“The drums kept going and so did I.” ~ Gabrielle Roth, Sweat Your Prayers | Gabrielle never wanted a funeral, she wanted a dance party. So each year on the anniversary of her passing we invite the 5Rhythms global community to keep her dance party going.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5rhythms teachers, Chaos, community, dance therapy, drums, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, livestream, Lyrical, meditation, movement, raven recording, ritual, Robert Ansell, sanga of the valley, Staccato, Stillness, sweat your prayers, The Moving CenterI remember the moment Jewel burst into my vision. Liquid motion, raw passion, revolutionary leaps of consciousness held together in faded leotard. The bones of her story hung in space like skinny revelations whispered in quivering muscles. I witnessed her transformation from a girl to a woman,from a lover to mother, from student to teacher…
TAGS: Jewel Mathieson, lighten up, raven recordingGrowing up with Gabrielle, making music stood equally in our circle alongside making movement. When no song was long enough to deeply journey into the meditation, Gabrielle and Robert gathered musicians to create soundscapes to go deep into the rhythms, birthing Raven Recording, a new genre of music, and 20+ albums.
TAGS: #danceanywhere, #danceeverywhere, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Conscious Dance, dance, gabrielle roth, jonathan horan, meditation, movement medicine, online classesd, Open floor, raven recording, streams of consciousness, The Moving Center2020 births a new circle of practiced 5Rhythms Teachers-in-Training onto a dance floor near you. Halfway through their training program year, follow your feet to their beginning offerings of 5Rhythms classes locally.
TAGS: 2020, 5Rhythms, Andrea Juhan, art therapy, dance movement therapy, dance therapy, dancenow, ecstatic dance, estatic dance, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, Healing, jonathan horan, Kathy Altman, Lori Saltzman, movement medicine, movement training, Music, new y ear, new year, Open floor, prarer, prayer, raven recording, soul motion, sweat your prayers, Teacher Training, wolf, yaakov darling khanNEW SINGLE! Our granddaughter, Sofia Ansell, has released a song to honor the memory of Gabrielle, her Nana G. She composed the music, wrote the lyrics and sings the vocals. …
TAGS: gabrielle roth, new music, raven recording, Sofia Ansell“To the beat of the drum we travel on
Courageous we sail into the storm
Singing our song and feeling strong
On a voyage to where we all belong”
~Morcheeba – Beat of the Drum
I have always felt hopelessly attracted by the rhythm. I bought myself a pair of drumsticks when I was 6 – it was my first owned part from an entire drum set.
Then I got distracted following 1000 other threads: studies, ballet classes and a huge list of projects and ’to do things‘.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, dance parade NYC, disability, drums, Heeraa Sazevich, irene hernandez sanchez, jenelle smith, jonathan horan, Meghan LeBorious, one dance tribe, One Tribe, raven recording, Tanya Goldman