Solstice and Winter Message – 2023 – 2024
Golden Sun of the Mountains
Illumine the land
Illumine the seas and rivers
Light up the World!!
Grief be Layed
Joy be Raised!!
Winter Solstice happened December 21st as it does each year! On Commercial Drive in Vancouver everyone was laughing and talking, as if this year the Light of the Sun was especially important – a sacred act of grace.
Yet – we need the Dark – out of which emerges the Light of the Sun, the Moon, the Stars and Galaxies. Together they dance a dynamic, passionate love affair that creates the Universe and all the worlds within.
Every day I pray:
“May I dance this dance between the Light and the Dark both internally and externally with all parts of my Being every moment of my life in a good way.”
My arms reach to the heavens while my feet move on earth.
My spine rises and falls spiraling my whole body through space.
This dance makes me happy.
I invite you to try it.
May this New Year bring unimagined blessings to fill your heart and soul each moment!
With love,
Tannis
I am grateful for the opportunity to live, work, play, and learn on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil Waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples.
Dancing For Peace
A Fundraiser for Doctors without Borders/ Les Médecins sans Frontières
This is a Dance and community ritual to offer healing and prayers for Peace. All ages and abilities welcome. No one turned away due to lack of funds.
Facing a Trembling World
We are called to Dance!
We Dance for Hope.
We Dance for Love.
We Dance for Peace.
A 5Rhythms dance and community ritual for healing & offering our prayers for peace. We bring our bodies, minds, hearts and spirits into sacred space to dance & share our visioning for something greater. Together we will make Peace a reality by dancing on every level of our being.
Facilitated by 5Rhythms Teacher, Marcia Jones, Sacred Dance Healing Artist, Tannis Hugill, and featuring sound healing with David Yates.
Sunday April 21, 2024, 2 pm – 4 pm
St. James Community Square
3214 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver
Cost: $25
Registration online at www.spiritrhythms.ca or etransfer to marcia@spiritrhythms.ca or pay cash at the door.
No one turned away for lack of funds. Donations warmly welcomed.
Due to the nature of this event, refunds will not be available.
All proceeds go to Doctors without Borders/Les Médecins sans Frontières
All ages and physical abilities are welcome. No experience necessary.
We are grateful to be supported by:
Banyen Books and Sound, High Life Records & Vancouver Pilates Centre
Ongoing Workshops
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Authentic Movement
In this introduction participants will learn the form of Authentic Movement. They will explore the roles of mover and witness to gain a deeper understanding and acceptance of their embodied experience in all areas of their lives.
Moving Prayer
Our need to pray is as ancient and central to life as our breath. In this workshop, we listen to the prayers moving in and through our bodies using guided visualization and structured movement improvisation. By joining body, mind and spirit to dance our prayers, we celebrate ourselves and the earth as miracles of Creation.
Ecstatic Body Postures and Moving Prayer
Learn to journey to the realms of Non-ordinary Reality using Ecstatic Body Postures and integrate the teachings of spirit into conscious awareness with Authentic Movement. Discovered by anthropologist Felicitas Goodman, Ecstatic Body Postures are a sacred technology used by our elders thousands of years ago to commune with the world of spirit for healing, divination, and ritual celebration. Now, to regain access to these realms, practitioners hold a posture from an early indigenous culture, accompanied by drum or rattle, and enter a visionary trance state. In this workshop, we will explore both practices to connect with our ancient roots and the guidance of spirit. Transformed by these gifts, we will feel our place in the web of life and a compassionate acceptance of all being.
Embodying the Roles We Play
This workshop begins by embodying our unconscious realms through Authentic Movement, inviting the emerging parts of ourselves to dance their roles. Then, using the playful tools of drama therapy, we will discover and enact the stories that wish to be revealed.