In December 2008, I heard about a local dance with “no alcohol, no drugs and bare feet”. Intrigued, I called the organiser. Would it be OK if my only recent dance experience was as an embarrassing uncle at a wedding? She replied “That’s perfect, you’ll love it!
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, bella dreizler, erik iversen, Mark Austin, movement medicine, Open floorI never realized dancing in a room together with other people was something I was taking for granted. Looking back, it’s screamingly ironic that the upheaval 5Rhythms practice predicted rhythmically in the dance was an upheaval that no one, teacher nor producer nor student, was actually prepared for logistically.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, azul, Conscious Dance, covid, dancing, dancing with Illness, Dancing with My Space, event planning, jonathan horan, mitochondria, Morgan Berk, Morgan Rae Berk, movement medicine, Open floor, Richard WiltshireWhatever our process is, everything begins with awakening the flow of our creative energy. The most wonderful state of being is disappearing into that seamless liquid flow, dropping ego, and becoming essential energy. Anytime, anywhere, under any circumstance, this is our essential beginning.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, jonathan horan, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, meditation, movement medicine, moving meditation, on-demand, online, Open floor, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, The Moving CenterGrowing up with Gabrielle, making music stood equally in our circle alongside making movement. When no song was long enough to deeply journey into the meditation, Gabrielle and Robert gathered musicians to create soundscapes to go deep into the rhythms, birthing Raven Recording, a new genre of music, and 20+ albums.
TAGS: #danceanywhere, #danceeverywhere, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Conscious Dance, dance, gabrielle roth, jonathan horan, meditation, movement medicine, online classesd, Open floor, raven recording, streams of consciousness, The Moving Center2020 births a new circle of practiced 5Rhythms Teachers-in-Training onto a dance floor near you. Halfway through their training program year, follow your feet to their beginning offerings of 5Rhythms classes locally.
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