Dance Journey Weekends
Dance Connection Training and Dance Journey Weekends began at the end of October 2020. The Dance weekends allow a deeper immersion into movement, expression, communication and being residential are wholly nourishing - delicious meals, beautiful locations and social time.
Julia Hope Brightwell,
aka 'Jewell'
Delicious Meals
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Our weekends start on Friday evening with dinner, followed by a welcome meeting & dance session.
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Each day there are dance components and learning components.
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Fresh, clean country air. No noise pollution and located within beautiful natural surroundings, with places to relax, walk and socialise.
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Saturday night entertainment option
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Finishing Sunday afternoon about 4:30/5pm, with the last meal being Sunday lunch.
Contact: Julia aka Jewell on danceconnectionwessex@gmail.com
Weekends can be enjoyed as an immersion in the Dance Connection methods and exploration of your own expression and movement capacity. The central focus is 'partnering your body' - listening to what it wants - moving with sympathy to its capacity and needs. Dance Connection values our interdependence and interconnection and we will explore: ways of empathically communicating; and dances that connect us to nature, Yin/Yang, The Elements and movement vocabulary & expression.
To access the Teacher Training Programme you must attend 100 hours of Dance Connection practice - day workshops, Dance Journey weekends, classes, and blocks.
3-5th May 2024
with Julia Hope Brightwell
Non-Residential £250; Residential £320;
non-refundable deposit £80 holds your place (unless host cancels - full refund given)
Our identity has a stability to it and yet we are ever changing, transforming and life affects us. The theoretical session will be a rich one indeed. Dances that allow us to express our identity are a common component of Dance connection.
In Buddhism and Taoism there is a sense of No-self, where identity dissolves so we can connect to essence and have a sense of unity - repetitive rhythm, trance dance, whirling are some of the dance structures that can help us experience this.
The Hero's Journey - explained by Joseph Campbell is an adventure of stages. I have created a pathway called 'The Heroic Journey' based on Campbell's work - this is the second time I've done this pathway - it was greatly received the first time around. Story and collective life stages are rich for experience and self-awareness.
For more details email Jewell.
Deposit (plus booking fee)
Residential (plus booking fee)
Non-Residential (plus booking fee)
Next Dance Journey Weekend: Identity, No-Self, & The Heroic Journey
