RhythmWave 2008 Events
Monday, August 25 | Tuesday, August 26 |
Wednesday, August 27 | Thursday, August 28
Friday, August 29 | Saturday, August 30 |
Sunday, August 31 | Monday, September 1
Monday, August 25
Event Name: Opening Ritual w/Vytas
Time: 9:15 am - 9:45 am
Description: Vytas will lead the RhythmWave camp in a ritual crafted to bring the tribe together set intentions of RhythmWave. Friends of RhythmWave also invited.
Monday, August 25
Event Name: Sweat Your Prayers w/Shawn Swanson
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Description: Sweat Your Prayers is an expression of Gabrielle Roth's 5 rhythms movement meditation practice. Come back to yourself while you dance on a spring-loaded bamboo dance floor. To find out more about Five Rhythms, go to www.gabrielleroth.com
Monday, August 25
Event Name: Dance Church w/Rolf + Karina
Time: 7:30 pm
Description: An offering from the love of Rolf + Karina, creators of the steamy new photo-book, "CAMERAS AT BREAKFAST",
Dance Church is a sacred space for exploring the divine spirit within, and in communion with others. The music
will be a dynamic and funky wave, beginning and ending in deep stillness, with little or no verbal instruction.
Participants are invited to enter the space with a personal intention, and to join us in celebrating Karina's birthday,
which is also on Monday. For more information go to www.rolfandkarina.com
Tuesday, August 26
Event Name: Pranayama breathing/meditation w/Chris Kyle
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Description: Start the morning with a powerful pranayama breathing exercise bringing in life-force energy, and follow with a 30-min sitting meditation with Chris Kyle.
Tuesday, August 26
Event Name: Embody Grace w/ Sofiah Thom
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Description: Embody Grace is a playful and prayerful expression of the self through dance. Embody Grace fuses aspects of yoga, martial-arts, free-form dance & meditation. Join Sofiah on a movement journey, ride the waves of your own breath as Sofiah’s voice guides you over an eclectic tapestry of world music. Move from a place of inner quiet to full ecstatic expression and back to stillness.
Sofiah Thom, practitioner, teacher & perfomer in the healing arts for over ten years, now resides in Costa Rica where she has built her own center for living artfully, Bamboo. Sofiah continues to travel, sharing the essence of Bamboo through her art & workshops as a vocalist, dancer and facilitator. for more information, visit www.sofiahthom.org or www.bamboodancer.com.
Tuesday, August 26
Event Name: Dance Wave w/djBasin
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Description: djBasin sculpts a set of passionate world beats and funky dance tunes into a wave:
warming up, lifting to wild release, then easing into relaxed & satisfied stillness.
Wednesday, August 27
Event Name: Peace Body Meditation w/Samantha Sweetwater
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Description: PeaceBody meditation - Open to the infinite, organismic intelligence that you are, with Samantha Sweetwater. For more information about Samantha, visit her web site at www.dancingfreedom.com
Wednesday, August 27
Event Name: All-Playa Dance Wave
Time: 10:45 am - 12:00 noon
Description: HELP US LAUNCH A FIRST-TIME, ALL-PLAYA DANCE EVENT. Imagine the beat that pulses through the playa as dance/sound camps tune in to BMIR (Burning Man Radio 94.5) on Weds. 8/27 at 10:45am to 12:15 pm to dance together in the unity that symbolizes the essence of Burning
Man. Please help us make this dream a reality! Let us know if your camp can join us and host a satellite dance wave. Depending on how many camps join us, we hope to send someone from RW to your camp to lead an opening and closing circle and demonstrate this vibrant free-form dance style. You can dance on your own or with your tribe as the music guides you.
If your camp is interested in being part of this historic event, please get in touch with spicey- albertkaufman@gmail.com.
Wednesday, August 27
Event Name: Contact Improv with License to Spill
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Description: The collective energy of ENTHEON's sub-camp "LICENSE TO SPILL" will be hosting a CONTACT IMPROV "spill" JAM - - a session of artistic, soul-nourishing, free-form movement, intent on inviting and inspiring folks who are new to the CI world AND experienced dancers alike...
Wednesday, August 27
Event Name: Kundalini Ecstatic Dance w/Puja Shannon
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Description: Kundalini Dance is a creative art form, an esctatic dance practice and a shamanic journey. We will use tantric breath tools to enliven, enlarge, and expand our energy bodies. As our energy body comes alive we can allow past emotions and trama to be released through intuitive sound and movement. From this state of Whole Body Mind Consciousness will we trust our bodies innate wisdom to move us beyond our stories into an embodied rememerance of our true nature.
Kundlaini Dance is a transformative dance practice created by Leyolah Antara and will be facilitated here in the Black Rock Dessert by Puja Shannon. Come and dance your fire spirit alive as the sun sets on another amazing night on the playa.
Wednesday, August 27
Event Name: Dress-in-White Sweat Your Prayers w/Masha - a white hot event
Time: 10:00 pm -12:00 midnight
Description: This is a special Sweat Your Prayers with a fashion twist - everyone wears white to dance bathed in our black light glow. Afterwards, those who are interested are invited to gather silently at the front of Diva Boot Camp at sunrise on Thursday, dressed all in white (or as close as possible...), then proceed together to the Temple. Beautiful, profound, magical, reverential and inspirational.
Don't stress if you don't have white. its not a must. you will look fabulous no matter what you wear. But if you have extra white clothes bring 'em and share.
To find out more about Five Rhythms, go to www.gabrielleroth.com
Thursday, August 28
Event Name: Pranayama breathing/meditation w/Chris Kyle
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Description: Start the morning with a powerful pranayama breathing exercise bringing in life-force energy, and follow with a 30-min sitting meditation with Chris Kyle.
