In the midsummer of 2006 the tribal dance network family are invited to pack their camping gear and join together at the first summer version of our annual winter Intention Retreat. Situated at our time honored Crystal Creek location on the Sunshine Coast BC, we join with the intentions set upon it, of crystallizing conscious community in balance with nature.
As with all Intention Retreats, it is less spectacle oriented and more participant driven, with people encouraged to share their talents, gifts,resources,ideas and skills towards co-creating the micro version of the world we wish to inhabit on an eventual larger scale. At the same time we are each witness and encouragers to each others growth and our collective movement towards evolution in a spirit that contains child to elder.
To increase the participatory levels and give time for the needed collaborations and projects that will be created to be ready for the camp we will be hosting a small number of local orientations in the community fold. At these working pods will be formed.Other visiting dance tribes are encouraged to host their own in preparation and will be given support to do so.
To give a loose idea of how things will flow and how you can insert your flavor into things, the weekend may contain:
Friday-Arrival/Final Set Up/Opening Ceremony/Caberet/Live Music
Saturday-Community Kitchen & Sharing Mealtime/Plenary/Workshops/Community Kitchen & Sharing Mealtime/Celebration on 2 stages (uptempo/downtempo)
Sunday-Community Kitchen & Sharing Mealtimes/Chill Temple (daytime)/Closing Council
Monday-Community Kitchen & Sharing Mealtime/Perimeter Sweep to Leave No Trace
We're keeping the price down as much as possible at $60. Registration up and running online at www.tribalharmonix.org/events/summercamp.
May this serve as a midsummer check-in for us all to take the peak energies of summer with us towards living our highest potentials in celebration with new and old friends. May this serve to link generations. May this be practice for what it takes to live sustainably with each other and the Earth. May this be the reward of having found each other.
For more info contact Sobey here on tribe or stay tuned for more announcements and also go to www.tribalharmonix.org/events/summercamp
For the flavor of last winters Intention 7 Retreat go to
www.intention7.com
Upcoming orientations: (all are encouraged to attend to maximize the potential of the event)
Vancouver- Sunday June 4 1378 E.10th/Clark 2-5pm
Sunshine Coast June 22 @ Chloe & Jessica's (contact Sobey for details)
Vancouver Tuesday July 4 (contact Sobey for location)
SATURDAY NIGHT DJ SCHEDULE
exact order/timetable is still being confirmed and should be up here within a
day or two.
here are the names of those who are playing (subject to change):
TRANCE/TECHNO STAGE (also including a bit of house and electro):
Akhentek
DJ BAD
Jay Michael
Khan
Luna
Mazeguider
Nokturnal
onedrop
Sealegs
BREAKS/DOWNTEMPO STAGE
Alec 'Riddim' Fernandes
Blake Wrinkles
GI Jody
J.Coda
Joshua James
Solus
Timothy Wisdom
Yeti
Sunday Chill Music Line-Up
8:45-10:15am "Kalpataru Tree"Live PA(Ashland OR)
10:15-11:45am Phowa Live PA
11:45-1:15pm Chill (Green Grooves)
1:15-2:45pm Mohan Live PA (Bay Area,CA)
2:45-4:15pm Yeti (Arca Tribe,Edmonton)
WORKSHOPS:
THE SOMATIC WAVE
(as experienced thru Yoga)
1.5 hours with Dhyana (no limit)
A revolutionary way of initiating movement with energy instead of
muscle!
This leading-edge style of Yoga combines aspects of Chi Kung,
Cranialsacral work and Continuum to lift you into yoga poses from the
inside out. Your body becomes self-supporting through "tensegrity" (a
Buckminster Fuller principle). Learn to surf gravity's antiforce,
steering its rebounding wave with the inner core diaphragms and
riding it into any and all movement.
As somatic awareness is stimulated, new integrated movement /energy
patterns are adopted that allow you to melt through limitations, heal
from injury and experience mastery in asanas.
TANTRIC CHI MOVEMENT with Ashanti Shakti
Through tantric breathing and chi energy movement techniques we will learn how to open and attune our energetic vibrational frequencies to the world around us, relaxing into peace and harmony with our surroundings, calming our being into an open, non-reactive state, fully opening to the ecstatic beauty of every moment.
