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Rest Refill Renew: Reclaiming Rest as Community Care

We’re so excited to announce our fall community event - Rest Refill Renew: Reclaiming Rest as Community Care on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 at El Sereno Community Garden.

We will offer 7 stations for you to explore and experience rest in different forms through a variety of rest practices. At the end of the evening, CMDC will offer a Dance From The Heart community class centered on exploring and embodying rest through gentle movement.
As we approach the end of this year, we explore questions like:

What is it like to be in relationship with community and land in ways that support everyone getting the rest they need?
How do we take the onus off of individual responsibility for “self-care” and create communal practices that ensure there is enough time and space for rest to go around?
What does it mean to rest more authentically?
How can we divest from and transform systems that would have us overworking ourselves into mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual disrepair, and create systems that support our rest, restoration and renewal?

Sign up here to attend Rest Refill Renew on Saturday, November 19th!

You are invited to join us on November 19th as we rest together and co-create community space to:

Honor the fluidity and changing ways we rest and renew every day
Discover/re-discove ways that we can create community support around rest
Explore rest as an embodied practice (instead of something sporadic or just another thing on our to-do list)
Moving away from our rest journey needing to become commodified—allowing ourselves to be inwardly guided

Let's create a space within ourselves and as a community to lay a foundation for our rest, restoration, and renewal.

What is Dance from the Heart ?

What is Dance from the Heart?

Dance from the Heart is a trauma-informed healing movement practice that helps people reconnect to their bodies, reduce stress, heal and empower themselves to reach their goals and cultivate resilience in community. Dance from the Heart is composed of 7 gentle steps that supports you in several ways:

Grounding in your body
Listening to your heart
Connecting to a heart-felt intention or dream
Releasing any fears or limiting beliefs about your dreams
Embodying your intentions with movement

Dance from the Heart helps you to tap into your own infinite capacity to manifest with greater ease, flow and joy!

Anyone can Dance from the Heart. You don't need to know any of the steps or have any prior dance experience. For all bodies and abilities.

Participant Testimonials

"Dance from the Heart was the best thing I did for myself during the pandemic. I discovered the wisdom and knowledge available to me through moving my body. As someone who never considered themselves good at dancing with no prior formal dance experience, the chance to encounter myself in this way was profound."

“Dance from the Heart was so accessible, and so needed during COVID. I loved having a space to show up and move without being told to *push* my body. Having this time to connect to a specific thing I wanted to manifest, and then move with it was invaluable."

“I battle daily with ruts, and having Dance from the Heart helped me move through them in a safe space to prioritize taking care of myself more, and keep me grounded in pursuit of my goals and desires.”

Feel free to sign up on our mailing list below and get a sneak peek of the 7 steps of Dance from the Heart.
To learn more about the practice of Dance from the Heart, please visit us HERE!