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Dance With Us

Current Offerings, Disclaimers and Guidelines

As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you.

-Jon Kabat-Zinn

As long as we are both breathing, we are more alike in our bodies than different.

-Farah Forest

We honour the diversity of artists, genres, cultures and tribes through space and time on this earth that have contributed to the sacred musical trip of this container.

Current Offerings of Collective Embodiment

Conscious Dancing, Relational Presence and Self-Understanding Ceremony

An experience of immersive shared embodied playful presence open to all and well-suited for sensitive, introverted and/or neurodiverse souls who enjoy sensory experiences like dancing and sacred music, but from the comfort of home (virtual)

  • Shorter dance time (1 hr instead of the typical 2.5 hrs) without sacrificing diversity of tempo, and more time for preparation, guided meditation, warm-up and silent integration - see details below

  • A beautifully balanced experience, with space for accompanying and being deeply present with each other alongside the space and freedom to be with our own authentic human experience

  • A sacred container inherently loving and brave that in its nature calls forth the capacity of the peaceful vibrant aliveness within us to meet and enjoy the wholeness of our shared, fully embodied human experience, exactly as we are right now, without judgement

  • Age 20+, maximum 18 sacred dancers per ceremony, no prior dance/movement experience needed

  • As this is a virtual ceremony, it is by attending that you agree to the Disclaimer, Dancing Guidelines and General Ceremony Guidelines as listed below.

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Next Ceremony: March 7, 2026 see flyer for more information.

 

To Inquire or Register: E-mail forestmdpsych@proton.me. If it's your first ceremony, include your name as it appears on Zoom with Subject: Aliveness and your preference for morning or afternoon on any upcoming Monday or Friday for us to connect for a one time 20 min meet-and-greet and soundcheck. This meeting will allow you the time and space to ask questions and also to resolve any potential technical issues prior to the ceremony as we are not able to resolve individual technical issues during the ceremony. I ask for contributions of $25-$75 to support the preparation of the container, sent by e-transfer to the same e-mail. Please contribute what you can and come no matter what you can afford. If you would like to contribute beyond these edges, your support is appreciated through conscious contributions aligned with your means.

 

The Fluid and Spacious Path

Waiting room opens at 5:40pm, closes at 6pm honouring the edges and sanctity of the container.

 

5:45 pm

Settling into Stillness/Preparation: Settling into the space in our own way with only music and writing prompts/practices. If you prefer no music during this time, feel free to mute your sound or lower the volume to support your preparation process.

 

6 pm 

Vision and Opening Circle: Optional sharing and either meditation OR shared practice of embodying relational presence & self-understanding

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Rest/Nourishment/Break

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Prelude to the dance (warm-up): facilitator-guided collective conscious dancing embodiment practice

 

7 pm 

Free form (self and music-guided) conscious ecstatic dancing to a specially curated sacred musical trip

 

8 pm

Settling into Stillness/Integration (cool down): writing prompts/practices carrying the sacred dance into the dance of life

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Rest/Nourishment/Break

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830 pm

Closing Circle: collective embodied integration, optional sharing

Space for more verbal sharing and optional consent based sharing of reflections of synchronicity

Closing Invitation for transitioning into the Ceremony of Life

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9-9:15 pm

Optional feedback for the container’s evolution, questions/guidance

Disclaimer

Every moment of the ceremony is voluntary. By attending, you agree to listen to your body, take complete ownership for its needs and experiences and complete responsibility in choosing to respond in ways that are safe enough and unique to you. By attending, you agree to take full responsibility for your physical, mental and emotional well-being and to not hold Farah Forest legally, financially or professionally responsible for any reason including, but not limited to accidents, injuries, health conditions, permanent disability of any kind, death or any adverse outcomes while participating in, or that might arise from a conscious dancing ceremony. By attending, you agree to completely and unconditionally release Farah Forest of all liability now and forever in the future. While you may find that our shared human embodied presence is a loving and brave container that accompanies, supports and holds you, the ceremony is not a patient physician therapeutic relationship. I’m not able to see those I meet through Conscious Dancing Ceremony for psychotherapy due to the boundaries of the professional therapeutic relationship. This condition honours the edges of you, me, the professional therapeutic relationship and the ceremony sangha (community) and it respects the sanctity of each of these loving and brave containers. There are numerous other wonderful facilitators of conscious ecstatic dancing online and in person available elsewhere.​

Dancing Guidelines

  1. We dance with respect for ourselves, the sacred space, and each other. We use the word sacred with reference to the awe inspiring wisdom or deeper knowing within each of us beyond conceptual thought that is deeply respected in each of us and so too in the space we co-create. Each person's embodied voice and presence are essential - see General Ceremony Guidelines for support around how to respectfully share your embodied voice and presence and decline invitations to share.
     

  2. We dance honouring the sanctity, confidentiality and privacy of the space. Audio/Video recording or photographs/screen shots are absolutely prohibited.
     

