an advanced-level 5Rhythms® workshop with Joanne Winstanley  ~ August 25 to 31, 2025 on Salt Spring Island, BC ~ registration opens in fall 2024

"What the ego wants is tiny compared to what the soul wants, and there comes a point when we recognize this, and we surrender to soul." – Marion Woodman

Mirrors is an initiation into the world beyond self-importance -- into the art of seeing. To enter the world of Mirrors is to take off our blinders and begin to see through the delusions and difficulties that trap us in unhappiness and destructiveness. We start to step back and get some insight into the predictable patterns that sabotage the grace and dignity of our truest and most soulful self. 

In the 5Rhythm® practice, we are constantly moving into the most spontaneous, energetic, expansive qualities of our being. In the Mirrors level of the practice, we are given the tools to identify the relentless loop of our own favorite head-trips and the inevitable situations they create. We tear off masks, sheds skins, reinventing ourselves effortlessly, learning to witness our own drama, its roots and rituals. We enter the crowd of characters that dominate our stage whether servant or star, doormat or dreamer, realist or rebel, mystic or manipulator—all divas, and begin to watch them sabotage our funky, fiery, free-spirit. Sometimes we have to stop the world and wonder: which part of me is using my hands, my feet, my eyes, my ears, and most importantly my mouth today?

We all know what it feels like to get stuck, to lose our groove, to get trapped in our heads and cut off from our hearts Seeking the answer within awakens the witness and learning to witness our own melodrama is our saving grace.

an advanced-level 5Rhythms® workshop with Joanne Winstanley ~ November 16 to 21, 2026 in Toronto, Ontario.

Registration opens in 2025.

a multi-day immersion into the emotional map of the 5Rhythms movement practice with Anne Marie Hogya and Joanne Winstanley ~ April 16 to 21, 2025 (Easter Weekend) at Stowel Lake Farm, Salt Spring Island, BC.     

When we take time to tend to our emotions – to turn towards our heart and allow what’s there to move – we can begin to befriend and tune into the vibrant, fluid landscape of our heart.

In the Heartbeat™ map, each of the 5Rhythms® becomes a gateway to engage with our essential emotions: Flowing / Fear, Staccato / Anger, Chaos / Sadness, Lyrical / Joy, and Stillness / Compassion.

Grounded in our physical 5Rhythms practice, bolstered by the presence of kindred community – and honouring our individual capacities – we will practice inviting, exploring, and embodying a range of emotional expressions so that we may come to know them well, and be informed by the intelligence they bring.

Beyond fixed positions of ‘nice’ or ‘polite’ or ‘fine’ we may connect with a truer, wilder current that moves with a natural generosity towards ourselves and others. We will cultivate Wild Kindness.

THE VENUE: Stowel Lake Farm is a restorative retreat venue and thriving organic farm located on Salt Spring Island, here on BC’s wild West Coast. Only a 30-minute ferry ride from Victoria (airport code YYJ), British Columbia, Canada, the farm features more than 100 acres of mixed forests, fields, rocky outcrops and rolling hills to explore.

WHAT’S INCLUDED:
– daily guided 5Rhythms movement/dance sessions with Joanne Winstanley and Anne Marie Hogya with teachings focused on the 5Rhythms Heartbeat map
– five nights in the accommodation of your choice
– fourteen delicious, vegetarian meals hosted in a restored timber farmhouse. Stowel Lake’s talented kitchen team offers seasonally inspired farm-to-table cuisine, featuring their own organic produce. In direct collaboration with their farmers, meals are prepared simply and beautifully to highlight the vitality of fresh whole food ingredients (Dairy-free, gluten-free and vegan choices can be accommodated by request)
– unstructured time to read, write, rest and soak up the natural world and farm property; Salt Spring Island also offers a range of hiking trails, lakes, and ocean beaches to explore
– full access to all retreat facilities and the scenic Stowel Lake property
– a guided farm tour and nature talk
– outdoor evening campfire (where seasonally permitted)
– all applicable taxes

DETAILS:
April 16, 2025 to April 21, 2025 (Wednesday to Monday) – 5 nights/ 6 days
Check-in between 3:00 pm and 5:00 p.m. on April 16 (dinner at 6:00 pm)
Check-out by 1:00 pm on April 21 (lunch at 12:00 pm)

PRICING AND REGISTRATION:
Register on Eventbrite or by e-transfer to annemarie@annemariehogya.com. (When e-transferring, please provide your email, first and last name, full mailing address, and phone number for registration. Also let us know if you have any dietary requirements, if you are allergic to down bedding, if you need a pick up from the Fulford Harbour April 16th afternoon ferry, and the name of the person if you are sharing a room with someone.)

All pricing is per person in Canadian dollars (CAD) and while supplies last. Room selection is on a first come basis.

1. Private Room (one bed in a private room with shared bath – SOLD OUT)
– $2975 CAD (Regular Rate) until April 6, 2025
2. Shared Deluxe Room (two beds in room with private bathroom)
– $2725 CAD (Regular Rate) until April 6, 2025 – available now
3. Shared Regular Room (two beds per room with shared bathroom)
– $2495 CAD (Regular Rate) until April 6, 2025 – available now
(A limited number of separate structure round yurts, which have heat and power, are available on the land outside of the regular room buildings. Please indicate if you’d like to book one of these at no additional cost.)
4. Camping (bring your own tent; access to indoor bathrooms and showers)
– $2195 CAD (Regular Rate) until April 6, 2025 – available now

CANCELLATIONS: Please note that all cancellations will incur a $150 administration fee. Cancellations after January 31, 2025 will receive a 50% refund. Because this is a retreat workshop with individualized meal and accommodation planning, no refunds can be issued for cancellations after April 1, 2025.