Thursday, August 28
Event Name: Dancing Freedom w/Samantha Sweetwater
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Description: Dancing Freedom - SOUL SHINE - with Samantha Sweetwater. A Somatic, Ecstatic and Shamanic Dance Journey to Embodied Awakening. Who are you? What is your purpose? What is the perfect and already whole wisdom held within your Body, the Heart and the Spirit? What parts of you do you disown, repress or otherwise silence that want to bring their gifts to the Feast of Life? Dancing into naked luminosity, we access Soul Shine - the truth, wisdom, power, brilliance and courage that is unlocked through Self Love, Authentic Expression and Divine Connection.
for more information about Samantha, go to www.dancingfreedom.com.
Thursday, August 28
Event Name: Endless Waves (5 Rhythms class) w/Masha
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Description: This is an opportunity to get instruction in the practice of Gabrielle Roth's 5 Rhythms practice; you'll flow, dance staccato, lose yourself in chaos, release everything in lyrical and rest in the stillness of your soul.
Thursday, August 28
Event Name: In-spiral-ity Hoop PlayshoP w/Monique
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Description: All levels welcome! Through community and play we find our bodies in the hoop. Join us at Rhythmwave's marvelous wood floor on the playa. This playshop focuses on learning basic moves and elevating moves to use them to play in, around and through the hoop. Come and explore all your rhythms, emotions, senses, and joy through hooping. Feel free to bring your own hoops and hoops will be available on a first come basis.
Thursday, August 28
Event Name: The YUM Session
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Description: Born on the hallowed grounds of the Esalen Institute, the YUM Session is a two hour, non-verbal adventure in movement, dance, and ecstatic community connection inspired by the teachings in Soul Motion, 5 Rhythms, and Contact Improvisation, infused with luscious dance music from around the world!
Friday, August 29
Event Name: Peace Body Meditation w/Samantha Sweetwater
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Description: PeaceBody meditation - Open to the infinite, organismic intelligence that you are, with Samantha Sweetwater. For more information about Samantha, visit her web site at www.dancingfreedom.com
Friday, August 29
Event Name: Dance Wave w/djBasin
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Description: djBasin sculpts a set of passionate world beats and funky dance tunes into a wave:
warming up, lifting to wild release, then easing into relaxed & satisfied stillness.
Friday, August 29
Event Name: Peace Body yoga w/Samantha Sweetwater
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Description: Practice is a space within with to open to that which most serves life. So, in PeaceBody, we give the Body, Mind, Heart and Soul the sacred waters of loving awareness, that peace may flower within. PeaceBody Yoga practice integrates strength and surrender, movement and stillness, power and gentleness. Each practice begins with meditation, chanting and prayer. We flow into vinyasa movement, integrated with conscious breath, bio-dynamic alignment and guided imagery. We work with direct connection to our Higher Selves and to the Planetary Oneness Grids, inviting our own highest divine intentions both individually and collectively to be activated through our conscious intent. Our practices empower us to BE and to ACT as love. For more information about Samantha, go to www.dancingfreedom.com
Friday, August 29
Event Name: Sweat Your Prayers w/Shawn Swanson
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Description: Sweat Your Prayers is an expression of Gabrielle Roth's 5 rhythms movement meditation practice. Come back to yourself while you dance on a spring-loaded bamboo dance floor. To find out more about Five Rhythms, go to www.gabrielleroth.com
Friday, August 29
Event Name: Ecstatic Dance w/DJ Source
Time: 10:00 pm - 12:00 am
Description: Ecstatic Dance: Dance in joy to world grooves. This is the venue where you can really push the envelope. Dance from your core.
Saturday, August 30
Event Name: Peace Body yoga w/Samantha Sweetwater
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Description: Practice is a space within with to open to that which most serves life. So, in PeaceBody, we give the Body, Mind, Heart and Soul the sacred waters of loving awareness, that peace may flower within. PeaceBody Yoga practice integrates strength and surrender, movement and stillness, power and gentleness. Each practice begins with meditation, chanting and prayer. We flow into vinyasa movement, integrated with conscious breath, bio-dynamic alignment and guided imagery. We work with direct connection to our Higher Selves and to the Planetary Oneness Grids, inviting our own highest divine intentions both individually and collectively to be activated through our conscious intent. Our practices empower us to BE and to ACT as love. For more information about Samantha, go to www.dancingfreedom.com
Saturday, August 30
Event Name: Sweat Your Prayers w/Shawn Swanson
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Description: Sweat Your Prayers is an expression of Gabrielle Roth's 5 rhythms movement meditation practice. Come back to yourself while you dance on a spring-loaded bamboo dance floor. To find out more about Five Rhythms, go to www.gabrielleroth.com
Saturday, August 30
Event Name: Ecstatic Dance w/DJ Source
Time: 12:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Description: Ecstatic Dance: Dance in joy to world grooves. This is the venue where you can really push the envelope. Dance from your core.
Sunday, August 31
Event Name: Temple Burn Release Return and Reclaim
Time: 10:00 am -11:30 pm
Description: Release ~ Reclaim ~ Return: A DANCE CEREMONY. Enter. Enter whole and release all intent. Strip down to the bare bones and dance on the funeral pyres of your own dross. Dance to the luminous essence, releasing all masks. Reclaim those parts you discarded for fear or shame, hatred or despair, anger or resignation. Then, return to the Womb of the underworld to receive the blessings of Ereshkigal and your own Shadow Essence - the fertile space where all genesis begins. From this place, we prepare for the temple burn, and pray for the next collective quantum leap in the ONE heart.