Ignite your inner passion!

“Sing like nobody´s listening,
Live like it´s Heaven on Earth,
Work like you don´t need money,
Love like you´ve never been hurt,
And dance like no one´s watching.”

Attributed at various time to Souza, Rumi and others

Inner Fuel feeds the fires within us that allow us to experience and express passion and inspiration! Whether it is business or pleasure, without passion for what you do and no matter how hard you try, that sense of satisfaction at the end of the day is never truly there. However, you can always (find daily things around you that ignite your unique passion and inspiration) Around you and within you the world is an endless opportunity of moments and connection with inspired meaning. This state of inspiration is our natural state in fact. It is only when we allow other things to weigh down on it that we feel cut off from having a life of deep meaning, passion and inspiration. When we begin to shift the perceived obstacles that hinder our daily recognition and expression of this……LIFE CHANGES PROFOUNDLY……..look outside of your immediate surroundings or everyday routines for INNER Fuel to feed this process of igniting your need for passion!

Today, Inner Fuel seeks passion in 5Rhythms Dance Movement, a form of movement meditation developed by Gabrielle Roth. 5Rythymns dance is about releasing the dancer within each of us. It is a dance that doesn´t care about age, size, limitations, expectations, or experience. It is based on the concept that if you find the dance, you find yourself in a fluid and creative level.

Although the dance itself is simple, it is often the catalyst to creativity and deeper wellbeing through transformation.

In our own personal development, movement and breath are absolutely pivotal to help liberate energy and creates the necessary shift to release blocks. Literally, if you put your body in motion, your psyche follows, and from this place it can begin to transform. These blocks and heavy emotions that sit on top of our inspiration, blocking its expression can begin to dissolve via intention, expression and realignment of our perspectives.

The five individual rhythms are Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness. Together, they create a Wave or a ´movement meditation practice´. Instead of following any choreographed dance movements, each rhythm produces a different energy within the participant and each time you perform a 5Rhythms Wave, you will meet different aspects of yourself, with the experience only growing with practice.

There is a feeling that the dance sparks in the dancer, sometimes in the very first time they do it, and it never fails to deliver a profound shift. It can be a feeling of ´coming alive´ or ´coming to life´ and deepening your personal development.  Some experience a primal, more guttural, unarticulated call that rises up in them through the rhythm peak called Chaos where the dancers release their heads and shoulders as well as their ´mental hold on life and who they think they are´. This unleashed expression is something our practical world tends to not make room for. If people only understood the benefits of this healthy expression, and the repercussion of the lack of it, our individual views, and those of our society, health system and corporate world would likely value it in a much different way. The first step in any transformation is the state of awareness and understanding. From that point…the power of your health (physical, mental, emotional) rests in your own power of decision.

Gabrielle Roth developed the 5Rhythyms as a foundation for her work, a series of healing mps for the body, heart, mind, soul, and spirit to lead the dancer on a lifetime of self-discovery and reawakening. For many dancers, 5Rhythyms is not only the start of a lifelong journey but a place where they return time and time again to release, grow, and evolve in their own personal development.

What´s your INNER Fuel?

For more information on 5rythmns dance, visit Soulful Steps, Gabriel Roth and Dance Moves Vancouver.

The Global Alignment Team

This Dance – Poem by Jewel Mathieson

We have come to be danced
Not the pretty dance
Not the pretty pretty, pick me, pick me dance
But the claw our way back into the belly
Of the sacred, sensual animal dance
The unhinged, unplugged, cat is out of its box dance
The holding the precious moment in the palms
of our hands and feet dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the jiffy booby, shake your booty for him dance
But the wring the sadness from our skin dance
The blow the chip off our shoulder dance.
The slap the apology from our posture dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the monkey see, monkey do dance
One two dance like you
One two three, dance like me dance
But the grave robber, tomb stalker
Tearing scabs and scars open dance
The rub the rhythm raw against our soul dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the nice, invisible, self-conscious shuffle
But the matted hair flying, voodoo mama
Shaman shaking ancient bones dance
The strip us from our casings, return our wings
Sharpen our claws and tongues dance
The shed dead cells and slip into
The luminous skin of love dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the hold our breath and wallow in the shallow end of the floor dance
But the meeting of the trinity: the body, breath and beat dance
The shout hallelujah from the top of our thighs dance
The mother may I? Yes
you may take ten giant leaps dance
The olly olly oxen free free free dance
The everyone can come to our heaven dance.

We have come to be danced
Where the kingdoms collide
In the cathedral of flesh
To burn back into the light
To unravel, to play, to fly, to pray
To root in skin sanctuary
We have come to be danced!
We have come.