FIREBIRD TRANCE-DANCE
Weekend workshops

June 18th - 20th, August 27th - 30th, 2010

With Leo Rutherford, Doug Blacksmith and Friends

Leo says: I began my dance with Gabrielle Roth back in 1978 at the Esalen Institute in California, in the days when I lived in San Francisco. It was a revelation and a liberation from which I have gratefully never looked back. I participated in her first ever five week training in 1982 and I think I was probably the first person to bring her ‘5 Rhythms’ work to this country in 1983/4 as part of the work I called ‘Play-World’. I came across the South American way of Trance-Dance in 1985 and added that to the unique mix which has become ‘Firebird’, which is a part of the shamanic work I call ‘Eagle's Wing ’.


Firebird Trance- is Afro-Brazilian Dance Medicine Magic. It is a unique path into healing and alternate reality. Through the glorious wild abandon and seeming chaos of the Trance-Dance, a new sense of Self and connection with the Universal Order can be realised.

Trance-Dance is an ancient healing tradition, as old as humanity. The Dance takes us naturally and effortlessly from thinking to being, melting into oneness with existence. The Rhythm of the Drum - the heartbeat of Mother Earth - guides the dancer to the magic healing place of deep trance. By inviting Spirit to dance through us, we come to a place of ease with our true nature and can experience the world through the lens of ecstasy, perceiving our-self as part of the Universal Playful Being enjoying The Cosmic Dance.

This form of Trance-Dance is derived from the traditions of West Africa and the Afro-Brazilian cultures, specifically the Candomble and Umbanda, and also the Gnawa Moroccan tradition, all of which have their roots in West Africa. In the background is the unique dancing way of Gabrielle Roth.

This workshop will move you profoundly towards the truth of yourself and your life. The Trance-Dance is a magical catalyst for all sorts to happen and patterns to shift. It enables you to sweep away confusion and delusion and to penetrate to the heart of yourself and to connect with your soul’s divine purpose.

 

TRANCE DANCE WEEKEND (No sweat!)

JUNE 18th - 20th
Cost: £240 / £170

Venue: MONKTON WYLD COURT,
CHARMOUTH, DORSET, DT6 6DQ

Booking: Monkton Wyld Court
01297-560342./  monktonwyldcourt@btinternet.com

 

TRANCE DANCE 3 day WEEKEND

August 27th - 30th
with sweatlodge ceremony

Venue: WINTON HOUSE, EAST SUSSEX
Booking: Eagle's Wing

Cost: £295

01435-810233 / 810308 / info@eagleswing.org.uk

 

 

 

 

Eagle's Wing