Om Gabrielle Roth

Gabrielle Roth er grunnleggeren av denne bevegelsespraksisen. Gjennom mange tiår har hun studert mennesket i bevegelse og til sammen har disse erfaringene utviklet den strukturen som de 5 rytmene hviler i.

"For the past thirty-five years, Gabrielle Roth has taken thousands of people on a shamans journey through the rhythms of their bodies and into the rhythms of their souls. Her books, workshops, and music recordings provide a context in which the spirit and flesh come together as one and dance like lovers upon a stage. Through the 5RhythmsTM, her self-styledd form of ecstatic trance dance, she uses movement to reignite shamanic ecstasy in a culture and people that have become trapped in a kind of physical and emotional inertia. Roth guides her students on an adventure into the often unexplored, sometimes daunting, region of their own psyches, and brings them back into alignment with the rhythm of their own souls. In shamanic societies, there has always been the dance. Dance was a sacred act, the sine qua non of most rituals. Tribal people would dance for hours, churning themselves into ecstasy in order to free their souls and communicate with their gods. Unlike our ancestors, our spiritual worship in the West has to a great extent become a sedentary activity, with meditation and prayer most often done in complete stillness. Rarely does the body get in on the act, and few spiritual teachers ever demand of us that we do any differently. "