Move in whatever way your body wants - on your own, or together with our online community.
You can be on- or off-camera.
Log in, tune-in, and Shake... get your blood flowing!
Here’s a touching surprise 4th birthday video created by Erica Ross in collaboration with Shake community members celebrating and expressing so eloquently how they’ve been impacted by the Shake through the past four years:
☀️ Schedule ☀️
Times listed in Eastern Time Zone
All Shakes are in the same Zoom room
Monday through Friday:
Rise & Shine Shake
8:45am Warm-up
9:00am Main set
9:45am Sharing circle
10:00am Breathe into our day
☀️ Contributions ☀️
We’ve chosen a funding model called “Pay from your Heart”...
Try out the dance for free! If you love it and want to support us in continuing to offer it, please visit https://fundrazr.com/RiseShineShake
PayPal (Canadian or US funds) and Interac e-transfers are also appreciated!
☀️ ZOOM LOG-IN INFO ☀️
To help protect the safety of our Zoom container, we send a weekly email with the log-in information. To register for this, go to: http://eepurl.com/g9btHr
☀️ What to expect ☀️
Music you can move to - shake, wiggle, tap, bob... perhaps even dance.
Friends & strangers shaking, jumping, twisting, rolling, stretching, exercising, and moving freely -- like no one’s watching.
Minimal direction.
Names of the musical artists & track names are listed in the Zoom chat.
While there is some conversation in the Zoom chat (about the music, about what the music or movement has stirred up, etc), there is no expectation to read any of it or to respond! Some people don't look at the chat at all.
☀️ Sharing Circle ☀️
Following the 45-minute main set, we take a few moments for ourselves and then breathe a few breaths together. The floor is then opened for sharing about the experience: speaking, displaying art, reading a poem or composition, or making a request.
Our Rise and Shine Facebook group
☀️ Deeper Dive ☀️
On Wednesdays, Erica Ross & Michael Haltrecht hold space for Deeper Dive - an hour-long sharing & support circle 10:15am-11:15am ET.
It's a separate event from the Shake, and you are welcome to join even if you didn't make it to the Shake.
It follows the Pay-from-the-Heart model like the Shake, but to a separate Interac email address: erica@ericaross.com
☀️ Our Community Culture☀️
If any of these don’t feel good to you, please let us know!
We:
✓ keep ourselves muted except while we're speaking.
✓ keep our activities & sharing family-friendly.
✓ join with video on or off. (Truly no need to be seen on-camera!)
✓ do whatever we need to do - dance, stretch, eat, garden, work, play with our pets, cry.
✓ refrain from capturing video or photos.
✓ hold respect, compassion, and open-heartedness as principle values.
✓ listen to whatever music we want.
✓ participate in the chat or completely ignore it.
✓ maintain confidentiality. We consider everything personal that is mentioned in the sharing circles and Deeper Dives as confidential. If we feel compelled to bring up a topic that has been previously discussed, we do so without details that would make it possible to identify the people.
✓ we speak about our personal experience (we avoid talking about others’ experiences or we obtain their consent beforehand).
✓ don’t “yum” someone else’s “yuck” nor “yuck” someone else’s “yum”
✓ practise obtaining consent. For example, if we’d like to pin someone, and they don’t have ’YP’ in their name, we ask them in the chat.
✓ practise self-responsibility. For example, when we are uncomfortable being seen, we turn off our video.
✓ ask for support when we need it.
✓ prefix ’1YP’ to our Zoom name to show interest to having pinned dances.
✓ prefix ’no pin’ or ’NP’ to our Zoom name to show no interest to having pinned dances.
(’Pin’ is a Zoom feature that makes one person’s image your focus.)
✓ are mindful of our witnessing or watching of others. Even though we are interacting over Zoom, people can sense when they’re being watched for extended periods of time (even 30 seconds) and it can feel creepy.
☀️ Invitations ☀️
Honour yourself - listen to your body
Shake
Be awkward
Be silly
Be solo
Interact
Graze (brief interactions with others)
Mirror (a funhouse mirror!)
Riff off other people’s movements
Lead; Follow
Make eye contact; Avoid eye contact
Move around your space
Stay in one spot
Sit in chairs
Use as dance partners: the floor, your walls, chairs, couches, walkers, tables, beds, foam rollers, stability balls, canes…
No need to say good bye. No commitment to stay until the end.
☀️ Intentions ☀️
To stay connected with each other in this time of separation & distance
To reconnect with ourselves, our bodies, our movements
To reconnect with our living spaces
To get our blood flowing
To share what’s alive & moving for us
To have opportunity to offer & receive support
To have a fun reason to get out of bed in the morning
To support independent musical artists (sending money directly wherever possible)
Discover them via sources such as http://www.jamendo.com http://www.bandcamp.com http://www.soundclick.com
☀️ Technical (Zoom) ☀️
If you’re new to Zoom (free), here’s a 5-minute tutorial:
https://youtu.be/g-gmDxDiO1Y
With the ’Gallery View’ you’re able to watch multiple people shake at a time. ’Speaker View’ shows only one person at a time.
’Pin’ allows you to focus on one person.
Other features we use:
Chat, Raise Hand, Mute/Unmute, Rename
☀️ Feedback ☀️
Please let us know how you’re doing, and how we’re doing... in particular what we are doing well, and also where we can grow.
What will support your and our community’s growth? https://www.riseshineshake.ca/feedback.html
