Summer Waves, invites you to immerse yourself in the Earth, Sea & Sky of this beautiful Greek landscape on the Pelion Peninsula. Renowned as the place where the Greek Gods would take their summer holidays, it is truly a magnificent and relaxing location for a 5Rhythms vacation. Our home will be the holistic community of Anilio on the chestnut forested mountainside overlooking the Aegean Sea
Wir leben in chaotischen Zeiten. Die Welt wandelt sich und nichts ist mehr so wie es war. Altbewährtes funktioniert nicht mehr. Wir sind mit Herausforderungen konfrontiert, die eine umfassende Neuausrichtung unseres Leben erforderlich machen. Um unseren Platz in einer neuen Welt oder Lebenssituation zu finden, müssen wir unsere alten Pfade verlassen.
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Rhythmwood Retreat!
Welcome to Rhythmwood!
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to Rhythmwood, our hand crafted straw bale dance studio. This is a unique and beautiful space that has been created from natural, local materials. The building is coated inside and out with an earthen plaster giving the space an adobe feel. The earthen floors have been carefully prepared from a mix of clay, sand and straw. In the winter months hot water heating pipes warm the floor and give a radiant heat to the whole building. They are sealed with a natural linseed oil and when you dance on them you may find that the texture is much like leather. They have a natural, slight undulation to the surface and create a unique experience for dancing barefoot. Natural and earth friendly materials have created a one-of-a-kind space for those who come to dance here.
Let’s talk about luck! Is there really such a thing? Why is it that some folks seem to have a predilection for predicaments, while others manage to max out their surface area to serendipity?
The idea that amulets, charms, or other mystical objects could imbue some sort of magical power to their possessor has always seemed far-fetched. However, if one simply observes the habits and the attitudes of the fortunate and versus the common behaviors of the bedeviled, one starts to notice a few things.
Folks who fortune favors don’t dwell on things in a negative way. What one might call luck is more like the macro-effect of innumerable micro-actions.
Our bodies are constantly negotiating boundaries and consent with others
Zum ersten Mal gibt es Ecstatic Dance in dem zauberhaften kleinen Paradies!
Tanz
dich frei und glücklich als ob es kein Morgen gäbe! Raus aus dem Kopf
und rein in die Entspannung pur in der faszinierenden Hemelinger
Karibik!
Lasst uns gemeinsam tanzen und die wunderbare Natur genießen!
Was ist Ecstatic Dance?
Do you ever wonder about how things get their names? Why is it that people like to coin terms? What’s the difference between a euphemism and a fancy word?
We humans love to speak. In fact, one might argue that it’s the thing that we do best. In Tom Wolfe‘s final work, The Kingdom of Speech, he makes the point that language is truly the super power that separates man from beast.
He also debunks Darwin’s idea that our way with words was somehow an evolutionary adaptation leaving open the unsolved question nagging linguists to this day: “What exactly is language and where did it come from?”
Do you ever wonder about how things get their names? Why is it that people like to coin terms? What’s the difference between a euphemism and a fancy word?
We humans love to speak. In fact, one might argue that it’s the thing that we do best. In Tom Wolfe‘s final work, The Kingdom of Speech, he makes the point that language is truly the super power that separates man from beast.
He also debunks Darwin’s idea that our way with words was somehow an evolutionary adaptation leaving open the unsolved question nagging linguists to this day: “What exactly is language and where did it come from?”
Join a global community of dancers in a guided movement experience with Amara on Saturday September 5 (September 6 for Australia).
A repetition of breath awareness, walking meditation and movement.
All are welcome.
I like this definition of turning:
To move in a circular direction wholly or partly round an axis, a centre point.
What if the axis is Spirit? And we invite ourselves into alignment and connection with our own understanding of that word?
This workshop is an important foundation for any further shamanic study you might want to do. It introduces you to some of the core methods used in shamanism and helps you establish your own relationship to them. You will experience and learn to practice the ancient Shamanic path to wholeness and balance.
