On the dance floor my pain body has shown up like a cloak, or a sense that I am swimming in thick mud; it’s upset me for no good reason, had me hide and avoid contact. It separates me. It gives the illusion of hurting, but it’s not really pain, it is inertia. In emotional inertia, I’m not feeling.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Alessandro Moruzzi, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, death, ecstatic dance, essence, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, inertia, innocence, Jean Rankin, love, meditation, moving meditation, Open floor, Pain, San Francisco, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, the moving center school, united kingdomI was dancing ‘in the womb’ during a Cycles workshop when I first heard someone whisper to me, You have to teach this, you have something to offer, you can’t keep this all to yourself. Disrupted, I stopped my dance and looked around. Everyone seemed to be engrossed in their own womb dances. I pushed these impossible words away; I wasn’t interested in teaching. I went on with
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Francis Eliot, gabrielle roth, meditation, movement medicine, moving meditation, Natalie Poole, Open floor, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, Waves“We can’t bring Dad home for Thanksgiving,” Mom texts. It’s the first year Dad won’t be home for Thanksgiving. My Dad has Alzheimer’s. I moved him into the locked unit a year and a half ago. Mom just couldn’t.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, ann kite, bethesda, death, father, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, meditation, Mirjam van Hasselt, movement medicine, netherlands, new years, One Tribe, Open floor, Sanctuary, The Moving Center, Urban dance retreatGabrielle’s mantra to “move the body in order to heal the psyche” was a revelation for me. I became fascinated with how the moving body was intimately interconnected with the emotional and spiritual aspects of our “being”. I dove
TAGS: 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, bella dreizler, gabrielle roth, Marcia Wakarchuk Jones, movement medicine, Open floor, physical therapy, resource, the moving center school, therapyI come from a lineage of warriors and healers from Laos, Vietnam and France. They are in my cells, my DNA, and my dance.
TAGS: 1440 multiversity, 5Rhythms, 5rhythms teachers associaiton, 5RTA, Ancestors, france, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, Marc Silvestre, meditation, rome, Santa Cruz, Sylvie Minot, WavesLiving in a foreign country for several years now I keep learning to listen, to feel a little more in order to find my own roots and to let them anchor in this land of Croatia which I get to know better and better. Find my solid base and move with it.
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