On the dance floor my pain body has shown up like a cloak, or a sense that I am swimming in thick mud; it’s upset me for no good reason, had me hide and avoid contact. It separates me. It gives the illusion of hurting, but it’s not really pain, it is inertia. In emotional inertia, I’m not feeling.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Alessandro Moruzzi, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, death, ecstatic dance, essence, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, inertia, innocence, Jean Rankin, love, meditation, moving meditation, Open floor, Pain, San Francisco, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, the moving center school, united kingdomI was dancing ‘in the womb’ during a Cycles workshop when I first heard someone whisper to me, You have to teach this, you have something to offer, you can’t keep this all to yourself. Disrupted, I stopped my dance and looked around. Everyone seemed to be engrossed in their own womb dances. I pushed these impossible words away; I wasn’t interested in teaching. I went on with
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Francis Eliot, gabrielle roth, meditation, movement medicine, moving meditation, Natalie Poole, Open floor, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, WavesAs we look towards 2019, we invite you on a journey guided by our local and visiting teachers and the 5Rhythms practice. The Moving Center New York presents a unique opportunity to seek and source through four maps in one year — Waves | Heartbeat | Cycles | Mirrors — finding your movement, expression, individuality and truth as we dance deeper together into body, heart, mind and soul. Whether you step in with us in the pulse of New York City or in another 5Rhythms tribe around the world, we wish you many dances for 2019 and beyond…Love, TMCNY
TAGS: 5Rhythms, Amber Ryan, ariel karass, body, Cycles, dance therapy, Hannah lowenthal, heart, Heartbeat, jonathan horan, journey, meditation, mind, MIrrors, movement, movement medicine, Open floor, peter fodera, Silvija Tomcik, soul, Tammy Burstein, The Moving Center, Waves“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.
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 TranneI come from the Dominican Republic, where we are born dancing, and dancing is at the core of our everyday life. And I have been practicing various forms of Conscious Movement for the last seven years. However, 5
TAGS: 5Rhythms, catherine llewynn, dance movement therapy, dominican, ecstatic dance, feet first5, gabrielle roth, meditation, movement medicine, osho, pure prayer, ray diaz, ritual, The Moving Center, the moving center school, tribal heart