“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.” -Rabindranath Tagore Dear Friends and Dancing Maniacs, Halfway through my summer in Europe, I am in …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dancing freedom, duality, ecstatic dance, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, love, Medicine Dance, meditation, movement medicine, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, Open floor, soul motion, Staccato, Stillness, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, unity, WavesRecently, one of my old stomping grounds, Orlando, Florida became the backdrop to the deadliest mass shooting in America. As shock, anger and grief spilled through many of our hearts, …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Amber Ryan, black rock city, burning man, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, dance-a-thon, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, Lyrical, mackenzie amara, mass shooting, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, orlando, rhythmwave, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, WavesAh…. I’m home again… thank you,” I exhaled as I sank into the delicious group stillness at the end of my first ever Sweat Your Prayers session
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, cecile Klefstad, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Heerra Sazevich, Lyrical, Medicine Dance, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, Open floorWhen Jilsarah Moscowitz taught the first Sweat Your Prayers class of the spring season two years ago, for the first time ever I considered the possibility that I might secretly have a lyrical nature.* This came as a great surprise since from the very beginning of my 5Rhythms path, Lyrical had always seemed incomprehensible and inaccessible, except in tiny, occasional glimpses. Today, the first day of spring, Jilsarah again taught the Sunday Sweat Your Prayers class; and I was again granted wings, though my lyrical side is, by now, no longer a deeply buried secret.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, meditation, Meghan LeBorious, Notes On Practice, ritual theater, shamanic dance, Stillness, sweat your prayers, WavesBELONGING is precious.
A heart felt sense we all desire that occurs naturally when we allow fluidity with our emotions.
After an adventful childhood, touched by both light and shadow, I was eager for success in the material world. At the same time I froze my emotional growth through addiction to alcohol and then cocaine. I became utterly separated from my body. The source of my be-longing.
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