Ashanti Shakti from Portland, OR has been intensively practicing Tantric and Chi energy movement for the past year. Based on her 10 years of experience practicing meditation, buddhism, yoga and tantra she has intuitively found that combining certain eastern energy movement techniques enhances their realms of effectiveness
PERMACULTURE with Peter Light
Permaculture is about permanent agriculture; permanent
culture; intentional community
"self"-sufficiency/"self"- reliance; providing for all
of human need in as small a space as possible: and
dropping out. It about making a radical break with
the dominant paradigm. It's not a hobby. It's a
lifesaver.
It's also about work and commitment.
What are the prerequisites to permaculture? How do we
get started? What needs to be in place to propel the
plunge? What is necessary to sustain that break with
the mass culture for years?
The presenter of this workshop has thought about these
issues since his first drop-out in 1962. He will lead
a discussion based on what motivated him and what has
kept him living simply and alternately for over four
decade.
TRANCE FORMATION:
The Spiritual Dimensions of Global Rave Culture
Over the course of nearly two decades, the rave scene has evolved into much more than simply an electronic dance music party. For thousands of people around the world, it has become an important source of spirituality and the closest thing they have to a religion. In this workshop, Robin Sylvan will share material from his recent book, Trance Formation: The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture, an ethnographically rich look into the spiritual dimensions of rave culture from a theoretically informed religious studies perspective. Combining firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis, Robin will take us on a colorful journey from San Francisco to London, from Burning Man to the Love Parade, and illuminate the deeper aspects of rave spirituality. We will also explore next steps and future directions in the evolution of the spiritual/intentional wing of the rave scene.
TRANCE FORMATION:
An Experimental Electronic Dance Music Ceremony
While many raves use ceremonies to create sacred space, unfortunately, all too often, the intense trance energies generated on the dance floor dissipate as we shift into a passive verbal mode. But traditional ceremonies like the West African possession dance or the Sufi Sema of the whirling dervishes demonstrate that trance dancing can be utilized in a ceremonial form that channels these energies toward sacred ends. This workshop with Robin Sylvan is an experiment in creating this kind of ceremonial form with electronic dance music. Using sacred intentionality, ritual practices, and specific movements, gestures, and formations, we will focus and direct the powerful energy of the trance dance experience in a ceremonial context in a specially designed hour-long sequence of music. We will trace the arc of a ceremony – creating a sacred container, generating energy, and dedicating that energy – through trance dancing to electronic dance music, so that the ceremony, like the rave experience itself, is danced/embodied/enacted rather than spoken.
Robin Sylvan, Ph.D., is the founder and director of The Sacred Center, a spiritually-oriented educational organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has taught in both mainstream academic and alternative experiential contexts. He is the author of Trance Formation and Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music, and has been a music aficionado and spiritual seeker for most of his life. He is now working on a major study examining the brain science of musically-induced spiritual and religious experiences.
FREE SPIRIT CHAKRA BELLYDANCING!
CELEBRATE YOUR BEAUTY! with Taiya
"While learning an empowering ancient are form open up
and free your spirit."
" This dance form is gentle and fun. It is safe and
suitable for all ages, shapes and sizes."
FREE SPIRIT Bellydancing combines the mystique of
the Middle Eastern dance form with a variety of
creative movement techniques.
Learn about the properties of you 7 chakras and the
role they play in a healthy body, mind and soul.
Exercises in breathing and muscle work help you wake
up sences, release stress and build a healthy immune
system.
This dance form is a celebration of life and the
intricate connection between body, mind and spirit.
Commune with the energy of your chakras through a
unique movement experience, renewing a sense of
personal freedom.
"Feel the healing power of movement."
More info on the workshop is on my web page
www.taiya.ca
taiyawindblossom@yahoo.com
The Breathing Drum with Neith
I can bring 10 drums. Anyone else with a drum can join in
Open space is fine
Need benches to sit on (NOT chairs with armrests)
Drumming taps into layers of the mind and body that other modalities cannot. Repetive
drumming changes brain wave activity inducing a state of calm and focused awareness.This playshop accesses and transfers our natural inner rhythms to the drum using rhythmic awareness expansion exercises to encourage both the individual and collective voice. We will also learn and practice some tradition African/Cuban rhythms.
skill level: beginner to intermediate drummers
length: 1 - 1/2 hours
Permaculture Within
Participants need pen and paper.
Access your own inner landscape of needs and surpluses and learn how to
flow with them with eloquence and grace.
SEXLOVEINTELLIGENCE LAB with Tamitha & Sobey
This workshop invites us to explore our
individual and collective struggles to
define and embody a model of healthy sexuality.
