“If you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself” Gabrielle Roth, the founder of 5Rhythms
What is Earth Beats?
Earth Beats is a conscious dance. It is a meditative, mindful and embodied dance inspired by Open Floor and 5Rhythms. It's also inspired by ecstatic dance, Joanna Macy’s deep ecology, the Celtic Wheel of the year, shamanism, tantra, gestalt, ISTA, Osho and meditation. Earth Beats is a laboratory for improvisation and experimention, so it's not possible to get it wrong. Everyone is welcome.
Earth Beats is a contraction of the Heart Beat of Mother Earth and it's a dance to honour the earth and all living beings and life forms on it. It is dance is where we are free to be ourselves regardless of how we are feeling. It is one of the few places that allows us to be genuine and express our natural responses to the challenging times we are living in. You don't have to suppress your authenticity to fit in. It's not a place for wearing the "I'm fine" mask, it's a place to be real, genuine, authentic and heartfelt.
On the dance floor you can learn resources for living in a rapidly changing world, for example remembering to breathe, grounding, centring, moving rather than freezing, and being mindful. With practice, Earth Beats can help us feel more joyful, access our personal power and reach our the full potential and embody our magnificence.
Over the years Earth Beats has provided a safe, warm and inclusive community dance where everyone is welcome. It is a supportive community space in this time of unprecedented personal and global change, challenge and opportunity.
Open Floor and Joanna Macy's WTR work remind me that we are all one and inextricably interlinked. Earth Beats is a dance to reconnect to ourselves – our hearts and souls; to connect to each other; the planet, the more than human world, and the ancestors and future generations. It also deepens our sense of belonging on the land, and gives us a sense of place within our local communities, in the web of life and on the earth.
Earth Beats is a continually evolving prayer for planetary healing - the longing to create a space where we can experience ourselves as part of the earth and the greater mystery. When humanity collectively knows we are all one we will stop damaging the each other and the earth and learn to live in harmony.
What’s it like?
Earth Beats may feel like a night club because of the low lighting and the music is ecstatic trance dance, tribal beats, funky grooves and world music. But it is a drug and alcohol-free zone and we don't talk during the dance so that you can tune into how they are feeling and move from that space. It's a guided held space to create safety, and give permission and liberation. There is also times when you are free to dance without guidance, and there are opportunities for meeting other dancers during the dance and socialising afterwards.
Earth Beats may use the Open Floor movement cycle of Open Attention, Enter, Explore and Settle. It may incorporate the five elements (Earth, Fire, Water, Air, and Spirit) and over the course of a year echo the cyclical journey around the Celtic wheel of the year and include seasonal celebrations, small rituals and elements of the Work That Reconnects and Tantra.
What to Wear?
Wear clothes that will allow free movement for example leggings, yoga pants or track suit bottoms. Wearing layers will help you to regulate your temperature. (Please see the "New To This" page).
What to bring?
A bottle of water, a blanket, socks or indoor slippers.
What is it and who is it for?
Earth Beats is for everyone. It is an inclusive community space for you to get involved and share creative skills and talents to make this truly a shared offering and a dynamic, community offering. Some classes may involve local musicians. If you want to get more involved please let me know.
The benefit of the dance is dedicated to the Earth and all creatures and beings that live with her, in her and on her lands, rivers, lakes and oceans.
Earth Beats is appearing occasionally but not offering regular classes while I focus on finishing my book: Ever The Sea Calls Me Home - a pilgrimage of awakening. See www.wilddivinelight.com for more info.
The next dances will be announced here.
Call Clíona on +44 (0)7916 167 214 or message me on Signal or email [email protected] for information and bookings. Or join: www.facebook.com/groups/536431699704061 for updates and connection with other Earth Beats dancers.
Past Dances:
Adult dances Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania, Africa, January 2022.
Children's Dance Momela Arusha, Tanzania, Africa, April 2021.
Solitude to Connection Series: St Lukes Therapy Centre & Lansdown, 2 November - 14 Dec 2018.
Peace Festival, Landsdowne Hall, Stroud, 24 September 2017
Seed Festival, Hawkwood College, 9 August 2017, www.seedfestival.co.uk
Schumacher College, Devon short course Immersion 9 May 2017
The Exercise Club, Bristol BS8 2XS (regular fortnightly dances September 2016-)
Staverton Village Hall, Devon (regular monthly dances) - October 2012 - July 2016
Buddhafield Festival, Culmhead - July 2013 & 2015
Bristol University, Bristol - Autumn 2015
Quest Festival, Newton Abbot, Devon - July 2014
Hem's Acre Camp, Littlehempston, Devon - July 2014
Barefoot Dance, Exeter, Devon - Summer 2013 & 2016,
Marina Saldanhada Dance Studio, Buckfastleigh, Devon - Winter 2013
Kevvics Dance Studio, Totnes, Devon - Regular dances Autumn 2013
Earth Beats is a conscious dance. It is a meditative, mindful and embodied dance inspired by Open Floor and 5Rhythms. It's also inspired by ecstatic dance, Joanna Macy’s deep ecology, the Celtic Wheel of the year, shamanism, tantra, gestalt, ISTA, Osho and meditation. Earth Beats is a laboratory for improvisation and experimention, so it's not possible to get it wrong. Everyone is welcome.
