DATE: 9th, 10th, 11th December 2016 – 9th 7-9.30pm, 10th & 11th 10-12pm and 3-6pm
INVESTMENT: 12000LKR for all 3 Workshops, Only Friday 2800LKR, only Sat or Sun 5500LKR, only Sat & Sun 9500LKR
THE POWER OF DANCING – Friday, 9th December 7-9.30pm
Gabrielle Roth´s 5 Rhythms
Let´s dance and sweat out mental noise, melt tension and ground the soul in our body, so we are able to sense which way the feet want to go in which direction the heart wants to open. We will dance through the 5rhythms: flow, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness.
The 5rhythms is a creative dance practice with rhythms to structure our unique improvised movements, a practice of presence in motion. If you long to be more free and love to dance, this is a practice for you. It doesn’t matter who you are or what age you are in.
The 5rhythms “is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action.” Gabrielle Roth, see www.5rhythms.com
DEEPENING YOUR DANCE – Saturday, 10th Dec., 10am-12pm and 3-6pm
This workshop is an introduction to the 5rhythms and to a deeper understanding of each rhythm. Dancing the rhythms we will feel it´s magic, dance it´s expressions and sense it´s deeper mystery
The gateway to flow is the feet. We will work with grounding and how to be with inner and outer impressions of our being and how to make them move. We will invite the flow of life – the never ending circling and whirling energy of the body and surrounding nature.
The gateway to staccato is the hips and the heart. We will work with expressions of who we are, feeling the power of the hips and the openness of the heart, inviting more sharp movements. Following the bone structure, exploring all kinds of creative dances.
The gateway to chaos is letting go of the head and loosening up the neck. We will let go of control, allow unpredictable and wild dances, crossing limits and surrender into a deeper dance of emptiness.
The gateway to lyrical is a lighter dance, airborne, allowing hands and feet to lear our joyful, playful and graceful dances. We will invite the inner, authentic dancer and unfold the courage and responsibility to be seen as we really are and to really see the dancing of our companions.
The gateway to still ness is the breath, dancing in slow motion, taking it all back in again. We will invite the inner feeling of stillness to unfold and make our body more soft and still as a dancing healing but also allow our body to move wild with compassion, finding our spots of presence and emptiness in the dance.
Gabrielle Roth (1924- 2012) was said to be an Urban Shaman unfolding Ecstasy through her dance practice. She used her whole life to develop und unfold the 5Rhythms to go to deeper levels.
PRESENCE IN MOTION – Sunday 11th December, 10-12pm & 3-6pm
We we dance inside out we meet the possibility of inner freedom, the openness of the heart and the power of presence. Most of us have met the spirit of life in natures, in giving birth, in love or in mediation. Through the 5 rhythms and the expression of the body, we will explore how dancing is a gateway to this openness and how the free dance connects us to something bigger than ourselves.
Dancing through the 5rhythms, we will open up to mindful dancing. Each of the rhythms is a chance to let go and surrender, deepening our present being in flow, expressing our power and love of this moment in staccato, crossing limits into the void in chaos, finding our spirit dancer in lyrics and take it all into the breath of stillness.
We will work with the presence and mindfulness, dancing solo and with partners and we will explore how different kinds of music can bring a different kind of awareness and attention into our dance.
“Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit” Gabrielle Roth
Teacher: Birgitte Rasmussen, certified 5rhythms teacher® by Gabrielle Roth, 2008.
More Info: www.dans5rytmer.dk
http://www.5rhythms.com/teachers/Birgitte+Rassmussen
Last updated Nov. 10, 2016, 4:38 a.m. UTC
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