Hosted by Neal and Shosei, come connect with the Earthdance community. Learn about sustainable gardening, share in the abundance, help us continue building and maintaining the Earthdance garden vision.
All are welcome! Tasks may include a wide range of typical garden tasks: bed making, planting, weeding, compost turning, harvesting. No tools necessary, just you in outdoor workwear willing to work and get a little dirty!
“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support”. – Wendell Berry
Schedule
Every 2nd Sunday of the month (before the 2nd Sunday monthly jam!)
Any time between 10am to 5pm – Garden education and beautification
5pm – Potluck (bring a dish and we’ll cook something from the garden!)
Please check in to register for the class and jam
6:15pm – CI Class
7:30pm – Jam
Earthdance Garden Crew
Neal Wecker
After acquiring an undergraduate philosophy degree, Neal spent the next 20 years growing a family and organic farm in Ithaca NY. Finding “the good life” and remaining connected to nature in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing society felt imperative to explore and express. Then, after 10 years living and working as a sex and intimacy educator in Europe, Neal arrived at Earthdance in the spring of 2022. He is happy to be back exploring the mission of Creative Living at Earthdance as the gardener in service. He views his role of creating and maintaining a productive garden as supportive and aligned with both Earthdance’s mission and charm.
Shosei (Tamara)
Shosei (Tamara) came to Earthdance in September 2023 as a work exchanger and while exploring alternative lifestyles. While work exchanging and working remotely, she shadowed and assisted Neal in the Earthdance garden for the past seasons. Both being in the garden and living at Earthdance have offered Shosei respite from the burnout of a healthcare practice and inspired her in the way of alternative and complimentary future dreams of service. She continues to enjoy the teachings of the garden and its master gardener, Neal.
Join us in the beautiful Berkshire hills of Western Massachusetts to learn construction skills, build community, and dance!
Over four days here at Earthdance, you’re invited to help construct two simple A-frame structures that will provide housing for workshop instructors, staff, and visitors. This is an opportunity to gain practical experience in tiny home building while forming meaningful connections, sharing nutritious meals, and celebrating with music and movement.
What You’ll Learn
Construction Basics: Tool safety, site preparation, framing, and roofing.
Sustainable Building Techniques: Working with rough-sawn lumber, and wood protection without toxic chemicals.
Tiny Home Design & Construction: Building elevated platforms (yurt-style), running layouts for floor joists and roof rafters, A-frame roof construction, and installing doors & windows.
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Schedule
📍 Thursday, July 24 – Arrival & Orientation
Arrival & Onsite Check-In: 4–7pm (Front of the Farmhouse)
Dinner: 6–7pm
Intro Session: 8–10pm
📍 Friday, July 25 – First Full Build Day
Self-Organized Breakfast with ED Staff: 8–9am
First Session: 10am–1pm
Lunch: 1–2pm
Second Session: 3–6pm
Dinner: 6–7pm
Contact Improv Basics Class & Jam (with ED Staff): 8–10pm
📍 Saturday, July 26 – Drop-In Day & Celebration
Self-Organized Breakfast with ED Staff: 8–9am
First Session: 10am–1pm
Lunch: 1–2pm
Second Session: 3–6pm
Dinner: 6–7pm
Ecstatic Dance with DJ TreeJ: 8–10pm
📍 Sunday, July 27 – Final Build & Departure
Self-Organized Breakfast: 8–9am
Final Build Session: 10am–1pm
Lunch: 1–2pm
All House Clean with ED Staff: 2–3pm
Departure: After 3pm
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.
***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.***
Housing Options
Gratitude Lodge at Earthdance Tickets
Includes a bed in the Gratitude Lodge, event offerings, and food arrangements.
The Gratitude Lodge (a.k.a. the Earthdance dorm) is the main lodging facility, connected to the Farmhouse by a short wooded trail. The lodge includes large and small rooms featuring dormitory-style bunks and beds (twin & queen size) and is included in the base event cost. Beds are available on a first come basis.
