5Rhythms: I's of the Soul with Laura Martin-Eagle | 5 Day Waves workshop, July 9th-13th Taos NM
This is the journey of the spirit through the body. We bring awareness to the space within as we carve our path through our existence. When spirit has the space to move freely, we find ecstasy. Ecstasy, not as an escape or a high, but as embodied awareness and presence.
“The path to ecstasy is up through the five layers of consciousness, the five levels through which energy most naturally flows from purely physical existence to its highest spiritual potentials. “ ~ Gabrielle Roth Maps to Ecstasy
The 5Rhythms will be our container and guide. Flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness are the teachers that will inform our exploration. The 5Rhythms is our practice and our ritual.
Join us on this I-map of the soul’s journey to ecstasy as we explore inertia, imitation, intuition, imagination and inspiration together on the dance floor.
Formation/Transformation | August 1st - 2nd, Santa Fe NM
Formation/Transformation: Structure as a Pathway to Freedom
Join Meshi Chavez for "Formation/Transformation," a dance workshop that explores the vital connection between structure and freedom. What role do precision, constraints, and frameworks play in fostering transformation? In what way does form serve as a pathway to discover liberation?
This workshop examines form, structure, and constraints as avenues for more expressive movement while encouraging improvisation, choice, and discovery. Instead of perceiving limitations as obstacles, we will explore them as creative catalysts that deepen our awareness and expand our expressive skills. Chavez will guide participants through an immersive exploration of specificity, demonstrating how disciplined embodiment can unlock new realms of creative expression.
In this workshop, Chavez will lead participants in using presence to fully inhabit each moment, emphasizing genuine discovery over polished movement. We will consider embodiment not as a final destination but as a dynamic starting point for deeper creative expression and connection.
Whether you are new to Butoh or an experienced dancer, this workshop provides a vibrant space to engage with the transformative power of dance, courage, and creativity, fostering a deeper connection with the world around you.
Meshi Chavez is a seasoned Butoh practitioner, queer artist, and MFA graduate from the University of the Arts. As a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Middlebury College, his work explores embodiment, presence, and the radical potential of movement. Chavez has trained extensively with Butoh masters Natsu Nakajima and Denise Fujiwara, shaping his approach to dance as a practice of deep inquiry. His workshops create space for divergence, spaciousness, and the shedding of colonial legacies, fostering a profound connection between movement, creativity, and Queer Futurity.
LOCATION: The Railyard Performance Center, Santa Fe
DATES: August 1st - 3rd
TIMES: Friday 6:00 - 9:00, Saturday 2pm - 6pm, Sunday 2pm - 6pm.
PRICE: $199
FRIDAY ONLY : $45 -$65
CULTURAL SOMA | SEPTEMBER 12 - OCTOBER 24
This is a 6-week Committed Series. Attendance at all sessions is requested. Missing one session can be arranged.
Cultural Soma explores how socio-political and historical contexts influence our embodiment. How has our social conditioning limited or promoted specific patterns of sensation, movement, gesture, use of space? To what extent have these patterns become habitual, and how conscious are we of them? If our embodiment is shaped by society, can we reshape society by transforming ourselves?
What is “Critically-Conscious Dance”?
The term "Conscious Dance" was coined by Mark Metz, a DJ and entrepreneur, who founded the publication Conscious Dancer in 2007. It came to describe any unchoreographed, intention-driven movement practice conducted in a group setting where drugs and alcohol are not permitted. Practices like the 5Rhythms often fall under this umbrella term.
Critical consciousness, a concept developed by Brazilian educator, activist, and theorist Paulo Freire, involves questioning the socio-political and historical contexts in which one lives to understand, transform, and be liberated from them.
In Critically-Conscious Dance, we build on foundational elements of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms to question how socio-political and historical contexts inevitably move within us, between us, and shape our dance floors.
LOCATION: Move Studio
DATES: Thursdays September 12, 19, 26 + October 3, 17, 24
TIME: 6:00 pm - 8:15 pm
PRICE: $150 no one turned away.
Randy Miller (He/Him) identifies as mixed heritage, Mexican/European descent queer/gay. He is a certified Soul Motion® Facilitator since 2011 and a 1st Degree Black Belt Nia® Teacher since 1999. Randy’s intention as a movement facilitator is driven by the desire to hold a safe and sacred space for dancers searching to become whole again, and finding a place of unconditional love and acceptance. He
Stepping into the unfamiliar comes with a sense of risk. What is going to happen? How will I fare in this uncharted experience? What could be lost or changed forever?
It also comes with tremendous promise and possibility. Visions, dreams, longings and wishes have the potential to be realized. Creativity and opportunity are omnipresent. Liberation has its chance.
The edge between known and unknown
HEARTWAVE: feel movement, move feeling.
The word "emotion" is rooted in the Latin word emovere, which means "to move out." This definition highlights the process we will explore in this mini-workshop: tracing the sensory cues of emotion from their origin within the body to their outward expression as full-bodied motion—a dance.
We will use the 5Rhythm’s Wave and Heartbeat maps as our guide Flowing-Fear, Staccato-Anger, Chaos-Greif, Lyrical-Joy, Stillness-Compassion.
Some prior experience in 5Rhythms or other instructed embodiment practice / movement meditation requested.
LOCATION: TaoSatva Dance and Healing Arts Studio. 2 Upper las Colonias Rd, El Prado NM, 87529.
DATE: December 5th, 2024
TIME: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
PRICE: Preregistration $35. $40 at the door.
Day of the Dead : Ancestral Dance NOVEMBER 2nd
A Soul Motion Odyssey with Randy Miller.
On this day of honoring, let us come together to share our dance with those who have come before us and those who will follow.
This ceremonial time will weave passages of movement, pause, witness and story. An invitational space to be in the presence of what is happening within oneself - moving with joy, love, peace, grief, forgiveness... all is welcomed.
Please bring a photo of your loved one/s if you are called, or a sacred object to add to our co-created altar of loving memories.
LOCATION: The Railyard Performance Center
DATE: November 2nd, 2024
TIME: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
PRICE: Sliding Scale $45 -$65
Randy Miller (He/Him) identifies as mixed heritage, Mexican/European descent queer/gay. He is a certified Soul Motion® Facilitator since 2011 and a 1st Degree Black Belt Nia® Teacher since 1999. Randy’s intention as a movement facilitator is driven by the desire to hold a safe and sacred space for dancers searching to become whole again, and finding a place of unconditional love and acceptance. He believes dance and embodiment practices allow us to become liberated fellow human beings anchored in our heart place
Soul Motion is a somatic movement practice which cultivates the qualities of being present, grounded, centered, balanced, creative, active receptive, heart centered - and anchors them in the body. We embody these qualities in movement on the dance floor to live them on the world floor in our every day lives.