Dec 3, 2025
I tried fusion dancing in a church and learned a lot… mostly about myself. A humorous roast of dance styles I love, like, tolerate, or flee from.
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I tried fusion dancing in a church and learned a lot… mostly about myself. A humorous roast of dance styles I love, like, tolerate, or flee from.
Teaching: Deepening awareness of embodiment
This past Saturday, I provided the “ofrenda” at the monthly gathering of women dancing the 5 Rhythms (Step Into Yes) in Austin, facilitated by Lisa DeLand (dancingfirelizards.com). Lisa and I are old friends. We met at Sweat Your Prayers, an ecstatic dance, in 1995. We have similar paths of recovery from adverse childhood experiences, and now, having worked a lot with our selves, by ourselves and…
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New invention? Bounce-dancing on a rebounder in intervals!
New invention? Bounce-dancing on a rebounder in intervals!
Factor #1: My friend Katie and I had dinner at a Mediterranean buffet restaurant recently, and she suggested we walk right after eating, citing studies saying that walking for a few minutes immediately after a meal stabilizes insulin. I looked it up (you know me!), and it has a lot of other benefits. It boosts metabolism, speeds digestion, reduces bloating, increases endorphins and serotonin,…
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10 years after she died, a tribute to Gabrielle Roth
10 years after she died, a tribute to Gabrielle Roth
One of my practices is ecstatic dance. I discovered it in 1995 in Austin, and it became part of my life. Gabrielle was my primary teacher, through teachers she trained and also in person. Gabrielle was, well, not the inventor of ecstatic dance, since I’m pretty sure it was happening the moment humans began creating rhythm, perhaps even before then in response to nature’s rhythms, shapes,…
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Cosmic Dancer
💓A gift to my 5 Rhythms Teacher 💓
Rest In Natural Great Peace
Hozier - Take Me To Church
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” T S Eliot