Calling All Beat Keepers to the Dance Floor

August 22, 2022

Dearest Rhythm Hearts ~

After a 6 month healing journey, I am stepping back into the realm of space holding and facilitating movement ritual. I open up into community with a heart full of grace and body full of knowledge from facing vast new challenges and gaining deep wisdoms from navigating the experience of losing physical sight.

This recent somatic adventure was an exploration of permission to be still and move slowly, silently with pain, restriction and fear. Re-patterning my nervous system AGAIN - was necessary after 3 eye surgeries that brought my childhood eye trauma knocking loudly at the back door of my body mind.

My eyes are stable, for now. Malignant Glaucoma is a life sentence, so there is no 'cure', just constant maintenance and care. The type of care that requires me to proceed with caution and to tune into the silent pulse that reverberates within.

I have lost what little sight I had in my right eye, as my optic nerve was badly damaged.

However, I have gained the gift of resourcing my sensorial awareness of sound, touch, taste and smell - falling into deeper personal experiences without relying on full sight. I will write more on this later. But for now, all I can say is that I feel plugged into energy source and have further developed my instinct and intuition by navigating this dark part of my path.

It is in love and vitality that I send this invitation to you for us to join together in breath, body and beat this fall.

We will resume First Friday 5Rhythms SWEATS : THE SILENT PULSE at Wightman and will begin to offer 5Rhythms and movement ritual workshops at SNEHA in Lawerenceville.

It is going to be a juicy, rich autumn. Keep scrolling down for announcements and ticket links.

With all the love I got ~ I hope to meet your feet in the beat this season.

Alyssa

Photo cred: Courtney Holiday

LET'S MEET IN THE BEAT - 5RHYTHMS TIX HERE

FIRST FRIDAY 5RHYTHMS SWEAT: A MOVING MEDITATION PRACTICE

THE SILENT PULSE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND

COMMUNITY OFFERING DISCOUNT- BRING YOUR FRIEND!

****BUY ONE TIX GET ONE 1/2****

Coupon Code LUMINOUSMOVES22 when you purchase two tickets.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7TH

7:00PM TO 9:00PM - $20

WIGHTMAN BUILDING : 3RD FLOOR BALLROOM

5604 Solway Street, Pgh 15217

5Rhythms® SWEAT with Alyssa :

Alyssa will spin Waves, holding space for this class with minimal instruction. This is an opportunity to delve deeper into your personal dance meditation, following the body’s intelligence, while guided by the music through the rhythms of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness. The 5Rhythms® – are states of Being.

They are a map to everywhere we want to go, on all planes of consciousness – inner and outer, forward and back, physical, emotional, and intellectual.

Alyssa has been dancing the 5Rhythms since 2009 and is a Licensed 5Rhythms Spaceholder in Pittsburgh. She is mentored by a circle of powerful moving mirrors that facilitate this practice :

Ann Kite of DC, Kierra Foster-Ba of NYC, Vehila Tranne and Allesandro Morruzi of San Francisco as well as the sacred teachers, her dance family, the moving feet that keep this practice alive and feel the beat worldwide.

All are welcome to this practice! There are no choreographed steps to learn. Bring your curiosity and bare feet.

Want to learn more, visit 5Rhythms.com OR www.b3productions.com

LET'S MEET IN THE BEAT - 5RHYTHMS TIX HERE

RHYTHM & RITUAL : A 5RHYTHMS SWEAT

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19

7PM to 9PM - $25

Sneha Yoga & Wellness Collective

5432 Butler Street Pittsburgh, PA2

**Space is limited and pre-registration is encouragedSpa01United State

RHYTHM & RITUAL AT SNEHA - REGISTER HERE

By utilizing Breath, Sound Vibrations (pure acoustic & Live Soundscape), Guided visualization and restorative shapes (along with yoga props) we lead your body-mind into activating the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS).

When the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS) is activated, it slows our heart and breathing rates, lowers blood pressure and promotes digestion. Our body enters a state of deep relaxation, and this relaxation breeds recovery.

The more time we spend in a PSNS state, the more vital we are.

Join us for a somatic sound journey.

Exchange: $35

**This is a floor based practice

SETTLE INTO THE STILLPOINT AT SNEHA - REGISTER HERE