Hello Dear Dance Divine Community, I want to welcome all the new faces at Dance Divine. I’m glad you have found us, and my hope is that it may offer you something that you have been looking for, perhaps in terms of healing, (re)connection, community, movement, music and fun. I know that when I first started, […]
Thank you to Estephania at Alkehmia who interviewed me about the upcoming “Coming Home” workshop. In it we touch on: – how we developed a persona as a way to get along with, or simply survive, our family system – how that persona became an area of competence and specialization – how that persona created roles […]
COMING HOME ~ A Return to SelfJune 29 to July 3, 2026 | 10 am to 5 pm | $795 p/p | Cambrian Hall Coming Home is an experiential, personal growth workshop that integrates Transpersonal Psychology with various somatic practices. The workshop consists of: theory/teaching segments facilitated movement group processes somatic techniques for release, integration, regulation, […]
“I highly recommend this workshop. I wish everyone could experience it. Jelena is an extremely gifted facilitator that created a very special container and community for deep connection with self and others, healing and growth. Her therapeutic use of self and capacity to hold space for others is beautiful and inspiring. Deepest gratitude. It was […]
THE THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS OF CONSCIOUS DANCE Dance Divine caters to a broad spectrum of people; some approach it from a therapeutic movement perspective and some simply enjoy free-style dancing. At the very least it’s an opportunity for us to get out of our heads and into a body-based awareness. And if we want to go a little deeper and […]
Will you hold another who has been touched by the darkness within? Will you love them enough to allow them to fall apart in your arms? To unravel, to become unglued, and to feel unbearably lost as the wisdom of their process unfolds? Will you be the space in which they can finally meet the […]
I remember hitting a point in my personal growth journey in overcoming depression where I was contemplating the notion of the ‘Ego-Promise’ and how the Ego-mind endows these constructs with the promise of ‘salvation’. These promises often look something like this; this promotion will ’save’ me, this new partner will ’save’ me, this new workshop, […]
We have come to be danced Not the pretty dance Not the pretty, pretty, pick me, pick me dance But the claw our way back into the belly Of the sacred, sensual animal dance The unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance The holding the precious moment in the palms of our hands […]
My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what […]