Lovedance – ACCEPTANCE
Saturday 19 May 2012
8pm – midnight
Dmac Dance Studios, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY
£15 waged, £10 low wage and students, £5 no wage (show proof of DHSS)
‘Lovedance’ invites you to be part of the positive dance community.
After the success of our last events with our successfully expansion to cover 2 spaces The Lovedance temple for dancing and ceremony, and the acoustic impro contact lounge with Love Alchemy super food juice and cacao bar brought to you by by Malik of Cafe Grace, with maroc style chill space… don’t believe the hype?
We have a sprung dance floor and have coined the phrase “play shop” to describe a space where we dance with fantastic music, meet, play, love and have fun, honouring the sacredness of all beings whilst remembering that we are all that which we seek. Be prepared for mindful ecstasy and random acts of kindness, held within a crystal clear energy.
Give yourself a gift this Spring , join the positive dance community! May 19th, Hamilton House , Bristol
We look forward to welcoming you!
Much love xx
Love dance crew
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do – be the change, be the love, be the dance
See the Facebook event here https://www.facebook.com/events/262934260468690/
ECSTATICA ‘a journey in to the unified field of LOVE’
Saturday 27 April 2012
8pm til late
Glastonbury Town Hall
The Tribe of LOVE presents this amazing opportunity to gather and celebrate at this ecstatic dance party in the heart of Avalon.
Featuring the chocolate love temple, deep soul chill, 10k fushion sound and lighting rig, central altar space and surprises all night to help open the heart and embrace our potential.
Surprise prize for the fantasy fancy dress….
Alcohol free, child friendly space
Advance tickets from Conscious Clothing, 36 Glastonbury High Street
or £8 / £10 on the door
For info call 01458 835769
Lovedance – COMPASSION
Saturday 21 April 2012
8pm – midnight
Dmac Dance Studios, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY
£15 waged, £10 low wage and students, £5 no wage (show proof of DHSS)
‘Lovedance’ invites you to be part of the positive dance community.
After the success of our last events with our successfully expansion to cover 2 spaces The Lovedance temple for dancing and ceremony, and the acoustic impro contact lounge with Love Alchemy super food juice and cacao bar brought to you by by Malik of Cafe Grace, with maroc style chill space… don’t believe the hype?
We have a sprung dance floor and have coined the phrase “play shop” to describe a space where we dance with fantastic music, meet, play, love and have fun, honouring the sacredness of all beings whilst remembering that we are all that which we seek. Be prepared for mindful ecstasy and random acts of kindness, held within a crystal clear energy.
Give yourself a gift this Spring , join the positive dance community ! April 21st Hamilton House , Bristol
We look forward to welcoming you!
Much love xx
Love dance crew
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do – be the change, be the love, be the dance
Santosa camp is back!
Sunday 3 – Sunday 10 June 2012
nr Shepton Mallet, Somerset
early bird price for the first 75 tickets!
Santosa (pronounced Santosha) means the happy acceptance of what is, as it is.
The experience of Santosa is at the heart of a living practice of yoga. It’s the bottom line for bringing yoga to life. With Santosa, everything in life is yoga. Without Santosa, even yoga practice isn’t really yoga! When we experience Santosa we are living yoga (read all abut it in the Yoga Sutras!).
This is a gathering for everyone who loves yoga and/or bhakti, and wants to camp and practice in a beautiful meadow overlooking Glastonbury Tor.
If your heart sings at the thought of spending a week in the beauty of nature, with the company of pure hearted loving souls who enjoy to practice yoga, chanting, meditation and bhakti yoga, then you are most welcome to join us.
We shall be working co-operatively to create an ashram experience that holds and nurtures everyone with the living spirit of karma yoga (the yoga of self-less service) and nourishes everyone by all eating delicious meals together. We have a gorgeous ashram kitchen and a super-comfy covered seating area. Our site is the beautiful healing field up high overlooking Glastonbury Tor, a couple of miles from Shepton Mallet.
Santosa is a clear pure space, alcohol and drug-free, a family-friendly home for yogis of all ages.
