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Mirrors
with Joanne Winstanley
Wednesday, March 24th @ 6pm through
Tuesday, March 30th @ 6pm, 2027
"What the ego wants is tiny compared to what the soul wants, and there comes a point when we recognize this, and we surrender to soul." – Marion Woodman
Mirrors is an initiation into the world beyond self-importance -- into the art of seeing. To enter the world of Mirrors is to take off our blinders and begin to see through the delusions and difficulties that trap us in unhappiness and destructiveness. We start to step back and get some insight into the predictable patterns that sabotage the grace and dignity of our truest and most soulful self.
In the 5Rhythms® practice, we are constantly moving into the most spontaneous, energetic, expansive qualities of our being. In the Mirrors level of the practice, we are given the tools to identify the relentless loop of our own favorite head-trips and the inevitable situations they create. We tear off masks, sheds skins, reinventing ourselves effortlessly, learning to witness our own drama, its roots and rituals. We enter the crowd of characters that dominate our stage whether servant or star, doormat or dreamer, realist or rebel, mystic or manipulator—all divas, and begin to watch them sabotage our funky, fiery, free-spirit. Sometimes we have to stop the world and wonder: which part of me is using my hands, my feet, my eyes, my ears, and most importantly my mouth today?
We all know what it feels like to get stuck, to lose our groove, to get trapped in our heads and cut off from our hearts Seeking the answer within awakens the witness and learning to witness our own melodrama is our saving grace.
Prerequisite: A 5Rhythms® Waves, Heartbeat & Cycles workshop is required prior to attendance.
All workshop hours contribute to 5Rhythms® Teacher Training prerequisites.
This workshop will count as 6.5 days of 5Rhythms® Mirrors.
In 2001 I received Gabrielle Roth’s blessing to offer weekly 5Rhythms practices ('Sweat Your Prayers'), and I have been holding steady ground and potent spaces for movement and process ever since. Along the way I have had the great good fortune to work closely with gifted mentors and teachers, to dance deeply in 10 of Gabrielle's summer intensives (2000-2012), and to share this practice with communities across Canada and overseas. In 2004-05 I trained to teach Waves, and then Heartbeat in 2014-15. As of 2024 I am accredited to teach Mirrors.
For me this practice is energy work, ancestral work, animist, developmental, capacity-building, practical Spirit 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 maturity, reciprocity, and service. I use patience, humour, great music, and clear intention to create containers where the 5Rhythms can work their magic.
PRICING
EXCHANGE FOR THE WEEK LONG WORKSHOP
Creating Access not Scarcity: Following the class and economic justice sliding scale created by Alexis J. Cunningfolk, please review and select the price point below that allows you to attend the workshops. Discounts available are on a first come basis (10 full & 10 partial discount spaces available) and our hope is to create a space where all can participate so reach out if you need further assistance.
Full Price for Weekend $900:
I am comfortably able to meet all my basic needs, I am employed or do not need to work, I have access to financial savings and have an expendable income and can afford at least an annual vacation. I may struggle at times, but overall my needs are met.
Partial Discount: $815 Use code PARTIAL4 when registering:
I may stress about meeting my basic needs, but still regularly achieve them, I may have some debt, but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs, I may have access to financial savings and have some expendable income and can take a vacation annually or every few years.
Full Discount $715 use code FULL4 when registering :
I frequently stress about meeting my basic needs and don’t always achieve them, I have debt that sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs, I rent lower end properties or have unstable housing, I am unemployed or underemployed without access to savings, I have no or very limited expendable income and cannot afford or have the ability to take time off work for a vacation without financial burden.
Questions? please inquire with an email to Májica Alba.
Discount available to 5RTA Teachers. Please inquire.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Your registration fee includes a 25% non-refundable deposit.
A 75% refund will be issued for cancellations received, with notice, before February 12, 2027.
A 50% refund will be issued for cancellations between February 12 and March 12, 2027 (unless we are able to fill your place from our waitlist, in which case a 75% refund will be issued). Cancellations after March 12, 2027 will be assessed on a case by case basis. Please email the organizer directly if you wish to cancel your registration.
Registrations/tickets are non-transferable.
The Mirrors Map leads us to recognize what Gabrielle Roth referred to as “Ego Characters”, how we all have a cast of these endlessly rehashed roles, can learn to spot them, name them, embody them, exaggerate them and practice dis-identifying from them so we might, even when under pressure, move more closely to authenticity, to Soul, to each other, to life and freedom.
LOCATION:
CLARA AUDITORIUM
1425 24th Street
Sacramento, CA 95816
Wednesday 6:00pm-9:00pm
Thursday 10:00am-6:00pm
Friday 10:00am-6:00pm
Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm
(optional potluck dinner at 6:30pm)
Sunday 10:00am-6:00pm
Monday 10:00am-6:00pm
Tuesday 10:00am-6:00pm
