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, WavesI come from the Dominican Republic, where we are born dancing, and dancing is at the core of our everyday life. And I have been practicing various forms of Conscious Movement for the last seven years. However, 5
TAGS: 5Rhythms, catherine llewynn, dance movement therapy, dominican, ecstatic dance, feet first5, gabrielle roth, meditation, movement medicine, osho, pure prayer, ray diaz, ritual, The Moving Center, the moving center school, tribal heart1998, 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, WavesI had a recent chance encounter with some Russian dolls (you know the ones which fit inside each other?) The babushkas reminded me of one of Gabrielle’s many 5-step maps, which I remember as the Five Stages of Consciousness in Dance
TAGS: 5Rhythms, Anatomy of Emotions, Canada, Christan de Sousa, Consciousness, Dancing Tao, ecstatic dance, Ecstatic Rhythms, england, gabrielle roth, movement medicine, New York City, Open floor, peter fodera, soul motion, united kingdomThe Dancing Path
A call to surrender to the mystery. A path that does not exist yet and it is yours and yours alone to dance.
Your path is forged where you practice, where your feet kiss the earth time and time again.
The earth gives way to your dance, a trail to your deepest wounds, your deepest truths, your deepest creations….
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