Nourishing The Source
A 5Rhythms® Treat For Women
with Deborah Jay-Lewin
Sat 12th November, 2 – 10pm
Sunday 13th November, 10am – 5pm
A 5Rhythms® Treat For Women
with Deborah Jay-Lewin
Sat 12th November, 2 – 10pm
Sunday 13th November, 10am – 5pm
Film Screening
A documentary about Kirstie Simson by award-winning director Katrina McPherson.
Friday 22nd July, 8pm
Universal Hall, Findhorn
SOLD OUT with WAITING LIST
A six day New Year 5Rhythms® gathering.
28 December 2011, 2pm – 2 January 2012, 8pm
A New Year 5 Rhythms Gathering
A 5Rhythms® Heartbeat® Workshop
with Deborah Jay-Lewin
3rd and 4th June 2011
Cluny Hill College, Forres
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Guest Artists
Jennifer Monson, Simon Whitehead and Angus Balbernie
An eleven-day event for dance or movement artists, choreographers and artists working in related art-forms. Artists of any discipline and level of experience are welcome to participate in all or just part of the event.
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An Advanced 5Rhythms workshop
with Jonathan Horan Gabrielle Roth’s son and closest collaborator
24th – 29th June 2011
Jonathan Horan is Gabrielle Roth’s son and closest collaborator. He has been immersed in the 5Rhythms® throughout his life and continues to be a key catalyst in its evolution.
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Saturday 27th November
A 5 Rhythms afternoon for women followed by scrumptious evening to nurture & celebrate the richness of our womanhood.
A New Year Improvisation Jam
28th December – 2nd January 2011
Findhorn, Scotland
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with Julie Deal and Deborah Jay-Lewin
4th – 6th March 2011
Invitation to a 5Rythms weekend for women to nurture and celebrate our sacred sexuality. Enter the Secret Garden and explore, through dance and ritual, the richness of being a woman.
Introductory Skinner Releasing Technique – Weekend Intensive
with Kirstie Alexander
24th – 26th September 2010
A technique that has evolved from the simple principle that when we are releasing tension and habitual holding patterns we can move more freely, powerfully and articulately.
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Diane Long and Sophy Hoare
5th – 7th April 2011
Diane Long
9th – 10th April 2011
The emphasis of this approach to yoga is not on achieving postures but using them to undo tension and find integration. The practice is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between the parts of the body and between our movements and the breath, the ground and the space around us.
A 5Rhythms® Heartbeat® Workshop
with Deborah Jay-Lewin
10th -12th September 2010
Cluny Ballroom, Findhorn Foundation Cluny Hill College, Forres
Dance Performance Kirstie Simson with special guests.
Michael Schumacher (Ballet Frankfurt)
Dai Jian (Trisha Brown Co.)
Kenzo Kusuda (Emio Greco/PC)
Friday 23rd July: 8pm
The Universal Hall, Findhorn
Dance, improvisation and Listening
A Workshop with Kirstie Simson
24th & 25th July 2010
The Universal Hall, Findhorn
A workshop in Dance-Improvisation, drawing from Kirstie's knowledge of Contact Improvisation, dance techniques, Aikido and her extensive experience of improvisation in performance.
A 5Rhythms® workshop produced by Vital Moves in association with Bodysurf Scotland
4th-6th June 2010
You are invited to dance who you are, as a woman or as a man, in order to shape and shift your inconsistencies, your similarities, your fears, loves and desires.
with Julie Deal and Deborah Jay-Lewin
5th – 7th March 2010
Invitation to a 5Rythms weekend for women to nurture and celebrate our sacred sexuality. Enter the Secret Garden and explore, through dance and ritual, the richness of being a woman.

