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Reconnect with your body. Move with what’s here. Find your way back to yourself.
Befriending Embodied Movement is a trauma-informed, self-paced introduction to the 5Rhythms® movement practice.
Whether you’re feeling disconnected from your body, overwhelmed by emotion, or unsure how to begin, this course offers a gentle, accessible way in. Through guided movement, somatic awareness, and emotional expression, you’ll learn to process what words can’t touch, and build lasting pathways to presence, resilience, and inner freedom.
About the Course
This course is a gentle, trauma-informed invitation to come back into your body, exactly as you are. Rather than thinking your way through emotions or pushing them aside, you’ll learn to move, express, and metabolize what’s alive in you—grief, joy, tension, longing, overwhelm.
Whether you’re living with chronic stress or illness, new to movement, or seeking to deepen your existing practice, Befriending Embodied Movement offers a practical and soulful entry into the 5Rhythms®. From breath and micro-movements to full-bodied expression, this is a return to your own rhythm.
Let the body move what is ready to move.
Let your body lead.
Meet your Guides
Layah Jane Singer-Wilson
Layah Jane Singer-Wilson is a healing artist—a teacher, dancer, mother, and musician. For 24 years, 5Rhythms® dance has been a central catalyst in her growth, and in 2014, she became a certified teacher of the practice. She is passionate about offering dancers sacred space to experience movement as medicine, and since 2003, she has facilitated expressive movement for all ages, on all kinds of dance floors—classrooms, gyms, offices, schools, Zoom rooms, barns, fields, and studios—including at Toronto's conscious dance hubs, The Move and Ecstatic Dance Toronto.
Layah’s musical offerings are those that rock her heart, move her soul, and make her sweat, whether it’s a funky groove, a soulful melody, or a big thumping beat.
Her 5Rhythms® facilitation is infused with expressive enthusiasm, a fascination with the weave of ritual and improvisational art, and a reverent love of creative practice as both a transformational and political act. She is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher accredited by the 5Rhythms Teachers Association and a member of the International Conscious Movement Teachers Association.
Simona Irwin
Simona Irwin is a mindfulness teacher, neuroplasticity coach, and facilitator who specializes in supporting individuals struggling with chronic illness, complex fear states, and emotional overwhelm. She brings her expertise to her online community space and monthly mindfulness and constellation circles in Toronto, creating warm, inclusive containers where somatic awareness, nature connection, and authentic belonging intersect.
Through mindfulness, movement, parts work, and systemic constellations, Simona's work fosters embodied resilience and relational repair. Her approach centers on reciprocity, supporting each person’s path toward wholeness while honoring the larger ecosystems—human and more-than-human—we belong to. Simona is a devoted student of 5Rhythms® and the mystery of the big dance.
Accessibility at the Heart
All Bodies, Many Ways to Practice
All Bodies, Many Ways to Practice
This course meets you exactly where you are. Nothing to change, fix, or prepare for.
Whether you're 5Rhythms-curious and exploring your first steps, living with pain or fatigue, navigating limited mobility, sensitivities, or feeling anxious or shy about beginning, movement is possible.
From imagined movement to full-body expression, all forms are welcome here.
All Bodies, Many Ways to Practice
All Bodies, Many Ways to Practice
All Bodies, Many Ways to Practice
Whether you're wanting to build a home practice, or preparing to join an online or in-person class, this course offers multiple ways in.
Start in your own space, at your own pace, creating a foundation that supports your practice, your way.
There’s no one right way to begin, only a willingness to meet yourself as you are.
Join our growing community of movers!
Start where you are. Move at your own pace.
Whether you’re arriving with curiosity, hesitation, or a long-held longing to feel more at home in your body, this space is for you. Befriending Embodied Movement was created with care, so you can begin gently, on your terms: whether that’s dancing in your kitchen, swaying in a chair, or simply imagining the rhythm from your bed.
We’ve walked this path ourselves and know how powerful it can be to be met exactly where you are. This course is a way in, a way back to your breath, your body, and your own unique rhythm.
We hope to see you soon!
With love,
Simona & Layah