with Lucia Horan ~ September 11 to 13, 2026 in Vicoria, BC

Save the date – Registration will open in Spring 2026.

an advanced-level 5Rhythms® workshop with Joanne Winstanley ~ Monday September 28 to Saturday October 3, 2026 in Toronto, Ontario.

Registration will open in January 2026.

January 9 to 11, 2026 in Victoria, BC

a New Year's 5Rhythms workshop with Joanne Winstanley

art process guided by Cathy Key

We will cast our lines of vision into the coming year. We will turn our inner eye towards the landscape of the heart. Moving with what’s present, through the mystery, wisdom, and discipline of our movement practice, we will cultivate space for whatever may be ready to untangle to move, in its own time, towards a resolution. Together we’ll affirm our resolve to show up with all of our senses, again and again, as the person our life is asking us to be.

We invite you to join us for this weekend of visioning, movement, kind witnessing, and creative imagination ~ stepping into the new year with clarity, curiosity, and a listening heart.

DATES: January 9 to 11, 2026 in Victoria, BC

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

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

TUITION: 

• before December 21 ~ $285 ($310 contributes to a reduced-rate spot*)
• after December 21 ~ $315 ($345  contributes to a reduced-rate spot*)

*All scholarship donations are applied toward another dancer's reduced-rate spot. If you are called to participate and these prices are a barrier for you, please email joanne@danceherenow.ca for a possible partial scholarship or work trade.

TO REGISTER: Purchase your ticket online or send an e-transfer to joanne@danceherenow.ca.

For any other arrangements or enquiries, please be in touch.

As well, please ensure we have your best email address so you receive information related to the workshop.

COMMUNITY CARE: Any dancers experiencing cold/flu symptoms are expected to stay home to care for themselves and for the rest of the group. We will ask all participants to complete a rapid test prior to attending.

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

REFUNDS and CANCELLATIONS: a full refund, less $100, will be issued for cancellations before January 2, 2026.  

(Cancellations due to illness or for a known exposure to Covid will receive a refund less a $100 admin fee. Any other cancellations/refunds will be considered on a case by case basis.)

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 developing their own teaching path, and has shared her love of this practice with communities, across Canada and overseas.

about Joanne: www.danceherenow.ca

about Cathy: cathykey.com

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

For students who are tracking their hours toward the 5Rhythms teacher training, this workshop counts as 1 day of Waves and 1.5 days of Heartbeat.

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.

On Sunday November 2, 2025, Joanne will lead two events in Montreal: Amy Dhindsa's Sunday morning 5Rhythms class and, on Sunday evening, a movement and writing workshop with a dear colleague and friend.

Class Description: 

In this potent time – known by names such as All Souls Day, Samhain, and the Day of the Dead – we’ll engage our 5Rhythms® practice to create our own movement ritual in honour of our lineages, our ancestors, our allies, our beloved dead, and our webs of support. Giving thanks for the gift of our lives, we will honour those who have brought us to life, and who have made our living possible.

You are invited to bring an object or a photo to place on a collective altar, to represent any of these aspects you might like to include in your practice, or dedicate your dance to.

To register for Sunday morning (10:30 to 12:30, in Studio A): contact Amy or buy your tickets here.

Location: Circuit Est, 1881 St Andre St, Montreal

To register for Sunday evening (6:30 to 9:30pm, in Studio C): please save the date and time for now ~ details for the evening event are coming soon. If you'd like to receive a notification when registration opens, please email Joanne (at) danceherenow (dot) ca to request this.

Hailing from Victoria, British Columbia, Joanne is accredited in the Waves, Heartbeat, and Mirrors maps (each ‘map’ being an interrelated level of the 5Rhythms movement practice and cosmology).  This is an excellent opportunity for Montreal dancers to taste Joanne’s profound and gentle medicine in advance of her Mirrors 2026 workshop in Toronto (September 28 to October 03, 2026) and her 2027 weekend workshop in Montreal (October 29 to 31, 2027). We warmly invite you to join us.

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

** This retreat is fully booked. Contact me if you'd like to join the waitlist.**

"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.

This one-day workshop is an inquiry into the 5Rhythms as a practice.

