Activities at Atsitsa Bay, Greece
5-Rhythms, Meditation with Jo Hardy
Sun 11 - Sun 18 Aug 2024
Conscious Dance - 5 Rhythms and Open Floor
We are all born with the freedom to dance, but for many of us this freedom is buried under the demands of everyday life. Conscious dance is both a simple and profound medicine that gets us out of our heads and into our body and feet, offering a pathway to deeper self-awareness, acceptance, healing, creativity, sensuality, playfulness, openness and reconnection to our self and to each other. During this course we will learn to listen to trust and love our body more fully, surrendering bit by bit to its unique dance. We will discover our body loves to dance and most probably find ourselves making moves we never knew we could make.
Through the dance we release patterns and undigested emotions into creativity and lighter energy. There will be space for sharing experiences, writing, meditations, visualization, and laughter. A great sense of support and connection opens as we witness, and are touched by each other. What you bring will also weave with our journey and there may be time for some individual attention.
No steps to learn and no prior dance experience required. All welcome.
Drop-In Courses and Activities
5 Rhythms Community Dance: drop-in 5 Rhythms community-building dance session. Focus on high energy, play and full on fun. Will include relaxing gentle and integrating moments.
Morning Movement and Meditation: we will greet the day by welcoming our body, breath and feelings with a period of dance movement followed by a guided mindfulness meditation. We will emerge refreshed and ready for the day!
Morning Mindfulness Meditation: an introduction to increasingly popular and beneficial mindfulness meditation. Especially good for stress reduction and helping you to relax more deeply into your body.
What's included?
Jo's course is held in Atsitsa Bay on Skyros island in Greece and is part of the wide range of courses and activities available. The holiday includes full board twin shared accommodation in an eco-hut. Single upgrades and twin shares in the house are available. Chat through the website, call +44 (0)1983 86 55 66 or email holidays@skyros.com to discuss your requirements.
About Jo Hardy
Jo is a conscious dance teacher and facilitator accredited in Movement Medicine, 5 Rhythms and Open Floor. She is passionate about dance as a natural, deep and playful pathway to deeper embodiment, self awareness and self empowerment. Having trained in 3 forms of psychotherapy, she practiced as a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer from 1992 - 2007 in an embodied, mindfulness based approach and was a faculty teacher and staff member of the School of Movement Medicine for many years.
Since 2005 she has focused on integrating conscious dance and psychotherapy work and has worked with numerous people through 1:1 Transformational Life Coaching, conscious dance classes, and in-depth intensive workshops for those who wish to take a deep dive. Pre-pandemic she taught intensively in China and Taiwan and many countries in Europe.
Jo is known to teach with a grounded gentle clarity, good down to earth humour, heart inspiring music and an ability to invite a fine balance of safety and permissive freedom.
What people say about Jo and her courses:
Dance - I discovered my body can express emotions without getting tangled up by words.
5 Rhythms dance - utterly wonderful.
Highlight of the fortnight.
I found rhythms wonderful, the music and facilitating were excellent. Fabulous, held the space beautiful, made me feel safe.
I didn’t have any expectations or idea of what was involved but I really got a lot out of the course and fully intend to pursue when home.
I really appreciated the sensitivity of Jo's 5-Rhythms when the whole group was overcome by emotion at a particular session. It felt safe.
Jo Hardy is one of my favourite 5R teachers (having danced for 15 years) amazing.
Jo Hardy's disco evening activity offering and general ‘hold’ of things were exemplary.
Jo was an incredible teacher for the five rhythms and made every session amazing.
Jo - 5R - beautiful space.
Jo in particular, was incredibly skilled and I learnt so much more than I imagined I would.
5-Rhythms with Jo was a new experience for me was very rewarding.
5-Rhythms excellent, beautifully held by Jo Hardy.
