Retreats & Workshops
(Classes/retreats/workshops offered by Adina that are
taking place outside of the Iowa City/Coralville area.)
I have canceled my workshops and will reschedule them
once we find out how the Coronavirus plays out in our community
and when its safe to meet in groups again.
Workshops in
Des Moines
Sacred Dance Class:
Our Sacred Bodies Free Form
Dance & Movement
at Inner Space
Des Moines, IA
Friday
Feb. 28, 2020
6pm-8pm
Our bodies can become a resource to help us alter our own realities. When we hold our bodies as sacred, and work on connecting with them during intentional movement, we can begin a personal reawakening. Do you want to feel free and connected in your body? Learn the foundations of Free Form Dance and Movement, in a judgement-free space, with lots of room to explore. Learn to love and listen to your body, not from your head but from your body itself. Let the music guide your movements and connect with your inner rhythm. No dance experience necessary, all body types welcome.
Cost: $39
Register directly with Inner Space:
https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/innerspace?k_class=185774&k_class_tab=15461
Prior to this Sacred Dance Event at Inner Space on Feb. 28th,
Adina will offering
30 mins. Mini-Shamanic Healing Sessions
at Inner Space from
12:45pm-3:45pm,
Adina typically meets with clients in her healing cabin in Iowa City for 3 hour sessions, she will be offering 30 mins. Mini-Sessions at Inner Space to give clients a taste of what it feels like to connect with the vibrancy of their energetic body and release or transmute any heavy energy (hucha) that is ready to shift during the session.
She will be meeting clients between 12:45pm-3:45pm at Inner Space, pre-registration recommended to secure a spot, only 6 spots available. Walk-ins welcome if there are still appointments available. To schedule a mini-session contact Adina directly at adinajoylevitt@gmail.com or 319-541-7332. The cost is $40.
She will be meeting clients between 12:45pm-3:45pm at Inner Space, pre-registration recommended to secure a spot, only 6 spots available. Walk-ins welcome if there are still appointments available. To schedule a mini-session contact Adina directly at adinajoylevitt@gmail.com or 319-541-7332. The cost is $40.
Sacred Dance:
Timelessness and Mindfulness
through Free Form Dance & Movement
at Inner Space
Des Moines, IA
Saturday
March 28, 2020
3pm-5pm
Moment by moment, in a beautiful active mindful practice, participants will explore their bodies from the inside out. Connecting to both the physical & energetic bodies through Free Form Dance and Movement, Adina will lead participants through a guided dance experience outside of Time and Space. Our bodies can become a resource to help us alter our own realities. Do you often want to leave your body? Come find a way to appreciate the sacredness of your body, while simultaneously connecting to the expansion of the universe. No dance experience necessary, all body types welcome.
Cost: $39
Register directly with Inner Space:
https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/innerspace?k_class=187731&k_class_tab=15461
Our Sacred Bodies Free Form Dance & Movement
Intensive
(Full day)
at Inner Space
Des Moines, IA
Saturday
April 18, 2020
10am-5pm
Adina will lead participants through a guided dance experience with an intentional structure and at the same time leave space for freedom and individual expression and exploration. The day will begin with an Introduction to Free Form Dance & Movement making this class accessible to anyone who is interested. Eyes are often half closed to remain with an inward focus, listening deeply to what the body wants to share with us.
Are you curious what your body wants to share with you? You can learn to love and listen to your body, not from your head but from your body itself. Participants will learn to communicate with conscious intention to a specific body part or system of the body. Adina will lead dancers on a shamanic journey to the body, guiding them to track their personal intention or question about their body or health (through dance). Dancers will find their own answers, or clues, in Non-Ordinary Reality while Adina drums (on her sacred handmade deerskin drum) to shift their minds out of Consensual Reality.
Do you feel that part of your Personal Power needs to be retrieved? Dancers will set an intention to stalk their own power and call it home into their bodies. Our bodies can become a resource to help us alter our own realities. When we hold our bodies as sacred, and work on connecting with them during intentional movement, we can begin a personal reawakening.
The day will end with a celebration of personal Transmutation in a group dance. Participants will come together throughout the sessions as a group to reflect on their powerful journey.
Adina invites you to join a community of others who are curious and ready to explore using Movement as Medicine and surrendering into the Mystery of the moment.
