On 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, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, Alessandro Moruzzi, Conscious Dance, ecstatic dance, essence, five rhythms, inertia, innocence, Jean Rankin, love, moving meditation, Pain, San Francisco, shamanic dance, the moving center school, united kingdom“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, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, 5RTA, ann kite, bethesda, father, gabrielle roth, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, Heartbeat, meditation, meditation, Mirjam van Hasselt, netherlands, new years, Sanctuary, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, Urban dance retreatby Julia Mercurio – Budapest, Hungary A couple of years ago, I was in a relationship. It was about the time that I started dancing that we started breaking up. …
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