Transitions - Dancing the Waters of the Heart - with Melanie Philip

"Dance the Waters of the Heart" – Honoring Life's Transitions

As we mark the end of National Dying Matters Week 2025 in the UK, we invite you to join us in a special dance that celebrates all of life's transitions. Through movement and rhythm, we will connect with the flow of grief, love, and transformation, creating space for healing and remembrance.

This dance is a tribute to the sacred journey of life and death, where we move through the waters of our hearts, honoring the beauty of each transition.

This workshop is a time for you to explore the vertical axis of your Body, Mind & Heart. As we become more present and our movement vocabulary expands, we become freer. With music as our Vessel, we will together be taking a guided journey away from the outer world into our inner landscape.

We will begin with 1 fundamental and powerful practice within movement medicine called Awakening the Dancer, and from there we will explore our elemental nature.

We will dance for Self, our one-to-one relationships, community and the great mystery.

Difficult life experiences, like grief and loss can leave a mark on our minds and hearts and also in our bodies. This can lead to numbness and dissociation. In this practice, we will explore moving a different part of our mental identity to different parts of our body, not only does this serve to warm up the body but it creates a shift of identity an expanding identity, which slowly and gently begins to unthaw us and move us from an experience of disembodiment to embodiment. This can allow us the opportunity to befriend difficult emotions and bring them into the dance to give shape and make visible what might need expressing at this time.

Through our dance, we remember, and we remember how to pray, and there will be some gentle time to privately honour and offer your respect to those who have passed or perhaps to something else that has left or changed which you may feel needs some kind of acknowledgement or completion at this time.

https://schoolofmovementmedicine.com/events/transitions/