In December 2008, I heard about a local dance with “no alcohol, no drugs and bare feet”. Intrigued, I called the organiser. Would it be OK if my only recent dance experience was as an embarrassing uncle at a wedding? She replied “That’s perfect, you’ll love it!
TAGS: bella dreizler, erik iversen, Mark AustinI never realized dancing in a room together with other people was something I was taking for granted. Looking back, it’s screamingly ironic that the upheaval 5Rhythms practice predicted rhythmically in the dance was an upheaval that no one, teacher nor producer nor student, was actually prepared for logistically.
TAGS: azul, covid, dancing, dancing with Illness, Dancing with My Space, event planning, mitochondria, Morgan Berk, Morgan Rae Berk, Richard WiltshireWhatever 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: Flowing, Gestalt Therapy, Lyrical, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, moving meditation, on-demand, online, Staccato, StillnessEmbodied 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, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, Chaos, Chaos, Chaos, Christine reimer, Christine reimer, Conscious Dance, Conscious Dance, Conscious Dance, Conscious Dance, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, dance movement therapy, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, ecstatic dance, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, five rhythms, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, gabrielle roth, gabrielle roth, gabrielle roth, meditation, meditation, meditation, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, Movement Teacher Training, sarena wolfards, scotland, shamanic dance, shamanic dance, shamanic dance, sweat your prayers, sweat your prayers, sweat your prayers, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, yoga, yogaGrowing 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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