5:30 - 7 am PST

Register for Carmen’s session

Soul Motion Improvisational Movement

Multicultural movement facilitator, spiritual seeker and free spirit. Carmen lives most of the year on either side of the Rio de la Plata, yet can also be found in Europe or elsewhere. Carmen loves all types of music ( from ethno to electronic, from barock to rock n roll, from lyrical to latin), times of solitude and times in Community. 

I will offer a Soul Motion inspired movement class. In Soul Motion we connect to Self and others listening to the wisdom of the Body and the whispers of the Soul. We shed the skins of believes and sorrows and offer our body as expression of the breath of life.

7:30-9 am PST

Regsister for Katriona’s Session

Arts for Social Change: An Expressive Arts Exploration of Creative Voice, Creative Resistance, Collaborative Ripples of Generative Rebellious Embodiment

A somatic and arts psychotherapist, improvisational movement facilitator, and visual artist, they hold groups, retreats, trainings, and offering mentoring and psychotheray rooted in feminist antioppressive liberatory praxis and reverence for Eairth. They are on faculty with the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute and the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.

Trained as a soul motion teacher, yoga teacher, in movement-based expressive arts, experiential anatomy, and dance movement therapy, Katriona loves movement and the creative language of embodiment as aliveness and freedom to be one’s own magical oddkin being, woven within a generative web of life. Art is a path for change work.

Katriona is Queer, NonBinary, Unilaterally Deaf, part of a Queer immigrant neurodivergent family, and is a white-bodied settler and treaty relative, living in the lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) First Nations Territory.

9-10:30 am PST

Register for Shabrae’s session

Shabrae Jackson is an expressive arts facilitator and educator who has worked in numerous communities internationally & in the US.  Her work centers around themes of belonging, healing, group dynamics, and peace-building.  Believing strongly in the power of community and local leadership, she enjoys exploring how personal and collective narratives can renew spaces for connection and healing - creating the conditions for the arts, play and transformation to meet.

Shabrae is part of the faculty team at the European Graduate School and co-coordinator for the Global Health and the Arts program. She is co-founder of UMBRAL, an organization engaged in arts-based psychosocial trauma & healing in Mexico City and at the border with migrants & refugees.  Shabrae has facilitation certifications from Training for Conflict Transformation (TCTT) and EXIT (Expressive Arts in Transition). Her undergrad work is in the area of Social Work, a MA in Expressive Arts for conflict transformation and peace and a postgraduate degree in Sports for Peace. Shabrae is a PhD candidate where she is exploring ritual and restoration in groups and communities through cultural & contextualized resources and pedagogies for healing and peace.

https://www.collectivetapestry.org/

Session Title: Risking New Shapes at the Threshold:  

Join this space to explore in a restful way, exploring what it means to find new shapes at the thresholds. How do we create openings in places of pain and possibility, to co-sense a way forward, honoring the sites of rupture as a way to generate new forms of knowledge and to become capable of responding together.  This will be an experiential arts-based workshop for self and collective exploration.  No arts nor special background is required for participation.  A suggested materials list will be provided.

10:30 - 11:30 am PST

Register for Jane’s session

Jane Lewis is a strong believer in the power of music to bring people together. She has been leading vocal groups since 2008, from "finding your voice" and "how to sing harmony by ear" workshops to various choirs, Vocal Meditation, Women’s Music Weekends, and community singing events. She has studied improvisational singing & music making with Rhiannon, Music For People, and Música do Círculo. She is also a singer-songwriter, and performs most often in the folk/roots duo Gathering Sparks (with Eve Goldberg). Jane has released two solo recordings, and two recordings with Gathering Sparks. www.janelewis.ca / vocalmeditation.com

12 - 1:30 pm PST

Register for Sarah’s session

Bio: sarah ann woodbury lives nestled against the Bear River Mountains and upriver from Great Salt Lake. She spends her time writing with places, growing multispecies justice for the Intermountain West, wandering outside with a dog called Magpie, and performing in ritual advocacy to turn humans toward the sentient lands and waters. She just returned from time as a poet-in-residence at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and leads performance art and creative activism work for and with her home waters of Great Salt Lake. Her recent work can be found in The American Journal of Poetry, CALYX Press, and Sugar House Review. She is a student of a council of apple trees, David Abram, snakes and spiders of many shapes, Great Salt Lake, Katriona Curry, and other wonderful teachers. 

Website: https://sarahannwoodbury.myportfolio.com/about
@mycelium.church

Workshop: "ritual earth activism: tending healing creative practice with and for the more-than-human"

What to expect: Our circle will dive into the kaleidoscopic web of our embodied ecological relations and responsibilities, working with meditation, poetry, story, and movement. Collaborating with our more-than-human teachers and the wisdom of our animal selves, we will practice and tend creative rituals that nurture reciprocal healing of our bodies and the bodies of Earth. You don't need any particular training or experience to join, and all backgrounds, abilities, and identities are very welcome.

What to bring: A notebook and four charms (stone, song, feather, bit of water, word, image, soil, etc.) from places you find meaningful.

