Resonance to Radiance

Sobre el retiro

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::  A New Year’s OneBody Dance Retreat : Opening the Portals

It is with joy that we invite you to a sacred journey from “Resonance to Radiance” this winter. Join us for a nourishing seven-day retreat in the breathtaking beachfront paradise of Mar de Jade, where we will commune deeply with our Soul Tribe and the natural world.

This is your invitation to leave the distractions of daily life behind and step into a spacious container for your OneBody Dance practice. As we complete the chapter of 2025 and welcome in 2026, we will dance, rest, and renew, crossing the threshold with open arms and radiant hearts.

We will shift our focus from the chronological stages of the human experience that we have been exploring this year to the expansive nature of the Cosmic being. Using the chakras as our guiding symbols, we will explore the deeper layers of wisdom and inner guidance within these vibrant energy centers through our dance.

We will use the wisdom of the chakras as portals to explore the power of transformative dance and through the magic of the three waves in our playlist structure we will create the conditions for your body, mind, and spirit to align. This alignment allows us to explore the living portal of Oneness, radiance, and divinity in our day to day lives.

We will practice holding space for our internal process, discovering how to stay with our authentic experience even when the external music or energy shifts. Throughout the week, we will cultivate keystones of authentic movement, including:

· WITNESSING the experience without judgment.

· HOLDING SPACE for ourselves and fellow dancers.

· BECOMING AWARE of the habits and stories that pull us out of the body.

· ENGAGING & DISENGAGING consciously with others and our own narratives.

A Conscious Completion & New Beginning

This retreat is a sacred container for completion. We will use dance and nourishing downtime to consciously integrate, digest, and close the year 2025. This intentional completion sets the stage to step into 2026 feeling profoundly rejuvenated, clear, and ready to shine your unique light.

Join us on the sacred journey to remember the power of your resonance and radiance! We are so looking forward to co-creating this magical experience with you.

Programa

General Flow with some changes depending on the day.

6-8am Coffee and tea available
9:30-10am Breakfast
10:30-12:30 OneBody Dance
1:30 – 2:30pm Lunch
Free Time: Relax / Beach / Optional Excursion
4–5:30pm OneBody Dance
5:30– 6:30pm: Community Time
6:30–7:30pm Dinner
7:30–9pm  Socialize / Rest

What Awaits You:

· Twice-Daily Dance: Most days, we will gather for immersive OneBody Dance sessions in mid-morning and early evening.
· Time for Self: Mid-week there will be time for you to explore, receive a spa treatment, or simply integrate in solitude.
· Nourishment for Body & Soul: Enjoy three delicious, home-grown, organic meals daily in a stunning beachfront setting.
· Sacred Celebration: Mark the turning of the year in a conscious, connected, and celebratory way with your community.
· Lifelong Memories: Create deep connections and open the portals of love within a supportive and joyful tribe.

Sobre los maestros

Tara Joy MacKeigan

Tara is a guide and facilitator dedicated to authentic inner exploration. With over 25 years of experience, she creates safe, supportive spaces for intuitive witnessing and inner brilliance to flourish. Her path was shaped early by loss and instability leading her to the healing arts. At age ten, she used writing to navigate her mother’s passing. At thirteen, she turned to collage to express her angst, and by sixteen, she was using photography to tell visual stories. Her journey crystallized in her late teens upon experiencing breathwork for the first time and revealed the body as her greatest teacher and tool. She went on to study Kundalini Yoga, receiving her teaching certificate in 2003. In 2006, she walked into her first movement class with Kimberly Jonas, and instantly found her dance home.  She spent 16 years moving with and studying with the Body Mantra community. For over two decades Tara has been building conscious community around the world and offering a blend of her core modalities of: Coaching, Kundalini Yoga, Therapeutic Art and Conscious Movement.  She has spent significant time offering her gifts to the Gulf Islands and Vancouver BC, Bahay Kalipay and Maia Eco Village in the Philippines and her hometown of Boulder Colorado. In 2016 and 2020 she was initiated into one of her deepest callings of becoming a mother to two glorious boys. And most recently in 2023 Tara stepped into the co-creation of the OneBody Dance community. She holds the role of Music Muse and provides healing soundscapes for a growing community of dancers every week. Rooted in her grounded presence and deep sensitivity, Tara’s offerings are a synthesis of her own extensive global and internal exploration. She is grateful to offer a profound space of healing and will continue to answer the call to create a world she wishes to see filled with joy and beauty.

Suzanne Connolly Howes

With over 35 years of teaching Suzanne has developed the art of deep listening and honoring the individual process of learning. Suzanne has been dancing her whole life, studied and danced with Anna Halprin for five years and was a practitioner of Body Mantra with Kimberly Jonas for over 18 years. Suzanne creates the space and the invitation to let go of thought and direction to allow the music to guide the dance in sacred movement. She embodies and models movement that is informed by the ancestral knowledge we access through music that is embedded in our sinews, bones and muscles. She creates a welcoming place to respond to the language of dance in a way that transcends the spoken word. Suzanne provides a safe and inviting place within the collective dance space for reflection and integration. In everything Suzanne does her underlying commitment is to collaboration and co-creation and she is thrilled to be expanding the OneBody offering to a week long retreat for like minded spirits to come together in community to have profound and magical conversations through dance. Suzanne taught Environmental Sciences for 25 years and will use her art and her love of the natural world to inform the community altar that will be developed throughout the week. She will create visual invitations to explore the Chakra themes of the retreat more deeply as we honor the sacred gifts of Gaia and our connections to her and the cosmos.