Join us in beautifying, fixing, community building and dancing at Earthdance! We’ll work together during the day to help maintain and rebuild Earthdance, while dancing together in the evenings. If you have any carpentry, electrical, permaculture, or any skills that you think Earthdance would benefit from, please don’t be shy, we’d love your help!
Earthdance will provide us with healthy and delicious meals so that we have plenty of energy to give. You’re invited to join us for the whole weekend, or just drop in for a day. We’ll create lists of specific tasks for people to sign-up to beforehand according to skills and interests.
EARTHDANCE WISHLIST
If you’re planning on attending the work weekend and could donate any of the following items, we’d greatly appreciate it!
Good blankets (stainless, pleasant looking and functional)
Good pillows (stainless, pleasant looking and functional)
Twin sized mattresses (stainless, pleasant looking and functional)
Mugs (no chips, no corporate/anniversary/words, maybe a set?)
Bowls (no chips, no lip, full size)
Small to medium cooking pots (lightly used)
4 slot toaster (lightly used)
Twin, full and queen sheets/pillow cases (matching, stainless, pleasant looking and functional)
Wooden Hangers
Any size clean area rugs (stainless, pleasant looking and functional)
Nice Art
String lights
Table Lamps (stainless, pleasant looking and functional)
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.
Participant Community Support
Earthdance runs as a community, thus part of the participation is that all individuals contribute to 1-2 work shifts (typically meal cleans) throughout the jam/workshop and participate in a final house clean on Sunday. These are great ways to connect more with your fellow participants and Earthdance staff, and to feel more at home in the Earthdance buildings & grounds. Your contributions to this collective caring of this space are invaluable!
We offer an invitation to come together in community to grieve, assisted by music and song.
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. 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, and then delight in a Dance Jam together.
This ritual is for you if:
You need support processing grief and would like to do this in a held container with others.
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.
It’s not the right time for you to join this ritual if:
You are in an active trauma state on the day of the ritual.
You feel unable to moderate your nervous system when activated, for example, by noticing if you are dissociating and grounding, asking for support, or taking a break etc.
You are unwilling to be with your own and others’ pain or discomfort without needing
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. (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 $20 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.
COVID 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 Malin 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.
Pa-Kua is an ancient knowledge that has served humanity, from ancient times to the present, in an attempt to understand the changes and adapt to them in order to live in a state of greater harmony. Pa-Kua is primarily about change. Constant and never-ending change!
Pa-Kua, is approached through the practice of one or more disciplines.
Commonly, I begin the learning process through a fun and powerful practice of “circle walking”. Through walking the circle we can do standing and moving meditation, sparring, full-out combat training or a fun and active dance which starts through setting intention, warming up, then simply letting the body flow with the moving energy.
A little history on Pa Kua
Pa-Kua knowledge began in Chinese mythology. The most well-known myth takes place about 5000 years ago. As Emperor Fu-Hsi was meditating on the banks of the Yellow River, a turtle emerged from the waters. In his shell, Fu-Hsi could glimpse the eight states of change or trigrams that make up the Pa-Kua symbol, which were intended to be used to understand the events of the Universe.
The long-time tradition of weekly Sunday CI Jams has returned to Earthdance! Come for a class beforehand, or just for the jam. Stay for the sauna and potluck dinner! Registration not required.
Class Details
This life-style practice builds on many aspects of life dynamics:
Physical, mental, emotional, sexual, financial and many more.
In my class, I will be focusing on the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of the practice called, “Circle Walking”.
In circle walking there is a beginning, middle, and an end.
In the beginning we work on simply walking both clock-wise then counter-clock-wise around a large imaginary circle. This loosens the mind and body for the next development which includes:
1. Shaking the tree and opening the Chakras
2. “Banging the bones” a deeper activation of the 12 Chinese meridians
3. Pa Kua Push Hands and “bumping the Trees” – These are both ways to further experience the flow which we have cultivated with those around us.
4. We end with, “laying meditation” along with a clearing process called, “Chinese Energetic Medicine”.
*Sage and sweet grass are used to clear each person and the room.
Potluck Dinner: Bring a dish to share or a suggested donation of $10 to $15
If you wish to extend your visit and stay overnight, cost of a bed in the dorm is $40 or camping for $30. Includes access to the sauna and kitchen use but does not provide food. (Rental of sheets and towels is $15)
Accem Scott – As a practitioner of energy therapies for over 15 years, I’ve worked with many approaches, including Reiki, kinesiology, homeopathy, acupuncture, therapeutic movement, bodywork, flower essences, light and sound therapy, Pa Kua and many others. However, working with the Pa Kua and Chinese Energetic Medicine (CEM) together is unique in that it has provided me with a way to understand how all of these therapies are, in fact, working with consciousness. Using Pa Kua & CEM gives us a way both to describe where energy is in or out of balance, and also to change that energy with conscious awareness. Comprehending how these therapies and practices work requires direct experience rather than just theories and words. Book link: American Barefoot Doctor’s Manual.
