a transformational committed Open Floor series
Facilitated by Henry Fowkes 

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.” Alan Watts

Traditionally a rite of passage is a community-led ritual marking an important threshold in a person’s life (i.e. birth, adulthood, eldership, death). In our modern western culture, many of us feel starved of community spaces to mark life’s significant moments and grapple with our place in the world. This loss has been exacerbated by our ever-busy, fast-paced lives.

This series is a modern-day movement-based rite of passage journey: a five-week transformative committed series supporting your becoming.

Perhaps you have a specific threshold you are crossing in your life that you want support to move through? Maybe your questions are of purpose and meaning? Perhaps you feel the loss of ritual and community? Maybe your soul is longing to be more creatively free? Or do you feel a hunger to be more intimately connected to your ever changing somatic experience?

In this movement-based series we use dance, artistic & reflective practices, and rituals to move with our inner terrain together. We use Open Floor - a free-form therapeutic movement practice - to become more aware, flexible and resilient. Our moving bodies are our main resource in this series, as we cultivate our ability to be with change from within.

Each week will include specific practical teachings to support you to deepen and move through a change process in a creative and embodied way. This series is tailored toward anyone feeling the call to dive into movement, ritual, and personal and group transformation in a supportive closed group container.

If you feel uncertain about your mental resilience or capacity to participate in this series, please contact Henry to discuss if it is appropriate for your needs.

The series has five weekly sessions on Monday evenings, a day-long workshop and an optional sweat lodge ritual facilitated by SOTEMS. An alternative ritual will be offered to those who don't wish to attend the sweat lodge ritual.