Friday August 22 (open evening) and Saturday August 23 in Victoria, BC, with Jeffrey Boynton (USA)

The surest way to understand the 5Rhythms' powerful potential is to move our bodies with intention, however we are able, through Wave after Wave after Wave. Our dance becomes practice – and we become​ more proficient​, as practitioners – as we show up, over time, in almost any inner state and external circumstance, dancing with others and alone; with little energy or range and with a lot; with different life moments, questions, and emotions; for seconds, minutes, hours, or for days.

In this practice, the specific nature of each Rhythm invites us to know ourselves in distinct ways and capacities, and to deepen into this way of knowing, of being in contact, over time. We practice shifting from Rhythm to Rhythm and Wave to Wave, cultivating our ability to live fluidly, and to respond to change. We practice giving ourselves permission to be every part of who we are, while noticing and being with what is – however it happens to be.

Through practice, and by sincerely giving our time and attention, we follow the road to building innate skill and developing the sense of embodied safety that personal experience and proficiency can bring. Then, we can effortlessly improvise within our own earned understanding of what is possible. With practice, we can relate with more ground and more presence to what is moving, to what is needed, and to who and what is alive around and between us. As we touch this place of knowing, nurturing, and unleashing our full selves, we encourage others in our world to do the same.

Hours: Friday August 22nd 6:30 to 9:00

Saturday August 23rd 11:00 to 5:00

Location: Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street (James Bay), Victoria BC

Friday + Saturday (when you sign up together for both) -- $155 Regular/ $185 Supporter/ $145 Supported

Friday only -- $40 Regular/ $50 Supporter/ $35 Supported (capped at 35 participants) ~ 13 places remaining

Saturday only -- $125 Regular/ $145 Supporter / $115 Supported (capped at 25 participants) ~ 5 places remaining

If you are called to attend, and the price a barrier for you, please be in touch. A limited number of reduced-cost spaces is available.

To register: purchase your ticket online, or email Joanne (at danceherenow dot ca) to enquire about availability, or to make other arrangements for payment.

** Participants will be provided access to several of Jeffrey's waves for home practice via Mixcloud to support their personal practice and inquiry before and integration after the workshop. **

About Jeffrey:

Birthed to the wilderness and completely at home being lost, Jeffrey is rooted in a history of modern dance, dance theater and contact improvisation and discovered the practice of 5Rhythms® during a chaotic transition to New York City in 2001. He was certified as a 5Rhythms teacher in 2014 and is a member of the 5Rhythms Teachers Association (5RTA). He holds a generous grounded space of gentle masculine presence for each of us to find our feet on the path of alignment between what we think, what we feel, and what we do. He knows this awareness grows from seeds planted in our embodied journey and takes shape when we give ourselves full loving attention to the Truth of how energy moves in our body, moment by moment. The gift of this awareness is increased personal and communal resilience, a vital resource in this age of Chaos. Each room he is fortunate enough to guide is offered respect, kindness, and a commitment to what is happening now.

Refunds, cancellations, and collective care: if you are unwell with a communicable illness, please do not attend. A full refund minus a $30 admin fee will be issued for cancellations due to illness. Any other cancellations before August 15th will receive a 50% refund. As space is limited in this workshop, any cancellations after August 15th will receive a 50% refund only if another participant takes your place.

All prices in Canadian dollars.

May 16 to 18, 2025

YOU • ME • US 
5Rhythms Movement Workshop

with Bettina Rothe, Joanne Winstanley, Anne Marie Hogya, Chantell Foss, and Shauna Devlin

This is a unique opportunity to encounter 5 different expressions of this cathartic and healing movement practice. Coming from decades of dancing together and tending dance communities side by side, these friends and colleagues will weave a weekend of movement informed by their long love and learning of 5Rhythms. They intend to offer you a communal container of strength, variety, and openness.

DATES:
​May 16-18th, 2025

TIMES:
• Friday 6:00-9:00pm
• Saturday 11:30-8:00
*Catered Dinner
• Sunday 10:00-4:00pm

LOCATION:
Beaver Point Hall, Salt Spring Island BC Canada
About 25 minutes from Ganges and 15 from Fulford Harbour

COST:
TIER 1 (low income) $365 (15 places)
TIER 2 $375 (10 places)
FULL PRICE $395

Click here or contact Shauna to register.

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.