Through the use of image theatre, visualization,
discussion and ritual, we will examine our wisdom,
hopes, challenges and fears about the role of
sexuality in our lives and in our community. We will
work together to create an image of sexual health and
wholeness and bring our focus into shaping an
energetic container to hold the intention generated
through this process and serve as a resource for the
community to draw on throughout the gathering and
beyond.
CONTACT IMPROVISATION with Rayann
time: 1-2 hours (whatever you prefer for workshop slots i am flexible. 1.5 would be good)
I have been studying contact dance in Argentina for the last four months and have a lot of new ideas to share.
My workshop will focus on body awareness, experimenting with different roles and images in contact, and may end with a practice called contemplative dance (meditation time, then personal dance time, then contact time).
TRANSFORMATIONAL DANCE JOURNEY w/Luna Ravenchild, Solus and Jay Michael
To introduce the tools of the trance dance ceremony
- journeying into the imaginal realms in order to recieve wisdom,
guidance and healing for self and for tribe.
Max no. of Participants: 50
SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY with Little Woo
Little Woo is a performance artist and spiritual counselor in Vancouver, BC who offers Spiritual Alchemy - a program of courses that empower and inspire, with practical teachings about how to work with energy and how to feel more bliss in your life. www.littlewoo.org
YIN AND YANG WITH BURLESQUE YOGA with Little Woo
Description: Explore the yin and yang energies via movement, dance and some good old burlesque. Feel free to bring some clothing pieces as props.
Bio: Little Woo is a performance artist and spiritual counselor in Vancouver, BC who offers Burlesque Yoga – spiritual principles wrapped in burlesque fun. Website: www.burlesqueyoga.com
COUNCILTECH: facilitated by Sobey
A thinktank and council to bring together vision and applications, to network and connect synergistic potentials for co-designing the future dance culture we wish to inhabit with emphasis on abundance, mobilized resources, and co-creative efforts that enable sustainable and harmonious forms of living. Bring visual aids of your projects and proposals. An opportunity to set collective short term and long term goals and means to work towards them with a sense of the frameworks possible. This will be a continuation of the Emrg+N+See Dialogues held at Emrg+N+See Festival in Oregon this year which are connected to dialogues throughout the summer at Diversity Festival,Shambhala and Burning Man.
Sobey has been immersed in councils in the underground dance community for many years focusing on topics ranging from gender reconciliation to tribal economix locally and at Burning Man.
As with all Intention Retreats, it is less spectacle oriented and more participant driven, with people encouraged to share their talents, gifts,resources,ideas and skills towards co-creating the micro version of the world we wish to inhabit on an eventual larger scale. At the same time we are each witness and encouragers to each others growth and our collective movement towards evolution in a spirit that contains child to elder.
To increase the participatory levels and give time for the needed collaborations and projects that will be created to be ready for the camp we will be hosting a small number of local orientations in the community fold. At these working pods will be formed.Other visiting dance tribes are encouraged to host their own in preparation and will be given support to do so.
To give a loose idea of how things will flow and how you can insert your flavor into things, the weekend may contain:
Friday-Arrival/Final Set Up/Opening Ceremony/Caberet/Live Music
Saturday-Community Kitchen & Sharing Mealtime/Plenary/Workshops/Community Kitchen & Sharing Mealtime/Celebration on 2 stages (uptempo/downtempo)
Sunday-Community Kitchen & Sharing Mealtimes/Chill Temple (daytime)/Closing Council
Monday-Community Kitchen & Sharing Mealtime/Perimeter Sweep to Leave No Trace
We're keeping the price down as much as possible at $60. Registration up and running online at www.tribalharmonix.org/events/summercamp.
May this serve as a midsummer check-in for us all to take the peak energies of summer with us towards living our highest potentials in celebration with new and old friends. May this serve to link generations. May this be practice for what it takes to live sustainably with each other and the Earth. May this be the reward of having found each other.
