1998, 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, WavesThe 5Rhythms have positively shaped my life in immeasurable ways. Through this practice, I have learned how to turn greed into generosity, hatred into love, confusion into clarity and boredom into opportunity.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, australia, dance movement therapy, dancing freedom, Evangelos diavolitsis, gabrielle roth, italy, money, money coaching, movement, movement medicine, Olivia Palmer, Open floor, Rhythms, soul motionI hated the music, especially the warm up, I didn’t know what to do with myself. I was totally in my head, get on with it says I. The session was far too long (I kept looking at the clock), & I didn’t like the teacher… Plus I was to come back another 4 times
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Bettine Leukert, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dagmar cee, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, germany, Heera Andreas Mueller, Heike Fuhsy, ireland, Lyrical, movement medicine, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, Open floor, Ron Hagendoorn, shamanic dance, Sherron St Clair, soul motion, Staccato, sweat your prayers, The Moving Center, WavesWhen I was a messed up 17 year-old nerd studying Further Maths, our teacher gave us the most inspiring lesson of my entire education, showing us the extraordinary beauty and elegance of the relationship between the five most fundamental numbers in exis
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, adam barley, andrew Holmes, Courage, Heartbeat, Math, movement medicine, Open floorI love the hum of a room full of movers, dropping into a deep vibration and riding it all the way home.
I love when our bodies find patterns of motion belonging to no-one, moving through everyone, just borrowing our hands and our heads and our feet for awhile.
I love catching a glimpse of someone’s soul I hadn’t seen before – when I find myself suddenly dancing with a warrior, a healer, a tree spirit, a bird on the wing.
I love when presence descends like grace, finding me perfectly, here, in this healthy, tender, temporary miracle, this loyal friend, this body.
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