JourneyDance™ will move you through deep, personal exploration into a loving, intimate relationship with body, mind, and source energy.  In a shamanic style, Toni carries us through an intentional and seamless flow of guided ritual and free expression. We embody our physical temple, learn Toni's Embodiment Series of release technique exercises and powerful core connections.  We unleash animal energies and awaken our sensuality. We move in waves, diving into our ocean of emotion, expressing with sound.   
   We dance our funky, playful self in community, and hold a vibration of joy!  We access our power of release, purge, and sweat.  We connect with the inner shaman to clear the cluttered mind, making space for the abundance of joy available to us. We explore the inner realms of our hearts, listening deeply. We engage in Toni's Heart Series of partner and group connection, opening energy awareness. We dance as source and ride our pranic flow. We move from our feelings, senses and intuition, opening to our highest vibration in a community prayer dance.

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Feel the impact of JourneyDance:

Dear Toni & Jeanine,

"Aughhhhhhh.......

I walked into Pure yesterday feeling the strongest need for "release" from so much that has been on my mind and in my heart... 'Release' was the intention I set at the beginning of our journey. I can't thank you both enough for the way you create and keep the space safe and open for amazing and beautiful things to happen.

I can't always articulate what JourneyDance means to me, but man, can I feel it. The beauty of seeing dazzling connected mystical spirits moving toward one another in total intuitiveness.... It's like all that we keep on the surface fades back like a curtain and I can really 'see' the other.

Really see. Really feel. Really give. Really receive. I can't
believe all that I received yesterday. I felt so supported, all was
released, I am so grateful.

Thank you again.
xoxo
Molly

Toni Bergins, MEd, founder and director of JourneyDance™, is an artistic alchemist and passionate catalyst for people to transform angst into art and vulnerability into strength. Over the past 17 years, she has helped thousands…
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Shed your old stories and limiting beliefs for good and begin to create a brilliant new vision of yourself and your work in the world. Deepen your divine dance, illuminate your path to service, and make space for grace in this weekend with JourneyDance creator and somatic healer Toni Bergins and interfaith minister and spiritual teacher Adam Sutton. Through expressive and embodied movement, soulful sounding, and guided visualization, as well as a massive dose of play, celebration, and song, you will emerge with a clearer sense of who you are, and why you are here.

This workshop offers a sacred invitation to heal and release the physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering that has been holding you back for far too long. Come join a dancing community of wisdom and love in which each individual is essential to the whole, and where grief and joy, sadness and elation can become your source of true, authentic transformation. The beautiful and amazing truth of who you really are lives deep within you. You already are the perfect and right prayer, just waiting to be fully expressed to a world hungry for your gifts and gorgeous light!

CE Credits

This program is eligible for :

• 8.5 credits for Athletic Trainers (BOC), $20 additional charge
• 8.5 credits for Yoga Alliance (YA), $20 additional charge

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Feel the impact of JourneyDance:

Dear Toni & Jeanine,

"Aughhhhhhh.......

I walked into Pure yesterday feeling the strongest need for "release" from so much that has been on my mind and in my heart... 'Release' was the intention I set at the beginning of our journey. I can't thank you both enough for the way you create and keep the space safe and open for amazing and beautiful things to happen.

I can't always articulate what JourneyDance means to me, but man, can I feel it. The beauty of seeing dazzling connected mystical spirits moving toward one another in total intuitiveness.... It's like all that we keep on the surface fades back like a curtain and I can really 'see' the other.

Really see. Really feel. Really give. Really receive. I can't
believe all that I received yesterday. I felt so supported, all was
released, I am so grateful.

Thank you again.
xoxo
Molly

Join Toni Bergins and DJ Root and reconnect with the growing JourneyDance teacher community. Come deepen your professional capacities and strengthen personal connections that will last a lifetime! In this module, you

• Reinvigorate your teaching by introducing shamanic experiences to your students
• Hone your talent for creating sacred, safe, and transformational space
• Receive in-depth coaching from Toni and senior staff
• Expand your musical palate through exposure to new soundscapes
• Learn theatrical, psychodramatic, and Gestalt therapy techniques to enhance the benefits of JourneyDance
• Work with audio technology to better support your musical impulses
• Experiment with new groupings, movements, and visualizations
• Discover powerful techniques to access and open the voice
• Integrate healing rituals into your existing class structures
• Develop creative marketing strategies
• Strengthen your professional mission among a community of like-minded healers.

Come learn and grow in a contemplative space in which you identify your individual gifts, expand your repertoire of JourneyDance techniques, and deepen your artistry.

• 36.5 credits for Athletic Trainers (BOC), $20 additional charge

   Toni Bergins, MEd, Founder and Director of JourneyDance™, is an artistic alchemist and passionate catalyst for people to transform their angst into art, their vulnerability into strength. Over the past 17 years, she has helped thousands of people find a new sense of self-esteem, inner wisdom, emotional health, spiritual practice and total well-being. She leads an international team of hundreds of JourneyDance Teachers, spreading joy and passion for life. She has a popular instructional CD and inspirational greeting cards. Her sense of humor and authenticity makes JourneyDance accessible to all. www.journeydance.com 

   A consummate expert who leads by example, Stephanie Shelburne, PhD., brings her warmth and light-hearted wit to her role as educator, guide, and catalyst.  She entices her clients to learn how to feel the nuances of their body’s response to the foods they choose.  This personalized metamorphosis has been life-changing for countless people who thought their chance for a whole relationship with their bodies and their ability to nourish themselves would elude them forever. With a lifetime of practicing mind-body principles, Stephanie expertly and compassionately provides a safe space for people to make the biggest shift of their lives. Love your food, love your body, love your life. 

