Recently, one of my old stomping grounds, Orlando, Florida became the backdrop to the deadliest mass shooting in America. As shock, anger and grief spilled through many of our hearts, …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Amber Ryan, black rock city, burning man, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, dance-a-thon, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, Lyrical, mackenzie amara, mass shooting, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, orlando, rhythmwave, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, WavesMy grandmother used to say that you get a “special intention” every time you enter a new church for the first time, as my mother reminded me recently. A special intention is pretty much guaranteed to travel straight to God’s ear, and has a strong chance of a good outcome—kind of like a direct prayer line. That is exactly how I felt
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Anne Marie Hogya, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, Meghan LeBorious, moving meditation, Notes On Practice, shamanic dance, sweat your prayers, WavesWe have learned to really respect each others dances, which usually are pretty different. We have learned not to blame each other for your own feelings, but to take our responsibility to let them in
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, germany, Gestalt Therapy, Heera Andreas Mueller, Heike Fuhsy, Iris Yasmine Harms, lyrica, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, One Tribe, Open floor, relationship, Staccato, Stillness, The Moving Center, the moving center school, WavesMystery is not to be solved. Darkness has its own radiance. Chaos is the rhythm that rocks the world. Intuition is intelligence at the speed of light. Destiny is to …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, Esalen, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, Heartbeat, jonathan horan, Maps to Ecstasy, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, New York City, Open floor, Raven, Raven Recordings, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, Tribal Mirrors, WavesAh…. I’m home again… thank you,” I exhaled as I sank into the delicious group stillness at the end of my first ever Sweat Your Prayers session
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, cecile Klefstad, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Heerra Sazevich, Lyrical, Medicine Dance, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, Open floorWhen Jilsarah Moscowitz taught the first Sweat Your Prayers class of the spring season two years ago, for the first time ever I considered the possibility that I might secretly have a lyrical nature.* This came as a great surprise since from the very beginning of my 5Rhythms path, Lyrical had always seemed incomprehensible and inaccessible, except in tiny, occasional glimpses. Today, the first day of spring, Jilsarah again taught the Sunday Sweat Your Prayers class; and I was again granted wings, though my lyrical side is, by now, no longer a deeply buried secret.
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