As I leaned over the toilet vomiting with morning sickness – between lessons teaching art to school kids – I promised myself it was time to quit my day job, …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Jean Rankin, Lyrical, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, Natalie Poole, Open floor, shamanic dance, Staccato, sweat your prayers, The Moving Center, the moving center school, WavesIt felt good to be in the collective field, very much in sync, and at the same time, very much on the high edge of Chaos—the rhythm of our time. To some extent, the gem of personal achievement has lost its luster recently; and I find myself moving more than ever in the collective field. The ability to actually move around inside of Chaos—conscious, aware and even with direction—are skills I hope to build on.
TAGS: #danceeverywhere, 5Rhythms, Chaos, chaos dance, dance anywhere, Dentist, Flowing, High Vibration Waves, Lyrical, Meghan LeBorious, New York City, Notes On Practice, Staccato, Stillness, Tammy BursteinDear Friends, Today is #GivingTuesday, a global movement that inspires charitable giving, and we’re asking our tribe to challenge each other to dance the rhythms in inconvenient places to raise funds for 5Rhythms …
TAGS: #5rrochallenge, #danceanywhere, #danceeverywhere, 5Rhythms, 5rhythms reach out, 5rro, gabrielle roth, grand central station, jana malloy, jonathan horan, moving meditation, New York City, nycOne day the shapes I was making in Chaos took me to a very dark place. I did not have a clear memory of why (even while it was happening), …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, kierra foster-ba, light and shadow, Maps to Ecstasy, New York City, Open floor, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, the moving center school, visudha de los santos, WavesRather than big, easy-to-follow, repeating gestures as sometimes arise in Lyrical, we skittered down chains of intricately arranged repeating patterns, which would then shift and re-configure, taking form then never landing for long enough to be defined or understood. Our dance featured some bursting and chasing gestures, too. I would rise up on my highest toes, reaching for his height, wanting to be expansive along with him, then squiggle myself down and away. He laughed at my antics, joining in, too. After this long, intricate, layered exchange, we finally ended up doing the initial assignment—a simple repetition—grinning wildly as we both realized it, rocking back and forth.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Chaos, Conscious Dance, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, Medicine Dance, Meghan LeBorious, moving meditationDear Friends, As you probably know, the music we make is basically loosely-structured rhythm rides, deeply centered around percussion in all its forms. We don’t use percussion to drive …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, gabrielle roth, jonathan horan, Medicine Dance, movement medicine, Open floor, Raven, Raven Recordings, shamanic dance, Staccato, sweat your prayers, The Moving Center, the moving center school, Waves