As I leaned over the toilet vomiting with morning sickness – between lessons teaching art to school kids – I promised myself it was time to quit my day job, …
TAGS: Jean Rankin, Natalie PooleDear Friends, As you probably know, the music we make is basically loosely-structured rhythm rides, deeply centered around percussion in all its forms. We don’t use percussion to drive …
TAGS: Raven, Raven Recordings“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.” — D.T. Suzuki Dear Dancing Maniacs, I’ve spent the last days …
TAGS: 5Rhythm Teacher Association, 5Rhythm Teacher Association, Andrea Juhan, Cycles, dagmar cee, gabriell, Jason Rowe, jonathan horan, jonathan horan, MIrrors, movement medicine, movement medicine, Open floor, Open floor, Open floor, ritual theater, soul motion, together, unityOtherworldly fog took over the landscape on Monday. After dropping my six-year-old son, Simon, off at camp in Dunhill, I went to the unmarked beach again. Suffering from heavy anxiety, I paused to look out over the vast beach from the top of the steep cement stairs, and the line of vision was severely blocked by the heavy white cloud.
Exploring and seeking an inspiring place to dance, I walked west, passing several beaches…
TAGS: Maps to Ecstasy, Maps to Ecstasy, Medicine Dance, Medicine DanceRecently, one of my old stomping grounds, Orlando, Florida became the backdrop to the deadliest mass shooting in America. As shock, anger and grief spilled through many of our hearts, …
TAGS: 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms OneTribe, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5Rhythms Teachers Association, 5RTA, 5RTA, 5RTA, 5RTA, Amber Ryan, black rock city, burning man, dance movement therapy, dance movement therapy, dance movement therapy, dance movement therapy, dance-a-thon, Gestalt Therapy, mackenzie amara, mass shooting, meditation, meditation, meditation, Movement Teacher Training, Movement Teacher Training, Movement Teacher Training, orlando, rhythmwave, Staccato, Staccato, Staccato, Staccato, Stillness, Stillness, Teacher Training, Teacher Training, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, The Moving Center, the moving center school, the moving center school, the moving center school, the moving center school, Waves, Waves, Waves, WavesFor the second week in a row, I unexpectedly attended the Sunday Sweat Your Prayers class. For the second week in a row, the class was guest taught by an accomplished teacher from another country, in this case Hannah Loewenthal from South Africa. And for the second week in a row, I explored new and delightful aspects of partnership.
I took a long time to gather myself on entering; and I went silently through a ritual of bowing into the space. I felt emotional and took tiny steps, moving like water through the many floor-moving bodies that were distributed equally around the studio. I found a spot near the middle of the room and began to move in energetic circles, rolling over the back of my head again and again and letting the gestures cast me in arcs, pausing to tense in key stretches as I was quickly called to action.
Hannah, perhaps noting the quickening of the room,
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