Yet, we need ground to run full force into transforming the world. We find this ground by starting with our own bodies. It is essential to begin our spiritual activism …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Baba Otujanle, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, garrison institute, jonathan horan, Lyrical, Medicine Dance, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, New York City, Open floor, Raven Recordings, ritual theater, sanga of the valley, shamanic dance, Staccato, Stillness, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, the moving center school, Waves, Wolfgang OrtnerIn the current political context, and also in the context of my work, it occurs to me that the maturity of Lyrical—the full, shimmering, vibrating, sharp, vivid, spectacular, booming beauty of Lyrical has to do with stepping in to joy with full, open-eyed awareness and acceptance of all our pain and of the collective pain of the world. It is only with the integration of the shadow principles, and, too, of our own psychological shadows, that joy can fully arrive—not just the happy-because-something-went-well-joy or the I’m-going-to-look-happy-since-I’m-not-sure-how I’m-feeling-joy, it is not the innocent joy of a child either. Rather, it is the joy that has wisdom in it, joy that pushes nothing away, joy that sees from vast heights, joy that has enough space to hold all things inside it.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, Chaos, Conscious Dance, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Flowing, gabrielle roth, Lyrical, Meghan LeBorious, Notes On Practice, shamanic danceOne day the shapes I was making in Chaos took me to a very dark place. I did not have a clear memory of why (even while it was happening), …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, kierra foster-ba, light and shadow, Maps to Ecstasy, New York City, Open floor, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, the moving center school, visudha de los santos, WavesDear Friends, As you probably know, the music we make is basically loosely-structured rhythm rides, deeply centered around percussion in all its forms. We don’t use percussion to drive …
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Chaos, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, gabrielle roth, jonathan horan, Medicine Dance, movement medicine, Open floor, Raven, Raven Recordings, shamanic dance, Staccato, sweat your prayers, The Moving Center, the moving center school, Wavesby Kate Shela “Just be here now, because we don’t know!” Occupy from Kate Shela on Vimeo.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5rhythms one tribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5RTA, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, gabrielle roth, Kate Shela, Occupy, Open floor, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, the moving center schoolIn 2012, 2 days after Gabrielle Roth passed away, 5Rhythms teacher and UK ambassador for Women for Women International Neda Nenadic walked to Everest Base Camp to raise money for …
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