5Rhythms Mondays Mountain View
Open Floor Mountain View Dance Mondays
Where:
890 Church Street, Mountain View, CA Mountain View Masonic Lodge
When: Mondays 7:00PM-9:30PM Weekly Ongoing (no admission after 7:30)
Cost: $20/class, Students and seniors (over 65) with ID: $15/class or purchase a 6-pak of Vouchers for $100 at the door
Space: Great Space: Great large wooden dance floor, Safe free parking
Web page and Contact: Open Floor Mountain View Dance Claire Alexander, Click to email, Phone: 408-829-7366
About Monday nights: For centuries people have used meditation to move beyond the mind’s stress producing thoughts into mindful awareness. There are many meditation techniques and on the Open Floor we have a simple form — we sit, we walk, and we dance in cycles.
Refuge offers us a place to gather each week and practice resting into the non-doing to see what happens. This is how we build the resilience to respond rather than react to our internal and external stressors. As the quiet voice inside becomes more accessible, life is more spacious, we make better choices, and we have the capacity to meet the unexpected with curiosity.
Requested prerequisite: 20 hours of instructed movement practice (Open Floor, Soul Motion, 5Rhythms®, Movement Medicine, Tai Chi, Yoga, etc.)
What to bring: Water bottle, Meditation Cushion or Pillow, Layers to keep you warm
When: Mondays 7:00PM-9:30PM Weekly Ongoing (no admission after 7:30)
Cost: $20/class, Students and seniors (over 65) with ID: $15/class or purchase a 6-pak of Vouchers for $100 at the door
Space: Great Space: Great large wooden dance floor, Safe free parking
Web page and Contact: Open Floor Mountain View Dance Claire Alexander, Click to email, Phone: 408-829-7366
About Monday nights: For centuries people have used meditation to move beyond the mind’s stress producing thoughts into mindful awareness. There are many meditation techniques and on the Open Floor we have a simple form — we sit, we walk, and we dance in cycles.
Refuge offers us a place to gather each week and practice resting into the non-doing to see what happens. This is how we build the resilience to respond rather than react to our internal and external stressors. As the quiet voice inside becomes more accessible, life is more spacious, we make better choices, and we have the capacity to meet the unexpected with curiosity.
Requested prerequisite: 20 hours of instructed movement practice (Open Floor, Soul Motion, 5Rhythms®, Movement Medicine, Tai Chi, Yoga, etc.)
What to bring: Water bottle, Meditation Cushion or Pillow, Layers to keep you warm
Open Floor Movement Practice is a lively, sweaty, full-on dance inquiry:
How can we move and include it all – feelings, other people, thoughts, wild passions, limitations?
Can we use movement to soften the tight spots in our tender hearts and stretch our capacity for relationship?
What happens if we turn old repetitive thoughts into choreography for creative dances?
We start small, end quiet. We respond to obstacles and mind the gaps. Ask, how am I now? What’s possible? Find direction. Add fire. Push the limit. Embrace paradox.
There's an essential movement language we all speak when we take these questions to the dance floor. We call on universal elements that are inherent in any moving body, such as breath, gravity, centering, expansion and contraction. This is the common ground that all embodiment practices share.
Open Floor is where the rubber meets the road – a place for creative focus and loving attention.
Common Sense
Since the beginning of time human beings have gathered to dance. Mindful movement is surging all over the planet because it's good for us. People who dance regularly have keener minds, greater emotional intelligence, and a calmer presence. Connection, compassion, and communities grow. In this challenging world, common sense tells us to spend time dancing.
Common Good
The ripple effect is inescapable. One dance can change someone’s day, one act of kindness can inspire a whole community. Students often leave a session able to bring a more generous presence out into the world. We dedicate our work to the common good, to the benefit of all beings.
Common ground. Common sense. Common good.
This is what we cultivate on the Open Floor.
How can we move and include it all – feelings, other people, thoughts, wild passions, limitations?
Can we use movement to soften the tight spots in our tender hearts and stretch our capacity for relationship?
What happens if we turn old repetitive thoughts into choreography for creative dances?
We start small, end quiet. We respond to obstacles and mind the gaps. Ask, how am I now? What’s possible? Find direction. Add fire. Push the limit. Embrace paradox.
There's an essential movement language we all speak when we take these questions to the dance floor. We call on universal elements that are inherent in any moving body, such as breath, gravity, centering, expansion and contraction. This is the common ground that all embodiment practices share.
Open Floor is where the rubber meets the road – a place for creative focus and loving attention.
Common Sense
Since the beginning of time human beings have gathered to dance. Mindful movement is surging all over the planet because it's good for us. People who dance regularly have keener minds, greater emotional intelligence, and a calmer presence. Connection, compassion, and communities grow. In this challenging world, common sense tells us to spend time dancing.
Common Good
The ripple effect is inescapable. One dance can change someone’s day, one act of kindness can inspire a whole community. Students often leave a session able to bring a more generous presence out into the world. We dedicate our work to the common good, to the benefit of all beings.
Common ground. Common sense. Common good.
This is what we cultivate on the Open Floor.
Open Floor Mountain View Mondays
When: Mondays 7:00PM-9:30PM Weekly Ongoing
Mountain View Masonic Lodge
890 Church Street
Mountain View CA 95060
Mountain View CA 95060
7:00 PM
$20.00
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