The Wild Threshold of Love

There are moments in life when we’re asked to cross a threshold, to meet the place where fear and longing touch. In a world shaped by disconnection and inherited patterns, we will explore how love can steady us, challenge us, and open the way back to connection.

The Wild Threshold of Love offers a grounded space to move, listen, and soften into what’s true. This is not a workshop about romance. This is a journey into the fierce, transformative heart of love itself, the love that challenges us, holds us, confronts us, and ultimately changes us.

Through the mindfulness dance practice of 5Rhythms®, trauma informed systems work, ritual, and embodied inquiry, we will step across the thresholds that shape our lives. We will investigate the places we have numbed, the edges we avoid, the patterns we’ve inherited, and the longings we’ve buried. Together, we explore what becomes possible when we meet these edges with breath, presence, and a willingness to be seen.

This is a space for truth-telling and tenderness.
For shaking loose the old stories.
For remembering the vitality that has never left us.

At this threshold, love becomes more than a feeling, it becomes the medicine, the teacher, and the path home to ourselves, to each other, and to the wider field of life.

The Wild Threshold of Love invites us back to what matters: compassion, courage, presence, and connection.
No prior experience is required and welcoming all bodies, backgrounds and identities.

This is not a performance, a therapy group, or a dance technique class. No prior experience is needed. You do not need to be “a dancer” or have any experience in trauma informed process or ritual. Everything offered is an invitation, and participants are always in choice about how deeply they engage.

There will be invitations for reflection through journaling and small-group sharing, as well as moments of collective ritual to mark what we’re releasing and what we’re inviting in. Sharing is always optional, and listening is as valued as speaking.

What to bring?

Comfortable clothes you can move in - dress to sweat
Bathing suit, as it may be good swimming weather
Pack lunch - there will be plenty of snacks provided
Journal & writing instrument

What to expect?

Movement/dance as a way of experiencing the power of love through the 5Rhythms practice
Personal sharing in small groups, journaling, and sharing reflections with the wider group
Ritual as a path of connection, reflection and engagement
* Everything is an invitation and participants are always in choice regarding engagement

Timing:

Friday 6th of March: 10am to 6pm
Saturday 7th of March: 10am to 3.30pm

Sample Day:

Arrival & Landing

• Welcome and orientation to the space

• Gentle grounding. Douglas introducing the 5Rhythms principles and Louise introducing our trauma informed framework

• Clear agreements around choice, consent, and self-care

Morning Movement Wave

• Guided movement exploration with music

• Solo and relational refection invitations

• Time to warm up, build energy, and explore sensation and emotion through the body

Integration & Reflection

• Journaling or quiet reflection

• Optional small-group sharing or partner listening

Midday Break

• Lunch and rest time

• Optional swim or time in nature

Afternoon Exploration

• Deeper movement and intrapersonal inquiry focused on thresholds, edges, and connection

• Ritual to mark release, intention, or transition

• Spacious time to integrate, dance freely, slow down, or witness

Closing & Integration

• Group circle or closing ritual

• Optional reflections

• Clear landing to support integration beyond the workshop

 
Facilitator Bios:



Louise Marra is an author, systems healer, and facilitator dedicated to cultivating deep transformative capacity within individuals, organisations, and wider systems. Her leadership career spans government, private enterprise, philanthropy, and the NGO sector, including senior governance roles, advising the Prime Minister, directing a collaborative government office, and establishing multiple social and environmental innovation initiatives. With training in Collective and Intergenerational Trauma, Somatic therapies, and Jungian and Transpersonal Psychology, she brings a rare integrative approach to shifting the patterns that keep people and systems stuck.

Both Ngāi Tūhoe and Ngāti Pākehā, Louise is deeply grounded in indigenous wisdom and restorative practices. She founded ReRoot, a nature-based systems-change enterprise and book, co-founded The Pākehā Project, and is a catalyst for the Centre for Social Impact. Through Unity House, she designs bespoke programmes using systemic constellations, creativity, nature connection, and healing modalities to support conscious leadership and meaningful transformation.

Douglas Drummond is a hospitality and wellness leader with over 25 years of international experience dedicated to harmonising human exploration with ecological and cultural stewardship. He has held senior roles with globally iconic brands, including Soho House, Aman Resorts, and the Esalen Institute, shaping regenerative travel and transformative guest experiences. As founder and CEO of the Weaving Waters Collective, Douglas is developing a global blueprint for healing and reconciliation centres that weave together wellbeing, culture, and community regeneration.

Born in Aotearoa and of Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Pākehā descent, he works between New Zealand and the USA, bringing indigenous and non-indigenous people together through conscious leadership and movement-based practices. A certified 5Rhythms® teacher for over 12 years, he integrates embodiment, storytelling, and systems awareness into all his work. Douglas is a husband, father, devoted nature enthusiast, and graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hospitality & Administration.