Liberate your true nature and core connection to wellness through the brilliant power of breath. An active, heart-centered and body-informed meditation, breathwork invokes an ecstatic experience that strengthens your connection to the part of you that knows how to heal, beneath any patterns and chronically held tension in the body. Breathwork is an integration of body-mind-heart-spirit experiences that has the potential to radically transform your life in just a single session. It is a journey to a state of elevated consciousness, revelatory experience, somatic awareness, and energy attunement.
Breathwork activates your inner healer, reveals pathways of healing, and empowers you with life-affirming direction. Effects are multidimensional, touching upon the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual aspects of oneself, ways of being, relationships, and life choices. Participants are supported in a trauma-informed empathic space rooted in community and authentic expression.
The power of live improvised music will amplify your inner journey, taking your breathwork experience to a new level. Sound healing artist Char Malin channels soundscapes of live-looped vocals and strings to create a container for transformation. Energies range from lush and ethereal, to energizing and empowering, to tender and nourishing. Live sound medicine augments all the amazing benefits of breathwork, and can profoundly assist the practitioner in reaching states of elevated consciousness and emotional release. Additional benefits include regulating the nervous system, creating harmony between body systems, aligning and clearing the energetic field, activating your creative channels, and so much more.
We look forward to being with you and supporting you on this journey into peace, well-being, and a sense of reclaimed freedom and vitality.
Breathwork Journey Workshop Details
Please arrive by 5:45pm to give yourself some time to prepare for the workshop.
We will begin by coming together as a group and discussing the process before breathing together.
The experience is followed by relaxation, and self care next steps.
Consider wearing comfortable, loose clothing, and bring water, a yoga mat, blanket and pillow(s) to support your journey.
We will then move into a sweet potluck afterwards. Bring your favorite potluck dish to help nourish and integrate this rich journey together.
Workshop starts at 6pm. Please arrive by 5:45pm. Potluck to follow.
$85 – Financially Wealthy
$70 – Financially Abundant
$55 – Financially Stable
$40 – Financially Coping
$30 – Financially Strained
Potluck: Please bring a dish to share for the potluck afterwards 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.***
Sauna with use of 2 Earthdance towels for $10
If you wish to extend your visit and stay overnight in a dorm bed in our Gratitude Lodge is $40 (Rental of sheets and towel is $15) or $30 to camp* Includes access to the sauna and kitchen use but does not provide food.
Refund available up to 10 days before the event less a $20 processing fee for workshop.
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.
COVID 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.
Jordan Grinstein is a multifaceted educator who has guided thousands of students over the past thirteen years in a range of healing modalities including breathwork, dance, meditation, and yoga. His mission is to inspire people to be leaders in their lives by using education and wellness practices as tools for personal empowerment, and to support the healing journeys of individuals, families, and communities. As the mindfulness director of Shrewsbury Public Schools, he trains students to be wellness and meditation facilitators for their peers, and strives to create a more just and liberated education system while supporting the social emotional wellness of school communities. He is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, meditation coach, yoga teacher trainer, and a facilitator of racial equity workshops. Centering equity as a core value in his life and work, he develops culturally responsive, trauma-informed curricula rooted in community, authentic expression, vulnerability, rest, and social justice. To learn more about Jordan and his work in education visit wholeschoolmindfulness.org and ivychild.org.
Char Malin 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 encounters with sound. 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.
Earthdance Sunday Jams are now on the 2nd Sunday of each month!
Bring your movement gifts to share along with a yummy dish to nom on after class. Let’s commune and practice during our sweet jam. And, relax together in the sauna while we rest our bones.
Registration not required.
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Schedule
Class: 5:00 – 6:00PM (rotating teachers)
Potluck: 6:30 – 7:30pm
Jam: 7:30 – 10:00PM
PRICES
SLIDING SCALE
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.
COVID 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.
Earthdance has teamed up DJ CJ for Ecstatic Dance! You are invited to come dance, move, stretch, release and recharge ~ Come as you are ~ Let’s co-create a safe place to get into our bodies and celebrate life and the beginnings of Spring.
This musical journey will start with ethereal live guitar that warms up into a heightened moment of fluid heart centering flow ~ As we dance with the forest we feel into the presence of gratitude and celebrate the magic of the green earth that sustains us. This is a good time of season to tune into the wisdom of Hawthorn and Oak. Spring is here to release the weight of Winter and open us to the beauty of new life cycles.
Guests are welcome to make use of the wood-fired sauna and cool down with a cold plunge in the quarry (with a buddy of course). Potluck is a great way to share and partake after this sweet Ecstatic journey.
No specific requirements on vaccination status are needed to attend the workshop. 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.
