Love Letter Ramblings to 5Rhythms: (from Ghost Dance Manchester with Alex Mackay) Memories flickering in rare sun streams, saturated with our many dances and glances, touches and crushes, loving smiles; …
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5rhythms one tribe, 5RTA, alex mackay, Chaos, gabrielle roth, ghost dance, love letters, StillnessRecently, 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, WavesPAZ MOV: Dancing on Colombian “first day without war” By: Carolina Rudas I began to dance because my body was broken, shattered and sick from war. For more than ten …
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, carolina rudas, colmobia, first day with our war, gabrielle roth, One Tribe, PAZ MOV, warFor the second week in a row, I unexpectedly attended the Sunday Sweat Your Prayers class. For the second week in a row, the class was guest taught by an accomplished teacher from another country, in this case Hannah Loewenthal from South Africa. And for the second week in a row, I explored new and delightful aspects of partnership.
I took a long time to gather myself on entering; and I went silently through a ritual of bowing into the space. I felt emotional and took tiny steps, moving like water through the many floor-moving bodies that were distributed equally around the studio. I found a spot near the middle of the room and began to move in energetic circles, rolling over the back of my head again and again and letting the gestures cast me in arcs, pausing to tense in key stretches as I was quickly called to action.
Hannah, perhaps noting the quickening of the room,
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, Chaos, Conscious Dance, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, Meghan LeBorious, moving meditation, Notes On Practice, shamanic dance, sweat your prayersMy 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, Waves