What to wear: Something you feel comfortable doing gentle movement in.

Space considerations: If you have a space to join from with room for movement, that would be ideal! However, we can make it work even if you need to be in a cramped space or don't plan to move much.

1:30-2:30 pm PST

Register for Laia’s session

Laia Jorba is a sensorimotor therapist and trainer and a long time Authentic Movement practitioner. She also integrates other approaches to healing, including plant medicine, spirituality and relational somatic dialogue and identity development. In her search for becoming a vessel to support the healing of others, she has relied deeply on the practice of Authentic Movement. Through these lenses, she likes to explore with clients the continuum between the biographical and the transcendental self. She is mentored by Zoe Avstreih and Eleni Levidi and continues to develop the witness capacity to hold others in the empty space where spirit and creativity can show up.  

 Her Workshop for this Series is: Weaving polarities – Opening to the deep listening of the body’s voice through Authentic Movement

3 - 4:30 pm PST

Register for Paloma’s session

My name is Paloma Callo (she/they). I was born, raised, and currently live on unceded lək̓ʷəŋən land (Victoria, BC), with wide ocean, rolling pebbles, and breathing forests surrounding me. My ancestral lines include Irish from my mother and Peruvian from my father, both made up of longwinded diasporic histories and steadfast culture-keeping peoples. I am an artist, musician, filmmaker, and land-based art therapist.

In July 2024 I graduated from the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute, and since then have been enveloped in art-making and filmmaking; facilitation of vocal resonance practices; volunteering with the Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees; and beginning the formation of private practice. Relational, neurodevelopmental, feminist, and trauma-informed theories guide my art making and service work. I walk with an anti-oppressive worldview informed by lived experience, ancestral knowledge, and my undergraduate background in Globalization, Culture and Power (Carleton University).

Workshop Description:

My workshop offering is a creative exploration of ancestral wisdom. Through group work and multiple expressive modalities (mark-making, movement, writing) we will explore the concept of the ancestor, personal ancestral storying, and how we can be supported in our own belonging through this framework and practice.

https://palomacallo.wixsite.com/portfolio

4:30 - 6 pm PST

Register for Joanne’s session

A teacher of 5 Rhythms since 2001, Joanne feels her practice as energy work, ancestral work, animist, developmental, capacity-building work. When we enter fully into our dance we can move, engage, and relate with forces within and beyond us. Practicing in community, through time, can support us to complete developmental tasks, discover our unique nature, and step into reciprocity and service. I use patience, humour, great music, and clear intention to create containers where the 5Rhythms can work their magic.

Joanne teaches 5Rhythms with a deep respect for the transformational nature of this practice, for the insight that these maps can bring to our daily lives, and for the unique discovery process of each participant. Her teaching is rooted in a lifelong engagement with her own study and personal work. Since 2001, she has held a steady space for the growth and evolution of a robust dance community in Victoria BC, has supported students and colleagues with their own teaching path, and has shared her love of this practice with communities in Canada, the US, and Europe

https://www.danceherenow.ca/teacher/

6 -7:30 pm PST

Register for Denielle’s session

Art Therapy Practitioner, AMFT 

Denielle, is an art therapist with a passion for social justice, nature connection, somatics, and ancestral wisdom. Her work is rooted in a decolonized framework that honors collective trauma and community healing. Through this work, she strives to strengthen and deepen creative art and somatic methods to foster healing, growth, and empowerment.

She believes in the transformative power of creative expression and the integration of somatic work to foster awareness. Using the wisdom of the elements and the seasons,  Denielle aims to support individuals in connecting to their inner wisdom while fostering a deeper relationship with themselves and the earth.

Intention for workshop:

A reflective and creative workshop inspired by the earth’s wisdom. Through sensory exploration, mindfulness, and mixed media, this nature-based art therapy practice emphasizes rituals, reciprocity, somatics, and creative expression. Participants will explore self-discovery and deepen their connection to the earth while fostering harmony with the natural world.

7:30-9pm PST

Register for Katrin’s session

Katrin Snow, MA, is a certified Soul Motion teacher who leads classes and workshops in the San Francisco Bay area and northern California. She's currently developing a body of work guiding people toward a felt sense of belonging with Earth in a time of ecological crisis. When she's not dancing, you might find Katrin editing a book, coaching public speaking and, her latest joy, substitute teaching children from ages 4 to 14.

Class description: Soul Motion - Walking on Your Ground. Soul Motion is freeform movement in which you are invited to move as you wish, perhaps wildly and gently, perhaps in stillness and in silliness, welcoming yourself home to your body. In this class we will explore being on our own ground in this time of tumultuous change. Many changes happening now can be so far out of our realm of control that it can feel like being flung about. So bring your full selves, your instabilities and your longings, your desires and your uncertainties, and let's explore how our bodies might lead us and teach us on this shifting ground.

My favorite times, in order of preference, would be 10:30-noon;  10-11:30; 11-12:30.  All Pacific Time.