Part of my regular home practice is to dance without music to the soundscape and company of nature. Dancing in nature nurtures my relationship to where I live, my environment, …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Arjan Bouw, australia, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, Drumbone, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, Grounded, Kat worth, Lyrical, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, netherlands, Open floor, ritual theater, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, The Moving Center, the moving center school, WavesOtherworldly fog took over the landscape on Monday. After dropping my six-year-old son, Simon, off at camp in Dunhill, I went to the unmarked beach again. Suffering from heavy anxiety, I paused to look out over the vast beach from the top of the steep cement stairs, and the line of vision was severely blocked by the heavy white cloud.
Exploring and seeking an inspiring place to dance, I walked west, passing several beaches…
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Chaos, Conscious Dance, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, Meghan LeBorious, Notes On Practice, shamanic dance, sweat your prayersI was overly optimistic in putting on a bathing suit. During a brief glimpse of blue, we rushed to get to the sea, hoping for at least a few moments of beach fun. As it was, the blue was enclosed again by white sky long before we made it to the beach, but we decided to explore anyway. We found a place to park near Bonmahon Beach in Co. Waterford, Ireland and set up the sandy path to the sea. I shivered with
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Chaos, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, Medicine Dance, Meghan LeBorious, Notes On Practice, shamanic dance, Staccato, WavesWhile everyone in New York is suffering through a heat wave, I have been wearing sweaters and still shivering. This is my seventh day in chilly Ireland, traveling with my six-year-old son, Simon. First, we explored the astonishingly beautiful western region of Connemara. In Connemara, there is water everywhere. Lush vegetation goes all the way to the edges of every puddle, lake and river, giving the impression that everything is extremely full. Rock juts up through the green in impressive, unpeopled, ancient mountains. Rolling fields patchworked in different greens and hemmed by squared stone walls stretch all the way to the ocean’s edge. Textured layerings of
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Conscious Dance, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, moving meditation, Notes On Practice, shamanic dance, 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, …
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