Conscious Dance Workshops
Dancing Freedom - Conscious Dance
Dancing Freedom is a conscious dance practice to support living in oneness with ourselves, each other, the earth and the cosmos. A free-form somatic practice that blends the medicine of dance with the medicine of ceremony and co-creation. Dancing freedom takes you on a guided dance journey through an elemental wave of Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Ether - deepening your connection to life.
There is only one rule in Dancing Freedom - you can't do it wrong!
In the dance, you are invited to explore an authentic way of moving - a creative expression of your unique being. In this process of free movement with the structure of a wave pattern, it is possible to become a free flow of energy, moving into oneness, beyond the mind, personality and ego, to drop deeply into presence.
Conscious dance provides an opportunity to release physical tension and pain, to free energy in the body, to express emotions and sounds, to connect with others, to play and to remember that you LOVE to dance!
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Full Moon Dances
​Saturday 15th February
Saturday 15th March
Saturday 12th April
Saturday 10th May
Friday 13th June
Friday 11th July
Saturday 9th August
Saturday 6th September
Saturday 4th October
Friday 7th November
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7pm-9pm
Indoor Venue Mittagong
Outdoor Venue Exeter or Berrima
Cost: $30 Humanitix bookings
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Embodied Dance Journey
5 Week Women's Workshop
Consecutive Tuesdays
18th Feb - 18th March
6.30pm-8.30pm
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The Lodge in Mittagong
Cost: $185 Pre-booking essential
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Sara-Jane Cleland -
Dancing Freedom Facilitator
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In 2016, Sara-Jane discovered 5 rhythms dance on retreat with Gina Chick which inspired a journey to the Byron Bay hinterland for intensive training in Dancing Freedom in 2018. Since 2019, she has offered monthly Dancing Freedom full moon events and in 2020 she created the Women's Embodied Dance Journey which she runs each school term.
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Sara-Jane has been a regular educator at Wise Women's Gathering since the inaugural gathering in 2016 and co-facilitated annual Nurture & Nourish Women's Retreats from 2017 until 2022. She also co-facilitates Mother & Daughter retreats in the Kangaroo Valley.
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Sara-Jane regularly supports Caitlin Wood (Dancing Freedom & Open Floor) and Michelle Mahrer (5 Rhythms) on conscious dance retreats, space-holding, offering yoga and creating sacred altars. She is often a guest teacher for conscious dance classes in Sydney and collaborates with Libby Lee, Rebecca Riddington and Diana Belot to offer regular Heart Medicine events - Cacao ceremony, Dancing Freedom and Somatic Breathwork in Manly, Sydney.
The passion that inspires her work is connection. Connection to the healing power of nature through food as medicine, herbal medicine and grounding practices. Connection to the innate healing power of the body through Bodywork and Conscious Dance. Connection to community coming together for dance retreats, full moon events and women's work. And most importantly, providing an opportunity for connection to oneself through self-love and creative expression.
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