The 5 RhythmsTM Ecstatic Dance Celebration: Gratitude, Grace, & Thanksgiving

November 21 - 26, 2010

Esalen® Institute, Big Sur, California

Ellen Watson, Lucia Horan

Ellen & Lucia invite you to join us for this special time of year in the American calendar, where we pause to give thanks for our abundance, to share time appreciating the founding of this country and give thanks the Native Americans for sharing their bounty with our forefathers.

Lucia and Ellen have lived a combined total of over 50 years at Esalen® and in Big Sur; the baths of Esalen® are their Mother Temple and Huxley the room where they were birthed into The Dance. They combine their love of movement and touch, of ritual and ceremony in honoring this opening of the 6 week holiday season, of Advent, of Solstice, of the years' end and beginning.

During our week, we will prepare for a Native American Sweat Lodge on Thursday Morning.

We will dance ourselves from fullness to empty and return again, and again. We will gather plants, herbs, flowers & roots for brewing our herbal bath. After our sweat-lodge, we will have a sea salt scrub and herbal bath, giving thanks for all that has meaning in our lives.

 

 

We dedicate this retreat to embodying gratitude,

grace and giving thanks to our creator for the blessings in our lives.

 

 

 

 

 Open to everybody. Please bring a journal and favorite pen. Jazz shoes are useful.

 

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