| 04 October 2010
Movement becomes Medicine... dancing the 5Rhythms® is a journey to express and be free, to become more fluid mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually... so to unfold our full potential as human beings.
A surfer knows the first stage of a wave is flowing. When a swell travels it draws its potential from the Earth... what shape it will take? Gathering, receiving, listening, this is where we let the dance in, its circles, its curves. The wave is expressed into its clear unique focused form.... a tube, glassy barrel, close out.... This is staccato where we let our expression out in its ten million different and funky percussive shapes.
The wave breaks! Release! Turbulence! This is chaos. Surrender and let it take us into the spontaneous, unpredictable, abandoned fusion of freedom and creativity. Nothing to hold on to.
The wave bubbles and rolls, aerated and joyful. Full of exhilaration from the release.... light, spacious..... the lyrical state of being. Expanding into what we love, larger than life, grace dances her way in. Dissolving...... dissolved.
All waves return to stillness. Stillness embodies the source from where all creation arises and returns. Still moving but we are empty and our bodies are vessels for our prayers.
• Gabrielle Roth, founder of 5Rhythms® - urban shaman, dancing healer, artistic warrior says, “Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with and where we are going.”
The Byron shire is rich with many opportunities to dance the 5Rhythms®. We have three wonderful teachers in the area.... Deva Nandan, Honor Morningstar and myself.
Check out www.gabrielleroth.com for all the classes offered. Each class and teacher brings their own unique flavour.
Geash Bowler is a passionate teacher bringing her embodied love for yoga to the dance. She teaches in • Byron Bay Scout Hall Saturday 7-9pm • Uki Hall Thursdays 7-9pm and Lismore at St Andrews Parish Hall Wednesdays 7-9pm. Everybody is welcome. Call 042 886 8867 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
