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Sweet, sweet Stillness. Where is the pause button? I'm having trouble finding it just now. I know a rewind button for life doesn't exist. And a fast-forward function is also just a fantasy. (Along with the elusive ejection seat.) But without the pause, where are we? Constantly doing, never being. Perpetually pushing, never integrating. Always running, never... learning. That's not fantasy. It's more like nightmare, if I really take a step back and look. And yet that's what our culture calls for in so many ways: the great, impressive, successful push without pause. I beg to believe that we're wiser, once we scratch our surfaces. I believe that the pause is a total requirement for our growth and basic balance. And anyway, how many times do we (do I) need to learn that if I do not pause in life, life will pause me? If being - beyond surfaces - sounds good to you... if feeling into the function of the pause appeals... some Mother's Day medicine of Stillness is coming together for you. In the fifth of the 5Rhythms, Stillness, we move through completion. Sometimes this dance of endings and fading away reaches a fullness so complete that it empties itself and resonates, reverberates, and sustains spaciousness within us. In the end, that’s what 5Rhythms practice is for: sustaining and affecting us beyond the end of any one dance. For an afternoon, we'll move with and in this nourishing place, experimenting with vibrant, alive movement at and from the s