A yoga workshop in the tradition of Vanda Scaravelli
8th -11th May 2010 (9am – 1pm)
The emphasis is not on achieving postures but using them to undo tension and find integration. The practice is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between the parts of the body and between our movements and the breath, the ground and the space around us. Gradually a new network of muscles is brought into use. Then our movements come from the spine and bring us back to the spine and the whole body pulls together. We train our attention so that we can feel more, impose less, and allow the intelligence of the body to reveal itself.
with Jonathan Horan, Gabrielle Roth’s son and closest collaborator
1st – 6th May 2010
A 5Rhythms® workshop for both advanced and beginning students. The 5Rhythms are a contemporary medicine wheel and Medicine Dance is a journey through the primary maps of the wheel nourishing the warrior-healer that is alive in each of us. Dancing for oneself, for each other, for our families, and for our communities is powerful medicine, a way to create a loving ripple effect in this world.
Karl Jay-Lewin & Company
Rick Nodine & Company
Rosalind Masson
Saturday October 16th 8pm £8/£6
with Robert Anderson and Karl Jay-Lewin
A workshop for both those new to contact and for more experienced dancers who want to deepen their study of the principles that underlie a contact dance.
Deborah Jay-Lewin, Karl Jay-Lewin & Robert Anderson
29 December – 3rd January
Bodysurf Scotland’s 8th New Year Event. A fantastic opportunity to dance 5Rhythms and Contact Improvisation in the beautiful enriching environment of the Findhorn Foundation community.
Solo Performance Commissioning Project 26 Aug – 4 Sept
An event for professional dancers produced by Independent Dance, London, in collaboration with Bodysurf Scotland.
Rick Nodine and Simonetta Alessandri
16th & 17th October 2010
A weekend workshop with these two highly respected dance artists based in London. Organised in conjunction with Saturday evening dance performance.
9 Days of Workshops and Performances 9 – 17 July 2009
• Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion
• Eva Karczag & Chris Crickmay
• Jess Curtis/Gravity

17th July!
Live Music, Dance Improv Performances, DJ Monkey Magic, outside fire, bar

10th July!
Choreographer Jonathan Burrows & Composer Matteo Fargion present
the UK premier of CHEAP LECTURE
A half-hour musical lecture about performance
A 5Rhythms dance intensive 20 – 25 June 2009
SOLD OUT! We are operating a waiting list for this event. Places will be offered down the list to those who can confirm with an immediate payment.
Contact Improvisation & Related Dance Work
Mary Prestidge: a hugely influential dancer and teacher of improvisation & experimental dance. Mary’s generous, investigative approach to teaching makes this workshop suitable to all levels of experience.
Welcome back to those women that have taken the plunge before. Welcome to those inspired to explore the depths of our sacred and sensual womanhood in this way for the first time
This highly popular dance event has been running in Findhorn for six years. Following a one year sabbatical Karl and Deborah are happy to be offering this fantastic opportunity to dance 5Rhythms® and Contact Improvisation in the beautiful enriching environment of the Findhorn Foundation community.
Come and join us for taught sessions in Contact Improvisation and 5Rhythms, unstructured time to jam and dance The Wave®, shared body-work, Hogmanay Party, beautiful winter landscape by the sea, stunning skies and wild geese, meditation sanctuary and hot tub.
Most of us spend our lives seeking heaven, what we imagine will make us finally feel good forever, and running like hell, from everything that makes us uncomfortable. In Waves: Heaven and Hell, we use our movement practice to find true heaven – being grounded, centered and expanded in each moment life brings. This is the real value of practice, to learn how to be open, available and maybe even playful as we get knocked off kilter or kicked out of our comfort zone. Finding and sustaining our presence, no matter what we feel or what goes on around us, is the dance that will reverberate throughout our lives.
Exploring the sacred and sexy through dancing The 5 Rhythms ®
A weekend treat for women with Julie Deal
Newbold House Retreat Centre
When given space to flourish, our spirituality and sexuality enrich the whole of our lives. Too often the expression of these vital aspects of our nature become divorced from each other and compartmentalised to culturally acceptable parts of life. I am inviting you to this weekend to take time out in the company of other women to welcome our natural sensuality and renew our connection to spirit.
An open symposium for artists, academics, curators and producers coming together, to share ideas and work, network and debate, and provide a valuable platform for current issues in the area of screen dance practice to come to the surface.
Body Mind Centering is an approach to somatic education through movement and touch, developed by Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. It involves the experiential study of dynamic, embodied anatomy and infant developmental movement, using imagery, touch and movement. The uniqueness of the work lies in the experiential embodiment of the material. It is this process of embodiment that makes the work transformative and allows us to deepen our appreciation of how we express who we are, how we perceive the world, others and ourselves.