Camping Tickets
Includes a spot to camp on Earthdance land, event offerings, and food arrangements. You will need to bring your own camping gear.
Drop-In Day Tickets
You will have access to the event offerings and food arrangements, no overnight accommodations.
Cancellation Policy
Refund available up to 14 days (July 10th) before the event less a $40 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 14 days (After July 10th) 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.
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 event and participate in a final house clean on the last day of the event. 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!
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. (Yestermorrow, Regenerative Retrofits, & Permatours)
Scott 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.
PERMATOURS EVENT AGREEMENTS
We value active participation in all facets of Earth Care, People Care, and Fair Share.
We treat the land and all beings with love and respect.
We do not tolerate hate language, discrimination, or violence of any kind.
We support an accessible and equitable environment for all beings.
Equality is not an assumption, and we strive to promote equitable access.
Consent is required for all: commitments (including time/energy expectations),
verbal interactions, physical contact, emotional support, desire for intimacy, etc.
We encourage curiosity to be a leader against assumptions.
We support the use of the acronym FRIES to share concisely that consent is:
F – freely given
R – reversible
I – informed
E – enthusiastic
S – specific
Permatours is dedicated to holding containers (intentional spaces) that remain free of alcohol, powders, pills, and gasses. Your presence, in times of joy and difficulty, is welcome here!
We support a space of interdependence, and mutual aid. We trust that when we arrive and are able to do for ourselves what we can, with the interstanding we may not be able to do everything, we are better aligned to receive the aid we truly need, and aid others in areas of their needs. Building mutually beneficial relationships and working together in symbiosis are key aspects of being able to thrive physically, emotionally, and spiritually, as a community.
We support a space of radical self-reliance, encouraging everyone to show up able to meet most, if not all, of their own needs. The community is here to support them when/if needed.
We observe the 4 Agreements, with the inclusion of the 5th agreement, by Don Miguel Ruiz.
During this workshop, participants will investigate movement and stillness by exploring the body’s natural anatomical potential, including floating, hanging, and strings. Exercises from Noguchi Taiso water body practice and aspects of butoh will help remove customary societal and cultural behaviors, guiding dancers toward bodily emptiness. Without the constraints of old habits, the unconscious body can freely respond to sensations, forces, and states of emotions to become a fully expressive body.
Dancers will be instructed with lessons to expand their range of movements, including subtle, unrestrained, fading, animal, and revolutionary.
Description of the Indescribable Butoh
Originating in post-WWII Japan, butoh is a potent and revolutionary dance form. Butoh uses the body brazenly as a battleground to attain personal, social, or political transformation. In its early forms, butoh embraced and referenced Western artistic movements: German Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Existentialism, and Fluxus, all of which pervaded the Tokyo underground and the avant-garde art scene at that time.
The co-founders of butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata, and Kazuo Ohno trained in German Modern dance, which was integral to the development of German Expressionism. But, eventually, they took opposite approaches to their dance-making. Hijikata’s work became known as ankoku butoh (dance of utter darkness); he embraced the grotesque and the absurd, exploring themes of sacrifice, struggle, and death. Ohno’s butoh was playful, humorous, and filled with light and life. Today’s butoh is influenced by both Hijikata and Ohno and wrestles to balance those contrary approaches.
Like many other Japanese concepts, butoh is defined by its very evasion of definition. It is both theatre and dance, yet it follows no choreographic conventions. It is a subversive force, through which traditions are overturned. As such, it must exist somewhere on the social periphery. It is a popular spectacle, unlike the classical theatre of Noh with its elaborate gestures. Yet it is esoteric. It is a force of liberation, especially within the conformist Japanese social structure, yet it is born out of extreme discipline. In a culture of exceptional visual harmony, it employs a vocabulary of ugliness.
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Arrival Check-In, Opening Circle and Departure
Arrival/Onsite Check-In: Participants will check-in at the front of the Farmhouse from 4-7pm on Thursday, September 4th. Dinner from 6-7pm.
Opening Circle: Friday, September 5th at 10 am. All participants are asked to attend.