Each week for six weeks in the same community of people, we will follow a simple recipe of movement, a shamanic drumming journey and an exploration of the different medicine of the animal guides available to us when we open our hearts, imagination, curiosity and sense of wonder…no experience necessary as we travel and share together on this very human journey into the great unknown.
The wonderfully rich and deep Gathering is continuing, well into its second year, textured with layers of connection, honesty and depth. Each six week cycle is open to new people, those dropping by again and the regular core of humans who have been along from the beginning. We dance, share, witness and travel along a particular theme each cycle – this time it will be dreaming and its link to creativity.
Easy hey? I have had a booklet of poetry published, won a national poetry competition, am currently working on a new collection as well as taking an MA in Creative Writing and still the blank page rears it’s awful head for days on end sometimes!
Resilience and resources for each other in times of trouble
Relating to others — whether friends, lovers, enemies or colleagues — we get to find out how far we’ve come. It’s all very well to be enlightened sitting alone on a mountain top meditating, but…..
1-6 July 2022 | Kisslegg, Germany
The most amazing international conscious dance event of the year!
Join the OneDanceTribe ReUnion and be a part of co-creating an event
full of love and magic!
Enjoy a delightful and rich exploration of conscious dance, featuring school founders, and experienced international teachers.
These are wild times.
We’re not just on the edge, we’re off the edge and falling.
We are being called, cajoled and catapulted into new ways of being that require us to let go of our fixed ideas of what we thought we knew. We can sense it. There’s something going on.
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Breaking Down Walls!
This week’s Dance First insight is from Breaking Down Walls, celebrating our shared humanity through performing arts showcasing dance, music, theatre, poetry, comedy, and animation.
This event is raising money for House of Ukraine and is taking place at San Francisco’s Cowell Theater in Fort Mason on Saturday, June 11. This event will also be offered online on June 26.
Have you ever left anything on the back burner so long it starts to seem like a permanent fixture? Why is it that completing something is such a feeling of release? How can you balance the motion of life with the inertia of material things?
Name any human endeavor, from that jigsaw puzzle on your kitchen table to the launching of the space shuttle. Every artifact that you create begins with a word. Our ability to do this is what sets us apart from every one of our fellow creatures on this lush green earth. Words sprout from the seeds of thought, followed by action and the expenditure of energy.
To have a full certification to practice Dance Alchemy, you need to complete 3 parts of the training. Part I consists of 3 Modules. In will give you a solid foundation in inner alchemy, human energy centers and a deep transformational process for yourself.
Discovering the transforming power of the heart can truly change your life. Understanding the heart, and the secrets of inner alchemy you will experience in this workshop give you tools for responding to life intelligently, and transforming darkness and difficulty into growth, and a blessing.
We will work with the chakras, unwinding the blocked energy that may be there in the areas of sex and intimacy, friendships and family, power , work, self-respect and how you express yourself in the world. Bringing light into your self-acceptance, creativity, meditation, and feeling of belonging in this world. Through breathing, feeling, and dance expression, you will be able to expand the gifts and essential life energies in each chakra – as well as allow and cleanse the emotions that may be clouding the clarity – and joy – in your relationships, work, and self-esteem. We also will now learn about the polarities of each chakra, that give us natural opposite behaviors, for example the Giving/Receiving polarity of the heart chakra. When we understand this, we have a chance to allow this natural flow without condemning ourselves or forcing ourselves, so the suffering thus created can drop.
Dance the Alchemy of Love is a workshop in which the power of the heart allows us to express those feelings and energies that have been buried within. To express parts of us which are longing to become alive.
To have a full certification to practice Dance Alchemy, you need to complete 3 parts of the training. Part I consists of 3 Modules. In will give you a solid foundation in inner alchemy, human energy centers and a deep transformational process for yourself.