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Feel the impact of JourneyDance:

Dear Toni & Jeanine,

"Aughhhhhhh.......

I walked into Pure yesterday feeling the strongest need for "release" from so much that has been on my mind and in my heart... 'Release' was the intention I set at the beginning of our journey. I can't thank you both enough for the way you create and keep the space safe and open for amazing and beautiful things to happen.

I can't always articulate what JourneyDance means to me, but man, can I feel it. The beauty of seeing dazzling connected mystical spirits moving toward one another in total intuitiveness.... It's like all that we keep on the surface fades back like a curtain and I can really 'see' the other.

Really see. Really feel. Really give. Really receive. I can't
believe all that I received yesterday. I felt so supported, all was
released, I am so grateful.

Thank you again.
xoxo
Molly

Come move and play! Explore the funk in the sacred, and the sacred in the funk, while you raise your vibration, increase your joy, and settle into a deep state of peace. This ultra-fun program brings together the body-mind-spirit union of dance, drum, and yoga.

During Tribal Jam, you

• Move and dance to music specifically selected to inspire aliveness
• Infuse yourself with rhythm as you drum with KDZ in an exuberant drum circle
• Engage in flowing vinyasa yoga for all levels
• Learn percussion styles from around the world as well as vocal percussion and much more with John de Kadt
• Explore the depths of your passionate heart
• Experience deep energy work for body and soul
• Have the best time ever!

Megha Nancy Buttenheim, Daniel Leven, and Toni Bergins, three powerful and popular Kripalu teachers, inspire you into celebratory states of devotion-in-motion, and help you feed your creativity, commune with Source Energy, and transform limiting beliefs into positive strengths. KDZ: The Kripalu Drummers and masterful percussionist John de Kadt lead a drum workshop, setting the rhythm that will carry you through the holiday weekend on soulful waves of bliss.

Come embody, explore, and express your glorious Self in the exhilarating movement experience of Toni Bergins’ JourneyDance. Get funky and divine. This teacher training intensive takes you on a powerful and transformative journey by immersing you in an ocean of holy motion.
JourneyDance guides you to become fully present in your body, release trapped emotions and self-judgment, access inner power, celebrate your spirit, and manifest your dreams. You will learn
• The JourneyDance qualities and the conceptual flow of a class
• How to create moving visualizations with dance and music
• To lead by embracing your passion, creativity, and instincts
• Toni’s humorous MindBusting techniques to eliminate negative and limiting self-talk
• Your own spiritual dance practice to take into your community.

By weaving together expressive and ritual movement, guided imagery, affirmations, and sounding, this training will have you loving your body and your life.

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Logistics & Details:

Daily Schedule:
Every full day there will be two or three sessions. We will be dancing, experiencing, discussing, sharing, and dancing more. We have worked our schedule as best we can around other activities. We may adjust our session times to give ourselves a little extra time for integration, absorption, class preparation, etc.  Your presence is expected for all sessions, even if you choose not to dance, and we encourage self-care.  The following are approximate times (subject to change):
Mornings: 8:30am–12:00pm
Afternoons:  1:45–4:45 pm
Evenings:  7:00–9:30 pm
 
Recommended Readings: These books will give you insight into the deeper aspects of the JourneyDance™ philosophy and the intrinsic value of all beings. Through dance, we become empowered to heal ourselves.
Ask and It is Given by Jerry and Esther Hicks, or any of their materials .
Your Aura, Your Chakras by Karla McLaren
The Sevenfold Journey and/or Wheels of Light by Anodea Judith
You Are Psychic by Peter Sanders (especially the section on “feelers”)
The Hidden Messages of Water by Masaru Emoto
The Power of Belief by Ray Dodd
Sensing, Feeling, and Action by Bonnie Baimbridge Cohen
 
Self-Care: This training is intensive in nature, including many sessions of dancing, plenty of time for discussion in small and large groups, and time for personal process. As with movement, there exists the potential to bring up emotions stored in the body. Self-care and self-love is absolutely essential throughout. Make sure to hydrate yourself, get plenty of rest, and take time to breathe and allow the deep process of integration and transformation. JourneyDance™ is about fostering a relationship of love with your body and yourself, so take this time to strengthen this relationship.
From years of dancing experience on various types of floors, we strongly recommend soft knee-pads. You can order our favorite, lightweight knee-pads online at journeydance.com, or purchase them at the training.
 

JourneyDance™ Module 1 Training includes the following:
- JourneyDance™ Flow
- JourneyDance™ class structure
- JourneyDance™ techniques
- JourneyDance™ movement imagery
- JourneyDance™ choreography
- Analysis of music
- Embodiment series
- Vocal techniques
- Marketing techniques
- A JourneyDance™ teacher's manual, written by Toni Bergins
- The opportunity to lead a portion of a JourneyDance™ class 
 

NOTE: Completion of Module 1 allows you to begin teaching your JourneyDance practice. Please review the JourneyDance website for detailed information as well as exciting new updates on the JourneyDance Teacher Training and Certification Modular program. Sign up now for Module 2 - November 11-16th, 2012.

We thank you for your participation and look forward to dancing with you!