Recommended Books and DVDs

There are some wonderful books on the 5Rhythms Dance Practice by Gabrielle Roth, the founder of the 5Rhythms work. All titles are available from amazon.com, fishpond.co.nz or your local good bookstore. If you only read one book we’d recommend Sweat Your Prayers. Gabrielle is a brilliant and entertaining writer. Warning: reading these books are likely to make you want to get up and dance your wildest dance! Enjoy the reading!

Sweat Your Prayers The book on the 5Rhythms		Maps to Ecstacy Gabrielle’s first book, still a classic!
Connections Gabrielle’s last book about movement, trusting your intuition and more		The DVD collection – includes 3 half hour practices: The Wave, Power Wave, and Inner Wave. See previews here.

"There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good."
Edwin Denby

"Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free."
Rumi

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

May the calm be widespread
May the ocean glisten as greenstone
May the shimmer of light
Ever dance across your pathway
The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera

"Put the psyche in motion and it will heal itself."
Gabrielle Roth

“Move and the way will open.”
Zen Proverb

"The 5Rhythms are a map to everywhere we want to go, on all planes of consciousness - inner and outer, forward and back, physical, emotional and intellectual."
Gabrielle Roth

"To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak."
Hopi Indian Saying

"Just jump in - God is always dancing - always."
Adyashanti

To reach for love
is to change the shape of the arm
To look on beauty
is to alter the eyes
Prayer sanctifies the lips
Song liberates the throat
Dance fills the bones with light
Love makes of the heart
an Open Hand.
Natascha Bruckner

"Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance."
James Howe

"For me, God is both the dance and the dancer, I am just the part that gets in the way."
Gabrielle Roth

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
Alan Watts

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Eckhart Tolle

“If not now, when?”
Kashmiri Proverb

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
Joseph Campbell

"Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion."
Martha Graham

"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. It’s the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy."
Jaques D’Amboise

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