by Alex Rodriguez, New Zealand I was invited to talk about 5Rhythms as part of a Pecha Kucha series of talks connected to an art exhibition and ongoing project by …
TAGS: 5Rhythms, alex rodriguez, art, Chaos, Flowing, freedom, gabrielle roth, jonathan horan, Lyrical, meditation, movement, movement medicine, new zealand, Open floor, pecha kucha, presentation, soul motion, Staccato, Stillness1998, 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, WavesHot off the press! We are happy to announce that, after a few years in the making, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeingis now a fully published tome with a chapter on 5Rhythms. (The 5Rhythms® Movement Practice: Journey to Wellbeing, Empowerment, and Transformation) written in collaboration by 5Rhythms Teachers Mati Vargas-Gibson (Dallas, Mexico), Sarena Wolfaard (Edinburgh, South Africa), and Emma Roberts (Brighton, Paris).
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, meditation, movement medicine, moving meditation, Open floor, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, The Moving Center, the moving center school, WavesI 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 motion