This is for you if you like the sound of :
- a week camping in nature with view of Glastonbury Tor
- yoga classes all day
- bhakti and kirtan at all hours
- no need to cook, just pack your plate and cutlery and we’ll eat together ashram style
- children’s workshops in arts, crafts and yoga
- hot showers under the trees
- sauna with starlit showers
- Santosa bazaar – bring your items to sell
- Habiba and her fabulous drop-in knitting classes and wool stall
All ticket prices include all food, yoga, bhakti yoga and children’s activities
FULL WEEK
Early bird for the first 75 tickets ~ £195
Full price ~ £215
Children under 3 ~ free
Children aged 4 – 10 ~ £35
Children aged 10 – 16 ~ £50
Over 16 ~ adult price
PART WEEK TICKETS
If you can’t come for the whole week, you come for half a week instead:
choose between Sunday 3rd to Wednesday 6th June, or
Thursday 7th to Sunday 10th June
£130 adults, £25 children free / £17.50 / £25 depending on age (as above)
N.B Advance booking only with payment by BACS (or Paypal at a supplement). There will be no tickets available on the gate. Pure Santosa Yoga and Bhakti Camp is a pre-booked event.
More info & booking for SANTOSA on the Yoga Seva website here >>
A Continuum Movement Exploration with Cherionna Menzam-Sills
Saturday 14th – Sunday 15th April 2012 10.30am – 5pm
at Sawyer Hall, Christ Church, Newmarket Road, Nailsworth, Stroud GL6 0DQ
Cost: £120
Soothe, soften and liberate your heart, returning to the slow, fluid expansive state of being your heart desires!
Continuum Movement, developed over 45 years by Emile Conrad, is an enquiry into our fluid nature, and its effect on our health and well-being.
This 2 day workshop is led by Cherionna Menzam-Sills.
How well do you know and follow your heart?
So often, we shut ourselves off from our sensitive hearts. This workshop offers an opportunity to return to your heart.
Using the breath, sounds, awareness and gentle movement of Continuum, we will practice settling deeper than the hurts and suffering of our lives, widening our perception out into the love that is always there.
For registration or more information please phone/email:
- Hannya Melrose on 01453 751 816 hannyamelrose@gmail.com
- Dawn Morgan on 01453 750 608 dawn@shapeshift.co.uk
This 2 day workshop is led by Cherionna Menzam-Sills.
MOONDANCE – 5 Rhythms in Bristol for women only!
Once a month, on the Sunday closest to Full Moon
Sunday 8 April
Sunday 6 May
Sunday 10 June
Sunday 1 July
Sunday 5 August
Sunday 2 September
Sunday 30 September
Sunday 28 October
Sunday 25 November 2012
6.30–9pm at St Werburgh’s Community Centre, Bristol, cost £10
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Women, let’s come together and dance!
Dancing is a radical act of self pleasure and connection with all that is sacred
For how long have you been dreaming of a better life and a better world?
Are you ready to dance your dream awake in pleasure?
We women are by nature powerful magicians. In ancient (and modern!) earth cultures our moon time and menopause/wise elder years were known as times of special power and potential. Our bodies hold the mystery of creating and giving life. Old teachings say that not only can we make babies, but that we give birth to everything in our lives. As well as our physical children, our “children” include our own bodies, our homes, relationships, artistic creations, jobs, businesses, leisure activities, everything! Not all of us will have babies and raise a family. But we do all give birth and are mothers to ourselves and our lives.
Making friends with ourselves as powerful birthing women can change the quality of our life experience dramatically as we begin to define in our own terms how we wish to live, what children we desire to birth and nurture. Awakening the Dancer within is a beautiful way for any woman to learn to give birth to her own self. By dancing the 5 Rhythms of flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness, we can learn to bring all parts of ourselves together and consciously give birth to our full power and beauty.
