2009-2010

Vision (revised dates): July 25 - August 1, '09*
Embodiment: October 10-22, '09
Mastery: February 12-21, '10

*The next VISION retreat will be in the South West in April of 2010

Friend, Sister, Brother,

COME, JOIN ME IN DANCING FREEDOM.

Embody Oneness within the Dance. Lead and share through the joy of movement, the bliss of stillness, and the grace of authentic presence. The purpose of this training is to empower the unique embodied brilliance and individuated oneness of all those who feel the body, heart and spirit call to evolution through dance. This training activates each participant as a thoughtfully trained, confident and radiant member of the Dancing Freedom family of facilitators who are bringing this work into diverse communities globally as a vehicle for Peace. This is a journey of self transformation - inviting you to embody your choice to live and serve the fullness of humanity and to dance the totality of divinity that is you.

The three modules of the training: Embodiment, Mastery and Vision, are aranged as a mandala. The materials covered in each unit are mutually complemetary, interlocking and co-create a powerfull overlay of total understanding. You may begin the process at any point in the cycle. Then, you continue through that cycle to the end. In other words, once you begin, please plan to complete all three modules plus an apprentice teaching stint to complete your training.

Both Embodiment and Mastery are spaces where you both come to deeply know the work through practice and to learn the essential tools and craft of the teacher. In these two modules you receive understanding and depth in the form and structure of the work, tips on creating your buisiness, visionary leadership strategies, and guidance about how to teach. In contrast, Vision is an experience just for you - between you, Great Spirit and All of Our Relations. The Vision Quest is an opportunity to receive the direct voice of the soul, to see/feel the shape of your place in the great Mystery, and to expand into your loving service to the animate world. Vision is open to anyone called to the Quest - you do not need to be enrolled in the Facilitator Training to attend. This allows for fluidity and expansion of our community

The Basics

Course Format

Embodiment – Freedom with Self, Other, Community and Planet. Knowing the practice from the inside out – for yourself and others! A thirteen day depth dive to embody the work.
Integration and Student Teaching – taking the leap to teach in your home community(ies). This is a practice of self-apprenticeship and learning by doing. Four apprentice classes are required for full certification.
Mastery – Spiritual Attunement and Soul Manifestation. Dancing the anatomy of the Mystery, honing psychic and energetic gifts, and anchoring powerful tools for real-world manifestation. A nine day re-birthing of the light body.
Vision - The Dance of Nature, Soul and Spirit. A New Earth Vision Quest. Over eight days, we combine neo-tribal group practices and the ancient ritual of a four day, three night solo vision fast.

• Embodiment – October 4-15, 2008/October 10-22, 2009. We open to the personal and collective the possibility of being fully embodied and fully free. This module focuses on DOING the practice, on the Elementals, the six patterns of total body connectivity and opening to a multidimensional experience of the universe. We participate in two sessions with the spirit medium Andree Morgana, learning from beings "from the other side of the veil." Embodiment is held in stunning Mount Shasta, California where we receive each other, the dance, and the darshan of the land and mountain herself. Participants are responsible for finding their own lodging.
• Integration and Student Teaching*. Students return home and offer a four week long Fundamentals Series within their community: Self-Love, Inner Connection/Outer Expression, Authentic Expression, & Sacred Community. The process of integrating Embodiment and/or Mastery is carried into living practice and you continue to develop awareness within existing movement practices. *For those who begin the training cycle with Vision, you may wish to wait to teach until after you have completed your next unit.
  Mastery – February 12-21, 2010. This module focuses on creating and holding multidimensional space, seeing and feeling the world as a hologram of consciousness, facilitation tools, and the intelligence of the body systems. We nurture and activate our highest potential individually and collectively, dive deep in to the five fields of consciousness: Instinct, Emotion, Empathy, Intuition and Psychic, and learn the art of sensing and feeling into action. Our 2010 location is yet to be announced.
  Vision - July 25 - August 1, 2009. (A second Vision Quest will be sceduled in April 2010 in the South West.) Listening into the mystery to receive the voice of the soul. We prepare with two days of Dancing Freedom/PeaceBody Soul Ceremony and enter into a four day vision-fast on the mountain. Coming back together, we share and integrate in communion and community to HARVEST the fruits of our time in the wilderness. The August retreat in held in the Shasta/Lassen bio-region. Our April retreat will be in the South West.

Who should attend?

Are you called by love, by the light, by the one and by the DANCE? Are you called to be a sacred steward of Community? Are you called to create, share and empower through joy and authenticity? Are you an innovator of Evolution? Do you find a space of freedom, expression and union in the dance that you know is HOME? Are you a mover, a weaver, a dancer of the heart? If you answer yes to these questions, then this work is for you.

I am calling forward a loving, spiritual attuned, diverse group of individuals, a group called by the truth of Oneness and the beauty of embodiment, to spread the light of wholeness through the path of Dancing Freedom. This work empowers Unity in Diversity, so come with the intentions of being fully yourself and carrying the work forward through your own, unique voice.

Requirements

• A commitment to love, authenticity and embodiment.
• An active enquiry into the Self and the emergence of Oneness.
• At least two years of stable, embodied practice is highly recommended, but not required. This includes any form of technical dance, somatics, ecstatic dance, yoga, martial arts or dance improvisation. If you do not have a movement background, I ask that you begin your journey now –trusting what calls your heart. Dance at least twice a week, even if it is in your bedroom.
• A willingness and passion to co-create with, for and in community.

How to Apply?

