“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.” — D.T. Suzuki Dear Dancing Maniacs, I’ve spent the last days …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Andrea Juhan, Chaos, Conscious Dance, Cycles, dagmar cee, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabriell, gabrielle roth, Jason Rowe, jonathan horan, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, meditation, MIrrors, movement medicine, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, Open floor, ritual theater, shamanic dance, soul motion, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, together, unity, WavesPart 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, WavesPain did not disappear so much as fade from the front of my experience. I still felt a bit of tenderness in the back, but as I released into the wave it was a far-off echo. I marveled at this. Once, I was barely able to walk I was so gimped from dancing ferociously on the first day of a three-day workshop. Somehow I hobbled into the studio on day two, unable to imagine how I could possibly move. Miraculously, as soon as the music started,
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Amber Ryan, Chaos, Conscious Dance, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, jonathan horan, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, Meghan LeBorious, Notes On PracticeI was overly optimistic in putting on a bathing suit. During a brief glimpse of blue, we rushed to get to the sea, hoping for at least a few moments of beach fun. As it was, the blue was enclosed again by white sky long before we made it to the beach, but we decided to explore anyway. We found a place to park near Bonmahon Beach in Co. Waterford, Ireland and set up the sandy path to the sea. I shivered with
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Chaos, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, Medicine Dance, Meghan LeBorious, Notes On Practice, shamanic dance, Staccato, WavesWhile everyone in New York is suffering through a heat wave, I have been wearing sweaters and still shivering. This is my seventh day in chilly Ireland, traveling with my six-year-old son, Simon. First, we explored the astonishingly beautiful western region of Connemara. In Connemara, there is water everywhere. Lush vegetation goes all the way to the edges of every puddle, lake and river, giving the impression that everything is extremely full. Rock juts up through the green in impressive, unpeopled, ancient mountains. Rolling fields patchworked in different greens and hemmed by squared stone walls stretch all the way to the ocean’s edge. Textured layerings of
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Conscious Dance, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, moving meditation, Notes On Practice, shamanic dance, Stillness