his mother’s garden. He started his building career learning about different natural building techniques after high school. Attending the Earthship Biotecture Academy in Uruguay, South America was a catalyst towards that dream. Permaculture became his main focus years later as a lifestyle and career choice: uplifting and putting energy toward a life of growing food in symbiosis with the surrounding ecosystem. Combining the two passions with building livable greenhouses brought Regenerative Retrofits LLC to life in 2020. Now based in South Burlington, the green dream continues forward for him, sharing innovative ways and building with nature.
Scotty Guzman
Scotty is a natural builder, compost educator, inventor, and farmer with a degree in chemical engineering from W.P.I. and 10 years of experience in the world of cooperative business. He is the founder of Diggers Cooperative, a local Maine compost and permaculture design business, and a co-founder of Permatours, a permaculture education non-profit organization. Through collaboration with Permatours and several other highly skilled educators, Scotty is helping build an online education platform to share educational content on various topics such as building science 101 and Hempcrete. With a current focus on yurt construction professionally, Scotty is bringing his yurt energy to this A-frame design/build workshop by being a voice for simplicity, strength and function.
Riana Kernan
Riana is an engineer, visionary, and passionate permaculture practitioner dedicated to co-creating a more harmonious world. She devotes some of her time to stream restoration projects as a water resources engineer and also serves as an educator, organizer, and council member with Permatours. With a deep love for building regenerative communities, she often is inspired to sketch out visions for tiny houses and ecovillages. She resides part-time in the tiny house she designed and built with friends and spends the rest of her time traveling in her self-converted van. Riana holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from Starhawk and Charles Williams at OUR Ecovillage (2019) and earned a Master’s degree in Environmental and Water Quality Engineering from MIT (2013).
During our upcoming Teachers’ Training taking place at Earthdance, we will be offering 2 free classes for parents and kids guided by the founder of the method, Itay Yatuv.
ContaKids is a unique and fun activity for parents and their children (age 2 to 5). Through playfulness, movement and touch parents and children develop a new physical form of communication, which is enjoyable for both; children enhance and improve their motor skills and self-confidence and parents develop a sense of trust in their child and themselves.
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When:
1st class on Sunday, February 2nd, 2025 at 4:30pm 2nd class on Saturday, February 8th, 2025 at 10:30am
You are welcome to attend both!
About the Offering:
The classic setting that we recommend is one parent and one child working together but we are open to any other combinations as long as there’s at least one child and one adult working together. There can be two parents and one child or one parent with two children.
The adults can also be someone who is not the parent, like a grandmother or an aunt or a good friend who knows the child very well.
Age Range:
Regarding the ages of the children (2-5yrs) there is also some flexibility there. If you’d like to come with your 6 or 7 year old it’s okay, but it might be too simple or slow for them. We do not accept toddlers under 20 months old.
Class Expectations:
Length: 45 min Before the class: The space will be available for them half an hour to 15 min before the class for welcoming. After the class: We’d ask the parents to stay with us for a talk and exchange about their experience in the class (short: 20 min +-).
This class is designed to give participants a sampling of material that will be offered at the full workshop on April 10-23, 2025. It will delve into the therapeutic potential of Contact Improvisation (CI), Authentic Movement (AM), and Restorative Contact (RC), as well as other somatic practices, demonstrating how their principles can enhance somatic intelligence, attunement, and co-regulation.
After class we will transition into a potluck, then practice what we’ve learned during our sweet jam after. Later, we can relax together in the sauna while we rest our bones.
Registration not required.
Schedule
Class: 5:00 – 6:00PM
Potluck: 6:30 – 7:30pm
Jam: 7:30 – 10:00PM
Pricing
Class & Jam: $25 – $125
Class: $15 – $125
Jam: $15 – $125
Sauna: $10 with use of 2 Earthdance towels.
Potluck Dinner: We HIGHLY encourage you to please bring your favorite dish! (OR donate $10-15)
***If you find that you are struggling financially or there are other circumstances that are making it difficult to join this special workshop, please email programming@earthdance.net with your situation so that we can create a way to have you join us.***
If you wish to extend your visit and stay overnight: A dorm bed in our Gratitude Lodge is $40. (Rental of sheets and towel is $15) * Includes access to the sauna and kitchen use but does not provide food.
