Dance with Depth

Dance with Depth integrates emotional processing with deeply felt and embodied responses; listening, moving and being moved by the stories, the music, sounds and lyrics conveying the spirit, essence and power of Goddess myths mirroring themes in women's lives today. 

Memories and feelings pull the dancer inwards as voices and stories echo and rise in sync with dance and movement. 

We encourage each woman to listen to her body and allow it to respond in its own time and in its own way. 

A wide range of options to support psychological safety and also enhance sensory immersion are offered; exploring sight, light, sound, taste, smell and touch; grounding and integrating strong emotional responses that surface during Dance with Depth. 

The full arc of catharsis at Dance with Depth is carefully guided and held with trauma aware facilitation. 

Dance with Depth uses the sensory environment, sound, lyrics and embodied experience to guide women through emotional and identity shifts that talk therapy alone cannot touch. 

Music both activates and soothes the unconscious and the central nervous system; bypassing cognition; evoking memory and emotion with the power to create altered emotional states. 

Lyrics offer both cognitive resonance and symbolic meaning; they give language to experience; elicit recognition or rejection; challenge beliefs, and inspire growth. 

Movement and dance help to process and integrate emotions physically; releasing stored tension; allowing space for new beliefs, values, and the emergence of a new identity. 

SnakeShed invites women to Dance with Depth; to feel and understand the depth of their emotions, stories, beliefs, hopes, desires and experiences relating to:

Youth and Beauty

The Maiden's Curse

Kore

Psyche

Medusa

Internal and External Battles

The Art of War

Athena

The Morrigan

Durga

Love of Other versus Love of Self

When Love Meets Herself

Radha

Aphrodite

Inanna

The Transformative Power of Rage

Sacred Rage

Kali

Sekhmet

Lyssa

Sovereignty, Thresholds and Liminality

Still Sovereign in the Liminal

Hekate

Lilith

Persephone

Value and Abundance

My Cup Runneth Over

Oshun

Lakshmi

Hathor