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5RTA| February Teacher Spotlight

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.

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5RTA | January Teacher Spotlight

I 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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5RTA | May 2018 Teacher Spotlight

I come from the Dominican Republic, where we are born dancing, and dancing is at the core of our everyday life. And I have been practicing various forms of Conscious Movement for the last seven years. However, 5

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5RTA | April Teacher Spotlight

1998, my left side of the body was 0 out of 10 level paralyzed by stroke. It was shocking, at the same time my curiosity for the body was huge. I spent time facing my body for 8 months. For the first 4 months, I was in wheel chair and taking physical therapy. Slowly re-developing my nerve.

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5RTA | February Teacher Spotlight

I had a recent chance encounter with some Russian dolls (you know the ones which fit inside each other?) The babushkas reminded me of one of Gabrielle’s many 5-step maps, which I remember as the Five Stages of Consciousness in Dance

TAGS: 5Rhythms, Anatomy of Emotions, Canada, Christan de Sousa, Consciousness, Dancing Tao, ecstatic dance, Ecstatic Rhythms, england, gabrielle roth, movement medicine, New York City, Open floor, peter fodera, soul motion, united kingdom
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5RTA | Meet Our Trainees

The Dancing Path

A call to surrender to the mystery. A path that does not exist yet and it is yours and yours alone to dance.

Your path is forged where you practice, where your feet kiss the earth time and time again.

The earth gives way to your dance, a trail to your deepest wounds, your deepest truths, your deepest creations….

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