A perfect introduction to the 5Rhythms practice and the work of Gabrielle Roth. Enjoy! … [Read more...]
Making It Personal
In the 5Rhythms practice there are usually one or more of the Rhythms we feel comfortable and at home in - where we find our groove easily, connect with ourselves and could happily keep dancing on and on. Then, there are those that feel less known, more awkward to us, too slow or too fast, just not … [Read more...]
Gabrielle Roth, 1941-2012
Jonathan Horan, Gabrielle Roth's son wrote about Gabrielle on October 18th: Our Mama Raven's wings have lifted her spirit from this lifetime and she is in flight to her next journey, where she will dance in our hearts forever. Om Namah Shivaya. Dance In Peace, Gabrielle. Love, Jonny and … [Read more...]
Stillness – a prayer for Gabrielle
by Ingrid-Rose Nagle A moment of peaceexpanding in time and space.The void of the infiniteembraced by your Being.Body and Mind resting.Heart and Breath slowing down. … [Read more...]
Gabrielle Roth
Hello Dancing Loved Ones, Over the last few weeks Gabrielle has been moving into stillness. Robert and I have been deeply moved by the love and support pouring in from around the world. We appreciate each and every message and have been watching her smile when we share. We have now entered a time … [Read more...]
Surrender Poem by Ingrid
Giving up this need to understand where all sorrows comes from. How to explain those battlesfighting themselves,Endlessly eating upprecious life force energies. In the danceI remember the songof the rivers natural flow.In staccato, the call for directionwhere the hunter knows to find food.In chaos, … [Read more...]
Winter and the Mystery of Stillness
In the past few weeks on this dark side of the earth, in the potentcy of the winter solstice, have you noticed yourself going inside...reflecting into the internal quieter corners of yourself...the warmer cosier snugglier corners of the house...maybe even the spicier, soupier recipes cooking on your … [Read more...]
Ha! by Rata Gordon at Heartbeat 3
Ha! It's out, all of it out, out all black spots and grabbed in bits all squashed and silenced things all anger and sweetness, hope, hunger, out ha! ha! ha! Twist like this, and fall too twist fall slop soft depth moving under there is space, take it. Run into the space with this, all of … [Read more...]
Dancing With Change
Dear Dancing Friends, I always feel Autumn as such a time of change in the year, especially here in NZ where we have the dual impulses of growth and dying in any one season. We have a maple tree in our garden and throughout the day leaves make their graceful descent to the earth. I remember … [Read more...]
Sweat, by Bill Goldberg
At first self-conscious, I dance until my sweat becomes a river, that takes me to my soul. Eyes closed, I disappear into the waves, and all that’s left is rhythm. Laughter ripples through my body. Joy arises, past walls that were there just moments before. Moving until my sweat erodes those … [Read more...]
