PRIESTESS DANCE ~ June 10th - 16th, 2024, Ashland, OR
WE’RE BACK! Find out about the 2024 Priestess Dance Immersion happening in Ashland Oregon HERE
The Priestess Dance Immersion is an enlivening week long experience of divine acknowledgment and dynamic activation. Honoring and empowering our bodies, our dance, our breath, our being and accessing the highest potential of our innate feminine ability to create, transform and inspire.
Our bodies are profound instruments of power, through intentional awareness, breath and movement (dance) we can access this power and consciously work with and through it. We can open portals of catalyst, change, renewal, and actualization both for ourselves personally and for the collective.
This immersion offers the tools for each dancer to have direct response and immediate experience with the great goddess streams of wisdom and capability that naturally course through her own beingness.
Our embodiment is our deepest blessing, literally infused with the power of creation itself. The sacred dance, temple arts, yogic practice, ritual intention and synergistic sisterhood that will be the flesh and bones of this immersion will allow us to awaken and cultivate this energy, directing it towards heart-centric manifestations and offering it up as an etheric elixir of inspiration to ourselves and the world at large.
We will not only do this work in time over the course of the intensive (and the remaining two modules), but this week will also provide you the foundational tools, practices and experiences to continue to deepen within your own personal priestess dancer unfolding.
Priestess Dance is a modulated initiatory SACRED study program designed with the intention:
To cultivate experiential awareness and connection to our bodies and ourselves as instruments, channels, conduits. To work within this truth to clear, charge and open the channel invoking flow, clarity and presence as we hone our ability to transform, amplify and transmit energy.
To realize and explore that Our Dance as the intentional movement and attunement of our beautiful body instruments can serve as a transformative, healing, catalyzing modality for personal development as well as a vehicle for connected planetary upliftment and inspiration.
To stimulate our creativity and build clarity and confidence in our own personal artistic self-expression. To discover and unlock the most powerful, authentic and fulfilling way to express ourselves and offer our work to the world.
To come into a deeply loving and respectful relationship with the Self, dissolving the limiting habits of harsh self-criticism, personal judgement and self-dissatisfaction. To activate honor and compassionate careful relation to ourselves, our personal experience and to our bodies. To learn to love, listen and care for the Self as tenderly and consciously as we do with others.
To awaken priestess presence, in ourselves and on the planet, to courageously live a creative life that is not limited to the physical realms. To stand strong and supported in acknowledging the unseen, working in the more subtle realms of energy and unlocking our magic. To activate commitment, discipline and humble confidence in nourishing the spiritual heart of community through our artistic offerings of beauty and presence.
There once was a time when the historical roles of temple dancer, sacred artist and ecstatically embodied priestess were honored and revered.
These women shared their dance and embodiment as an offering to the community; the transmissions of divine frequency that flowed through were seen as valuable and integral aspects of a harmonious whole.
We now stand at a pivotal moment in our human evolution when so many sacred women’s roles are undergoing a vibrant reclaiming. There is a deep need on our planet for the medicine of empowered, embodied feminine expression. Our dance, our art and our work can serve as so much more than a ‘distraction” mere entertainment or a means to an end but instead as an intensification of the divinely distilled down essence of LIFE ITSELF, which when experienced either as the dancer or witness can connect us into the Universal Rhythm of The One Heart.
As a dancer or performing artist, this intensive will guide you in clarifying your devotional intent, tuning the extraordinary instrument of YOU and moving your work into the sacred space of high-frequency alchemical transmission; True Priestess Art.
As a human, this weekend will offer the opportunity to deepen within the miraculous power of your own embodiment. To attune, clear and open the crystal channel vessel of Self. To be nourished by the creative force the that lies at the center of your personal well-springs, to playfully explore your own dynamic multifaceted nature and embody the full spectrum being you are!
Let's face it, we are all in motion, we are all dancing, Life Is A Dance and we are integrating and sending out frequency with every thought, word, movement and interaction.
When we dance through life CONSCIOUSLY and CONFIDENTIALLY within ourselves we anchor consciousness and confidence on the planet. It is now time to emerge form the dark world of feminine fear, repression and shaming. Each one of us that boldly and bravely begins to enjoy, honor and access the ecstasy, power and wisdom of our body temples offers a great gift to the world. When we then create and share intentional artistry birthed from this connection the gifts continue to multiply and ripple out.
