For me, every one of us is actually a fruit of Chaos’s creativity, a unique union of opposites. When we resist Chaos, this natural phenomenon, and when we stubbornly try to control it, we can end up destroying ourselves and those around us or driving both us and them mad. Chaos demands that we completely surrender to it, that we throw in its powerful alchemist process all that we carry on our backs, shoulders, in our hearts and hips, all that we cling to and hold so tigh
TAGS: 5Rhythms, Bettina Rothe, Canada, Chaos, croatia, Empowered5, Esalen, gabrielle roth, huxley, Leadership, meditation, Silvija Tomcik, spain, Surrender1998, my left side of the body was 0 out of 10 level paralyzed by stroke. It was shocking, at the same time my curiosity for the body was huge. I spent time facing my body for 8 months. For the first 4 months, I was in wheel chair and taking physical therapy. Slowly re-developing my nerve.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Canada, Chantell Foss, Conscious Dance, ecstatic dance, Esalen, gabrielle roth, Japan, masayo benoist, meditation, movement medicine, Open floor, osaka, SpaceHolders, sweats, tokyo, Trust, WavesI had a recent chance encounter with some Russian dolls (you know the ones which fit inside each other?) The babushkas reminded me of one of Gabrielle’s many 5-step maps, which I remember as the Five Stages of Consciousness in Dance
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