Note: Not to worry, participants will not be dancing for 6 hours. This dance experience is like a ceremonial experience, with dance as the focus but there are other sacred components woven together throughout the day to keep dancers connected individually internally and collectively as a group. In addition to dancing, Adina will share some of her own personal spiritual journey with participants through stories, participants will have time to set intentions, reflect on their experiences, learn some earth centered medicine songs, do some grounding, and break into groups to celebrate their experiences. This class includes a catered lunch. Feel free to contact Adina with any questions regardng participation in the class adinajoylevitt@gmail.com
Those who may need a chair are welcome to attend and any other kind of physical accommodation can be made.
Are you curious what your body wants to share with you? You can learn to love and listen to your body, not from your head but from your body itself. Participants will learn to communicate with conscious intention to a specific body part or system of the body. Adina will lead dancers on a shamanic journey to the body, guiding them to track their personal intention or question about their body or health (through dance). Dancers will find their own answers, or clues, in Non-Ordinary Reality while Adina drums (on her sacred handmade deerskin drum) to shift their minds out of Consensual Reality.
Do you feel that part of your Personal Power needs to be retrieved? Dancers will set an intention to stalk their own power and call it home into their bodies. Our bodies can become a resource to help us alter our own realities. When we hold our bodies as sacred, and work on connecting with them during intentional movement, we can begin a personal reawakening.
The day will end with a celebration of personal Transmutation in a group dance. Participants will come together throughout the sessions as a group to reflect on their powerful journey.
Adina invites you to join a community of others who are curious and ready to explore using Movement as Medicine and surrendering into the Mystery of the moment.
Note: Not to worry, participants will not be dancing for 6 hours. This dance experience is like a ceremonial experience, with dance as the focus but there are other sacred components woven together throughout the day to keep dancers connected individually internally and collectively as a group. In addition to dancing, Adina will share some of her own personal spiritual journey with participants through stories, participants will have time to set intentions, reflect on their experiences, learn some earth centered medicine songs, do some grounding, and break into groups to celebrate their experiences. This class includes a catered lunch. Feel free to contact Adina with any questions regardng participation in the class adinajoylevitt@gmail.com
Those who may need a chair are welcome to attend and any other kind of physical accommodation can be made.
Catered lunch included
Cost: Early bird $139 (by March 31st)
$159 (after March 31st)
Register directly with Inner Space:
https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/innerspace?k_class=187733&k_class_tab=15274
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Our bodies can become a resource to help us alter our own realities. When we hold our bodies as sacred, and work on connecting with them during intentional movement, we can begin a personal reawakening. Do you want to feel free and connected in your body? Learn the foundations of Free Form Dance and Movement, in a judgement-free space, with lots of room to explore. Learn to love and listen to your body, not from your head but from your body itself. In a darkened room, by the light of candles around the altar, let the music guide your movements and connect you with your inner rhythm. No dance experience necessary, all body types welcome.
***If you sign up for this class you will receive 10% off a dinner at Revive Cafe the night of the event in case you want to have a delicious and fresh dinner before class at the same location of the dance class. |
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Take your mom out to brunch with the whole family and then come share an afternoon together at Prairiewoods! This will be a fun afternoon of exploration and sacredness for mothers and their adult daughters to engage with each other in an intentional, meaningful and creative way. This afternoon will be facilitated by Adina Joy Levitt, a 46-year-old daughter, and Helene Hirmes, her 81-year-old mom.
Each hour we will have a different focus: Art (Zentagle), Honoring our Ancestors, Dance/Movement and Gratitude.
Zentangles are a meditative drawing of repeated patterns that anyone can do. Through this expression of beauty we can learn to appreciate our creative side, one stroke at a time. We will create unique abstract images on small cards that can be completed in a short time, resulting in a wonderful surprise. We will then get a short taste of Tai Chi, a slow meditative movement practice, accessible to all ages and body types, to get our blood flowing and stretch our muscles after sitting.
Next we will share stories of the women in our ancestry, honoring the gifts they have passed on to us: their strengths, personality traits, talents and hobbies. We are invited to bring objects that our relatives used to help us create an Ancestor Altar. Then we will celebrate together through free-form dance and movement, honoring and reconnecting with our own bodies, as Adina guides us to awaken to the rhythms as an individual and as a collective in the group.
We will end our day with each mother/daughter pair allowing us to witness their own gratitude for one another, while receiving inspiration for the multitude of ways that we can be in loving relationships with each other.
