“Be the poetry of the movement to find the voice connected to the heart connected to the feet. To be able to stand in it and serve with it. Just be a catalyst. Art is the soul food each person needs.” – Gabrielle Roth
TAGS: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, breath in motion, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, experimental theater, five rhythms, gabrielle roth, Gestalt Therapy, Lorca Simons, Medicine Dance, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, moving meditation, Open floor, ritual theater, Ron Hagendoorn, shamanic dance, The Moving Center, the moving center school, theater, WavesSexual 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: 5 rhythms, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teacher Association, 5rhythms teachers assocation, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, belgium, Conscious Dance, dance movement therapy, ecstatic dance, five rhythms, Gestalt Therapy, gramya michal molho, greece, Healing, jonathan horan, Katya Verbugghe, movement medicine, moving meditation, Open floor, rape, Sexual Grounding, summer, sweat your prayers, The Moving Center29 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 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, 5Rhythms tribe, 5RTA, catherine llewynn, gabrielle roth, Heartbeat, Ikaria, Jup Jansonius, movement medicine, netherlands, one dance tribe, Open floor, soul motion, susannah darling, The Moving Center, 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.
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