For more info contact Sobey here on tribe or stay tuned for more announcements and also go to www.tribalharmonix.org/events/summercamp
For the flavor of last winters Intention 7 Retreat go to
www.intention7.com
Upcoming orientations: (all are encouraged to attend to maximize the potential of the event)
Vancouver- Sunday June 4 1378 E.10th/Clark 2-5pm
Sunshine Coast June 22 @ Chloe & Jessica's (contact Sobey for details)
Vancouver Tuesday July 4 (contact Sobey for location)
SATURDAY NIGHT DJ SCHEDULE
exact order/timetable is still being confirmed and should be up here within a
day or two.
here are the names of those who are playing (subject to change):
TRANCE/TECHNO STAGE (also including a bit of house and electro):
Akhentek
DJ BAD
Jay Michael
Khan
Luna
Mazeguider
Nokturnal
onedrop
Sealegs
BREAKS/DOWNTEMPO STAGE
Alec 'Riddim' Fernandes
Blake Wrinkles
GI Jody
J.Coda
Joshua James
Solus
Timothy Wisdom
Yeti
Sunday Chill Music Line-Up
8:45-10:15am "Kalpataru Tree"Live PA(Ashland OR)
10:15-11:45am Phowa Live PA
11:45-1:15pm Chill (Green Grooves)
1:15-2:45pm Mohan Live PA (Bay Area,CA)
2:45-4:15pm Yeti (Arca Tribe,Edmonton)
WORKSHOPS:
THE SOMATIC WAVE
(as experienced thru Yoga)
1.5 hours with Dhyana (no limit)
A revolutionary way of initiating movement with energy instead of
muscle!
This leading-edge style of Yoga combines aspects of Chi Kung,
Cranialsacral work and Continuum to lift you into yoga poses from the
inside out. Your body becomes self-supporting through "tensegrity" (a
Buckminster Fuller principle). Learn to surf gravity's antiforce,
steering its rebounding wave with the inner core diaphragms and
riding it into any and all movement.
As somatic awareness is stimulated, new integrated movement /energy
patterns are adopted that allow you to melt through limitations, heal
from injury and experience mastery in asanas.
TANTRIC CHI MOVEMENT with Ashanti Shakti
Through tantric breathing and chi energy movement techniques we will learn how to open and attune our energetic vibrational frequencies to the world around us, relaxing into peace and harmony with our surroundings, calming our being into an open, non-reactive state, fully opening to the ecstatic beauty of every moment.
Ashanti Shakti from Portland, OR has been intensively practicing Tantric and Chi energy movement for the past year. Based on her 10 years of experience practicing meditation, buddhism, yoga and tantra she has intuitively found that combining certain eastern energy movement techniques enhances their realms of effectiveness
PERMACULTURE with Peter Light
Permaculture is about permanent agriculture; permanent
culture; intentional community
"self"-sufficiency/"self"- reliance; providing for all
of human need in as small a space as possible: and
dropping out. It about making a radical break with
the dominant paradigm. It's not a hobby. It's a
lifesaver.
It's also about work and commitment.
What are the prerequisites to permaculture? How do we
get started? What needs to be in place to propel the
plunge? What is necessary to sustain that break with
the mass culture for years?
The presenter of this workshop has thought about these
issues since his first drop-out in 1962. He will lead
a discussion based on what motivated him and what has
kept him living simply and alternately for over four
decade.
TRANCE FORMATION:
The Spiritual Dimensions of Global Rave Culture
Over the course of nearly two decades, the rave scene has evolved into much more than simply an electronic dance music party. For thousands of people around the world, it has become an important source of spirituality and the closest thing they have to a religion. In this workshop, Robin Sylvan will share material from his recent book, Trance Formation: The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture, an ethnographically rich look into the spiritual dimensions of rave culture from a theoretically informed religious studies perspective. Combining firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis, Robin will take us on a colorful journey from San Francisco to London, from Burning Man to the Love Parade, and illuminate the deeper aspects of rave spirituality. We will also explore next steps and future directions in the evolution of the spiritual/intentional wing of the rave scene.
TRANCE FORMATION:
An Experimental Electronic Dance Music Ceremony
While many raves use ceremonies to create sacred space, unfortunately, all too often, the intense trance energies generated on the dance floor dissipate as we shift into a passive verbal mode. But traditional ceremonies like the West African possession dance or the Sufi Sema of the whirling dervishes demonstrate that trance dancing can be utilized in a ceremonial form that channels these energies toward sacred ends. This workshop with Robin Sylvan is an experiment in creating this kind of ceremonial form with electronic dance music. Using sacred intentionality, ritual practices, and specific movements, gestures, and formations, we will focus and direct the powerful energy of the trance dance experience in a ceremonial context in a specially designed hour-long sequence of music. We will trace the arc of a ceremony – creating a sacred container, generating energy, and dedicating that energy – through trance dancing to electronic dance music, so that the ceremony, like the rave experience itself, is danced/embodied/enacted rather than spoken.
