“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: breath in motion, experimental theater, Gestalt Therapy, Lorca Simons, Medicine Dance, ritual theater, theaterI 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: dance, retreat, Sonja Hellman, susanna dobosOn 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: Alessandro Moruzzi, death, essence, Heartbeat, Heartbeat, inertia, innocence, Jean Rankin, love, Pain, San Francisco, united kingdomI 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
TAGS: 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, Francis Eliot, Natalie PooleI hated the music, especially the warm up, I didn’t know what to do with myself. I was totally in my head, get on with it says I. The session was far too long (I kept looking at the clock), & I didn’t like the teacher… Plus I was to come back another 4 times
TAGS: 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, 5RTA, 5RTA, 5RTA, 5RTA, Bettine Leukert, dagmar cee, germany, Heera Andreas Mueller, Heike Fuhsy, ireland, Movement Teacher Training, Movement Teacher Training, Ron Hagendoorn, Ron Hagendoorn, Sherron St Clair, soul motion, sweat your prayersHot off the press! We are happy to announce that, after a few years in the making, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeingis now a fully published tome with a chapter on 5Rhythms. (The 5Rhythms® Movement Practice: Journey to Wellbeing, Empowerment, and Transformation) written in collaboration by 5Rhythms Teachers Mati Vargas-Gibson (Dallas, Mexico), Sarena Wolfaard (Edinburgh, South Africa), and Emma Roberts (Brighton, Paris).
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