When I was a messed up 17 year-old nerd studying Further Maths, our teacher gave us the most inspiring lesson of my entire education, showing us the extraordinary beauty and elegance of the relationship between the five most fundamental numbers in exis
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, adam barley, andrew Holmes, Courage, Heartbeat, Math, movement medicine, Open floorI love the hum of a room full of movers, dropping into a deep vibration and riding it all the way home.
I love when our bodies find patterns of motion belonging to no-one, moving through everyone, just borrowing our hands and our heads and our feet for awhile.
I love catching a glimpse of someone’s soul I hadn’t seen before – when I find myself suddenly dancing with a warrior, a healer, a tree spirit, a bird on the wing.
I love when presence descends like grace, finding me perfectly, here, in this healthy, tender, temporary miracle, this loyal friend, this body.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5rhythms teachers associaiton, 5RTA, Bettine Rothe, Chaos, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Joanne Winstanley, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Open floor, Silvija Tomcik, Staccato, Stillness, The Moving CenterI will never forget the impact of my dances at the very beginning when my body parts started to talk to me: my feet stamped in deep anger about not getting heard, my hips were crying out loudly and my hands were telling me stories of delight.
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