2026 Workshops
Washington DC, USA
NOV.13-14.2026
FRIDAY 6:30-9:30PM
SAT 11-6PM
Pittsburgh, PA USA
DEC.11-14.2026
FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
Crozet, VA
Richmond, VA
Crozet, VA
LUMINOUS ABSENCE: A 5Rhythms® Solstice Exploration With Jeffrey Boynton
This autumnal season of darkness, of lengthening nights and diminishing light holds us in an essential energy, an intuitive space of regeneration and inner growth. The coming season of winter brings with it the return of the light, and a long period of rest for many forms of life in this hemisphere. Sap slows, heart rates drop into hibernation, birds absent themselves to warmer climates, emptying the skies. Crisp leaves rest on the forest floor as the ground grows cold. We bring the warmth inside our homes, into our hearth, with practices that soothe and comfort.
As we approach the winter solstice, I invite you to dance the polarities of the 5Rhythms as we explore each rhythm in its endarkened and enlightened expression. This daylong journey of movement, connection, ritual, and integration is offered as a waypoint on your path to the regenerative, restful, and deeply nourishing energy that winter can offer.
Pricing:
$99 early bird rate available in limited quantities until Nov 30
$135 Dec 1 to date of event, or after early bird sells out
Authentic: A 5Rhythms® Waves Council for Men
with Nima Yazdanfar and Jeffrey Boynton
Allow the simple and potent WAVES map of the 5Rhythms to reconnect and deepen your connection to what you are in service to. Awareness; from masculine presence, informs our embodied exploration with other men in a conscious container uniting us in a shared experience of our playfulness and lightness of being, as men in the world. Not another ordeal to prove yourself a man, a playground to find delight and relief in the refuge of contentment.
In this 1.5 day Waves workshop, with the father rhythm of Staccato as our guide we will practice:
Remembering what it means to be in community, to be included
Finding the shapes that beat with our clear intention
Releasing our destructive out-of-control habits into the uncontrolled cauldron of creativity
Dreaming into being a life of mission and service
Receiving the spaciousness of our consciousness in motion
“Attachment guarantees that you will wake up every morning with a mission: to prove you are who you think you are—today. But it’s a total energy drain. You’re so busy performing a role that you miss out on the freedom to improvise, to be real rather than rehearsed.”
– Gabrielle Roth, Connections: The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom
Pricing:
$99 early bird rate available in limited quantities until October 31
$175 November to date of event, or after early bird sells out
Equilibrium: A 5Rhythms® Equinox Exploration With Jeffrey Boynton
This soothing season of release and bounty, of shorter days and cooling winds, delights us in an exuberant display of color and abundance, a reflective space of gratitude and luciferous change. The coming season of autumn brings a shift into decidedly cooler and longer nights; a time for harvesting, fruition, and transition for many forms of life in this hemisphere. Leaves brighten, crisp and fall. Melancholy musings turn our focus inward as the space between the possibilities of Summer and emptiness of Winter arrives. Birds begin to fly to warmer climates, opening the soundscapes of our mornings and evenings into a growing silence. Fruit and leaves begin to litter the forest floor as their bodies nourish whatever grows next. Some of us venture out into the wilds while the temperate weather persists, gathering around fires, with practices that acknowledge and give thanks. Some return to learning and the halls and chambers of curiosity, reconfiguring families and offering new opportunities to the next generations.
As we approach the autumnal equinox, I invite you to dance the polarities of the 5Rhythms as we explore each rhythm in its endarkened and enlightened expression. This journey of movement, connection, ritual, and integration is offered as a waypoint on your path to the reflective, soothing, and generous energy of harvest that autumn can offer.
Pricing:
$99 early bird rate available in limited quantities until Aug 31
$135 September 1 to date of event, or after early bird sells out
Practice: A 5Rhythms® workshop with Jeffrey Boynton
This workshop is an inquiry into the 5Rhythms as a practice.
The surest way to understand the 5Rhythms' powerful potential is to move our bodies with intention, however we are able, through Wave after Wave after Wave. Our dance becomes practice – and we become more proficient, as practitioners – as we show up, over time, in almost any inner state and external circumstance, dancing with others and alone; with little energy or range and with a lot; with different life moments, questions, and emotions; for seconds, minutes, hours, or for days.
In this practice, the specific nature of each Rhythm invites us to know ourselves in distinct ways and capacities, and to deepen into this way of knowing, of being in contact, over time. We practice shifting from Rhythm to Rhythm and Wave to Wave, cultivating our ability to live fluidly, and to respond to change. We practice giving ourselves permission to be every part of who we are, while noticing and being with what is – however it happens to be.
Through practice, and by sincerely giving our time and attention, we follow the road to building innate skill and developing the sense of embodied safety that personal experience and proficiency can bring. Then, we can effortlessly improvise within our own earned understanding of what is possible. With practice, we can relate with more ground and more presence to what is moving, to what is needed, and to who and what is alive around and between us. As we touch this place of knowing, nurturing, and unleashing our full selves, we encourage others in our world to do the same.
Workshop participants will be provided access to several of Jeffrey’s waves for home practice via Mixcloud to support their personal practice and inquiry before and integration after the workshop.
Pricing:
$99 early bird rate available in limited quantities until September 27
$135 September 28 to date of event, or after early bird sells out
Dance Loft on 14
4618 14th Street Northwest
Washington, DC, 20011
UNIFY: A 5Rhythms Exploration of the Mature Masculine
Connected Visionary Focused Empowering
These qualities of the mature masculine are subverted by the patriarchy, the lying politician, the abusive lover, and the gangster; symptomatic of a society that disproportionately reveres the boy masquerading as man. The immature masculine has its place in the vital and vibrant spark of boyhood. When it fails to develop and takes the place of mature masculine awareness and leadership in the actions of men and perceptions of women, all are wounded.
In this weekend Waves workshop for all people, we will try on the many shapes of the masculine, tapping our body intelligence to sift and move the stories and patterns, and distilling the essence of our present awareness of masculine energy into embodied action.
“Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.”
– Gabrielle Roth
Produced by Alyssa Jurewicz-Johns
Mountain Light Retreat, Crozet, VA
11am-6pm
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Richmond Movement Center
11am-6pm
Sunday, October 11, 2026
Mountain Light Retreat, Crozet, VA
11am-6pm
Saturday, December 19, 2026