Layah first fell for 5Rhythms® in her late teens, and over the last 15 years, has followed her love of the practice across North America, Central America, and Europe. Passionate about offering dancers sacred space to experience music and motion as medicine, Layah has taught expressive arts programs and led all-ages and mixed abilities dance gatherings in Toronto since 2003, as a regular DJ at Toronto's conscious dance hubs, The Move
and Ecstatic Dance Toronto. Layah is a certified 5Rhythms teacher accredited with the 5Rhythms Teachers Association (an associate member of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association), and teaches weekly 5Rhythms Toronto classes, and workshops across Canada.

Informed, inspired and nourished by the natural world, ritual, making music, Waldorf education, and holistic medicine, off the dance floor Layah is an award-winning musician, a lover of local food and "jazz" (improv) cooking, an urban farmer-in-training, an eldest daughter, a sister, a wife, and a hearty lover of life.

http://www.layahjane.com

SATURDAY
1PM-2:45PM Lunch Lounge DJ set

SUNDAY
11:15AM-1PM 5Rhythms Dance & Movement Meditation The Tent

5Rhythms Dance & Movement Meditation. "The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing...Dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat." ~ Gabrielle Roth

5Rhythms® is a dynamic movement meditation practice ~ a simple and catalytic map for freeing our bodies, and opening our hearts. Practiced by tens of thousands worldwide, there are no steps to follow in this improvisational movement methodology - all we need to do is show up, tune in and move what is alive in us.

Dancing the 5Rhythms (Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness), we move through a Wave that mirrors the way energy moves and changes in the world. We begin slow and gentle, let our movements become more vigorous as we build to a peak of release, then we follow the ripples of our dance until it settles into a still and meditative place. In this workshop we will practice the art of being fully alive in the present moment, to all that moves through us, awakening and expressing the full spectrum of our creative, vibrant, unique selves.

Together we will explore the foundations of 5Rhythms, supported by diverse musical maps of funky grooves, soulful melodies, big thumping tribal beats, and meditative soundscapes. Come follow body, breath, and beat into
the sacred with a tribe of other dancing seekers. Come reSource, come release, come ride the Wave!

All movement experience is welcome.

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