I loved the transparency and honesty of the tribal life. When I grew older I lost touch to this nourishing and healing connection – to the tribal field. Meeting the 5Rhythms was like coming home. To my tribe.
TAGS: dance, retreat, Sonja Hellman, StaccatoLooking back, I see that I was engaged in an important struggle. My autonomy was vital – the space to be as I am, self-directed and free to express and dance in my own way. Belonging was vital – needing the nourishment of a tribe – and wanting to explore what happens when we are who we are together. Surrendering to the dynamic flow between these needs was my struggle.
TAGS: 5Rhythms tribe, catherine llewynn, Ikaria, Jup Jansonius, one dance tribe, soul motion, susannah darling, yaakov darlingOn the dance floor my pain body has shown up like a cloak, or a sense that I am swimming in thick mud; it’s upset me for no good reason, had me hide and avoid contact. It separates me. It gives the illusion of hurting, but it’s not really pain, it is inertia. In emotional inertia, I’m not feeling.
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, Alessandro Moruzzi, Conscious Dance, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, ecstatic dance, essence, five rhythms, five rhythms, inertia, innocence, Jean Rankin, love, moving meditation, moving meditation, Pain, San Francisco, shamanic dance, shamanic dance, the moving center school, united kingdomAs we look towards 2019, we invite you on a journey guided by our local and visiting teachers and the 5Rhythms practice. The Moving Center New York presents a unique opportunity to seek and source through four maps in one year — Waves | Heartbeat | Cycles | Mirrors — finding your movement, expression, individuality and truth as we dance deeper together into body, heart, mind and soul. Whether you step in with us in the pulse of New York City or in another 5Rhythms tribe around the world, we wish you many dances for 2019 and beyond…Love, TMCNY
TAGS: Amber Ryan, ariel karass, body, Cycles, dance therapy, Hannah lowenthal, heart, jonathan horan, journey, mind, MIrrors, movement, peter fodera, Silvija Tomcik, soul, Tammy Burstein, Waves, Waves“We can’t bring Dad home for Thanksgiving,” Mom texts. It’s the first year Dad won’t be home for Thanksgiving. My Dad has Alzheimer’s. I moved him into the locked unit a year and a half ago. Mom just couldn’t.
TAGS: 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, 5RTA, 5RTA, 5RTA, ann kite, bethesda, death, death, father, meditation, meditation, meditation, Mirjam van Hasselt, movement medicine, movement medicine, movement medicine, movement medicine, netherlands, netherlands, new years, One Tribe, Open floor, Open floor, Open floor, Open floor, Sanctuary, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, Urban dance retreatWhen we crossed the border to Austria as refugees, 200 km away from my birthplace, I saw a completely different world which I was forced to enter. I was 11. I ate pizza for the first time in my life in the “western world” and I felt betrayed – I felt the lack of not having and being enough. I developed shame for coming from a “communistic country”. I lost my roots. And then I met pride and rage, they became my best friends for a long time.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms, Amala Petra Storm, austria, gabrielle roth, gabrielle roth, gabrielle roth, gabrielle roth, gabrielle roth, refugee, Russia, susanna dobos, susanna dobos, tribe