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5-Rhythms Dance with Kate Shela
Specific Saturdays, Starting again in the New Year (Check the list below for dates) 10:00- 11:30am Santa Monica
You are invited to a morning of movement meditation. An opportunity to ride
the Wave. The 5 Rhythms are a moving medicine wheel that guide you deeply into the
inner landscapes of your body, mind and heart and invite you to physicalize the
stories held in these places. You allow yourself the opportunity through movement
to arrive at a place of equanimity.
Gabrielle Roth, the creator of the practice says that "if you put the
psyche in motion it will heal itself" and she saw that most western minds found
it challenging to simply sit and find peace and just as yoga was created to
loosen the body in preparation for sitting meditation, Gabrielle saw that we
were governed by beat and bang and the 4 by 4 beat of rock and pop. She believes
that if we engage our minds and drop into the beat we will find the still point
we are all longing for.
This practice is not just for " Dancers", this work is for all bodies,
backgrounds, shapes and sizes. All ages and physical abilities.
Truly, it simply requires some curiosity and some willingness to explore
what is just beneath our skin. To allow many musical landscapes to guide you
through the map of the Rhythms which are: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and
Stillness.
This is a laboratory of seeing oneself with fascination. To meet oneself
and others in all our humanity.
Movement is our mother tongue, it is our first language and 80% of our
communication is physical.
So come and unwrap the stories that are tattooed into your blood and allow
your creativity to rise up into physical form. No registration necessary, just show up. PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME - DOORS WILL BE LOCKED WHEN CLASS BEGINS. Cost: $20 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
This class will be held at 1001 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, 90401 Dates for 2012 Jan 21 Feb 11 Mar 3, 10 Apr 7, 14, 21 May 5 Jun 16 Jul 7, 14, 21 Aug 4, 11, 18 Sep 1, 8 Oct 6, 13, 20 Nov 3, 17 Dec 8 15, 22 Kate Shela knows something. I'm not certain what it is, but I know it's important. In her words and her movement, she shows us what it is to be alive in the body and how this embodiment is an essential part of being free. Matthew Brensilver, PhD, ATS Teacher In the 5 Rhythms, I gain insight into what and who conditions my
movement in the same way that in meditation I might see who's voices conditioned
my critical mind...and Kate displays the fruit of her practice in her very
being. She's for real. Dance here now!
Pablo Das. Teacher, ATS Teacher
Kate Shela and the 5 Rthymns created a seamless experience in my
practice of Vipassana and movement. This class holds so many of the elements of
a seated practice but in moving form, enabling me to see more clearly how I
operate in the world of living color. Kate is a gracious, insightful, fun,
living expression of dance.
JoAnna Harper ATS
teacher Kate is a wizard weaving a tapestry of sound that allows the body to move naturally; calls the body to move in ways we would never 'think' of moving. EVERYONE SHOULD DO THIS! Mary Stancavage, ATS Teacher |