Hello everyone. I’m Cecilia (she/they), a Teacher-in-Training, mentored by Ray Diaz and Stuart Phillips.

• Flowing teaches me to start again after chronic illness brought my life to a stop. 
• Staccato gives me back my “No!” My “No!” finally allowed me to initiate divorce, the ultimate relationship boundary. 
• Chaos sheds layer after layer during my mid-life crisis. A more meaningful life emerges.
• Lyrical reminds me that joy and connection are my birthright – even as my body changes and I move into the second half of my life. 
• Stillness humbles me – who or what is left after I let go of the stories about myself?

In the open space where all stories drop away, I am left holding one: an old memory of me as a young girl, the memory obscured underneath all those other ego stories. I am spinning across the brown-carpeted basement floor. The West Side Story soundtrack turns on the record player. I’m in a loose cotton dress, barefoot, my straight black hair whipping across my face. 

I lose myself in the music, lose myself in my circles and momentum, lose myself in the freedom. At that early age, I know abandon, I know yearning and sorrow, I know joy. I am one – body, heart, mind, soul, spirit. Liberated.

I know that feeling in my body. And I know it is always available to me. I dance to find it again and again. And I now enter into the 5Rhythms teaching path to bring others along with me. Come with me.