Robin Sylvan, Ph.D., is the founder and director of The Sacred Center, a spiritually-oriented educational organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has taught in both mainstream academic and alternative experiential contexts. He is the author of Trance Formation and Traces of the Spirit: The Religious Dimensions of Popular Music, and has been a music aficionado and spiritual seeker for most of his life. He is now working on a major study examining the brain science of musically-induced spiritual and religious experiences.
FREE SPIRIT CHAKRA BELLYDANCING!
CELEBRATE YOUR BEAUTY! with Taiya
"While learning an empowering ancient are form open up
and free your spirit."
" This dance form is gentle and fun. It is safe and
suitable for all ages, shapes and sizes."
FREE SPIRIT Bellydancing combines the mystique of
the Middle Eastern dance form with a variety of
creative movement techniques.
Learn about the properties of you 7 chakras and the
role they play in a healthy body, mind and soul.
Exercises in breathing and muscle work help you wake
up sences, release stress and build a healthy immune
system.
This dance form is a celebration of life and the
intricate connection between body, mind and spirit.
Commune with the energy of your chakras through a
unique movement experience, renewing a sense of
personal freedom.
"Feel the healing power of movement."
More info on the workshop is on my web page
www.taiya.ca
taiyawindblossom@yahoo.com
The Breathing Drum with Neith
I can bring 10 drums. Anyone else with a drum can join in
Open space is fine
Need benches to sit on (NOT chairs with armrests)
Drumming taps into layers of the mind and body that other modalities cannot. Repetive
drumming changes brain wave activity inducing a state of calm and focused awareness.This playshop accesses and transfers our natural inner rhythms to the drum using rhythmic awareness expansion exercises to encourage both the individual and collective voice. We will also learn and practice some tradition African/Cuban rhythms.
skill level: beginner to intermediate drummers
length: 1 - 1/2 hours
Permaculture Within
Participants need pen and paper.
Access your own inner landscape of needs and surpluses and learn how to
flow with them with eloquence and grace.
SEXLOVEINTELLIGENCE LAB with Tamitha & Sobey
This workshop invites us to explore our
individual and collective struggles to
define and embody a model of healthy sexuality.
Through the use of image theatre, visualization,
discussion and ritual, we will examine our wisdom,
hopes, challenges and fears about the role of
sexuality in our lives and in our community. We will
work together to create an image of sexual health and
wholeness and bring our focus into shaping an
energetic container to hold the intention generated
through this process and serve as a resource for the
community to draw on throughout the gathering and
beyond.
CONTACT IMPROVISATION with Rayann
time: 1-2 hours (whatever you prefer for workshop slots i am flexible. 1.5 would be good)
I have been studying contact dance in Argentina for the last four months and have a lot of new ideas to share.
My workshop will focus on body awareness, experimenting with different roles and images in contact, and may end with a practice called contemplative dance (meditation time, then personal dance time, then contact time).
TRANSFORMATIONAL DANCE JOURNEY w/Luna Ravenchild, Solus and Jay Michael
To introduce the tools of the trance dance ceremony
- journeying into the imaginal realms in order to recieve wisdom,
guidance and healing for self and for tribe.
Max no. of Participants: 50
SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY with Little Woo
Little Woo is a performance artist and spiritual counselor in Vancouver, BC who offers Spiritual Alchemy - a program of courses that empower and inspire, with practical teachings about how to work with energy and how to feel more bliss in your life. www.littlewoo.org
YIN AND YANG WITH BURLESQUE YOGA with Little Woo
Description: Explore the yin and yang energies via movement, dance and some good old burlesque. Feel free to bring some clothing pieces as props.
Bio: Little Woo is a performance artist and spiritual counselor in Vancouver, BC who offers Burlesque Yoga – spiritual principles wrapped in burlesque fun. Website: www.burlesqueyoga.com
COUNCILTECH: facilitated by Sobey
A thinktank and council to bring together vision and applications, to network and connect synergistic potentials for co-designing the future dance culture we wish to inhabit with emphasis on abundance, mobilized resources, and co-creative efforts that enable sustainable and harmonious forms of living. Bring visual aids of your projects and proposals. An opportunity to set collective short term and long term goals and means to work towards them with a sense of the frameworks possible. This will be a continuation of the Emrg+N+See Dialogues held at Emrg+N+See Festival in Oregon this year which are connected to dialogues throughout the summer at Diversity Festival,Shambhala and Burning Man.
Sobey has been immersed in councils in the underground dance community for many years focusing on topics ranging from gender reconciliation to tribal economix locally and at Burning Man.
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