While 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“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, WavesLove Letter Ramblings to 5Rhythms: (from Ghost Dance Manchester with Alex Mackay) Memories flickering in rare sun streams, saturated with our many dances and glances, touches and crushes, loving smiles; …
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5rhythms one tribe, 5RTA, alex mackay, Chaos, gabrielle roth, ghost dance, love letters, StillnessRecently, 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, …
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