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: retreat, Sonja Hellman, Staccato, susanna dobosSexual rape is like a large tattoo on the soul. It takes all your freedom away in just a few minutes. Not only sexual rape but “any abuse” can affect our sexual holy place.
TAGS: 5rhythms teachers assocation, belgium, Gestalt Therapy, gramya michal molho, greece, Healing, Katya Verbugghe, rape, Sexual Grounding, summer, sweat your prayers29 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 teacher training, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, angela griffiths, art, ballet, balleter, contact improv, contemporary dance, dance, dance, emotions, england, feet, finland, helsinki, improvisation, Jason Rowe, life, london, ritual waves, soul motino, sports, yaakov darling khanLooking 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, Heartbeat, Heartbeat, Ikaria, Jup Jansonius, netherlands, one dance tribe, soul motion, susannah darling, susannah darling, yaakov darlingOriginal Skin is where we are most alive with the powerful innocence of instinct and the vulnerable action of putting our hearts out in the world. . This is the dance into the deep well of being human, the practice of trusting the feet and finding the dance that only you can do because that is the dance that is so needed, this is my next offering and my invitation.
TAGS: alignment, creativity, croatia, fundamentals, Intelligence, jonathan horan, jonathan horan, Lucija Ana Glagolic Hora, Lyrical, Oregon, original skin, Sara Mains, trizophreniaI was dancing ‘in the womb’ during a Cycles workshop when I first heard someone whisper to me, You have to teach this, you have something to offer, you can’t keep this all to yourself. Disrupted, I stopped my dance and looked around. Everyone seemed to be engrossed in their own womb dances. I pushed these impossible words away; I wasn’t interested in teaching. I went on with
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