We offer this Dragon Dance City Ritual as a ceremonial space to participate in something rich and full of mischievous intensity together.

After we’ve gone through the fire of the DD, Valerie will cool us down with grounding Yin practice.

What is Samhain?

Pronouced ‘sam-when’ It’s celebrated alongside many other cultural celebrations from halloween to all saints and the day of the dead. It’s an auspicious time to connect between worlds, as we enter into winter.

We will be lighting candles for the dead, remembering ancestors and celebrating the cycle of life and death.

What is the Dragon Dance?

A steamy practice that stimulates the physical and energetic bodies with in you. The movements come from practices like Vinyasa and Qi Gong, and the sequence of postures brings everything back into motion and flow. It also challenges concentration through many loops of repetition, balance and coordination, strength, endurance and surrender.

What is ritual?

A particular invitation to unify the mental, emotional, spiritual and material layers of the body, through a special state of awareness and connection. A Ritual is a spiritual practice, performed through the body, intended to bring you into relation with mystery, trust, receptivity and a sense of being beautifully taken care of by forces great and loving and interconnected. It’s a space you can go to, to remember your essence and access the deeply influential subconscious spaces within you.

Ritual offers an extra-ordinary quality of existing, a expansion of consciousness, an activation of the energy body, a deepened sense of connection, within and without, and a shift in what is possible - if you are willing. The Dragon Dance, with it’s repetition, physicality and trance-like effects, supports these shifting states beautifully.

I haven’t been to an Immersion before, can I join for this?

Yes, absolutely. The City Rituals are a gorgeous way to work a little deeper in your practice, as well as for us to build stronger connections amongst us.

We might practice often or occasionally with each other during the week, and still not really know who we are. At the City Ritual, unlike in the busy studio between classes, there is time and space to chat, relax and connect, and enjoy each others company and presence, along side the work.

I ‘m not sure if I want a spiritual practice, should I join?

It’s ok to feel skeptical, or unsure about this. So long as there is a part of you that’s curious enough to propose the question, you are welcome to be here and feed that part of you. All you need to do is practice being open and receptive, and make sure you hold the parts that might feel a bit protective, cautious, defensive or judgemental. I will gladly work with that pattern with people in my spaces, because I know the beauty of moving from control to trust, and I know it needs skillful guidance. We move at the pace of trust - which is s l o w. However, it is essential that you enter respectfully and responsibly. The teachings are the teachings, regardless of your preference.

I have 5 financial accessibility tickets available for anyone who needs it - email me!