Events

Fireside Ecstatic Dance Series

Join us for a rotation of Ecstatic Dance Curators
Every 2nd Friday October - May
7:30 - 9:30 pm, doors open 7:15 pm
Each Ecstatic Dance Curator has their own theme and Vibe.

Next Dance 2026
Oct.9 - Shiva Shapalutka.
Nov. 13 - Laura D
Dec. 11 - Chris

Movement does not always have to serve the same intention.

Structured movement practices have their own principles, techniques, and forms—and often for good reason. Alongside them, there can also be space for a different kind of movement: a session devoted specifically to exploration rather than performance or technical execution.

Here, movement can follow sensation, impulse, emotion, and curiosity more freely. It might take the form of dance, free movement, or simply moving with attention to how the body is felt and experienced from within. Without the demands of a particular exercise or technique, exploration itself can become the intention.

Within more structured disciplines, this same quality of awareness may still exist, but more subtly—through noticing breath, tension, effort, emotion, or sensation while maintaining the form the movement requires.

The body continuously adapts to experience. Stress, injury, emotion, repetition, and environment can all influence muscular tension, breathing, posture, coordination, and the ways we instinctively organize movement. Some of these patterns are conscious; others operate beneath our usual awareness.

Free movement may offer another way of encountering deeper patterns of tension, emotion, and experience. Through spontaneous movement, some of these patterns may become more noticeable, find expression, or gradually begin to shift.

Perhaps this is where free movement becomes particularly interesting—not as a replacement for disciplined movement, but as another form of inquiry. A space where exploration and release can become the purpose of the session itself, allowing different layers of the mind-body relationship to be felt, observed, and perhaps gradually reorganized.

#MovementExploration #EmbodiedAwareness #MovementMedicine #BodyMind #FreeMovement

Meet your retreat art facilitator: Seva Waters

Seva is a trained meditation teacher and retired science educator with a lifelong passion for learning and creativity. She has studied at the Haliburton School of Art for over 17 summers and continues to deepen her artistic practice each year. Seva finds inspiration in the natural world, spending much of her time canoeing, hiking, and exploring the outdoors. In her London, Ontario studio, she expresses this connection through a wide range of artistic mediums.

Meet your retreat creator and host: Kim Louise Morrison
Kim is a Certified Coach, Qigong teacher, energy healer, retreat creator, and author who blends coaching and energetic practices to help people get out of their own way – and into lives of genuine joy, freedom, and fulfillment. All while actually enjoying the journey. She also is passionate about creating transformation retreats in nature that explore movement, mindfulness and creativity.

Autumn is arriving, and with it, an invitation to let go, recharge and reconnect.

Autumn Reset is a chance to be in community with like-hearted women, take time to create, and to be in nature.

It's the perfect opportunity to unplug from the external, let go of what's heavy, and finally feel like yourself.

This transformational experience includes:

🍂 Qigong - slow gentle movement - a beginner-friendly practice
🍂 Guided Meditation
🍂 Connection with Nature and Community
🍂 Delicious Lunch
🍂 A Meditative Art experience led by Seva Waters

🗓️ Saturday, October 3, 2026
🕑 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
💸 $187
📍The Living Centre, 5871 Bells Road, London ON