Seeing this summer through, in movement together 💛

August 13 dance day in Courtenay &
Sunday classes August 7 - September 25 in Quw'utsun

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Spirits open to the thrust of grace, never a breath you can afford to waste.
~ Bruce Cockburn

Wow, August arrived while I wasn't looking. It's time to dive back into teaching. Practicing in movement with others is a way I say with my whole self: Please give me sweetness that's plain and real, that bubbles and pops and bubbles again. Let me be one who brings it, who breathes it.

I’m on a pilgrimage for it. I'm practicing remembering that the whole point is all the roadside places where I can stop and smell the roses, hear the life in a voice, taste a mouthful of safe-to-drink water, feel something real, or see one of ten thousand goodnesses I’ve temporarily forgotten to acknowledge. I can stop and take one alive, self-tracking breath that makes a space where sweetness could get in.

With this intent, on Saturday the13th in Courtenay, I’ll hold a day of movement immersion, exploration, reflection, and… how shall I say? Inventive, embodied rest.

sweetness

Saturday August 13
11 am - 6 pm

3902 Old Island Hwy, Courtenay (Royston Hall)

All humans over 15 welcome. No experience of any kind needed.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Let us show up however we are and allow sweetness to follow.

Details here.
Sign up here.

Health and self-care:

Chairs and ample floor space available for seated and reclining dance
We fully support participants who wish to mask and/or dance physically distanced
Doors will be open for air flow and HEPA filters will be in use
We'll refund sessions missed due to cold/flu/COVID symptoms or known exposure to COVID prior to the workshop
Any vaccination status welcome at this time
Attendance capped at 20

Sunday classes

in the garden with all our relations
are back!

10 am - 11:50 am
Garden behind Providence Farm, Quw'utusun ("Duncan")

Click a date to see deatils and hold your headphones:

Sept 25

If paying through my website by credit card doesn't work for you,
please contact me directly to register.

In May and June we danced in connection with

all us two-leggeds
the Salish Sea
the low mosses, grasses and lichens
the flowers and their lover-pollinators
the birds
the sun's light and all colours
magical mink and otters
…and everyone else.

In August and September, perhaps we’ll dance in awareness of berries and bears, trees and soil, crickets and winds and watersheds
… and everyone else.

In the spirit of moving toward integrity, connectedness, and better relating, I’ll make a substantial donation from outdoor summer class proceeds to the Orange Shirt Society and Tsow-Tun Le Lum Society.

Wishing you well in every way,
Chantell

Good things going on

My friend and colleague Shauna has a weekend camp out coming up on Salt Spring, including 5Rhythms and other pastimes.

My friend and colleague Anne Marie will hold a full indoor weekend workshop in Victoria in September.

My friend and colleague Joanne continues to offer monthly indoor classes and weekly outdoor classes in Victoria.

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