Alchemy of Love
Free Dance Alchemy Presentations
April 20 – Fun, Joy and the Art of Inner Alchemy
Fun and joy have a very high spiritual value. Life is challenging, but it doesn’t have to be dismal. In this event we awaken joy in our bodies, expand aliveness, and have a taste of changing problems into jewels, through the secrets of Dance Alchemy.
The most amazing international conscious dance event of the year!
Join the OneDanceTribe ReUnion and be a part of co-creating an event
full of love and magic!
Dancers Awakening Love Retreat
with Amara Pagano
July 7-10, 2022
Kisslegg, Germany
Dive into the healing waters of the dance and the experience of awakening love!
Come to cultivate embodiment, feel the fullness of you, turn on the
lights, embrace the shadows and awaken to the truth of who you really
are.
We will utilize the body’s intelligence to feel and integrate our experiences so that we emerge more available to life and love.
“We have to let our emotions surface, get to know and appropriate them, have them flowing in our life so that we fear what really threatens us, get angry at what invades our integrity, cry when we get hurt, smile when it all goes right, and care about the real needs of others.” Gabrielle Roth
Comment rayonner ? Sans que cela soit une performance, un objectif à atteindre, ou une injonction au bonheur. Comment vibrer et illuminer le monde avec qui nous sommes, en pureté et en lumière. En amour.
Le Staccato facilite notre lien avec le reste du monde. Mais il nous est parfois difficile d’assumer pleinement sa force.
“5Rhythms practice is a journey towards freeing the body, expressing the heart, emptying the mind, awakening the soul and embodying the spirit. GABRIELLE ROTH
This week’s Dance First Insight is from La Boutique Fantasque!
Attention dancers and ballet lovers of all ages!
If you and your family enjoy extraordinary ballet, you don’t want to miss
presented by New Ballet. A 1919 ballet originally choreographed by Leonide Massine, “The Enchanted Toyshop” has been re-imagined with choreography by Dalia Rawson and animation by Atlquetzalli (Ketzi) Rivera.
Do you ever look for the silver lining? Have you ever found a blessing hidden inside of adversity? Why is it that limits sometimes point the way to freedom?
Seems like the sage was on to something when they said the universe behaves like one of those big yin-yang symbols. The deluge of darkness generally hides a sliver of light. The question is, how much time and distance has to pass before one can see the big picture in context?
Obviously, if you haven’t been living under a rock, you are well aware of the travails of our times, not the least of which is the unjust war going on in Europe or the news that women’s rights are going on the chopping block here in the US.
Effective communication calls upon every aspect of our embodiment…our
hands, our eyes, our hearts, our breath…the creative intelligence of the
body.
Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of
unexplored wilderness: it is our intention to provide a map to guide us
into the deepest part of ourselves in order to access the truest,
clearest energetic communication.
A superbloom is defined as :
“a rare desert botanical phenomenon in which an unusually high
proportion of wildflowers whose seeds have lain dormant in desert soil
germinate and blossom at roughly the same time. The phenomenon is
associated with an unusually wet rainy season.”
This week’s Dance First Insight is from Ilona Glinarsky & Living Tango!
Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Ilona is no stranger to music and dance. Growing up in the former Soviet Union she was exposed to dance and music from the age of four.
A classically trained pianist, Ilona has a deep understanding and
appreciation for music and rhythm. Prior to her immigration to the US in
1979, she was trained to accompany dancers with the world-renowned
Ukrainian dance troupe, Virsky Ukranian Dance Ensemble.
This is where Ilona developed her true passion and reverence for
discipline, form and creative expression, qualities that set all great
dancers apart from the rest.
What’s the difference between a friend and an acquaintance? Why do some connections withstand the test of time? How can you tell which friendships are worth the effort?
Let’s face it, relationships run the gamut. From the flimsiest flicker of recognition from your favorite barista to torrid and tempestuous romances that are tested by the hands of time, we humans swim in a sea of interpersonal connections.
When you’re in your younger years, say, grade school through college, your friends can be one of the most important factors in your life. Having some Besties in your formative years can quite literally save your life.