Closing Circle: Sunday, September 7th at 12:30pm. Lunch 1-2pm.
Final Group Clean: Sunday, September 7th from 2-3pm
Departure: Sunday, September 7th by 3pm.
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.
Although we’re not able to offer any full scholarships this year, we’re excited to offer up to 3 FULL JAM Equity & Access Discounts to individuals who feel part of an underrepresented and/or marginalized group in CI and have a relationship with CI. We know that for those who come from marginalized populations showing up to spaces filled with primarily privileged groups can be a challenge, and can feel vulnerable.
Application Coming Soon!
Earthdance makes efforts to support Equity & Access at all its events. At our four Seasonal jams we do this through:
Reduced price Equity & Access tickets for folks who find our normal tickets to be a barrier. Participants self-identifying as being underrepresented and/or marginalized in CI are prioritized when allocating these tickets.
An Accountability, Safety and Care (ASC) team that supports the processing of difficult situations that might come up in relation to consent, identity and other relational issues.
Support from a BIPOC Team at our seasonal jams that hosts meals and supports offerings and affinity spaces based on BIPOC participants’ desires.
Housing Options
Gratitude Lodge
Includes a bed in the Gratitude Lodge, event offerings, sauna & quarry access, and food during the event.
The Gratitude Lodge (a.k.a. the Earthdance dorm) is the main lodging facility, connected to the Farmhouse by a short wooded trail. The lodge includes large and small rooms featuring dormitory-style bunks and beds (twin & queen size) and is included in the base cost. Beds are available on a first come basis.
Camping
Includes a spot to camp at Earthdance, event offerings, sauna & quarry access, and food during the event.
Commuter
You will have access to the event offerings, sauna & quarry access, and food.
Commuter Health Care: 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 event participants.
Nine Mountain is NOT available.
Cancellation Policy
Refund available up to 14 days (August 21st) before the event less a $75 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 14 days (August 21st) 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 participants.
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 event and participate in a final house clean on the last day of the event. 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!
Julie Becton Gillum, artistic director of the 14-year-running Asheville Butoh Festival, has been creating, performing, and teaching dance in the US, Europe, Asia, and Mexico for over 40 years. She has practiced butoh for 27 years. Gillum was awarded the 2008-09 North Carolina Choreography Fellowship and used the funds to travel to Japan to study Butoh.
Julie is currently training and performing in Japan with Saga Kobayashi, Moe Yamamoto, Mari Osanai, Seisaku, and Yuri Nagaoka. On February 18, she performed with Katsura Kan at a festival in Kyoto at the URBANGUILD.
Since 2019, Gillum has been active in India, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Mexico, and the USA. Recent performances at the Amsterdam Butoh Festival (October 2023), Seattle Butoh Festival (November 2023), NYU Abu Dhabi Art Museum (February 2024), UNFIX Festival in NYC (May 2024) were well received.
Julie’s most influential mentors in butoh have been: Anzu Furukawa, Diego Piñon, Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, and Seisaku. Noguchi Taiso has become equally important for Gillum whose studies with Mari Osanai and Emre Thormann have refined her practice. She has guided butoh for 25 years and Noguchi Taiso for 10 years.
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).
In this workshop we will explore Being With our bodies through dance.
Being as living, bringing forth, and causing to grow.
And With-ness as a multiplicity of potential in relating – that being in relationship can include to oppose, vary, or unify.
Our movement investigations will bring us through varied terrain of inquiry: bridging instinctive, intuitive, and intellectual ways of being with. How can we orient towards intimacy and interconnectivity for the long-game of our moving lives?
We’ll play and engage through rhythm, collective groove, unison, spontaneity, variation, and heart perception as ways to connect with the varied knowledge our bodies hold. There will be motifs and movement sequences, meditative scores, guided improvisations, reflection and journaling, and collective mapping. Join us as we delve into ways of calling forth the wisdom of the body through shared dance experiences.
Arrival, Onsite Check-In, Opening Circle, and Departures.
