Dates: July 11-15, 2025
Location:
Cuarto Creciente
Alvarado 143, Zona Centro
22800 Ensenada, B.C., Mexico
***Many hotels, airbnb and restaurants walking distance to studio
Teacher: Christina Graham-Smith
Max attendance 15 Dancers - this will be a small and inclusive experience
Join us for a 5 Day Heartbeat workshop focused on strengthening emotional intelligence through the 5Rhythms Heartbeat map, designed to connect you to the emotional landscapes of the heart. Each rhythm—Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness—offers a unique pathway to embodying and expressing fear, anger, sadness, joy, and compassion. Focusing on the Heartbeat map has the power increase our skills and awareness of the five elements of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, effective communication, self-regulation, motivation and empathy. This workshop provides tools for authentic expression, emotional balance, and personal growth.
Through guided movement, reflection, and community connection, you’ll have the opportunity to move and experience the full spectrum of your emotions, creating space for healing, authenticity, and building resilience.
How Each Rhythm Relates and strengthens our Emotional Intelligence:
Flowing: emBodying Self-Awareness
5Rhythms: Flowing teaches us to feel fear without resistance, grounding ourselves in presence and learning to trust our instincts.
Emotional Intelligence: By tuning into our physical sensations and inner experiences, we develop the ability to recognize and name our emotions, creating a foundation for understanding ourselves deeply.
Staccato: Expressing Clarity and Boundaries
5Rhythms: Staccato helps us channel frustration and anger constructively, using it as fuel for setting boundaries, expressing needs, and cultivating clarity.
Emotional Intelligence: Effective Communication – Staccato teaches us to communicate with precision and intention, strengthening our ability to connect authentically with others.
Chaos: Releasing and Surrendering
5Rhythms: Chaos provides space for releasing sadness and grief, allowing us to embrace and move through emotional turbulence.
Emotional Intelligence: Self-Regulation – Through surrender and movement, we learn to let go of control, managing emotional overwhelm while finding freedom and equilibrium.
Lyrical: Cultivating Joy and Connection
5Rhythms: Lyrical invites us to expand into the joy of being alive, rediscovering our playful and lighthearted nature.
Emotional Intelligence: Motivation – Lyrical connects us to the energy of inspiration and purpose, helping us move forward with optimism and enthusiasm.
Stillness: Integrating Presence and Wisdom
5Rhythms: Stillness invites us into deep presence, fostering compassion for ourselves and others as we integrate the wisdom of our emotional experience.
Emotional Intelligence: Empathy – In the quiet of Stillness, we cultivate the ability to truly listen and connect with others on a profound, heart-centered level.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is open to all movers. If you’re seeking to deepen your connection to your emotions, enhance your emotional intelligence, and find healing through movement, this workshop is for you. Pre-requisites include 5 Waves classes or a day or more workshop of waves level 5Rhythms.
Exchange:
Full Price (Friday ~ Tuesday): $625
I am comfortably able to meet all my basic needs, I am employed or do not need to work. I have access to financial savings and have an expendable income. I may struggle at times, but overall, I feel financially comfortable.
Partial Discount (Friday ~ Tuesday): $531 Use discount code DISCOUNT15% (2 spots)
I may stress about meeting my basic needs, but still regularly achieve them, I may have some debt, but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs. I may have access to financial savings and have some expendable income.
Full Discount (Friday ~ Tuesday): $374 Use discount code DISCOUNT40% (2 spots)
I frequently stress about meeting my basic need and have some debt. I am unemployed or underemployed without access to savings and have no or very limited expendable income, yet doing this workshop will be very important to me.
***Two significantly reduced work scholarships available for Ensenada dancers
This workshop counts for 5 Days of Heartbeat level towards the 5Rhythms Teacher training and meets the 5 Day pre-requisites.