Whatever our process is, everything begins with awakening the flow of our creative energy. The most wonderful state of being is disappearing into that seamless liquid flow, dropping ego, and becoming essential energy. Anytime, anywhere, under any circumstance, this is our essential beginning.
TAGS: Gestalt Therapy, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, moving meditation, onlineA reminder that we are always beginners in the dance. Every time we come to the dance floor we are met by the spontaneous, the unexpected, the unfolding of ourselves and each other in motion, and the unfolding of the world around us.
TAGS: beginners series, body parts, breath, free practice, Hannah Loewenthal, live.5rhythms.com, Music, on-demand, on-demand, online learning, practice, therapyEmbodied into a family of passionate dancers and artisans, my journey on this earth began on Rose Monday (the highest carnival holiday in my area). They put a funny hat on my head & shoved me through the hallway, while outside colourful street-parades took part. I was born into art in motion.
TAGS: art therapy, germany, netherlands, Rimke Pepers, Sonja HellmanI discovered my love of dance when I moved to a foreign city alone at the age of 19. What I first discovered was ballroom dance and I was taught by tournament dancers: What do I want to express, how do I bring it from the inside out? What is the message and essence of the particular dances? I loved to explore this.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5 rhythms, 5 rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, Christine reimer, Christine reimer, Conscious Dance, Conscious Dance, Conscious Dance, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, dance movement therapy, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, ecstatic dance, ecstatic dance, Movement Teacher Training, Movement Teacher Training, Open floor, Open floor, Open floor, Open floor, sarena wolfards, scotland, shamanic dance, shamanic dance, shamanic dance, yoga, yoga“The drums kept going and so did I.” ~ Gabrielle Roth, Sweat Your Prayers | Gabrielle never wanted a funeral, she wanted a dance party. So each year on the anniversary of her passing we invite the 5Rhythms global community to keep her dance party going.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5rhythms teachers, Chaos, Chaos, Chaos, Chaos, Chaos, community, dance therapy, dance therapy, drums, five rhythms, five rhythms, five rhythms, five rhythms, Flowing, Flowing, Flowing, livestream, livestream, Lyrical, Lyrical, Lyrical, meditation, meditation, meditation, meditation, meditation, meditation, movement, movement, raven recording, raven recording, ritual, Robert Ansell, sanga of the valley, Staccato, Staccato, Staccato, Stillness, Stillness, Stillness, sweat your prayers, sweat your prayers, sweat your prayers, sweat your prayers, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, The Moving CenterGrowing up with Gabrielle, making music stood equally in our circle alongside making movement. When no song was long enough to deeply journey into the meditation, Gabrielle and Robert gathered musicians to create soundscapes to go deep into the rhythms, birthing Raven Recording, a new genre of music, and 20+ albums.
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