29 years ago I arrived on a 5Rhythms dance floor with a background in a handful of ballet, my arms & legs full of sports & my whole body full of African & Contemporary dance. I was familiar with improvising movement but not in connection with my emotions. It was the rhythm of Chaos that opened my heart & allowed me to release the shackles of the emotional straight jacket I was living in.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5rhythms teacher training, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, angela griffiths, art, ballet, balleter, contact improv, contemporary dance, dance, emotions, england, feet, finland, gabrielle roth, helsinki, improvisation, Jason Rowe, life, london, meditation, movement medicine, Open floor, ritual waves, soul motino, sports, susannah darling, yaakov darling khanby Laura Marianne Pickerill, U.K. ‘Anything unresolved presents itself in the practice and invites itself to be resolved.’ – Lucia Horan Oh my goodness, how true is that? I had …
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