Friday, November 21 – Open Dance (All welcome) — 7:00 pm–9:30 pm
Saturday, November 22 – Workshop | 10:00 am–6:00 pm
Sunday, November 23 – Workshop | 2:00 pm–7:00 pm
“We are all links in a great chain of being — stretching back into the mists of time and forward into the unknown future. To forget our ancestors is to sever a vital connection, leaving us adrift, without the nourishment of true roots.”
— Indigenous wisdom
About this event
Threads of our Ancestors is an immersive Movement Medicine journey into awakening the threads of connection with our ancestors — embracing their gifts and resilience, while giving space and care to healing their suffering.
On the dance floor, we fall into wild, spontaneous dances together and experience the profound interconnectedness of life. This resource both grounds us deeply in the body and enlivens our awake-ness.
From this space, we will dive into reclaiming the threads of our ancestral lineages — the good, the troubled, and the disowned.
During this workshop, we will:
- Resource deeply in the dance — grounding in the body and opening to awake-ness
- Support and inspire each other
- Get curious about the wounds and suffering of our ancestors that live on in our own embodiment
- Awaken and embrace places of shame, numbness, and the transgressions of our ancestors
- Dance the undigested, dance for reclamation, and dance for forgiveness
- Learn to stand more fully in our lineage with honesty and open relation to things as they are
The more fully we stand in our lineage with love, honesty, and forgiveness, the more we open beyond our edges of numbness and undigested emotion.
Deepening together, the We-Space becomes a richer and more present field of love — compassionate, joyful, vibrant, and intimate beyond separation.
Tuition
NEW | Capacity-Based Tuition
Like a forest, our community flourishes when each part plays its role.
🌱 Roots — $285
Steady and grounding, the Roots keep our workshop standing strong. Your contribution covers the essential costs that allow everything else to grow.
🌿 Branches — $325
Reaching outward, the Branches create space for more to join. Your support sustains the workshop and extends opportunities to others through reduced-rate places.
☀️ Sunlight — $365
Radiant and generous, the Sunlight nourishes the whole forest. Your contribution helps future workshops take shape, funds scholarships, and keeps ideas blooming.
🌰 Seeds — $215 (15 spots)
Small but full of promise, the Seeds represent participants with limited resources. These spots are nurtured by the Roots, Branches, and Sunlight of our community.
TUITION + HST (13%)
Advance registration is recommended.
How to Register & Pay by E-transfer
We’re so glad you’re joining us! Here’s how to reserve your spot:
1- Go to Eventbrite: THREADS of our ANCESTORS
2- Select the Email Transfer Registration – Pay Separately ticket and complete your free checkout here on Eventbrite.
3- Within 24 hours, send your ticket + 13% HST by e-transfer to hub@ecstaticdancetoronto.com.
4- Once we receive your e-transfer, your place in the event is confirmed.
5- If payment isn’t received within 24 hours, your ticket will be released so someone else can join.
Meet JO HARDY
Jo Hardy is a conscious dance and group facilitator, somatic psychotherapist, transformational coach, supervisor, and trainer. She is an accredited teacher of 5Rhythms (Waves & Heartbeat), Open Floor, and Movement Medicine.
Her work blends:
- Conscious dance
- Dynamic heart inquiry
- Embodied awakening
- Somatic psychotherapy
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Process work
- Authentic relating
- Trauma-informed approaches
