Beginning, Middling, Ending: touchstones & pathways for empowering dance practice

All of us must constantly navigate beginnings, middles, and endings. The question is how it feels to live in these passages, and what can aid us on our way.

5Rhythms movement meditation practice has good bones to lean into, in moment-by-moment dance and in day-to-day life. We're invested in creating well-held space that allows meaningful, instinctive movement to come fully alive, and to bridge helpfully into our lives. We'll support your connection with embodied intelligence about starts, follow throughs, and completions. We'll use touchstones of the practice to help you meet yourself where you're at, and offer trusty foundations to ground the group and kindle dance that heartens its dancers. There will be time and space to ease into being and moving with your own interests, need, and process. You don't need experience to join us.

5Rhythms is a movement mediation practice. It's a workout for body and soul with no steps to follow. In this improvisational movement method, we show up, tune in, and move with what's alive in us.

Sign up for the series, or for one day at a time:

Beginning: 11 AM - 5PM Sunday October 11 at the Hub at Cowichan Station with Chantell Foss

Middling: 11 AM - 5 PM Sunday November 15 at the Hub at Cowichan Station with Joanne Winstanley

​Ending: 11 AM - 5 PM Saturday December 12 with Joanne and Chantell at Vimy Community Hall

The Hub at Cowichan Station is located at 2375 Koksilah Road, Duncan, BC  

Vimy Hall is located at 3968 Gibbins Road, Duncan, BC

All people 15+ welcome. Accessible, gender-neutral facilities. Chairs available for seated practice.

We offer our events with community care in the foreground. Every community includes immuno-compromised people and caregivers for vulnerable people. Please err on the side of caution and stay home if you experience communicable disease symptoms. We will gladly refund you, and thank you for your beautiful care for yourself and others.

Your questions about these workshops are welcome! Email Chantell at chantell@chantellfoss.com.

Chantell teaches 5Rhythms & yoga in low-barrier spaces with the intention to support people's strength. A misfit exploring our human condition and kinship with our fellow beings and Earth, she prioritizes two dreams: personal awareness and artistry through movement, and relational realism and care. She sees communal practice as a road of potential truth and beauty, on which we can acknowledge our shared experiences, our differences, and our changing states.

Joanne teaches 5Rhythms with a deep respect for the transformational nature of this practice, for the insight that these maps can bring to our daily lives, and for the unique discovery process of each participant. Her teaching is rooted in a lifelong engagement with her own study and personal work. Since 2001, she has held a steady space for the growth and evolution of a robust dance community in Victoria BC, has supported students and colleagues with their own teaching path, and has shared her love of this practice with communities in Canada, the US, and Europe.

Ticket & Registration Info

Ticket Tiers:
Sustainability
Generosity
Supported

Tiered pricing allows those who have more to share, and those who could use support to receive it. When you register at the Generosity rate, part of your fee is applied to another dancer's reduced-rate spot. If a lower price will make the event accessible for you, please register at the Supported rate. If you want to dance and these prices are a barrier for you, please email chantell@chantellfoss.com to talk about partial scholarship or work exchange.

Full Series: $365 Sustainability rate, $325 Supported rate (10 tickets available)

Per Day: $155 Sustainability rate, $175 Generosity rate, $135 Supported rate

Sales Tax & Service fee note: All registrations are subject to 13% HST. Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity.

Etransfer: You can pay via Etransfer if you prefer. Please register on Humanitix using the discount code: ETRANSFER. This will give you 100% discount at checkout. To finish registration, send an etransfer in the amount of the tuition tier you selected plus 13% HST to chantell@chantellfoss.com. Your registration will be complete upon my receipt of your etransfer. No payment reminder emails will be sent. Your ticket will be voided if your etranser is not received in the 24 hrs following your initial booking.

Reparations Scholarships: A 50% scholarship (of the Sustainability or Generosity rates) is available to anyone who identifies as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or Person of Colour). Please use discount code: REPAIR to receive this scholarship.

Promo code process: Enter your promo code at the top of the page, then click the "Apply" button. This will apply your discount to the tickets you add to your cart.