The healing path has a trajectory. Gabrielle Roth, creator of the 5Rhythms Movement Practice, called this The Path of The Wounded Healer. On this path, we mark both where we are and where we want to be and move with that awareness.
In the Heartbeat Map of the 5Rhythms, we investigate what is moving through the shores of the heart. Through understanding the relationship of the emotional polarities we come to respect and appreciate what we have been through.
Without fear, we cannot experience courage. Without anger, we cannot find access to forgiveness. Without love, we cannot experience grief. Without loss we cannot experience or appreciate the full spectrum of joy. Without all these qualities, we cannot know the true nature of compassion.
It is my belief that our sacred task in life is to transform the most difficult things we have been through into our greatest strengths. These are the stories of resiliency, vulnerability and strength. It is here we expand the capacity and potential to love and be loved.
You are invited to this journey of movement and awareness, focused on how emotions more through and transform the heart. Heartbeat is one of the maps of Gabrielle Roth’s living wisdom. I am here to pass this gift to you to be carried in your own bones and blood.
Each session we will be primarily working with the 5Rhythms® Movement Practice as a meditation. We will integrate each movement session with stillness meditation practices. In sitting meditation, we have the opportunity to observe the mind and body at rest through silence.
In 5Rhythms, we engage in mindfulness while moving. The two polarities of moving and sitting meditation together mirror the dance of life and support cultivation of well-being and balance.
