I grew up in Mexico in a family where gatherings were attended by dozens of people. Being in a crowd is a comfortable place; in my culture, people touch, hug, and connect intimately easily. In fact, it’s expected that everyone should. I moved to the USA as a teenager and remember how my body experienced a culture where personal space was more defined; where people didn’t shake hands or greet with a kiss. I recall censoring my impulse to connect physically in order to belong. I also lived in Europe where these two extremes seemed to find a middle ground.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, Esalen, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, Mati Vargas, moving meditation, relationship, Sonja Hellman, The Moving CenterFor me, every one of us is actually a fruit of Chaos’s creativity, a unique union of opposites. When we resist Chaos, this natural phenomenon, and when we stubbornly try to control it, we can end up destroying ourselves and those around us or driving both us and them mad. Chaos demands that we completely surrender to it, that we throw in its powerful alchemist process all that we carry on our backs, shoulders, in our hearts and hips, all that we cling to and hold so tigh
TAGS: 5Rhythms, Bettina Rothe, Canada, Chaos, croatia, Empowered5, Esalen, gabrielle roth, huxley, Leadership, meditation, Silvija Tomcik, spain, SurrenderThis 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 BursteinLiving 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.
TAGS: 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Alessandro Moruzzi, Chaos, dance, ether, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, Moscow, Open floor, Russia, San Francisco, Staccato, Stillness, The Moving Center, the moving center school, Thierry Francois, Vehllia TranneThey have become my navigation map. My GPS to go through all the challenges of being alive. This decade has been full on for me, changes, losses, ups, downs, contractions and expansions. Figuring out who I am and what I´m doing here, taking in so much
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, Chaos, Flowing, gabrielle roth, irene hernandez sanchez, Lyrical, one dance tribe, One Tribe, reset, sara cereghetti, spain, Staccato, Stillness, switerland, totemsI started in a squat, deep in the hips, stretching the inner thighs, feet and calves, rotating and staying low. I soon found my way to the ground, where I continued to stretch and coil, rolling over the fronts of my shoulders, the back of my head, and through the hips, moving from my stomach to my back over and over in a wide circle. Staccato arrived more quickly than I expected, and…
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