EARTHED

A Dancing Freedom & Nature Connection RETREAT with Sara-Jane Cleland and Diana Belot, Dancing Freedom Facilitators, creating a place and space for rest, movement, healing and connection. A deeply immersive retreat with the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Ether on Darug Land.

Friday 7th March 2025 - Sunday 9th March 2025

Arrival time from 3pm with Opening Ceremony at 5pm

CAMPING RETREAT at THE GROVE Wisemans Ferry

Retreat Price $475 per person plus Booking Fee

BYO Breakfast, Fully catered Lunch, Dinner and Snacks.

Please bring all your own camping gear & bedding, yoga mat, meditation cushion or bolster or meditation stool for sitting on the grass and we will have chairs.

No Refunds for bookings but name transfer is possible (ie you can sell your booking to someone else).

WET WEATHER Policy - As an outdoor Retreat will go ahead with rain, we will only cancel in the event of heavy and extended rain.

*Every Body Welcome - Men & Women*

*No dance experience necessary*

*This is strictly an alcohol and drug free retreat*

*****PROGRAM*****

FRIDAY
*Arrival 3-5pm
*Opening Ceremony 5-5.30pm
*Dinner 6-7pm
*Opening Dance 7-7.45pm - Dancing Freedom - Landing in the body with Diana & Sara-Jane
*Sound Journey 8-8.45pm with Libby Lee from Our Sacred Circle

SATURDAY
*Self catered Breakfast & Self practice/Free time
*9.30-11am Dancing Freedom - A journey with Earth - Sara-Jane
*11-11.30am Morning Tea
*11.30-12.30pm Workshop - Art of Sensation Playshop with Diana
*12.30pm-1pm Sit spot in Nature
*1-3.30pm Catered Lunch & Free time
*3.30-5.30pm Heart Sharing Circle
*5.30-6pm Sit spot in Nature
*6.30-7.30pm Catered Dinner
*7.30-9pm Community Fire Gathering

SUNDAY
*Self catered Breakfast & Self practice/Free time
*9.30-11am Dancing Freedom - Expanding into Ether - Diana
*11-11.30am Morning Tea
*11.30-12.30pm Workshop - Exploring Body to Spirit through Dance with Sara-Jane
*12.30pm-1pm Sit spot in Nature
*1-2.30pm Catered Lunch & Free time
*2.30-3pm Closing Ceremony
*3-5pm Departure

ANY QUESTIONS call Sara-Jane 0434 962 462 or Dianna 0422 994 036

*****What is Dancing Freedom?*****

Dancing freedom is a free form dance practice, a moving meditation with the intention of aligning life with love and awareness. A dance practice that blends the medicine of dance with the medicine of ceremony and co-creation. Dancing freedom takes you on a guided dance journey through an elemental wave of Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Ether - deepening your connection to the elements, life and living.

In the dance you are invited to explore an authentic way of moving - a creative expression of your unique being. There is only one rule in Dancing Freedom - you can't do it wrong! In the process of dance we can become a free flow of energy, moving into oneness, beyond the mind, personality and ego.

Dancing Freedom provides an opportunity to release physical tension and pain, to unwind energy which may be held in the body, to express emotions and sounds, to play like a child, to connect with yourself and others in the dance, to have FUN and to remember that you LOVE to dance! 💃

“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?” Gabrielle Roth - Founder of 5 Rhythms Dance

*****Nature Connection/Earthing/Grounding *****

The surface of this Earth is negatively charged due to a virtually limitless supple of electrons and when humans are in contact with the ground (barefoot, walking on the grass or sand, getting our hands into the dirt, wearing natural fibers and lying on the earth or rocks) we receive an influx of free electrons that generate healing effects.

It is becoming more and more evident that Earthing, also known as grounding, has significant health benefits such as reducing pain & inflammation, affecting our nervous systems by moving us from the sympathetic (stressed) state to the parasympathetic (relaxed and calm) state, better sleep, and more energy. The connection with the Earth is primordial, and could be a primary factor regulating our endocrine and nervous systems.

Unlike our ancestors, we do not walk barefoot very much. We don’t sleep on the ground. Today, we wear synthetic soled shoes that insulate us from the earth’s electric energy. We no longer live and work on the ground, our homes and workplaces are elevated off the ground. We are disconnected! An intention for this retreat is to deepen our connection to the Body and the Spirit through interconnection with Earth, the Fire, the Water, the Air and Ether (Oneness).

*****About Sara-Jane*****

Sara-Jane Cleland is a Dancing Freedom Facilitator, Naturopath, Herbalist, Nutritionist & Massage Therapist specializing in Cranio-sacral/Somatic Healing work who has made her home on Gundungurra land in the Southern Highlands since 2008. Her journey as a holistic practitioner began over 30 years ago as a Yoga teacher and organically evolved into Bodywork, Naturopathy and Conscious Dance.

In 2016, she discovered 5 rhythms dance on retreat with Gina Chick which inspired a journey to the Byron Bay for intensive training in Dancing Freedom in 2018. Since 2019, she has offered monthly Dancing Freedom full moon events and in 2020 she created the Women's Embodied Dance Journey which she runs each school term.

Sara-Jane has been a regular educator at Wise Women's Gathering since the inaugural gathering in 2016 and co-facilitated annual Nurture & Nourish Women's Retreats from 2017 until 2022. She also co-facilitates Mother & Daughter retreats in the Kangaroo Valley.

Sara-Jane regularly supports Caitlin Wood (Dancing Freedom & Open Floor) and Michelle Mahrer (5 Rhythms) on conscious dance retreats, space-holding, offering yoga and creating sacred altars. She is often a guest teacher for conscious dance classes in Sydney and collaborates with Libby Lee, Rebecca Riddington and Diana Belot to offer regular Heart Medicine events - Cacao ceremony, Dancing Freedom and Somatic Breathwork in Manly, Sydney.

The passion that inspires her work is connection. Connection to the healing power of nature through food as medicine and herbal medicine. Connection to the innate healing power of the body through Bodywork and Conscious Dance. Connection to community coming together for dance retreats, full moon events and women's work. And most importantly, providing an opportunity for connection to oneself through self-love and creative expression.

*****About Diana*****

Diana Belot is an Embodied Dance Facilitator & Intuitive Massage Therapist. She was introduced to 5 rhythms, Butoh and Voice Expression in 1998. This began her passion for healing through movement and dance. She trained in Nia 2009, teaching regular classes for 12 years, currently having a break. In 2014 Diana studied a 3 year teacher training course in Biodanza, an amazing movement therapy integrating biocentric living and connection. In 2022 she completed the Dancing Freedom Facilitator Training.

Diana has developed her own Embodied movement practice Dance Alchemy, combining different conscious dance and healing techniques from her many trainings of the years. Dance Alchemy is a fusion of free dance and embodied practices allowing you to dive deeper, releasing what no longer serves, finding new and positive ways to move through life. Diana is passionate about healing through movement, embodiment, play, acknowledgment, release and deep connection to self and others.

She offers Monthly Dancing Freedom events in the Northern Beaches of Sydney and regularly dances with 5 Rhythms and Dancing Freedom. Diana supports many 5 Rhythms teachers from Sydney and overseas crewing and creating installations. Diana has also facilitated conscious dance at the Outback Spiritual festival and Bulga Beats.

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