Dance Journey: Movement and Dance Processes

• ​​Creates a conscious and compassionate space for you to move your body, mind, heart, and spirit; 
• Supports you to free yourself to laugh and play in a welcoming group while learning about yourself in the process;
• Facilitates connection with your source;  ​
• Is for all who love to move your body, dance and play; 
• Is a fun adventure!

​​With a group of like-hearted others, you are supported to meet your experience with loving presence, and give your Self wings to dance, express and play.  

Dance Journey is a practice of integration, with the intention to bring spirit to life in body, mind, heart and relations through lightly guided freestyle movement. 
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​Each dance, we explore different forms which serve as portals for discovery, embodiment and connection.  The form is introduced at the beginning of each dance, and inspires the songs chosen for the playlist. 

Online Schedule &  Registration​

I'm not currently offering Dance Journey classes; however feel free to utilize the playlists and guidelines below.  You can also find some short guided dance practices on the 'Dance Yourself Alive' playlist on Youtube.  ​

Downloadable Steps ​to Dance Journey, inspired by Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey

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Steps to Dance Journey, 
inspired by Matthew Fox's Cosmic Mass

Cosmic Mass Website :

• The Via Positiva, celebration of existence: this is our first 15-minute dance in awe and wonder
• The Via Negativa, communal grieving for the suffering of the planet and all beings
• The Via Creativa, blessing of wine and bread as the food of the Cosmic Christ;
• The Via Transformativa, sending the people off to serve: this is our final 15-minute Warrior Dance

Steps to Dance Journey, 
inspired by 4-Sync Plus

From Thomas Huebl's approach to 4-Sync Meditation:  
- embodiment & body sensations
- emotions and subtle energetics
- mind / cognitive movements
- spacious weave of all 3
- spirit / essence / divine connection
- inner heart of hearts
- past and ancestry, lineage
- what's calling my soul?
- our collective
- listening for what doesn't have a voice

Dance Journey Playlists on Spotify

 4/3/20 ​DJ Playlist

 4/17/20 ​DJ Playlist

 5/1/20 ​DJ Playlist

 5/15/20 ​DJ Playlist

What to Expect:

We begin with a welcome activity and embodied integrity practice, followed by 50-60 minutes of dancing. 

Our dance journey starts with a simple warm-up to connect you to your breath and your body: part by part.  As we warm up, we are asking, "how are you now?" to each part of our body, and listening to our body's response through sensations, impulses about how we move, ideas that come through our minds, etc.  Since there is no "right" way to do it, you can't do it wrong!  Your practice is to honor your experience first and foremost, opening your curiosity and enjoyment as we move through the dance together.  ​

 While the movement is not choreographed, you'll be gently guided to focus in various ways and to experiment with different ways of moving solo, in pairs, and with the whole group.   Everything is optional!  

​​​The movement completes with relaxing quietly or stretching as you choose to integrate your experience.

The class ends in a closing circle where people are invited to share a word or phrase or sound that matches their experience of the dance that evening.

No experience necessary - just bring yourself in comfortable clothes with a willingness to move your body ​in a way that is friendly and easeful for you. 

​“Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us.  The labyrinth is thoroughly known.  We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god.  And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves.  Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence.  And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world."
-- Joseph Campbell

TESTIMONIALS - Dance Events

"Rhonda is a brilliant all out life player and wonderful at inviting an exploration of experience through movement!"  -- Mari H. 

"Dance Journey is completely freeing and self-expressive.  I’ve discovered things about myself I have not discovered in any other way.  You come and you move your body in any way you want, responding to the various and incredible sounds of music …  the release that happens through this kind of experience is like nothing I’ve ever experienced.  Dance Journey is a time to be authentic to yourself –discovering who you are so you take that home with you.  You’re with other people where they are all expressing themselves in their individual way, and you interact if you choose, you slow down if you choose, you speed up if you choose, you skip if you choose, you stop if you choose.  It’s amazing the experiences you move through in the short period of time by being coached and invited to be your authentic self.  Dance Journey is absolutely incredible and life-changing!" -- Joan Marie

"Rhonda Mills is one of the most joyous free spirits on the planet.  Her heart is wise, open, and widely connected--and she brings to her client work not only a truly impressive and holistic skill set and years of experience, but also the exquisite freshness of her very being.  Working with Rhonda is like traveling to the underworld on butterfly wings:  even the scariest parts of my life become translucent when I talk and sing and dance them out under her expert guidance and care." -- Lynnea B. 

“I’ve always wanted to go dancing with others, however I don’t have the desire to go to nightclubs. Fortunately, Dance Journey on Friday nights provides the perfect opportunity of satisfying my dancing needs and fellowship. And on top of it, the music selection is great!  I don’t have to worry about being a good dancer, because the environment is so accepting. I leave feeling a greater sense of happiness.  What a great time. I felt so free!  It was so easy to be authentic!  Dance Journey is awesome!" --  Susan R.

"I am always amazed at how powerful and deep the shifts are with dance journey!" -- Michelle G. 

I really benefited the first night I attended Dance Journey. Rhonda welcomed me and provided a safe, sweet & nonjudgmental space for me to explore my intuition & how my body speaks to me. I loved the dance sequence we were spontaneously allowed to create based on her guidance & lesson based on Joseph Campbell's "Hero's Journey". I left class with a new inner awareness & energy. As Walt Whitman once wrote: "I sing the body electric." Rhonda has a gift to help you learn that song. -- Megan H.