Amara Pagano brings warmth, compassion and experience to her teaching. She is a living example of the results this dance practice offers. Students instinctively follow Amara as she guides them through the transformative and healing techniques of the 5Rhythms.
Amara is committed to providing a physical and spiritual home for the 5Rhythms Dance at Studio Maui and develop satellite locations on Maui, Oahu, Kauai and Big Island.
Amara is the co-founder of Waves Studio in Olympia, Washington, and the Director of the 5Rhythms program at Studio Maui. She also teaches 5Rhythms dance workshops nationally and internationally. Check below for more information about her classes and workshops at Studio Maui and around the world.
- "Heartbeat" is a dancing shamanic journey into the underworld of forgotten feelings. In this work we invite the energy of feeling that is held within the cells of our bodies to come out and dance.
Amara is currently teaching a four-week workshop-style class on Tuesdays exploring the "Heartbeat" map. For those of you that couldn't make it, and for those of you ready to dive further into this potent work, we are offering this specially priced weekend workshop!.
Birth is when I appear out of myself.
Life is when I dance within myself.
Death is when I disappear into myself.
Adyashanti
This poem of Adya's speaks to the motion of our lives, with each moment rising and giving way to the next. This is the motion of release, the motion of letting go into the next. And it is this precise motion of letting go that we struggle with. Our minds attach to what we know, pulling us out of life's continuous unfolding. We freeze in the space between what we know and what is unfolding, caught trying to figure it out.
"Release" is a 5Rhythms waves workshop that focuses on the motion of letting go, on learning to trust the motion of letting go as it delivers us over and over into the unfolding moment. I invite you to join me in using this powerful practice of Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms to approach the complexities of our lives not through figuring them out but through the experience of allowing our bodies to move freely.
Clear Spring Studio
February 25-27, 2011
Friday 7-10 Saturday 11-5 Sunday 12-5
$210 $195 early registration by February 1st
Friday night only $35
Registration www.dancingfirelizards.com or Lisa at ldeland@earthlink.net 512-444-0443
7-10 pm
@ Richmond Space Asheville, NC
$35
contact: Cassie Brizzi elementsmove@yahoo.com 828-545-3955
Waves is an introductory workshop to the 5Rhythms® Dance Practice. The 5Rhythms® is a moving meditation that takes us through 5 different ways of moving our bodies that put together form a wave of motion. Moving through this Wave leaves participants feeling whole and connected, awake and alive. After a warm-up dance we are guided through the 5Rhythms Wave that begins in flow, builds in staccato, breaks in chaos, dissolves in lyrical, and empties into stillness. All bodies, all ages, always. No dance experience is needed; what is needed is a willingness to discover yourself in motion; fluid, focused, free, fascinated, and fulfilled.
Asheville NC
Our motions through life is guided by our emotions, and our emotions shape the world around us.
We do have the power to change our world and the key is coming into deep, intimate and open relationship with our own emotions.
"Heartbeat" is a gateway to this relationship."Heartbeat is the 5Rhythms map of freeing the heart and achieving emotional fluidity.
In "Heartbeat" we explore our emotions as energy, as power, as part of what it is to be human. By working with the five essential emotions of
fear, anger, sadness, joy and compassion we come into deeper contact with our own heart, strengthen our emotional vocabulary
and free our whole being to dis-lodge, express and release the emotions that have shaped us. As we embrace the full range of our emotions
we free ourselves to move and be moved, to feel and be felt, to love and be loved.
Prerequisite for Heartbeat Level work: At least 3 hours of Waves Workshop
March 4-6, 2011
Weekend $195 if paid by February 1 $225 after
@ Richmond Space Asheville, NC
For more information and to register contact: Cassie Brizzi elementsmove@yahoo.com 828-545-3955
* Thursday evening Waves available to fulfill Waves requirement for Heartbeat workshop.
"Waves" Evening Workshop with Amara Pagano
March 3, 2011
7-10 pm @ Richmond Space
$35
Waves is an introductory workshop to the 5Rhythms® Dance Practice. The 5Rhythms® is a moving meditation that takes us through 5 different ways of moving our bodies that put together form a wave of motion. Moving through this Wave leaves participants feeling whole and connected, awake and alive. After a warm-up dance we are guided through the 5Rhythms Wave that begins in flow, builds in staccato, breaks in chaos, dissolves in lyrical, and empties into stillness. All bodies, all ages, always. No dance experience is needed; what is needed is a willingness to discover yourself in motion; fluid, focused, free, fascinated, and fulfilled.
