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COMMUNITY SONG VOICE SOUND NATURE MORNINGS
Sliding scale - By Donation Community Spirit All ages and stages.
Breathing life into music and music into life New Season begins May 5th ( 05/12,19,26) 10:30 - 12 noon
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Transformation Through Movement “A program by the name of “Transformation Through Movement” could not come at a more welcomed time”, said Kendra Thomas, Program Coordinator for Warmland Women’s Support Services Society, a sexual assault advocacy centre in the Cowichan Valley. “Given the past two years of COVID restrictions on movement, reduced access to supports, and isolation community members are more than ready to reconnect and express!” “Transformation Through Movement” is a traumainformed movement program for self-identified women and gender diverse survivors of relationship abuse and/ or sexualized violence. “Women’s bodies have been objectified, targeted and shamed. It’s time to reclaim our relationship with our bodies and discover that not only do women need to heal our bodies from abuse but that our body is actually our ally in recovering from trauma, particularly sexualized abuse”, said Thomas. The program combines mindfulness practices with dynamic movement resulting in an exhilarating and liberating approach to healing. Regardless of age and ability, self-paced movement is an invitation for women to explore some of the stresses associated with the
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impact of abuse and reset our nervous system from chronic anxiety. A therapeutic somatic approach transforms shame into resilience, cultivates dignity by celebrating women’s resistance to oppression and abuse, creates positive experiences and feelings associated with trauma recovery, and allows women to imagine more for ourselves through body-based intuition. A workout for body and soul, “Transformation Through Movement” takes survivors from depression to expression, contraction to expansion, fragmentation to wholeness, moving us beyond self-imposed limitations and isolation into new depths of connection with ourselves and our bodies. “Transformation Through Movement” is an 8 week therapeutic group program bringing together feminist theory and 5Rhythms©- a practice of being in body that facilitates deep and unending exploration. Registration is FREE thanks to generous funding from Island Health Community Wellness Grants. Registration is open for our MaySeptember Sunday afternoon groups at Providence Farm. Contact kthomas@ warmlandwomen.org 250710-8177 for registration details.