Earth Beats is a contraction of the Heart Beat of Mother Earth and it's a dance to honour the earth and all living beings and life forms on it. It is dance is where we are free to be ourselves regardless of how we are feeling. It is one of the few places that allows us to be genuine and express our natural responses to the challenging times we are living in. You don't have to suppress your authenticity to fit in. It's not a place for wearing the "I'm fine" mask, it's a place to be real, genuine, authentic and heartfelt.
On the dance floor you can learn resources for living in a rapidly changing world, for example remembering to breathe, grounding, centring, moving rather than freezing, and being mindful. With practice, Earth Beats can help us feel more joyful, access our personal power and reach our the full potential and embody our magnificence.
Over the years Earth Beats has provided a safe, warm and inclusive community dance where everyone is welcome. It is a supportive community space in this time of unprecedented personal and global change, challenge and opportunity.
Open Floor and Joanna Macy's WTR work remind me that we are all one and inextricably interlinked. Earth Beats is a dance to reconnect to ourselves – our hearts and souls; to connect to each other; the planet, the more than human world, and the ancestors and future generations. It also deepens our sense of belonging on the land, and gives us a sense of place within our local communities, in the web of life and on the earth.
Earth Beats is a continually evolving prayer for planetary healing - the longing to create a space where we can experience ourselves as part of the earth and the greater mystery. When humanity collectively knows we are all one we will stop damaging the each other and the earth and learn to live in harmony.
What’s it like?
Earth Beats may feel like a night club because of the low lighting and the music is ecstatic trance dance, tribal beats, funky grooves and world music. But it is a drug and alcohol-free zone and we don't talk during the dance so that you can tune into how they are feeling and move from that space. It's a guided held space to create safety, and give permission and liberation. There is also times when you are free to dance without guidance, and there are opportunities for meeting other dancers during the dance and socialising afterwards.
Earth Beats may use the Open Floor movement cycle of Open Attention, Enter, Explore and Settle. It may incorporate the five elements (Earth, Fire, Water, Air, and Spirit) and over the course of a year echo the cyclical journey around the Celtic wheel of the year and include seasonal celebrations, small rituals and elements of the Work That Reconnects and Tantra.
What to Wear?
Wear clothes that will allow free movement for example leggings, yoga pants or track suit bottoms. Wearing layers will help you to regulate your temperature. (Please see the "New To This" page).
What to bring?
A bottle of water, a blanket, socks or indoor slippers.
What is it and who is it for?
Earth Beats is for everyone. It is an inclusive community space for you to get involved and share creative skills and talents to make this truly a shared offering and a dynamic, community offering. Some classes may involve local musicians. If you want to get more involved please let me know.
The benefit of the dance is dedicated to the Earth and all creatures and beings that live with her, in her and on her lands, rivers, lakes and oceans.
Earth Beats is appearing occasionally but not offering regular classes while I focus on finishing my book: Ever The Sea Calls Me Home - a pilgrimage of awakening. See www.wilddivinelight.com for more info.
The next dances will be announced here.
Call Clíona on +44 (0)7916 167 214 or message me on Signal or email [email protected] for information and bookings. Or join: www.facebook.com/groups/536431699704061 for updates and connection with other Earth Beats dancers.
Past Dances:
Adult dances Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania, Africa, January 2022.
Children's Dance Momela Arusha, Tanzania, Africa, April 2021.
Solitude to Connection Series: St Lukes Therapy Centre & Lansdown, 2 November - 14 Dec 2018.
Peace Festival, Landsdowne Hall, Stroud, 24 September 2017
Seed Festival, Hawkwood College, 9 August 2017, www.seedfestival.co.uk
Schumacher College, Devon short course Immersion 9 May 2017
The Exercise Club, Bristol BS8 2XS (regular fortnightly dances September 2016-)
Staverton Village Hall, Devon (regular monthly dances) - October 2012 - July 2016
Buddhafield Festival, Culmhead - July 2013 & 2015
Bristol University, Bristol - Autumn 2015
Quest Festival, Newton Abbot, Devon - July 2014
Hem's Acre Camp, Littlehempston, Devon - July 2014
Barefoot Dance, Exeter, Devon - Summer 2013 & 2016,
Marina Saldanhada Dance Studio, Buckfastleigh, Devon - Winter 2013
Kevvics Dance Studio, Totnes, Devon - Regular dances Autumn 2013
