I had been struggling for a long time with anorexia. The disease not only affected my body but it also deeply hurt my soul and my spirit. I longed to vanish from this world for so many years. I was stuck in a vicious circle and didn’t know how to escape from it.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, Anorexia, belgium, Jup Jansonius, Katya Verbugghe, meditation, movement medicine, netherlands, Open floor, Sexual Grounding, soul motionby Simon Tanner, United Kingdom Today I have decided to commit to life as I commit to the dance. Moving to centre floor, I begin in stillness. Facing the altar, …
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5rhythms one tribe, gabrielle roth, Open floor, poetry in motion, SImon Tanner, The Moving Centerby Marc Silvestre, Paris As a 5Rhythms teacher, I have worked with a wide variety of people, including business managers and children. Years ago, at a big class I organised …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, gabrielle roth, Marc Silvestre, One Tribe, Open floor, Paris, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, TranssexualsHot off the press! We are happy to announce that, after a few years in the making, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing is now a fully published tome …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, dance movement therapy, Emma Roberts, gabrielle roth, Mati Vargas, Open floor, Sarena Wolfard, The Moving Center, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and WellbeingWhen I was a messed up 17 year-old nerd studying Further Maths, our teacher gave us the most inspiring lesson of my entire education, showing us the extraordinary beauty and elegance of the relationship between the five most fundamental numbers in exis
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, adam barley, andrew Holmes, Courage, Heartbeat, Math, movement medicine, Open floorI love the hum of a room full of movers, dropping into a deep vibration and riding it all the way home.
I love when our bodies find patterns of motion belonging to no-one, moving through everyone, just borrowing our hands and our heads and our feet for awhile.
I love catching a glimpse of someone’s soul I hadn’t seen before – when I find myself suddenly dancing with a warrior, a healer, a tree spirit, a bird on the wing.
I love when presence descends like grace, finding me perfectly, here, in this healthy, tender, temporary miracle, this loyal friend, this body.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5rhythms teachers associaiton, 5RTA, Bettine Rothe, Chaos, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Joanne Winstanley, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Open floor, Silvija Tomcik, Staccato, Stillness, The Moving Center