Download and fill out an application: MS Word document or a PDF document .
Then REGISTER HERE & MAIL OR EMAIL your completed application to trainings@dancingfreedom.com or Samantha Sweetwater, P.O. Box 56, Patagonia, AZ, 85624. Your space is guaranteed once we have recieved your application and deposit. The deposit for VISION is $200. The deposit for both MASTERY and EMBODIMENT is $350. Deposits are non-negotiable and non-refundable. Full payment is required before the workshop begins. NOTE: course fees do not include food, lodging or transport. Our logistics coordinator will assist you with these details.

Investment in Self (Cost)

Embodiment - Course fee: $1,400. All food, lodging and transport are the responsibility of the participant.

Mastery – Course Fee: $995. All food, lodging and transport are separate. The facilities fee for Double Bear is $35 per night (x7=$210). You will be paired up with a small group to co-create two dinners in teams.

Vision - Course Fee: $450.

Materials Covered

LEARN:
• Somatic, Ecstatic, and Shamanic pathways to embodied Oneness
• How to set up your own Dancing Freedom teaching practice
• How to weave music, meaning and community ritual space
• Empowerment strategies for fearless & compassionate Embodied Leadership in a rapidly changing world
• How to trust yourself and manifest your passion and dreams from Soul
• Evolutionary perspectives on change, challenge and chaos
• A spiritual practice you can work with for the rest of your life
• Essential Light Work Tools for Self Mastery and Service:
    - Grounding, clearing and owning your space, running your energy, connecting to Source
    - Holographic Awareness
           - The Power of Intent: setting a grid, pillars of light and working with the     frequencies of the space
    - Working with Your Guides, Higher Self, the Ascended Masters & Angels and the Flames of Transmutation
    - Immanence and Transcendence in balanced transformation
    - How to create Ceremony & Planetary Prayer
             - Lucid navigation of the five Fields of Consciousness:  Instinct, Emotion,     Empathy, Intuition and Psychic
    - The “lost language of prayer:” Feeling and the Heart of the Universe.
• Understanding Movement: Space, Time, Rhythm, Momentum and Composition
• The layering of Somatic, Elemental and Energetic anatomy
          - The Body Systems & The Six Patterns of Total Body Connectivity
          - Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Ether
          - The layers of the energy Bodies
• The Inner-Dance:  Partner processes of creator and witness
• Harvesting:  receiving direct guidance through the voice of Body, Heart and Spirit
• Foundational Curriculum, class planning and creating from your own guidance
• Being a DJ, creating play lists, and the DF perspective on music as magic
• Impeccability, Response-ability, Integrity, Authenticity and Unconditional Love

The Grace of the Dance

In this small life, I have danced. In this immense life, I have danced. And, the dance has taken me home to the divine and to my own human heart. The dance has shown me who I am, how I feel, how I express, how I enter relationship with God, with otherpeople and with my self. It has been a mirror, a guide, a teacher, a friend, a master and a lover. It has been alternately a sanctuary and an addiction, a discipline and a release, space to feel my separation and a blissful return. It has been and is all the colors of my life. Now, it is a canvas through on which I paint the picture or Oneness, and the multi-faceted joy of authentic unity in diversity.

The dance has shown me that change is the only constant in created reality. I choose the way I feel and interpret my own experience. I am the creator. WE are creators. We are story makers. I know every floor is church, every space is the temple - the home for the god who has no religion. I recognize my fellow dancers as my spiritual companions, my sangha. I recognize ALL people as my spiritual companions on this Star-ship Earth, as I dance the dance of self-love, compassion and communion. I have known other practices, other temples, other prayers. But the dance is the one that always, always shows me the truth and returns me to love.

Facilitators:

SAMANTHA SWEETWATER is a Peace Emissary and founder of Dancing Freedom and the PeaceBody School of Embodied Awakening, synergizing conscious dance, yoga, light work, soul empowerment and sustainable lifestyle in an integral offering for individual, collective and planetary evolution. She travels internationally, connecting with every day people at the source of our oneness – the embodied experience of connection – with each other, our bodies, our hearts, our laughter, our tears, the Earth and with ALL that IS. She has been devoted to dance as a sacred vehicle of expression, integration and healing since the age of 13, and holds a self-created degree in Social Theory and The Dance, is a certified yoga instructor, somatics practitioner, massage therapist, Dream Coach and Reiki Master. She has been developing and sharing the processes of Dancing Freedom for over 15 years and has presented in such venues as Esalen, Kalani Retreat Center, Harbin Hot Springs, Bioneers and Grace Cathedral. In the last three years, she has spent much time in Japan where she launched the PeaceBody School, Japan. She now lives in Patagonia, Arizona and teaches regularly at the Tree of Life. She is also immersed in study for a combined Masters/Doctor of Ministry Degree with Wisdom University.

Since 1995, she has worked with thousands of people around the globe, co-creating a culture of Oneness in the spaces of movement and stillness, building and regenerating community through daily acts and divine intent. A Oneness Emissary and Educator, Movement Arts Activator, healer, priestess, soul coach, and ceremonial leader, she leads and loves through authenticity, divine play, and sacred presence.

OMAKAYUEL teaches, heals and activates through the knowing that We are all ONE in Love, Light and Divine Truth. He brings wisdom, insight and compassion to revealing of the Truth. He is a gifted multi-dimensional healer who has spent the last seven years traveling internationally as a principal teacher and practitioner for the Dolphin Star Temple Mystery School. His tools include the ancient and contemporary wisdom and teachings of the Pleiadian, Sirian and Andromedan Emissaries and Archangels of Light, the gentle love of Reiki, Massage, The Reconnection & Reconnective Healing, Meditation, Sound, Movement and an incredible passion for Oneness. In all that he does, he marries his knowing of the divine with a deep understanding of the human experience: relationally, vibrationally and energetically, gained through 20 years as a touring musical theater professional, and living the various facets of live theater.

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