No art or dance experience is necessary. This retreat is for adult children only.
Each hour we will have a different focus: Art (Zentagle), Honoring our Ancestors, Dance/Movement and Gratitude.
Zentangles are a meditative drawing of repeated patterns that anyone can do. Through this expression of beauty we can learn to appreciate our creative side, one stroke at a time. We will create unique abstract images on small cards that can be completed in a short time, resulting in a wonderful surprise. We will then get a short taste of Tai Chi, a slow meditative movement practice, accessible to all ages and body types, to get our blood flowing and stretch our muscles after sitting.
Next we will share stories of the women in our ancestry, honoring the gifts they have passed on to us: their strengths, personality traits, talents and hobbies. We are invited to bring objects that our relatives used to help us create an Ancestor Altar. Then we will celebrate together through free-form dance and movement, honoring and reconnecting with our own bodies, as Adina guides us to awaken to the rhythms as an individual and as a collective in the group.
We will end our day with each mother/daughter pair allowing us to witness their own gratitude for one another, while receiving inspiration for the multitude of ways that we can be in loving relationships with each other.
No art or dance experience is necessary. This retreat is for adult children only.
Workshop in Wisconsin3 Day Sacred Dance Workshop
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Have you wanted to attend Adina's 6 week Sacred Dance Class but don't have the time? Or do you love the idea of dancing for 3 days in a beautiful retreat center in Wisconsin? This 3 day workshop is a way to experience all 6 classes from the current Exploring Stress through Free Form Dance & Movement Class (that Adina currently teaches in Iowa City).
Adina has woven her shamanic training with her love of Free Form Dance & Movement to create this ceremonial form of reconnecting with the body as a sacred tool to dive into the mystery of our very beings. In a world where so many of us feel stressed in our bodies, we can learn to stop and listen to the wisdom that our bodies hold by carefully exploring both our bodies’ biology (hormones and nervous system in stress) and simultaneously entering the unseen realms. With eyes half closed in the candle-lit meditation hall we will use dance as a means to tap into this exploratory journey to receive guidance from our bodies, ancestors, healing guides, and Future Selves.
Instead of learning steps to a specific dance routine, Free Form Dance gives us unlimited access to interact with our unique life stories. Our stressful situations become places for us to learn from, moving away from a survival mentality, unraveling myths from our ancestry, and learning to dance in the flow that resides in and around us all.
Adina completed a 3 1⁄2 year Shamanic Apprenticeship and has participated in medicine dances in forests, outdoor arbors, and parks in order to connect in a conscious way with the Earth, her body, and the larger interconnection of the Universe.
During our three days together we will embark on an inward journey where each session builds on the next. We will begin with an Introduction to Free Form Dance & Movement making this class accessible to anyone who is interested. No previous dance experience needed. Participants will have time to journal and process their work with the group during the retreat.
This is the amazingly beautiful room that we will be dancing in! (photo above)
For details on accomidations and to Register please follow this link to the Christine Center website:
https://christinecenter.org
Adina has woven her shamanic training with her love of Free Form Dance & Movement to create this ceremonial form of reconnecting with the body as a sacred tool to dive into the mystery of our very beings. In a world where so many of us feel stressed in our bodies, we can learn to stop and listen to the wisdom that our bodies hold by carefully exploring both our bodies’ biology (hormones and nervous system in stress) and simultaneously entering the unseen realms. With eyes half closed in the candle-lit meditation hall we will use dance as a means to tap into this exploratory journey to receive guidance from our bodies, ancestors, healing guides, and Future Selves.
Instead of learning steps to a specific dance routine, Free Form Dance gives us unlimited access to interact with our unique life stories. Our stressful situations become places for us to learn from, moving away from a survival mentality, unraveling myths from our ancestry, and learning to dance in the flow that resides in and around us all.
Adina completed a 3 1⁄2 year Shamanic Apprenticeship and has participated in medicine dances in forests, outdoor arbors, and parks in order to connect in a conscious way with the Earth, her body, and the larger interconnection of the Universe.
During our three days together we will embark on an inward journey where each session builds on the next. We will begin with an Introduction to Free Form Dance & Movement making this class accessible to anyone who is interested. No previous dance experience needed. Participants will have time to journal and process their work with the group during the retreat.
This is the amazingly beautiful room that we will be dancing in! (photo above)
For details on accomidations and to Register please follow this link to the Christine Center website:
https://christinecenter.org
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