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, WavesDear Daughters, Dear Sons, My body is an exact replica of my mother’s body — the proportion of breasts to hips, slender wrists and sturdy thighs — in miniature. She …
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Cycles, gabrielle roth, Tammy Burstein“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.” -Rabindranath Tagore Dear Friends and Dancing Maniacs, Halfway through my summer in Europe, I am in …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dancing freedom, duality, ecstatic dance, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, love, Medicine Dance, meditation, movement medicine, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, Open floor, soul motion, Staccato, Stillness, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, unity, WavesRecently, 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, …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Amber Ryan, black rock city, burning man, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, dance-a-thon, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, Lyrical, mackenzie amara, mass shooting, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, orlando, rhythmwave, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, WavesFor the second week in a row, I unexpectedly attended the Sunday Sweat Your Prayers class. For the second week in a row, the class was guest taught by an accomplished teacher from another country, in this case Hannah Loewenthal from South Africa. And for the second week in a row, I explored new and delightful aspects of partnership.
I took a long time to gather myself on entering; and I went silently through a ritual of bowing into the space. I felt emotional and took tiny steps, moving like water through the many floor-moving bodies that were distributed equally around the studio. I found a spot near the middle of the room and began to move in energetic circles, rolling over the back of my head again and again and letting the gestures cast me in arcs, pausing to tense in key stretches as I was quickly called to action.
Hannah, perhaps noting the quickening of the room,
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