5Rhythms Tribe | Community That Inspires | January 2017 contributions:
THE RHYTHMS OF BIRTH by Brenda Cohen Sabban, Argentina | CHAOS & CONNECTION by Julie DoBias, Virginia, USA | HEART, LEADERSHIP and VISION: APPLYING 5Rhythms in BUSINESS by Cass Donnelly, Australia | A POSTCARD FROM THE ECHOES OF OUR DANCE TOGETHER by Stuart Phillips, United Kingdom
by Cass Donnelly, Australia as told to Morgan Nichols Since I began dancing 16 years ago, I have had a vision to bring 5Rhythms into the hairdressing industry where I …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, australia, Business, Cass Donnelly, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, hairdressing, Leadership, Lyrical, meditation, movement medicine, moving meditation, Open floor, somatic business, Staccato, Stillness, The Moving Center, the moving center schoolAs I leaned over the toilet vomiting with morning sickness – between lessons teaching art to school kids – I promised myself it was time to quit my day job, …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Jean Rankin, Lyrical, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, Natalie Poole, Open floor, shamanic dance, Staccato, sweat your prayers, The Moving Center, the moving center school, WavesYet, we need ground to run full force into transforming the world. We find this ground by starting with our own bodies. It is essential to begin our spiritual activism …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Baba Otujanle, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, garrison institute, jonathan horan, Lyrical, Medicine Dance, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, New York City, Open floor, Raven Recordings, ritual theater, sanga of the valley, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, Waves, Wolfgang OrtnerIn the current political context, and also in the context of my work, it occurs to me that the maturity of Lyrical—the full, shimmering, vibrating, sharp, vivid, spectacular, booming beauty of Lyrical has to do with stepping in to joy with full, open-eyed awareness and acceptance of all our pain and of the collective pain of the world. It is only with the integration of the shadow principles, and, too, of our own psychological shadows, that joy can fully arrive—not just the happy-because-something-went-well-joy or the I’m-going-to-look-happy-since-I’m-not-sure-how I’m-feeling-joy, it is not the innocent joy of a child either. Rather, it is the joy that has wisdom in it, joy that pushes nothing away, joy that sees from vast heights, joy that has enough space to hold all things inside it.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Chaos, Conscious Dance, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, Meghan LeBorious, Notes On Practice, shamanic danceOne day the shapes I was making in Chaos took me to a very dark place. I did not have a clear memory of why (even while it was happening), …
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