User:Dance Researcher/sandbox/freedomDANCE

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freedomDANCE is a practice and a school of dance meditation and conscious movement founded by Alex Svoboda in 2009.

Fundamental to the practice is the notion of freedomDANCE cycle that repeats a natural flow of energy found in all areas of life through gradual activations, staying at the peak and settling. The school has trained over 50 teachers and around 30 are actively teaching.


It draws from the modern body of work focused on dance as a tool of self-exploration and personal growth, including 5Rhythms and the work of Anna Halprin, humanistic psychology and transpersonal psychology and incorporates more traditional knowledge found in Indian philosophy, Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, shamanism and martial arts.

The practice[edit]

The practice of the 5Rhythms is said by Gabrielle Roth to put the body in motion in order to still the mind. The five rhythms (in order) are Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness.[uspto 1] The 5Rhythms, when danced in sequence, are known as a "Wave." A typical Wave takes about an hour to dance.[1]

Longer workshops may, according to The Dancing Path, explore emotion, the cycle of life, the ego, relationships and spiritual vision.[2]

The 5Rhythms Maps[edit]

The work is taught through a series of maps that explore the terrain of the inner and outer worlds of individuals, their relationships to others and the space around them. The maps offer a soul journey by exploring embodiment, emotions, the life cycle, the psyche, and the archetypes. The rhythms offer understanding of people's innate powers – being, loving, knowing, seeing and healing.[3]

The first map, "Waves" teaches embodiment of the five distinct rhythms. To embody the rhythms means to access the deep internal wisdom that human bodies contain. The "Heartbeat" map teaches how people have embodied and how they express the emotions of fear, anger, sadness, joy and compassion; while the "Cycles" map provides insight and understanding about how one has internalized conditioning and relationships throughout the life cycle, specifically in the stages of birth, childhood, puberty, maturity and death. Insight and understanding of the ego is delivered through the psyche map, "Mirrors".[3]

Roth drew a circular "Medicine Mandala" that related each rhythm to an emotion, a stage of life, a way of perceiving, and an aspect of the self.[4]

The elements of Gabrielle Roth's "Medicine Mandala"[4]
Rhythm Emotion Stage of life Way of perceiving Aspect of self
Flowing Fear Birth Being Body
Staccato Anger Childhood Loving Heart
Chaos Sadness Puberty Knowing Mind
Lyrical Joy Maturity Seeing Soul
Stillness Compassion Death Healing Spirit

Schools and teachers[edit]

Roth founded The Moving Center[5] in New York in 1977 as a base for her workshops, and to train and develop teachers.[6] 5Rhythms Global [7] was founded in 2013 as the international Institute training 5Rhythms teachers worldwide. The 5Rhythms Teachers Association[8] was founded in 2007 as a professional association serving the continuing education of accredited 5Rhythms teachers. The 5Rhythms movement spread worldwide, and in 2017 there were 396 certified teachers and SpaceHolders[9] in 50+ countries.[10]

Reception[edit]

Evgeniya Krylova, writing on yogajournal.ru, highlights the value of what is taught in freedomDANCE classes for daily life, specifically, for having the resilience to continue in the face of the challenges.[11]

From Inna Gulyaeva's book (2015, p. 55): "Обучение свободе жить без психофизиологических блоков, иметь расслабленное тело, умеющее вовремя сконцентрироваться, а потом снять напряжение, возможно через такие тан- цевальные практики, как 5 ритмов Габриэлы Рот или FreedomDance Алекса Никифо- рова. О 5 ритмах я рассказывала в предыдущей своей книге «Арт-коучинг. Как женщине игра- ючи изменить свою жизнь за 3 месяца».

Практика FreedomDance позволяет вам в танце совершить открытие, трансформацию и интеграцию телесного опыта в вашу картину мира. Это позволяет вам мягко обучаться через тело, лучше узнавать себя, свои желания и потребности. Вы начинаете понимать себя, свои возможности и ограничения, уметь принимать то, что изменить невозможно, и менять то, что реально изменить."

Research[edit]

Academics working in mental health and other fields are starting to carry out research about the 5Rhythms. The Mental Health Foundation, a UK charity published the 'Dancing for Living Report' describing a group of women's experience of 5Rhythms dance and the effects on their emotional wellbeing.[12] The 5Rhythms have been the subject of a number of PhD theses.[13][14]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Гуляева, И. В. (2015) Арт-коучинг на практике. Как EMDR, танец и рисование могут легко изменить жизнь женщины за 21 день. СПб.: Весь. ISBN 978-5-9573-2918-3
  • O'Conaill, Cliona (2016). Conscious Dance. Kindred Spirit. Sept/Oct 2016.
  • Roth, Gabrielle (1997). Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice. Tarcher Putnam. ISBN 978-0-87477-959-2.
  • Roth, Gabrielle (2004). Connections: The Five Threads of Intuitive Wisdom. Tarcher. ISBN 978-1-58542-327-9.
  • Stewart, Iris (2013) [2000]. Sacred woman, sacred dance : awakening spirituality through movement and ritual. Inner Traditions. ISBN 978-1-62055-250-6.

References[edit]

[1]

  1. ^ Gabrielle Roth. Maps to Ecstasy, 1989.
  2. ^ "The Dancing Path". 5 rhythms global. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  3. ^ a b "The Maps of the 5Rhythms". 5Rhythms. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms". 5Rhythms. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
  5. ^ "The Moving Center NY".
  6. ^ 5Rhythms: Moving Center New York. Retrieved February 4, 2014
  7. ^ "5Rhythms Global". 5Rhythms.com.
  8. ^ "5Rhythms Teachers Association".
  9. ^ "5Rhythms | 5Rhythms Sweat SpaceHolder Program". Retrieved 2017-07-14.
  10. ^ "Find A Teacher". 5Rhythms Global. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  11. ^ Крылова, Евгения (January 7, 2020). "Сила слова «продолжай» или как применить танцевальный опыт в жизни".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ Cook, Sarah; Ledger, Karen; Scott, Nadine (2003), Dancing for Living Report: Women's experience of 5 Rhythms dance and the effects on their emotional wellbeing, Sheffield: UK Advocacy Network
  13. ^ WorldCat Listing of Andrea Juhan's Thesis. OCLC 60710012.
  14. ^ Hogya, Anne Marie (March 2004). "5RHYTHMS™ IN THE WORKPLACE: EXPLORING MOVEMENT AS A CORPORATE TRAINING APPROACH" (PDF). Royal Roads University. Retrieved March 17, 2012.

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