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Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.

Gabrielle Roth

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Gabrielle Roth
Age: 71 †
Born: 1941
Born: February 4
Died: 2012
Died: October 22
Dancer
Musician
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Conventional
Discovery
Path
Art
Self
Ornamental
Way
Enhancement
Life
Predictable
Maps

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We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.
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When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.
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The self is a dance, constantly in motion.
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There is a dance that only you know how to do
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The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed.
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We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.
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Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.
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There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.
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To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.
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To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.
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Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.
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The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit.
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We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.
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Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.
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Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.
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Your voice takes you to your heart.
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I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.
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Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
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Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.
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Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.
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