I loved the transparency and honesty of the tribal life. When I grew older I lost touch to this nourishing and healing connection – to the tribal field. Meeting the 5Rhythms was like coming home. To my tribe.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Conscious Dance, dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, movement medicine, moving meditation, retreat, shamanic dance, Sonja Hellman, Staccato, susanna dobos, WavesSexual rape is like a large tattoo on the soul. It takes all your freedom away in just a few minutes. Not only sexual rape but “any abuse” can affect our sexual holy place.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5rhythms teachers assocation, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, belgium, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Gestalt Therapy, gramya michal molho, greece, Healing, jonathan horan, Katya Verbugghe, movement medicine, moving meditation, Open floor, rape, Sexual Grounding, summer, sweat your prayers, The Moving Center29 years ago I arrived on a 5Rhythms dance floor with a background in a handful of ballet, my arms & legs full of sports & my whole body full of African & Contemporary dance. I was familiar with improvising movement but not in connection with my emotions. It was the rhythm of Chaos that opened my heart & allowed me to release the shackles of the emotional straight jacket I was living in.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5rhythms teacher training, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, angela griffiths, art, ballet, balleter, contact improv, contemporary dance, dance, emotions, england, feet, finland, gabrielle roth, helsinki, improvisation, Jason Rowe, life, london, meditation, movement medicine, Open floor, ritual waves, soul motino, sports, susannah darling, yaakov darling khanThis inquiry is infinitely vast; I’m excited to embody this exploration, layer by layer and then soak it off. What filter are we seeing or feeling through? How might it limit us? To be free of judgment of self and others, to truly accept WHAT IS without needing it to be different, I call this freedom.
TAGS: #nofilter, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, Cycles, Esalen, Gabrielle, Heeraa Sazevich, hot springs, jonathan horan, Lava Hot Springs, meditation, meditation retreat, new york, nyc, Tammy Burstein“We can’t bring Dad home for Thanksgiving,” Mom texts. It’s the first year Dad won’t be home for Thanksgiving. My Dad has Alzheimer’s. I moved him into the locked unit a year and a half ago. Mom just couldn’t.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, ann kite, bethesda, death, father, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, meditation, Mirjam van Hasselt, movement medicine, netherlands, new years, One Tribe, Open floor, Sanctuary, The Moving Center, Urban dance retreatLiving in a foreign country for several years now I keep learning to listen, to feel a little more in order to find my own roots and to let them anchor in this land of Croatia which I get to know better and better. Find my solid base and move with it.
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