Arrival/Check-In: Thursday, May 15th from 4-7pm front of the Farmhouse. Dinner is at 6-7pm.
Opening Circle: Thursday, May 15th after dinner at 7:30pm.
Closing Circle: Sunday, May 18th in the evening after the last session.
Breakfast/Final Clean: Breakfast on Monday, May 19th at 8-9am, Final Clean 9-10am.
Departure: Monday, May 19th by 11am.
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.
GRATITUDE LODGE Financially Strained $500.00 to Financially Abundant $975.00
CAMPING Financially Strained $475.00 to Financially Abundant $950.00
COMMUTER Financially Strained $450 to Financially Abundant $925.00
INTERNATIONAL DISCOUNT
Earthdance is happy to announce a 20% discount for international travelers wanting to attend an Earthdance run event. We hope this gesture helps to keep our events accessible for those from different cultures that are traveling from afar. We also realize that given the current political situation coming to the US might be more expensive or challenging and hope this discount is a way of keeping Earthdance in your hearts.
We are excited to offer up to 3 FULL Equity & Access Discounts to individuals who have a financial need. We know that for those who come from marginalized populations showing up to spaces filled with primarily privileged groups can be a challenge and prioritize such individuals when granting these discounted tickets.
Earthdance makes efforts to support Equity & Access at all its events, this event offers particularly strong support for diversity, equity, and inclusion through:
Reduced pricing offered to people with a financial need and self-identifying as being underrepresented and/or marginalized.
Classes and discussions that aim to presence awareness and inclusion at the event as a whole.
Housing Options
Gratitude Lodge at Earthdance Tickets
Includes a bed in the Gratitude Lodge, event offerings, and food.
The Gratitude Lodge (a.k.a. the Earthdance dorm) is the main lodging facility, connected to the Farmhouse by a short wooded trail. The lodge includes large and small rooms featuring dormitory-style bunks and beds (twin & queen size) and is included in the base event cost. Beds are available on a first come basis.
Camping Tickets
Includes a spot to camp at Earthdance, event offerings, and food.
Commuter Tickets
You will have access to the event offerings and food.
Commuter Health Care: 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 event participants.
Refund available up to 14 days (May 1st) before the event less a $75 processing fee.
No refunds available less than 14 days (After May 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.
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.
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 event and participate in a final house clean on the last day of the event. 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!
Over the past 17 years, I have facilitated dance experiences in a variety of contexts, where I encourage a main focus of exploring new ways of understanding the body in movement through the knowledge that it already holds. Certified to teach the Axis Syllabus, I have been in alliance with its Research Network (ASRM) for over 10 years and am inspired by the pedagogical philosophy of learner centered learning which is inherent to its community. I hold a Master’s degree in dance from the Université de Québec à Montréal — a deep investigation of the expression “To Learn by Heart” — looking into possible relationships between the heart and meaningful, embodied learning in a dance class. These days, I am driven by the curiosity of how tradition, ancestry, territory and music live inside my dance and the dance I share with others.
Claire Turner Reid
Claire is a movement artist and educator in Dance, Qigong, and Internal Martial Arts. She is a Certified and Certifying Teacher of the Axis Syllabus. Claire currently teaches Qigong courses at the Ontario College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Qigong, Taijiquan, and Falling Negotiation programs through the City of Guelph. She has a Diploma of Acupuncture from OCTCM Toronto and a BFA in Acting from the University of Windsor. She is a member of Spiritwind Internal Arts where she is a certified instructor in Qigong, Taijiquan, and Dao In Lung Shen and also practices Baguazhang and Gongfu. She is a Level 2 Certified Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong instructor.
Claire uses movement and healing practices to deepen awareness, honour the integrity of the body, and enrich inter-relational possibilities. In movement research, she invites open-inquiry and curiosity and values lineage and creativity, rigour and play, somatic sovereignty and collective collaboration. Her teaching encourages exploration of the body in motion for more connected living. She teaches online, internationally, and locally in Guelph and Toronto.
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.
