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With Jewel Mathieson and musicians Robert Young and Steve Shain
3rd Sunday Evening of the month, 6:00-7:30pm
May 17, June 21, July 19, Aug 16
$12 per class
Sweat Your Prayers is an open dance floor with live, world-based music focused within the 5Rhythms™, designed to give you, the dancer, the opportunity to discover and deepen your awareness of your own personal experience and perhaps free the mind for a short while of it's endless stories and the stories around us while you practice listening to your body. The 5Rhythm™ Wave, flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness is designed to assist and catalyze you inward toward this beautiful experience of Self. We all have our own dance and each time you come to the dance floor your experience is unique. There are no dance steps to learn... only your own. No one is too old, or young, or too fat or too clumsy to move. As we connect deeper with the rhythms, they in turn help us connect into the feminine ways of the body through flowing, the masculine ways of the body through staccato, the wild-child of the dancing mind through Chaos, the balance of the soul-being in Lyrical and the dance of Spirit within Stillness. I look forward to dancing with you on the dance floor.
- Jewel and the Rhythm Ride
Facilitator JEWEL MATHIESON is an award-winning storyteller, an internationally published poet and a founding member of Sonoma's Center of the Universe Cafe. She has performed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with her band The Rhythm Ride, with conga master Bob Young and bass cello virtuoso Steve Shain. She has also been teaching movement for over twenty years, with an emphasis in the 5Rhythms™ practice of Gabrielle Roth. A graduate of Sonoma State University , I hold degrees in Psychology, Liberal Arts and Education and am a certified teacher/director specializing in Early Childhood Development and Movement.
Musician ROBERT YOUNG is a retired psychologist who has played drums since the 5th grade. He began studying congas after moving to Sonoma from the LA area in 1989 and has played for Jewel's classes for the past 15 years. He also has a body work practice and teaches qigong in Sonoma.
Musician STEVE SHAIN has been playing the string bass since 1963 in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Currently freelancing with poets, dancers, theater, jazzers, and improvisers in the Bay Area, Steve has played with Jewel and the Rhythm Ride since 1992 and was a founding member of the Rohnert Park Symphony.