It is a simple and profound dance/movement meditation, that with regular practice can help us to become more authentically ourselves and find our natural way in life. Pleasure is a key to this journey! Joining together to dance with other women at full moon time creates a powerful sanctuary and cauldron of creation for us all to be nourished by. Women of all ages and experience are warmly welcome. Dress in comfy layers, bare feet or soft shoes and be prepared to sweat!
www.jeanrankin.co.uk/moondance/
Weekly Sacred Feminine meditation dance for women in Bristol
A dance of remembering the deep ancient feminine knowing
Thursday evenings, 7.30-9.30pm
next intro class Sunday 25 March, 5 – 7pm
Bristol
This is a dance for women to come home..
It’s an uncoiling of the body… Calling us to keep opening to our hearts, wombs and deepest knowing.
It’s a journey into and down, through sensations and feelings to remember who we really truly are.
It’s a dance of the wild, sensual, feeling tender, fierce hearted feminine.
An archetype journey…through the faces of the deep feminine within, for awakening women, remembering through our bodies wisdom our cyclical power… a sacred dance of beauty and love..
This is not just a dance, this is a deep transformational movement into our essence as woman. The main weekly dance takes places on a Thursday evening from 7.30pm to 9.30pm in Bristol.
Introduction classes
The next introduction class for you to experience this sacred ancient dance, will be on Sunday 25th of March. This dance will be from 5pm to 7pm.
Each dance cost £10.00 some concessions are available.
The dance is currently held at 23 Backfields Lane, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS2 8QW – it is a studio opposite Bristol City Yoga
*** The dance needs to be booked in advance ***
Please call Natalie on 07973 267 232 or fill in the form on the website
Lovedance – LOVE
Saturday 11 February 2012
8pm – midnight
Dmac Dance Studios, Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY
£15 waged, £10 low wage and students, £5 no wage (show proof of DHSS)
‘lovedance’ invites you to be part of the positive dance community.
After a short rest for re-inspiration, re-connection and re-engagement it is now time for ‘lovedance’ to re-birth into 2012 and all the possibilities that this year brings.
We have a new sprung dance floor and have coined the phrase “play shop” to describe a space where we dance with fantastic music, meet, play, love and have fun, honoring the sacredness of all beings whilst remembering that we are all that which we seek. Be prepared for mindful ecstasy and random acts of kindness, held within a crystal clear energy.
Introducing the LOVEBAR by Cafe Grace bringing out-of-this-world healthy elixir drinks and raw treats.
So come ‘n’ dance on SATURDAY THE 11TH FEBRUARY at Dmac dance studios on 4th floor Hamilton House 80 Stokes Croft Bristol at 8pm – midnight.
We look forward to welcoming you on the dance floor.
Much love
Love dance Crew xxx
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do – be the change, be the love, be the dance
Unicorn Camps for August 2012
& the Midwinter Gathering 4 Feb 2012
Natural Voice, Healing, and
Peace through the Arts
www.unicorncamps.com
The 2012 Unicorn Natural Voice Camp
4th-12th August 2012
We have a spectacular line-up of headliners this year leading the ongoing sessions: We have been asking the fabulous Una May Olomalaye to fit us into her busy schedule for the last three years and at last she is coming!
We are also very happy to announce the long awaited return of probably Natural Voice’s most popular songwriter Ali Burns all the way from darkest Edinburgh! Talking of long awaited returns, Raaja Fischer wowed us last year after a decade away, and returns again this year!
It’s true that Dee Jarlett & Ali Orbaum haven’t missed a Natural Voice Camp this century, but they haven’t hosted an ongoing session for the last three years, so this too counts as a welcome return! Also on the welcome return list is Rowena Whitehead – the People’s Revolution starts here!
The B Naturals have become a familiar constellation in the Unicorn firmament, this year for the first time they are hosting an ongoing session of workshops together, and for those weary of learning songs, Chrys Blanchard will be running a full course of Vocal Sound Healing, and Kate O’Connell and Annabelle Macfadyen will be facilitating improvisational voyages of discovery.
If your favourite voice teacher wasn’t on that list, the chances are that they will be there offering a Drop-in session!
