Embodied Movement

5Rhythms Movement Practice

Open Floor Movement Practice

Sundays – 11:00 – 1:00pm

1st and 3rd Sundays – 5Rhythms

2nd and 4th Sundays – Open Floor

with Karyn Tonkinson Garter

5Rhythms and Open Floor Practices Accredited Teacher

Embrace all that you are and who you’d like to be.

Embrace what you feel in your body – all your physical sensations, aches, pains, the flow of your blood moving through your veins, the pulsing of your heartbeat, the muscles as they expand and contract.

Embrace all your feelings – pleasure, anger, fear, frustration, anticipation, sadness, joy, love, and everything in between.

Embrace your thoughts – your dreams, your wishes, your confusion and the repetitive swirls that exist in your creative, brilliant mind.

Embrace your prayers and connection to the sacred.

Embrace your own being and its own unique expression as it moves through the rhythms of life.

Embrace each other and the dynamics that arrive while doing so.

Embrace your need for solitude, connection, belonging and spirit.

Embrace it all in the dance and through the dance

No one is too old, too out of shape, too anything to discover and embrace all that is within you and around you, to embrace the beauty that is you, within another, within community and all around us in the sacred unknown

Investment

$20.00 ($22.00 by CC) – $180 – 10 Pack ($185 by CC)

More information

info@mandala-cfta.org – 815-788-8553 or 815-814-8503

Karyn Tonkinson Garter

Teacher and Producer

I was born to a young mother and raised by teenagers aged 15-18. Being raised by teenagers in the age of Elvis and a mother who loved country music, show tunes and musicals, sowed the field for a life influenced and experienced through the lens of theater and music

In my teens and twenties, I lived in the world of rock and roll. I also became involved in theater, studying at Steppenwolf Theater with John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. My favorite production was Sam Shepard’s Cowboy Mouth, playing a character based on one of my hero’s, Patti Smith

It was at a class with John Malkovich, I had an experience that brought an awareness of having to deal with being a survivor of sexual abuse. I then joined a self-help group for survivors at Ravenswood Hospital where I eventually trained to lead these groups

Soon after, I saw the book “Maps to Ecstasy” by Gabrielle Roth, creator of the 5Rhythms Movement Practice. I bought the book and after reading, called their organization regarding workshops. She was coming to Chicago the next weekend on my birthday. I was hooked. I began producing 5Rhythms workshops in 1996, graduating from the 5Rhythms Training in 1998.

In 2001, I founded Mandala, a non-for-profit organization which offers programs that inspire and give space for transformation and healing. In 2015, I was honored to be a trainee in the first Open Floor Teachers Training, along with becoming a working member of Open Floor International

I am devoted to holding space for transformation and community, my family, my husband Carl, my fur-babies – Mya, Mollie and Mazzy and my friends.