Sensual Awakening
Next dates:
Europe: April 2008 (3 ½ days, residential)
USA: June 5-8 2008 (3 ½ days, residential)

In this weekend workshop, 5 Rhythms™ teacher Anna Witholt-Abaldo and Sexual Grounding ® Therapist Maya Schrier-Kerstan bring their two disciplines together, offering an exciting journey into the territory of aliveness, sensuality, and living life from your full, original, juicy potential.

With the 5 Rhythms™ Dance practice as our container – the place where we begin to awaken our senses, explore our bodies in motion, open up to ourselves and each other, and investigate the day’s themes in playful exercises – we will move into deeper work using the methods of Sexual Grounding® Therapy.

In structured work time, participants will have the opportunity to do some focused, personal work with Maya as their guide, and Anna and the group as their support. We will be investigating where there might be blocks in your flow of energy which are preventing you from enjoying your full potential for connection – emotionally and physically. To this end, we will work with “Ideal Parents” and Generation Lines, in an attempt to create new, healthy situations and belief systems around physicality and sensuality, and thereby heal your inner child. Together we will create a safe place to awaken once again your original curiosity, excitement and innocence - with all respect of your boundaries.

To learn more about Sexual Grounding® Therapy, please visit Maya’s website www.rodeparel.com ; for the English version, just click on “English” on the home page.

About Anna Witholt-Abaldo
About Maya Schrier-Kerstan

Practical Details
The event runs from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon
Costs: $175, after dealine; $225
Register / more info: contact Anna

Important: This workshop is not about dating, having sex or being sexy but about your own sensual reawakening and healing. Prior experience in the 5 Rhythms™ is preferred, but please contact Anna if you are interested and do not meet this requirement.

Note for events held in Maine:
Alhough this is not set up as a residential workshop, we have a wonderfully connected local dance community - there might be some dancers who are happy to provide a bed for participants from far away. Also, the Camden area is a gorgeous vacation destination (beaches, lakes, hiking, kayaking, sailing….) with plenty of Bed and Breakfast facilities, Inns, motels, etc. Please check out Camden’s Chamber of Commerce if you are thinking of attending the workshop and making this a longer visit: www.camdenme.org (also don’t miss www.camdenme.org/attractions/recreation.php and click on the photo gallery if you have never visited Maine before….). Keep in mind that we are happy to help.

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In this non-residential weekend workshop, we will be following the map of the 5 Rhythms to explore all kinds of dynamics and aspects of relationship – any kind of relationship: from standing closely packed in the elevator with strangers, to longterm intimate love relationships. What every relationship has in common, is unpredictability, and change.

This weekend, the dance will be our laboratory, allowing us to witness how our meetings on the dance floor, and relationships beyond, move in patterns and waves. What are our typical patterns? How do we ride the waves? How common is it for us to get stressed out by the mere fact that there can be tension or turbulence in relationship! And yet movement is healthy – without movement, there would be no life. In dance, we will ride these waves again and again, as we playfully explore how to be ourselves in connection with another; how to show up and be present with what is truly moving inside us and our partners; how to let go;how to surrender to our yesses and stand by our no’s; how to see and be seen.

We will be mostly dancing, supplemented with body-oriented excercises, writing, and ritual theatre to deepen and anchor our explorations. Although it can be profound and wonderful to do this work with a life partner or a friend, this is not a couples’ workshop, nor is it necessary to be in a longterm relationship to participate. All you need is a good dose of curiosity about yourself and human nature, love of movement, and willingness to go to a deeper level. Prior experience with the 5Rhythms is recommended, but please contact me if you believe you have other relevant movement / group experience.

For more information about teacher Anna Witholt-Abaldo please visit her website: www.movingheartdancingspirit.com.

When?     
Fri. 12/7 (6-8:30pm); Sat. 12/8 (10am-5pm); Sun. 12/9 (10am-3pm)

Where?      
Open Door Yoga Center, 255 Molyneaux Rd, Camden ME

Cost?       
$175, or $140 for early birds (register before Nov. 11th)