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Notes on Practice: Light & Shadow
In the current political context, and also in the context of my work, it occurs to me that the maturity of Lyrical—the full, shimmering, vibrating, sharp, vivid, spectacular, booming beauty of Lyrical has to do with stepping in to joy with full, open-eyed awareness and acceptance of all our pain and of the collective pain of the world. It is only with the integration of the shadow principles, and, too, of our own psychological shadows, that joy can fully arrive—not just the happy-because-something-went-well-joy or the I’m-going-to-look-happy-since-I’m-not-sure-how I’m-feeling-joy, it is not the innocent joy of a child either. Rather, it is the joy that has wisdom in it, joy that pushes nothing away, joy that sees from vast heights, joy that has enough space to hold all things inside it.
5RTA | November 2016 Teacher Spotlight
Kierra Foster-Ba
Laughing while crying; standing while falling; opening while closing… I have long been attracted to paradox and the intersection of polar opposites. This serious yet playful bent to my personality is what first attracted me to the 5Rhythms®, the work o...
In Memory of Visudha de los Santos
"Into the light, into the dark, it is all the same" Gabrielle gave us many maps within the cosmology of the 5Rhythms. One that has been particularly fascinating to me right now is the Light and Shadow map. The body, your body, holds all of the ener...
Notes on Practice: Joyful Patterns
Rather than big, easy-to-follow, repeating gestures as sometimes arise in Lyrical, we skittered down chains of intricately arranged repeating patterns, which would then shift and re-configure, taking form then never landing for long enough to be defined or understood. Our dance featured some bursting and chasing gestures, too. I would rise up on my highest toes, reaching for his height, wanting to be expansive along with him, then squiggle myself down and away. He laughed at my antics, joining in, too. After this long, intricate, layered exchange, we finally ended up doing the initial assignment—a simple repetition—grinning wildly as we both realized it, rocking back and forth.
Raven Recording | New Album: Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors – Pray Body
Dear Friends, As you probably know, the music we make is basically loosely-structured rhythm rides, deeply centered around percussion in all its forms. We don’t use percussion to drive …
5Rhythms with Jonathan Horan | New Mexico and New York
Taller than the tallest tree is That’s how it’s got to feel Deeper than the deep blue sea is That’s how deep it goes if it’s real ~Bob …
5Rhythms Tribe | Community That Inspires
October 2016 Musings + Art + Happenings from our Tribal Individuals The 5Rhythms practice | A lens for life GABRIELLE, 5RHYTHMS & SHAMANISM by Michael Stone British …
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