In December 2008, I heard about a local dance with “no alcohol, no drugs and bare feet”. Intrigued, I called the organiser. Would it be OK if my only recent dance experience was as an embarrassing uncle at a wedding? She replied “That’s perfect, you’ll love it!
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, bella dreizler, erik iversen, Mark Austin, movement medicine, Open floorI never realized dancing in a room together with other people was something I was taking for granted. Looking back, it’s screamingly ironic that the upheaval 5Rhythms practice predicted rhythmically in the dance was an upheaval that no one, teacher nor producer nor student, was actually prepared for logistically.
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TAGS: 5Rhythms, dance, endings, let it be, livestream, meditation, movement, on-demand, online, StillnessNever in my 25 years of dancing have I experienced the power of 5Rhythms so deeply as I did this year.
Yes, dancing with Gabrielle was like time travel and super magical and changed my whole life.
But this year, more than ever, 5Rhythms proved itself as a practical life elixir for many. Even for people who don’t really have anything to do with dancing.
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, Jup Jansonius, katya verbuggListening is a vehicle for true connection and feeling connected is the source for all healing. How do we reinvent connection when we find ourselves unexpectedly on the edge of the unknown? Isolated in realities stretched across landscapes of our own skin wondering how to begin again?
TAGS: 5Rhythms, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, faces, Katarzyna Pugoswka, listening, Lorca Simons, meditation, ondemand, online, united kingdomPheeew…what an intense 2020!
I don´t know about you, but I do need to look at it once again and dance it out to cleanse and create clear and loving space for what 2021 may bring.
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