January 2016 Musings + Art from our Tribal Individuals The 5Rhythms practice both begins and ends with movement, but it doesn’t stop there… It is a …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Amber Ryan, Anja Mutik, Anne Marie Hogya, Barbara Marlowe, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, James Porto, jonathan horan, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, Natasha Frost, Open floor, Raven Recordings, shamanic dance, Silvija Tomcik, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, WavesThe first night of Tammy Burstein’s “Rhythms in Waves” 5Rhythms workshop at the Paul Taylor Studio on the Lower East Side followed an extremely unpleasant day in my own small life. I stepped into the high-ceilinged rectangular room, with its clean, metal theatrical fixtures and foot-scuffed black floor and immediately collapsed, touching my forehead to the floor, grateful to enter the charged space of dance, and looking forward to three consecutive days of intentional moving—hoping it would provide me with some kind of antidote.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, Heartbeat, jonathan horan, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, Meghan LeBorious, moving meditation, Notes On Practice, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, WavesI have had Amber Ryan’s “Examine Stillness” workshop on my calendar for over a year. When I first spotted the date on Amber’s calendar, I emailed her, thinking it was …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, Chaos, Conscious Dance, Cycles, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, Esalen, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, jonathan horan, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, Meghan LeBorious, moving meditation, New York City, Notes On Practice, ritual theater, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, Tribal Mirrors, WavesDespite the fact that the babysitter arrived right at 7pm and I left promptly, I arrived an hour late to Tammy’s Night Waves class on Friday. The car was literally …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Chaos, Conscious Dance, Cycles, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, jonathan horan, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, meditation, Meghan LeBorious, MIrrors, moving meditation, Notes On Practice, shamanic dance, Staccato, sweat your prayersAt first, it was painful letting go of all my attachments which I thought have a lot of importance in my mind. My big ego doesn’t like to discover who …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, Open floor, Ron Hagendoorn, shamanic dance, Shanti Park, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, WavesI have a confession to make. This is hard for me, but here it is. I have been cheating on Chaos. It all started during the summer, when I spent …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, Cycles, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, meditation, Meghan LeBorious, moving meditation, New York City, Notes On Practice, ritual theater, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, Waves