ABOUT THE 5RHYTHMS: the 5Rhythms® is a dynamic movement practice—a body-based awareness practice—that ignites creativity, connection and community. The 5 Rhythms – Flowing Staccato Chaos Lyrical Stillness®–are states of being and exploring them can lead us back to our real, vulnerable, wild, passionate and instinctive self. The 5Rhythms maps and practice were created and developed by artist, theatre director and author Gabrielle Roth.

ABOUT JOANNE AND ANNE MARIE: Joanne Winstanley and Anne Marie Hogya met in 1999 at a 5Rhythms workshop on Cortes Island and became fast friends. A year later in 2000 they road tripped together to Marin, California to do a month-long immersion with 5Rhythms founder, Gabrielle Roth and studied and trained with Gabrielle and faculty over the next two decades. Both Anne Marie and Joanne are accredited to teach both the physical (Waves) and emotional (Heartbeat) maps of the 5Rhythms.

* This retreat counts as 5 days of Heartbeat pre-requisites on the 5Rhythms Teacher Training path.*

"Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars." ~ Serbian proverb

A Waves-level workshop encountering, exploring, and inhabiting the intersections of ancestry and mystery, linear and timeless time, cycles of life/death/life. With trance as our portal and the 5Rhythms maps as our guide, we will move with these realms and invite their wisdom-gifts to inform and inhabit our present-moment embodiment and awareness.

with Joanne Winstanley in Victoria, BC

November 1 to 3, 2024

Friday 6:30 to 9:30pm, Saturday 11:30am to 6pm, Sunday 11am to 5pm

WHERE: Polish White Eagle Hall, 90 Dock Street (at Niagara), Victoria BC

$295 Early bird by September 15 / $305 Early bird+ scholarship donation*

$315 Regular / $345 Regular+ scholarship donation*

To Register: send your e-transfer to Joanne@danceherenow.ca, or purchase your ticket online. For any other arrangements or enquiries, please contact me.

Please ensure I have your best email address so you can receive information related to the workshop.

PREREQUISITES: a minimum of 15 hours of Waves (5Rhythms classes) is recommended.

REFUNDS and CANCELLATIONS:

• A full refund, less $50, will be issued for cancellations before October 1.
• A full refund, less $100, will be issued for cancellations before October 18.
• No refunds after October 18, 2024.

(For cancellations due to testing positive or for a known exposure to Covid, we will offer you a refund less a $100 admin fee. If you fall ill or test positive for Covid during the workshop, any refunds will be on a case by case basis.)

COMMUNITY CARE: we expect any dancers experiencing cold/flu symptoms to stay home, to care for themselves and the rest of the group. We will review our communicable disease mitigation policies one month prior to the workshop and will communicate any changes to all registered participants. At this point, we expect all participants to rapid test prior to attending.

ACCESSIBILITY: the hall has one flight of stairs (please email in advance if you need to access a lift), and one gender-neutral washroom.

*Tiered pricing is available so that folks with plenty can share, and folks who need support can receive it. When you include a Scholarship donation, a portion of your fee is applied toward another dancer's reduced-rate spot. If you are called to participate in this workshop and these prices are a barrier for you, please email joanne@danceherenow.ca for a possible partial scholarship or work trade.

​"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What do we see, when we see through the eyes of the heart? Who, or what, becomes visible? What becomes possible when we notice, meet, and move with emotional energy – our own, and one another’s – without recoil, or fixing, or judgement?  In this weekend workshop, through the embodied intelligence of the 5Rhythms movement maps, we’ll invite kindness, compassion, and clarity into our field of vision; we’ll dance to wipe the smudge from our eyes; we’ll make space for discomfort and tenderness; we will welcome whatever is present. We will gather and move together, affirming and developing our capacity to relate with ourselves, with one another, and with our wider circles, with the presence of a grounded, honest, perceptive, generous, and healthy heart.

• Standard: $255US until January 31 | $295US after
• Supporter (contributes to a 'supported' spot): $325US
• Supported (by request): $225US

To Register: contact kellie5rhythms(at)gmail.com.

In the Heartbeat™ map, each of the 5Rhythms becomes a gateway to the essential emotions: Flowing / Fear, Staccato / Anger, Chaos / Sadness, Lyrical / Joy, and Stillness / Compassion.

Joanne teaches 5Rhythms with a deep respect for the transformational nature of this practice, for the insight that these maps can bring to our daily lives, and for the unique discovery process of each participant. Her teaching is rooted in a lifelong engagement with her own study and personal work. Since 2001, she has held a steady space for the growth and evolution of a robust dance community in Victoria BC, has supported students and colleagues with their own teaching path, and has shared her love of this practice with communities in Canada, the US, and Europe.

"Joanne is a wise witness, a weaver of magic between the worlds, and a true artist of the deep." ~ Layah Singer-Wilson, 5Rhythms Teacher

Pre-requisite: 15 hours of 5Rhythms “Waves” instruction.

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Hosted by Spazio Interiore. 

REFUNDS and CANCELLATIONS:

A full refund, less $50, will be issued for cancellations before October 1, 2023.

A full refund, less $100, will be issued for cancellations before October 22, 2023.

No refunds after October 22, 2023.

(For cancellations due to testing positive or for a known exposure to COVID, we will offer you a refund less a $100 admin fee. If you test positive for COVID during the workshop, any refunds will be on a case by case basis.)

COVID POLICIES:

We expect any dancers experiencing cold/flu symptoms to stay home to care for themselves, and the rest of the group. We will review our COVID risk mitigation policies one month prior to the workshop. At this point, we expect all participants to rapid test prior to arriving for the workshop.