Priestess Dance *Entering* topics of training & exploration:
~ Strengthening the Container ~
Creating physical strength, endurance and skill in our physical technique. The technique of our dance and the ability of our bodies act as the “container” of our dance magic. They are the caldron in which our energy and intention coalesce into potent artist alchemy, Our containers must be strong and able for our work to be the most powerful. We will spend time learning and refining dance technique as well as strengthening our bodies and increasing endurance through drills and embodiment exercise. We will be mainly working with the techniques found in bellydance, temple dance, yoga, and mudric arts.
~ Clearing the Crystal Channel ~
Connection and care for our energetic bodies, Practices and processes for activating and balancing the chakras, clearing the meridians and energetic pathways, harmonizing our own inner polarity pairs: solar/lunar shiva/shakti yin/yang. Cultivating Shakti (life force energy) and bringing ourselves into a state of inner radiance and high-vibratory presence. Again we will mainly be drawing on yogic/tantric practice, i.e. mudras, mantra, pranayama (breathwork) and temple dance supplemented with the priestess arts of affirmation, elemental invocation and sacred sound.
~ Meaningful Movement ~
Understanding point of energetic origin of movement and creating awareness around what emotions and energies various movements invoke and transmit. Finding and connecting clear and focused intention with every movement made. Expanding awareness through movement and creating a strong emotional and physical “feed back loop” as we dance.
~ Archetypal Exploration ~
Archetypes are the blueprints of the universe, cosmic powers and energies that make up existence as we know it. They are energy fields of frequency represented in the Tarot, God/desses of various traditions and elemental expressions. When we tap into these energy .fields .and work with the archetypes (especially in an embodied way), we can access their wisdom and more deeply connect to the fabric of existence itself, They provide. a powerful foundational playing field of artistic discovery, creation and transmission. We will work with the archetypes through invocation, set dance sequences and free-form meditative dance exploration.
Other topics of focus of Priestess Dance Module 1 *Entering* :
Creating sanctified sacred space for practice and performance
Mudras, Symbols and Sacred Geometry
Intentional Symbolic Sacred Adornment ~ meaningful choices, and clarified purpose for your dress and jewelry. Together we will perform a sacred adornment cleansing and consecration ceremony.
Temple Body Consecration Ceremony
Full Moon Priestess Power Dance Ceremony
Co-creative research project on sacred dance and priestess lineages of past and present (more info coming about this by Summer Solstice)
Priestess Dance Photo Art Project, we will get the embodied experience of creating intentional Priestess Art through an outdoor ritual photo/video shoot . We will have something powerful and beautiful that we co-created together that we all can share as we are inspired. More infö on intention theme and what to bring coming by Summer Solstice.
Priestess Dance Module 1 *Entering* is the first weeklong immersion of a three part series. As a stand alone immersion, it will be a powerful and expansive experience of growth and personal priestess dance development. If you choose to go deeper into the program, it will be necessary to take *Entering* plus perform corresponding post-requisites. These requisites will be announced at the end of the intensive, they consist of required continued practice and study of some practices and techniques offered in the immersion. Commitment to a daily spiritual and self care practice, plus the ability to execute certain sequences of dance techniques.
Priestess Dance Module 2 * Opening * will be offered when there are enough initiates that have gone through module 1 to fill an immersion. (fingers crossed fall/winter 2022)” Opening” will be turn the focus towards personal priestess artistic expression and development where each dancer will be coached and supported in creating her own piece of priestess dance work plus lead aspects of ceremonial circle through the week, all of this in addition to continued refinement and elaboration on former content as well as learning a full comprehensive sacred dance choreography.
Priestess Dance Module 3 *Offering* will be offered when there are enough initiates that have gone through module 1 and 2 to fill an immersion. The focus of this week will be preparation to offer our Priestess Dance in a live sacred arts temple show. This will involve the actual experience of all sacred preparation involved in the act of offering plus sharing the offering itself in the Portland community.
Exact location and schedule will be announced on Spring Equinox March 21st, We will certainly be on the Eastside of Portland. For the most part we will be meeting from 10;00 - 6:00 daily, with the exception of a couple days we take off the morning and/or afternoon off to meet in the evening for special ceremonies and our ritual art project. If you are based in Portland or not, I highly recommend scheduling the full week off so you have time and space for integration, practice and assimilation.
Once registered more info will come about what to bring and how best to prepare.
Thank you so much! I am truly ignited and delighted about this magical manifestation. I can’t wait to share it with you.
