Light Up The Night ~ A 5Rhythms & Open Floor Benefit Dance
On this night we will come together to dance our hearts out, in support of RAVEN, a registered charity with a mission to raise funds for Indigenous People's access to climate justice.
Open floor movement practice offers a dynamic, creative tool kit of resources to move through life, fully embodied. We use the universal language of dance and mindfulness for self discovery, connection and healing.
5Rhythms is a dynamic freestyle movement practice. Dancing 5Rhythms Waves, we practice the art of being fully alive in the present moment, to all that moves through us. Come dive into your own deep dance, with a circle of other dancing seekers of the sacred. Come reSource, come release, come light up the night!
Hosted by 5Rhythms® teachers Layah Jane & Elisa Hollenberg, and Open Floor Teacher-in-Training Layah Davis
All are welcome here: all bodies, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, abilities & disabilities, and movement experience. Roncesvalles United Church is a wheelchair accessible venue.
Please bring a tealight and tealight holder.
We are also inviting all who are able to please bring gently used or extra items of warmth, including hats, gloves, mitts, scarves fro adults or children. These will be given to organizations supporting those without homes, or in need of support
Sat Dec 9, 2023, 7:30-9:30pm
Please note: Building doors will lock at 7:45pm.
$20-$35
about the facilitators
Layah D is a conscious dance and somatic movement facilitator, a music maker, a healing artist incorporating expressive arts, life companions while also establishing a therapy and bodywork practice, including group and private work. She has co-taught yoga teacher trainings, and led retreats. Through gathering of kindred movers and lovers of music, she facilitates movement journeys with a basket of teachings from various medicine paths. She is moved to infuse the sacred onto the dance floor and into our heart space, inspiring transformation and rekindling inner knowing. Layah continues to be inspired by many conscious dance and movement practices and is completing a two year training with Open Floor
ELISA catalyzes spaces that allow authenticity, self-expression and connection using the 5Rhythms practice as a map. Dance is her current creative outlet, which she loves to share with others, but there have been many others such as photography, filmmaking, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, writing, and community theatre, which have been alongside. She works full-time as a mental health research coordinator and has worked in the fields of mental health and health research for many years. She is a certified 5Rhythms teacher accredited with the 5Rhythms Teachers Association. https://www.5rhythms.com/teachers/Elisa+Hollenberg
LAYAH JANE is a healing artist - a teacher, dancer, and musician. Passionate about offering people sacred space to experience motion as medicine, Layah has facilitated movement since 2003 for all ages on all kinds of dance floors: classrooms, gyms, offices, barns, forests, fields, beaches, and studios, including at Toronto's conscious dance hubs The Move, and Ecstatic Dance Toronto. Layah's work is infused with expressive enthusiasm, a fascination with the weave of ritual and improvisational art, and a reverent love of creative practice as a transformational and political act. Layah is a member of the International Conscious Movement Teachers Association, and a certified 5Rhythms teacher accredited with the 5Rhythms Teachers Association. www.layahjane.com
In the years since we began this annual Benefit Dance we have raised thousands of dollars to support various causes that touch our hearts, including the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), through the Native Women’s Association of Canada, Syrian Refugee families arriving in Canada, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, as well as our own Toronto Moving Meditation Workshop Scholarship Fund.