Health Precautions
No specific requirements on vaccination status are needed to attend this event. Please take adequate measures to limit your exposure in the days before arriving. If you are feeling sick, or have a known close exposure to someone with COVID in the past 5 days, please sit this one out to keep the community well.
COMMUTERS:We ask that you please use caution when commuting and limit, if possible, to just commuting to and from your home and Earthdance, staying away from large crowds to maintain the health and well being of the other Summer Jam participants.
What is the medicine of grieving in ritual containers? Unprocessed grief compounds and becomes a toxic emotional energy, which can create violence and perpetuate intergenerational trauma and violence.
Singing and sounding together helps vibrate our grief loose from these stuck places in our individual and collective bodies and make more space within us. This gives us a sacred opportunity to choose aligned action and to show up in the ways we truly want to show up in the world.
Many cultures have shared traditions around grieving, which could sometimes last for days at a time. We as Western ritualists aim to co-create spaces that honor the wisdom of our lineages as well as the many generous teachers who have brought their practices to the West.
For this ritual our intention is to invite gentle movement of our bodies and the emotions held there. We will utilize the medicine of communal song and live music to call forward what is ready to be released at this time. We recognize that forgiveness and compassion are essential ingredients of our grieving process. We are holding these as the foundation for this ritual.
Following our ritual, we will share a potluck meal together at Earthdance.
You are human and wish to grieve in a held container in community.
You understand that grief is both a personal and collective experience and you’re willing to hold your grief as a way to heal both self and community.
You understand that this space will be one piece of healing and are willing to seek ongoing support such as co-counseling, bodywork, nature connection, medicine ceremony, therapy, dance jams, etc.
You are willing to be with your pain or discomfort and be witness to others’ without needing to fix it.
Please Bring:
Journal
Water bottle
Snacks
Comfortable clothes
Potluck dinner item to share
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PRICING
Ritual : $45 – $150 sliding scale
Sauna and 2 towels: $10
Potluck Dinner: Please bring your favorite dish or donation of $10-15
Overnight stay: If you wish to extend your visit and stay overnight: A dorm bed in our Gratitude Lodge is $40, camping is $35. (Rental of sheets and towel is $15)
***If you find that you are struggling financially or there are other circumstances that are making it difficult to join this special workshop, please email programming@earthdance.net with your situation so that we can create a way to have you join us.***
Refund available up to 10 days before the event less a $15 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 10 days from the start of the event.
Partial refunds might be given if a cancellation takes place under extenuating circumstances (e.g. a death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member, serious non-preventable illness or accident requiring hospitalization). Refunds in such cases remain at the discretion of the local organizers and will be decided on a case to case basis according to the timing of the cancellation and other factors. We do not offer refunds if you catch a cold, the flu or COVID.
Health Precautions
No specific requirements on vaccination status are needed to attend this event. Please take adequate measures to limit your exposure in the days before. If you are feeling sick, or have a known close exposure to someone with COVID in the past 5 days, please sit this one out to keep the community well.
Chaya Leia Aronson, RN BSN is a mother, partner, lover and ecosensensual earth worshipping clown goddess. Chaya maintains a private practice offering Maya Abdominal Massage, Holistic Pelvic Care and Health, Movement and Sexuality coaching for over a decade. Chaya has also facilitated a number of transformational and alchemical rituals related to grief, wombs and eros. She has great passion and skill in supporting people and relationships to have clear conversations about desires and boundaries and to unpack our wounds and traumas gently to find more capacity for love and pleasure. She has a private practice, Your Sacred Pelvis, where she sees clients in person and virtually based in the Northampton, MA area.
Charlotte Althaea Collins is a violinist, violist, singer/songwriter, teacher, and healer guiding people into direct, communal, and transformational encounters with music. She is passionate about bringing audiences, clients, and students into aliveness and authenticity through music. Her offerings and projects include holistic classical concerts, sound healing journeys, vocal improvisation workshops & song circles, and compositional sound projects for dance, film, and podcasts. She is currently working on her first full album of original music, titled Welcome Home. Malin currently serves as the Viola Instructor at Amherst College and lives in Northampton, MA.