  3. We dance exactly as we are, with bare consciousness and without substances, without phones, without judgements.
     

  4. We dance by showing up, meeting each moment of life in our bodies, exactly as life is and exactly as we are. This includes any expression through dance, whether full expansion to the edges of the body’s motion, complete stillness, tiny inner movements, journal writing, doing another art form during the trip or witnessing others with playful love and wonder.
     

  5. We dance with body language. We dance without words to support a fully embodied meditation, free from conceptualizing thoughts. There is no verbal instruction from the facilitator. Vocalizations, including laughing or crying are so welcome.
     

  6. We dance with bare feet, unless we have physical conditions that require footwear. We dance without shoes to connect deeply with the earth.
     

  7. We dance with cameras on, with full permission to be out of frame by turning the camera, moving out of view or dimmed lights, allowing for us to be seen in exactly the way we are ready to be seen.
     

  8. We dance to a sacred musical trip that is wavelike nature, emulating the stages of life, beginning with sounds of gentle stillness in holding life’s emergence, then sounds of flowing or walking the twists and turns of life’s path, then peaking in intensity before slowly returning to stillness. Notice whether you like or dislike a song and consider staying present with your body either way, supporting, holding and accompanying your body by feeling its experience and emotions, filtering out the sound, moving in opposition to the music or being still and breathing.​

General Ceremony Guidelines

  1. Every moment of the ceremony is voluntary, including both verbal and non-verbal shared embodied presence practices during opening and closing circle. To respectfully decline collective verbal practices, say pass. To respectfully decline collective non-verbal practices, bring your palms together vertically and tip them forward. To respectfully share verbally or non-verbally, use the raise hand function on Zoom or respond to the real-time prompt/guidance by the facilitator.
     

  2. Aside from the opening and closing circle, this is non-verbal practice where together we play and experiment with speaking in body language. The facilitator too will only speak to offer guidance or journal prompts/practices during opening circle, prelude to the dance and closing circle. We welcome this sacred experience as it is and create space for more verbal sharing, feedback and questions after the ceremony.
     

  3. In sharing and receiving non-verbally and verbally, everything is confidential and remains in the ceremony. Absolutely no audio/video recording or screenshots/photographs.
     

  4. Speak for your own experience, with minimal personal story. None of us are broken so there's nothing to fix. Consider that your receiving of verbal and non-verbal sharing from others and your embodied presence are your greatest offerings to each person walking their own unique path. You may inwardly recite the mantra, "We're accompanying each other into aliveness," or "We're all just walking each other home," to remember the intentions of this practice.
     

  5. Be mindful of speaking time and allow a moment of silence (full breath) between speakers. This shows respect, honours the practice of accompanying through embodied receiving and allows space for everyone to process the verbal or non-verbal sharing and for the speaker to experience the profound benefits of being received in collective embodiment. We can only offer to others what we perceive, through present and shared embodied experiences, that we have received ourselves.
     

  6. No virtual space can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. This ceremony is held via Zoom Pro for Healthcare, optimizing privacy and confidentiality. The meeting is locked and waiting room closed at 6pm.

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Receiving
Support for Receiving the Nourishment of this Ceremony

What do you need from your tech devices to feel supported in receiving nourishment?

  • Wireless or HDMI cable connection to a larger display (monitor or TV) for a high fidelity shared experience

  • Phone and other device notifications turned off

  • Wide camera view to be witnessed in your wholeness of movement or narrow to explore being out of view when needed.

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What do you need from your space to feel supported in receiving nourishment?

  • Freedom to move, flooring gentle on the feet, privacy, no interruptions. Bed or living or office area.

  • Lighting a candle, adjusting the temperature of the room or sacred elements unique to you

 

What items of self-understanding do you need to feel supported in receiving nourishment?

  • Pen/pencil, journal/paper, art supplies

 

What does your mind or heart need to feel supported in receiving nourishment?

  • Loving-kindness, presence, openness, compassion, non-judgement, playfulness, freedom, wonder, to know that you are honoured, respected and valued in your unique embodied wholeness, exactly as you are

 

What does your body need to feel supported in receiving nourishment?

  • Food/nourishment prior to ceremony, comfortable clothing that allows you to move freely and to sweat, blankets or pillows for periods of gentle stillness, hydration (water bottle), snacks close b​y

 

Contact Me

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Leave a message on my confidential voicemail (no texts) and I'll call you back within a few days.​

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phone:   613-583-8878

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mail:     PO Box 25

             Kemptville, ON K0G 1J0

We acknowledge that we are on the unceded territory of the Anishinaabe and the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat and Kanienʼkehá꞉ka Peoples. We acknowledge our shared understanding to cultivate respect and honour towards and to sustain these lands and the natural resources contained within. We recognize that many terms may be preferred over others, and that preferred terms can change over time. We honour Indigenous Peoples in our community with the terms they wish to be identified.

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