Somatomy Module 3

Shadow Play

 Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.

Gabrielle Roth

 Shadow Play

The 5Rhythms (Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness) offer us a pathway to creativity as each rhythm has a distinct physicality, energy and expressive potential. And each rhythm has a shadow side. We shall explore the 5Rhythms and their shadows. This experience will magnify our resistance to moving, to changing and to creating . With this awareness of how we shape resistance in movement we can then practice shifting to the lightness of playful letting go and of dynamic shape shifting. Our minds or our ego have a contract to distract us from being present and to enjoying the simplicity of being in the moment, in the dance. Generational patterns often become stuck in the body. We’ll break down the planes of movement to feel the shapes and energies we sometimes choose not to face. We shall practice drifting out of the lightness of being and shifting back to flow.