Dancing and Health

All forms of dancing are excellent for removing stress getting back in TUNE with your body.

Gabrielle Roth

What I like about Gabriella Roth is that she taps into our FOURTH brain that is the MOVING Centre

Those familiar with 'The Work'
discover we are not just one brain but four!!!

The fourth brain deals with all forms of MOVEMENT.

ANOTHER aspect that interests me that Gabriella writes about is 'the mirror'

Description:

“A warrior is self-oriented, not in a selfish way, but in the sense of a total, continuous examination of the self." - Castaneda

Mirrors is an initiation into the world beyond self-importance -- into the art of seeing. To enter the world of Mirrors is to take off our blinders and begin to see through the delusions and difficulties that trap us in unhappiness and destructiveness. We start to step back and get some insight into the predictable patterns that sabotage the grace and dignity of our truest and most soulful self.

In the 5Rhythm® practice, we are constantly moving into the most spontaneous, energetic, expansive qualities of our being. In the Mirrors I level of the practice, we are given the tools to identify the relentless loop of our own favorite head-trips and the inevitable situations they create. We tear off masks, sheds skins, reinventing ourselves effortlessly, learning to witness our own drama, its roots and rituals. We enter the crowd of characters that dominate our stage whether servant or star, doormat or dreamer, realist or rebel, mystic or manipulator—all divas, and begin to watch them sabotage our funky, fiery, free-spirit. Sometimes we have to stop the world and wonder: which part of me is using my hands, my feet, my eyes, my ears, and most importantly my mouth today?

We all know what it feels like to get stuck, to lose our groove, to get trapped in our heads and cut off from our hearts Seeking the answer within awakens the witness and learning to witness our own melodrama is our saving grace.

Notes:
For information on the Garrison Institute, visit www.garrisoninstitute.org

Movement

Dancing.. movement with.. in... and amongst.. others helps integrate our personal and social transformations.

movement is experiential and a powerful approach to change which integrates your mind, body, and your deepest values and the social context in which you live.

explore how your new idea can translate into a new action a new way of being, that may require you to see that an inherited value and habit holding it in place don’t necessarily align with your vision for your future, and how to make the change you are committed to at the personal, community and social level.

Mirrors

Picture a Mirror..

Notice the reflection in the mirror
Hear what that reflection is telling you
Feel what that reflection is feeling in its body
Move with the movement of that reflection

Picture you as the observer observing the reflection.

Consider you are NOT the reflection being reflected back at you from the mirror.

Consider ALSO
engaging in the 'feeling' based prayer
that is feeling the feeling reflected back as though it has happened
hear what you hear reflected back at you now that it has happened
smell what you smell reflected back at you now that it has happened