April 1- 3, 2011
Embodied Soul
Sometimes we light up and shine, spontaneously and with a simple purity. We shine right through our suffering and struggles. We shine without having fixed anything or having made things better. And when this happens we feel connected to ourselves and the world around us. With little effort and lots of enthusiasm, even is spite of ourselves, we simply shine. And it is this energy that radiates from within that is embodied soul. So then, can we cultivate this shine? Can we learn to feel ourselves rooted and grounded within our own soul-wisdom? This is the jumping off point in our investigation of "Embodied Soul".
"Embodied Soul" is an opportunity to take the critically necessary time to dance our way to the soul-wisdom that lives just below the humanity of our everyday lives. To do this we use the 5Rhythms: sinking into our flowing bodies, stretching and opening our hearts, and emptying and quieting our minds... and in this body of work, this is soul, these connected moments of fluid body, open heart and free mind. This soul is seductive, mysterious and wise. This soul-body is absolutely authentic. And with the irresistible quality of our own authenticity we find deep meaning and purpose in the lives we live. Soul and humanity, it is all a dance, an opportunity to find our deepest selves and shine.
Amara Pagano is a visiting teacher from Maui Hawaii where she is the Director of the 5Rhythms Program at Studio Maui. She has been traveling and teaching workshops internationally for 10 years sharing her love of the dance and the 5Rhythms Practice. For more information on Amara and and the 5Rhythms www.thestudiomaui.com and www.gabrielleroth.com
Location: High Mountain Hall, Camden Maine
Friday 6 - 9 Saturday 2 - 9 & Sunday 12 - 5
Cost $225 early bird by 3/18 $195
Contact: Kari Luehman 5rhythmsme@gmail.com 207-701-9557
June 10-12, 2011
BODY PRAYER
We have one life in this body and yet we spend most of our time dis-connected from the profound sense of well-being that comes from fully occupying our bodies.
We race through our lives, thinking first, feeling second and occupying ourbodies a distant third.
To make things worse, we have learned to relate to things from this state of being dis-connected. And this causes needless suffering.
And yet right under our nose is a pathway of connection. A pathway of the body that connects us to a sense of knowing who and what we are,
a pathway that guides us to ourselves and to everything that we find meaningful and important. "Body Prayer" is this pathway.
The work of "Body Prayer" is to cultivate our relationship to our own bodies in motion.
We dance ourselves into our bodies, and from this place, LIFE OPENS UP.
For more information and to register contact Daniela de Bartola daniela.debartolo@fastwebnet.it
Amara Pagano is offering two workshops in Italy. Milan June 10-12 and Rimini June 17-19. If you are interested in traveling and experiencing Italy and the dance together please contact Amara at amara@thestudiomaui.com.
June 17-19, 2011
Living Fully Loving Deeply
Imagine the possibility of moving fluidly with all of what life brings.
Imagine resting in this fluid motion, knowing that you can meet all of life's challenges and opportunities.
Imagine that this fluid motion connects you to the physical experience of living more fully and loving more deeply.
The 5Rhythms is a physical approach towards real and tangible connection to our selves, to each other and to our own place in life. In the dance, we create the possibility of re-discovering ourselves in our natural state of being, a body in motion. We cultivate our ability to move fluidly with the rhythms of our lives, the people in our lives and the world we live in. By moving fluidly with all of who we are we cultivate our ability to live more fully and love more deeply.
For more information and to register contact Sara Bindi sarettabi2004@yahoo.it
Amara Pagano is offering two workshops in Italy. Milan June 10-12 and Rimini June 17-19. If you are interested in traveling and experiencing Italy and the dance together please contact Amara at amara@thestudiomaui.com.
Beunos Aires, Argentina
HEARTBEAT
Our motions through life is guided by our emotions, and our emotions shape the world around us.
We do have the power to change our world and the key is coming into deep, intimate and open relationship with our own emotions.
"Heartbeat" is a gateway to this relationship."Heartbeat is the 5Rhythms map of freeing the heart and achieving emotional fluidity.
In "Heartbeat" we explore our emotions as energy, as power, as part of what it is to be human. By working with the five essential emotions of
fear, anger, sadness, joy and compassion we come into deeper contact with our own heart, strengthen our emotional vocabulary
and free our whole being to dis-lodge, express and release the emotions that have shaped us. As we embrace the full range of our emotions
we free ourselves to move and be moved, to feel and be felt, to love and be loved.
Prerequisite for Heartbeat Level work: At least 3 hours of Waves Workshop
For more information and to register please contact Kelly Satz kelly@diuca.com.ar