An invitation to allow time & space to dissolve. 
Connect with your body & spirit. 
An eclectic mix of global vibes, including a savasana relaxation to land you back down onto a bed of feathers. 

Artwork by @circlestances

Music by 

Four Tet
Ancestral Elephants 
El Buho
Trippin Jaguar
Nick Mulvey
Kati Yake
Ohxala
Halluci-Nation
Dr Toast 
Xinobi & Lazarusman
Stimming
Andi Otto 
Chancha Via Circuito 
Acid Pauli
Hermanos Gutierrez 
Adam Shaikh
Nick Barbachano

Searching for the | LIGHT | Ecstatic Dance Mix

1 FLOWING:  Miktek - False Dawn
2 STACCATO:  Atmos - To What My Mind Attend
3 CHAOS:  Phobia - Turbulence
4 LYRICAL:  Carbon Based Lifeforms - Polyrytmi
5 STILLNESS:  Aurah - The Arrival

5 Rhythms Short Wave 1 (25min)

The 5Rhythms are: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness - Together they create a wave of energy.

5R Teacher Training

Full Circle | 5Rhythms Wave

A 5Rhythms Wave curated for dancing into the final moments of the Summer season. Recorded during my Tuesday Night - 5Rhythms Waves class on Sept 18, 2018. 

Thanks for listening. Thanks for dancing. Thanks for your continued support <3

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Summer's End | 5Rhythms Wave

In Touch - 5Rhythms wave

In this dance, we find ourselves in a slow flow, building up to a long release and different flavors of chaos, and bring ourselves back together as the music slows down. 

In a time of global chaos (uncertainty), this  playlist is like a laboratory to find our own ground, our own stamina to stay connected, our ability to know we can let go and come back to ourselves again. 

And - this playlist is simply a way to be raw, free, expressive. 

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x-dance @ home is a 5Rhythms® class, a dance meditation. It's an invitation into raw, uncensored expression of ourselves. An eclectic mix of music seduces us into our shape-shifting dances that carry us through a wave of musical beats. Into curiosity. Into freedom. Into connection with ourselves and others.  

Sweaty Dances. Awkward Dances. Dark Dances. Graceful Dances. Playful Dances. x-dance. your dance.

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In gratitude to these amazing, talented artists and their tunes.
Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker, The Tearjerker Returns.
Ayub Ogada, Kothbiro.
Various Productions, Fly.
Massive Attack, Paradise Circus feat. Hope Sandoval.
Melody Gardot, Who will comfort me.
Zombie Disco Squad, The Dance.
Intiche, Cuñaq - Mira Jempe.
Radiohead, Idioteque.
Pink Floyd, Shine on you Crazy Diamond (Bilka Edit).
Trentemøller, Silver Surfer Ghost Rider Go.
Josh Wink, Higher State of Consciousness.
Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Diablo Rojo.
Cut Chemist, The Garden.
René Aubry, Salento.
Bon Iver, