 Yoohoo!
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I've
been dancing the 5 Rhythms since falling in love with the practice 13 years
ago. In 1990 I trained as a drama and movement therapist with the Sesame
Institute and it was straight after that that I discovered the 5 Rhythms.
Both experiences were momentous, but I had no idea then the impact that
they would have on the rest of my life! However, after five challenging
and delicious years of dancing whenever I could with Susannah and Ya'Acov
Darling Khan and any other teachers I could find, I found myself saying
yes, I'd like to train to teach this. Which was a bit of a surprise! I trained
with Gabrielle in 1995. I look back with continual gratitude and forward
with wonder..... |
| Funny how
things keep turning out isn't it? I was born in 1956, with a carpenter for
a Dad and a dressmaker for a Mum, with a sister who came along after me
and loves to dance and a brother who loves to laugh. School was mostly ok
- I read under the desk for a lot of it, got some O levels and stepped into
the working world without a clue. I worked as a clerk for BP for a while,
which paid twice what my friends were earning and left on a whim and intuition
a year or so later. The people I went to see in the lovely local employment
agency asked if I'd like to work for them and I did for a few very happy
years until I decided I'd rather be a bit of a gypsy (all that reading feeds
the imagination). With my then boyfriend we bought an old transit van, made
it habitable and took off around Scandinavia and Europe. Bliss. On return
I worked as a temp (an easy thing in those days, especially if you could
type and do maths, and miraculously, I could). Saved enough for the flight
and took off to explore the Kibbutzim that I'd read about. Freedom. Spent
years travelling, coming home to my patient, trusting and loving Mum and
Dad when the money ran out (not that they didn't worry, but they didn't
tell me that they worried). I washed dishes, worked in bars all over the
world, hitchiked around USA (with 2 girlfriends, one of whom is now a parson!),
hitchiked around Australia and Europe, caught chickens and weeded cotton,
calculated wages and worked on an orphanage in Bangladesh, travelled through
some of Asia and China and Egypt. |
| Then I
came home and the internal travelling took on a new light. I trained as
an humanistic counsellor, movement therapist - and, well, thats where this
biography began. And of course, I bring all these experiences with me whenever
I step onto the dance floor. |
| The Five
Rhythms, the practice of them and all the people who have taught me have
opened me to a deeper sense of myself - though it hasn't always seemed like
that! I have sunk into prayer and opened in gratitude. I have played and
been spontaneous and found moments of simple precious wisdom. I've been
bereft and ecstatic (sometimes at the same time). I've found it easy and
found it difficult. I've been absolutely sure and clogged with doubt. I'm
glad of it all. |
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