#75 The 5Rhythms: Maps of Ecstasy - Dancing with Gabrielle Roth, part 2

It is our great pleasure to present to you a series of conversations with an “urban shaman”, a cartographer of the inner space, an author, a musician, a dancer, and the founder of the 5Rhythms – Gabrielle Roth. This is the second episode of the series.

In this episode, we touch the following topics:

• Resonance in the body – emotions
  • Flowing resonates in the feet
  • Staccato resonates in the hips and heart
  • Chaos resonates in the neck, shoulders, head
  • Lyrical resonates in the hands
  • Stillness resonates in the breath
  • We can learn to dance from anytihng – flower, rock, mountain, animals…
  • Not “good” and “bad” – what is – is.
  • In the West, we became afraid of fear
• Dance of the nations
  • We are in a millenium of Chaos, a humbling time. Shattering.
  • The US might not be a super-power.
  • It’s a review of what am I going to die for, and what am I living for
• Body as a Living Bible
  • Many people don’t know how to read it
  • Reading it is a dance
  • People open up in the face of danger

#74 The 5Rhythms: Maps of Ecstasy - Dancing with Gabrielle Roth, part 1

It is our great pleasure to present to you a series of conversations with an “urban shaman”, a cartographer of the inner space, an author, a musician, a dancer, and the founder of the 5Rhythms – Gabrielle Roth.

In this episode, we touch the following topics:

• Maps of Ecstasy
  • Timeless, egoless state of being
  • Unleashed but focused
  • Dance – a firey prayer
  • You can dance forever (regardless of age)
  • At first a refuge. But then became much bigger than a refuge, and more people were coming into my refuge.
  • 5Rhythms – DNA of the creative process
• Devnagiri and Jhoom
  • The Western world lost its root – we are afraid of what is primal in us, and afraid of being touched and touch others in a way that awakens them
• Being rooted and grounded
  • Rooting is being off the Earth, and grounded is being on the Earth
  • Centered and Grounded
• Discovering the rhythms
• Transformation and alchemy
  • Fall in love and stay there
• Shadow side of 5Rhythms
  • Shadow to flowing is to be inert
  • Staccato – tense and rigit
  • Chaos – mentally confused and panicked
  • Lyrical – spaced out
  • Stillness – numb