The 2012 Unicorn Healing Camp
13th-17th August 2012
This season sees the birth of a new camp initiative with the first Unicorn Healing Camp. Our intention is to keep it small to start with, although as the rumour of its inception spreads, we are finding a lot of interest is being generated. Many thanks for the offers from would-be teachers, and perhaps next year we will be able to expand our programme; for now however we have the team we need.
This team features Barbara Morgan and Family Constellations, James Burgess with a distinctly Sufi spin on his 7 Words System, John Bowker leading sacred chants and more, Nesta offering Tea Cermony and Yoga, Richard with 7 Words Theatre, something wonderful yet as yet unspecified from Jo Hanstead, Martin‘s harp healing, and Jo Pitcairn‘s Movement workshops.
All comers will have the possibility of one to one counselling of some kind, and we hope that we can build a very intimate, safe atmosphere through which to generate the power to transform and heal, as well as pass some techniques to those who want to learn method.
Please book early for this one.
The 2012 Unicorn Peace Through the Arts Camp
18th-26th August 2012
It is part of Unicorn Camps practice to find something new each year so that the whole process has a chance to evolve naturally in response to feedback and opportunity. So over the last few years we have introduced Open Space, at first experimentally and then later adjusting and refining until we can feel confident that we have it just right. Also the Development Groups have gone through a similar process – and this year a noticeable difference will be to do with Family Constellations, whose popularity has grown to the point where we have set up the new Healing Camp around them – and reduced their time on PTA.
Muiz, ever popular, has agreed to return to continue to deepen his study of Sufism with us… and James will lead the Thursday night Zikr this year. Ruth scored another major hit with the Café and will be hosting Nickomo’s Beatlemania follow-up with a tribute to Simon & Garfunkel. Even more good news is that Rasullah’s back – we missed her! She’ll help out with Harmonic Temple and Dance of Life. All the rest is as you would hope for – Circle Dance, Yoga, Jilani’s focus on teens leading dances, and of course, an absolute superabundance of wonderful Dances of Universal Peace!
Unicorn Mid-Winter Gathering
Saturday February 4th 2012
10.00am till late, overnight if you wish
Cleeve House, Seend, Wiltshire, SN12 6PG
- Morning Harmonic Temple
- Afternoon Dances of Universal Peace
- Evening Kirtan
- Late evening Taizé
- Also 7 Words, Yoga, Circle Dance
- Your hosts include Nickomo James Nesta Richard Jo & live band
After a resoundingly successful event last year, we present another wonderful day of music, dance and much more! Unicorn icons and others will be there to lead events from morning till night. This year’s programme is designed so that anyone needing to leave early can still enjoy the core Unicorn staples of DUP and HT. For those staying overnight there will be an opportunity of a shared walk on Sunday morning. All events are optional. Cleeve house is a lovely old mansion with a nice warm fire in the main hall to relax by.
Dances of Universal Peace (DUP) and Harmonic Temple include simple chants from many spiritual paths. Kirtan is Indian devotional singing, Taizé is Christian in origin. All reflect the nature of Unicorn events, honouring the unity of all traditions and creating a beautiful and powerful experience by joining our hearts and voices.
New to Unicorn camps? Please come along!
Visit www.unicorncamps.com for Unicorn camps and news.
Bring vegetarian food to share for two meals
Whole day: Pay in full by 1st February £30
At the door: £35 Evening only: £10
Overnight spaces are limited and can be secured with full pre-payment. Prices from £15. Please ask for details, and even if you aren’t staying over, advanced day rate bookings help us with the organization.
Contact: Jo Hanstead on 07773 906273 info@johanstead.co.uk
Amazing and wonderful Cave of Mystery Party
Saturday 10 December 2011 – Full Moon!
Temple Cloud BA3 4TD
- Edd Keen on the loop
- Kev the Poet
- Open mic
- Craig Rainbow Ninja
- Trapeze
- Aerial hoop and silks
- Raw Food Cafe by Anna Middleton of Rawsome
£5
doors open 7pm
full address:
The Cave of Myster
Unit 5
Cloud Hill Enterprise
East Court Road
Temple Cloud
Bristol BS39 5BX
for directions call 07976 616993