Sanctuary - Womens Authentic Movement 7 week Series Online
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SANCTUARY - Winter Womens Embodiment Series Online with Michelle Mahrer✨ 7 weeks July 20 – Aug 31
✨ Monday nights 7 – 9.15pm
🌿SANCTUARY offers a retreat from the busyness of life, a sacred space to come home to ourselves, to be present with what is here within us asking for our attention to meet and heal.
🌿Working with the practises of 5Rhythms dance and Authentic Movement, Sanctuary offers a place to recalibrate, realign & listen to our soul wisdom opening space for something new to emerge. Sanctuary offers a space for nurturing and cultivating new dreaming.
✨ Are you feeling disconnected from yourself? Fragmented? Pulled in many different directions
✨ Are you longing for a space to come home to yourself and connect with your inner wisdom and power?
✨ Are you ready to shed old stories, and create space for something new to emerge that is more aligned and authentic to you?
🌿SANCTUARY
offers a healing space,
to go within,
and be with ourselves
just as we are,
To listen to the whispers of our soul
To move with what is present, while held and witnessed by others,
A space to heal and process unresolved issues,
🌿Reconnect to your power
🌿Open space for something new to emerge
🌿Nurture and cultivate new seeds
🌿 WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE
• A safe, sacred space to be seen, held, and witnessed
• 5Rhythms dance warmup wave to awaken your body and energy.
• Authentic Movement practices in small groups with drawing and sharing integration
• A weekly theme to guide your inner journey
• Group Coaching mapping destiny pathways from each session.
• Homework to do, in between sessions to further embody & Integrate the harvest of the live session.
• A supportive sisterhood container for inspiration, encouragement, self growth & healing.
• Whats App group to share reflections & insights between the live sessions.
🌿 OUTCOMES
• Emerge restored, replenished and renewed.
• Re-centred in yourself, and your own power.
• Connection to your soul wisdom and inner knowing.
• Healing of old wounds and stories.
• Clear direction, inspiration & action plan for Spring.
STRUCTURE & CONTENT
The sessions include an
• Opening circle
• 5Rhythms dance warmup
• Authentic movement practise in small groups, with drawing and sharing integration
• Group coaching & Integration
Each week we invite in a theme from the 5Rhythms movement map to prompt our movement enquiry.
Week 1 & 2 Flow - Opening to receive what is here.
Week 3 Staccato - What parts of me want to be expressed or articulated?
Week 4 Chaos - Where do I need to let go and surrender?
Week 5 & 6 Lyrical - What am I welcoming in? Visioning & receiving the new
Week 7 Stillness - Embodying our essence and new beginnings.
🌀 5RHYTHMS DANCE is a movement meditation practise that ignites creativity, connection and community and catalyses healing and transformation. There are no steps to follow, you are invited to follow your own creative movement from within guided by a journey through 5 distinct rhythms that form a wave. As we follow our own dance, the mind relaxes and we enter a flow of energy that leads us beyond the thinking mind, ego and personality, into the infinite dimension of ourselves and our soul, The practise supports us to come home to our body, open our heart and awaken our soul to experience belonging and wholeness. The practice is very simple and accessible to people of all ages and abilities, and suitable for anyone who wants to rediscover the joy and freedom of dance that is within all of us.
🌀 AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT & WITNESSING
Authentic Movement is an expressive, somatic (body-centered) practice that combines movement, mindfulness, and self-exploration. It is a structured process that involves a mover and a witness. The mover is invited to follow their own spontaneous movement and expression, often with their eyes closed while held by a witness who holds space for the mover without judgement or interpretation. The mover often experiences a deep sense of being held and seen by another, creating a sense of safety and support which allows them to drop into their authentic truth. This powerful process can facilitate extraordinary transformation and healing.
I have been working with authentic movement for over 20 years , and each time I am humbled by its power to heal and transform, even with dancers who have never done it before.
🗓️ WHEN
Monday Evenings:
7.00 – 9.15 pm (AEST)
Dates: July 20, 27, Aug 3, 10, 17, Tues Aug 25, 31,
WHERE:
The series will take place on Zoom.
COST:
7 Live Sessions
Regular: $420
Concession $380
BOOKINGS:
Bank Transfer
BSB 063128
Acct 10317926
Michelle Mahrer
Credit Card Link
If this series is calling you, and finances are an issue please reach out and we can work something out.
WHAT DO I NEED?
You will need a computer or Ipad and good internet connection, a phone is not adequate.
A private space to dance in.
Blank paper and drawing materials such as colored crayons.
More info will be sent on registration.
TESTIMONIALS
I highly recommend Michelle's Authentic Movement series, it has had a profoundly positive impact on my life. Michelle's guidance and encouragement to all of us, for all of us to fully show up in dance and offer ourselves to the dance has really contributed to me fully showing up in my life and a new romantic connection. The power of being witnessed and witnessing each other has allowed me to feel deeply connected to both myself and others. I have increased confidence and courage to really be myself and show up in my new romantic connection. It is a rare gift to find a teacher like Michelle, with her level of experience, knowledge, and understanding of how to create and hold a deeply safe, healing container. In this series, Michelle provides both individual guidance to each of us on our journeys, including specific feedback every week on our individual intentions, and connects us as a group, reminding us of the group's support and presence. Thank you, thank you, thank you Michelle. The gifts from these containers that you create, hold, and facilitate are still emerging.
“I can’t recommend Michelle’s Womens Group enough. Throughout the series, I felt really seen and heard by the collective of dancers and I revealed myself to myself as I was revealing myself to them. Never before have I experienced such a profound relationship to the sanctuary of my own body. I’ve kept the drawings I’ve made during the sessions as a precious treasure and pathway to my subconscious: secret messages keep revealing themselves to me everytime I look at them. As Michelle says so beautifully: “The only way out is in!” Lina
“Being inherently shy for most of my life, the thought of being witnessed in my dance scared me, and even more so online via zoom, yet I knew it was for me. Michelle attracted the right people to ensure a safe container without judgement and I found myself overcoming enough resistance and fear to get out of my comfort zone and reach my edge so much so that I even surprised myself. I felt a great sense of freedom in my vulnerability and afterwards. I would highly recommend this to anyone who’s willing to dive deep and reap the rewards which are priceless.” Maria
“Michelle guides us with clarity and safety of firm structure supported by years of experience in creative arts and generosity to share her wisdom. This series has helped me to connect with my dancing heart and reintegrate my discombobulated body and soul. I love drawing and dancing and dancing through drawing. But these sessions with Michelle reawakened my love of drawing and dancing again. Rena
FACILITATOR
Michelle Mahrer is a highly experienced 5Rhythms dance teacher, dance movement therapist, and an award winning film maker. Since Covid she has been cultivating women’s dance spaces online as well as retreats, motivated by the power of sisterhood circles to support, heal and accelerate growth. She is a pioneer of Conscious Dance in Australia, and director of Radiance Dance 5Rhythms a vibrant dance community in Sydney founded in 2009. She is passionate about the healing and transformative power of dance and in recent years has developed a passion for supporting women to rise into their power and authenticity. has been leading dance classes, workshops & events in Australia & internationally for the past 24 years. She recently relocated to the northern rivers and nows facilitate dance in both Sydney, Byron Shire and online. She has made numerous films about dance including all of Gabrielle Roth's teaching videos and "Dances of Ecstasy". She runs monthly in person classes in Sydney and Byron Bay, and online as well as retreats and 1:1 sessions.
www.michellemahrer.com
Date
Monday 20 July 2026 7:00 PM - Monday 31 August 2026 9:15 PM (UTC+10)Location
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