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Gabrielle Roth Biography

Gabrielle Roth (February 4, 1941 – October 22, 2012) was an American dancer and musician in the world music and trance dance genres, with a special interest in shamanism. She created the 5Rhythms approach to movement in the late 1970s; there are now hundreds of 5Rhythms teachers worldwide who use her approach in their work.

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Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.

Anger, Boundaries, Integrity, Invasion, Personal, Response

If you have a body you are a dancer

Body, Dancer, Ifs

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

Dance, Meditation, Medium, Messages, Metaphor

We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.

Critic, Judge, Judging, Safe, Space

Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.

Divorce, Expression, Happens, Life, Reflected, Stories

Each of us has the power and responsibility to heal ourselves, to be our own medicine man or woman. Awakening our innate powers of being, loving, knowing, seeing, and healing involves ongoing work at all levels and in all dimensions of our self. Exploring the range of rhythms and emotions, achieving insights into our conditioning and ego, moving through the energy levels of spirit – these are all activities to be integrated into our daily lives.

Energy, Healing, Integrated, Moving, Responsibility, Self

The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed.

Body, Circles, Consciousness, Heals, Inertia, Moving

In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened. . . or depressed would be asked,. . . When did you stop dancing?. . . This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.

Dance, Disheartened, Healing, People, Salve, Universal

There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.

Changing, Fascination, Listen, Promise, Self

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.

Hurt, Move, Pain, Prayer, Prayers

The self is a dance, constantly in motion.

Constantly, Dance, Motion, Self

Your voice takes you to your heart.

Heart, Takes, Voice, Wise

To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. The more you dance. . . the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.

Dance, Innermost, Offering, Past, Prayer

The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.

Cleanest, Dancing, Hard, Sweat, Talking

I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.

Believe, Dark, Fact, Power, Together, Wisdom

We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.

Cure, Feelings, Healing, Knowing

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

Awe, Awe And Wonder, Movement, Mystery, Planet, Wonder

Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.

Healing, Heart, Body, Freeing, Leads

The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body

Body, Mind, Moving, Way

It takes discipline to be a free spirit.

Discipline, Free, Free Spirit, Spirit, Takes

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