With Aviva Gold & Toni Bergins (creator of Journey Dance)

This is a New Expressive Creative Workshop developed by Toni Bergins and Aviva Gold that has received rave reviews!

Come, venture into the Paint and Dancing Temple. Allow breath and evocative music to move your body. Allow your curious sensuality to apply paint to paper. Painting and Dancing: each a powerful ancient ritual for healing, here combined within a tribal community. The Dance hastens connection to Painting Source and the Painting thrives on embodiment in the Dancing Source. Back and forth, building steam on a journey to radical breakthrough—to the Beloved. This is not Journey Dance or Painting From the Source as you knew it. Toni and Aviva effectively meld both into a new alchemy. Anyone with a willing heart and adventurous spirit can embark on this journey to the authentic Self.

Paint and dance as deep prayer. Paint and dance your worst fears and deepest passion. Paint not for outcome, but to simply be in the moment. Paint and dance till your mind releases judgments, comparisons, and personal stories. Paint till the painting paints you, till the dance dances you, until you paint the dance and dance the paint. This is living poetic myth. Alter an image from this place and your body, dance, and dreams are altered. In this sacred container, painters and dancers bond into an openhearted community: a triumph for one becomes a triumph for all. Synchronicities abound.

This workshop uses paint, dance, and other creative modes to dive deep into the Shamanistic source of all creation and healing. It is not a painting or dance class, but the subsequent beauty and grace can far surpass any formal class. Please note: This workshop requires a commitment to an extended schedule, abstinence from over stimulating substances, being present with possible strong emotions, and following guidelines that will be sent upon registration.

Required reading: Gold, Painting From the Source.
Suggested experiential CD: Bergins, Journey Dance
Suggested DVD: Gold, Painting From the Source

($30 materials fee paid directly in the workshop)

FEEDBACK FOR "PAINT AND

DANCE FROM THE SOURCE"

Esalen Institute, 2008

"Painting and Dancing From the source was one of the best weeks of my life. The combination allowed complete flow of energy and creativity. Please make this happen again so more people can experience the magic of this workshop."

"The safety of this group, these teachers, and the 24/7 protected space was necessary for my active imagination work of today. The painting deeply affected and effected my dance and the dance absolutely invaded my painting. These two mediums mixed with the Shaman magic of these two teachers held me, evoked me, and blessed me. I loved this workshop!"

"Incredible integration of Paint and Dance which allowed me to understand that I already hear the source — I just needed to listen more carefully. Joy, laughter tears, all welcomed and celebrated. A safe journey to the place I want to be."

"Amazing with a capital A. So healing that this week will be transforming my life for a very very long time. Loved it! Power and fun experience."

"Magnificent ! Aviva and Toni created a space of authenticity and empowerment. I deeply felt a tremendous sense of acceptance and understanding. Having you both participate in dance and painting allowed us all to go very deep. I felt a strong sense of trust and love from the first moment and am grateful, moved, and freer. Schedule Aviva and Toni regularly and often."

"The workshop was a powerful and fun experience for both the painting and dance components as each one heightened and built on the other, enhancing each process. I would always choose to do painting with dance if available. I appreciated the process the teachers used to bring us into our own experiences and develop the work in a safe and joyful way."

Paint and Dance Evaluations,

Kripalu Center, September 2009

Amazing. Deep. Transformational. Amazing. Incredible. Most meaningful was the facilitation and intuition of the teachers to allow each participant to find their own personal transformation. Painter and Dancer

Phenomenal, profound, Life changing, vital, supportive. Authentic, larger then life, inspiring. Most meaningful was the heart opening space to explore and unfold, Aviva and Toni facilitating my amazing breakthrough and all the love and support provided.

Painting and Dancing were perfect compliment spiritually. MIND AND HEART AND BODY OPENING. Absolutely great combo. Wonderfully open, real, genuinely caring. Aviva and Toni are the best team for personal growth.

This work shop was life changing and extraordinary. Aviva and Toni facilitated a "birthing" for me that I never ever would have allowed myself had not my trust in them and the process and the source been so strong due to the container they created. I am grateful that this Center hosts such amazing healers. It is helping the world so in need of healing.

How can one put into words what does not lend itself to words? It went beyond concepts, beyond thinking... to the wordless heart of Being.

BEYOND WORDS. LIFE CHANGING. I WILL BE BACK!

Most meaningful was opening myself through dance and uninhibited painting expression, and chance to feel a true connection with others... heart opening, mind freeing, ceremonial bliss.

Paint and Dance was a wonderful and transformative experience. The 5 days allowed us to delve deeply into the movement/ painting expression. The atmosphere was created beautifully, thoughtfully and soulfully by Aviva and Toni. I very much appreciated the wisdom of the leaders and the care they took in guiding this workshop.

Most meaningful to me was how painting and dancing completely opened my bodies energy and the guidance to let source energy speak through my painting. This was among the top 3 most transformative experiences in my life. This is a program that can/ is/ will change the world in the most concrete way. I have been given the greatest gift, one that I can continue to give to myself and others, supporting me as I travel my path of being. Bless you both for doing your work in the world, which is helping me do mine.