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 Center“Be the poetry of the movement to find the voice connected to the heart connected to the feet. To be able to stand in it and serve with it. Just be a catalyst. Art is the soul food each person needs.” – Gabrielle Roth
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, breath in motion, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, experimental theater, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, Lorca Simons, Medicine Dance, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, Open floor, ritual theater, Ron Hagendoorn, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, the moving center school, theater, 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 CenterLooking back, I see that I was engaged in an important struggle. My autonomy was vital – the space to be as I am, self-directed and free to express and dance in my own way. Belonging was vital – needing the nourishment of a tribe – and wanting to explore what happens when we are who we are together. Surrendering to the dynamic flow between these needs was my struggle.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms tribe, 5RTA, catherine llewynn, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, Ikaria, Jup Jansonius, movement medicine, netherlands, one dance tribe, Open floor, soul motion, susannah darling, The Moving Center, yaakov darlingJoine the 5Rhythms NYC Tribe at the 13th annual Dance parade! We will be dancing our way down Broadway to the beats and guidance of Jonathan Horan and Peter Fodera on Saturday May 18th
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, all this is bullshit if we don't take it to the streets, broadway, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, dance parade, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, jonathan horan, moving meditation, nyc, peter fodera, The Moving Center, the moving center schoolOriginal Skin is where we are most alive with the powerful innocence of instinct and the vulnerable action of putting our hearts out in the world. . This is the dance into the deep well of being human, the practice of trusting the feet and finding the dance that only you can do because that is the dance that is so needed, this is my next offering and my invitation.
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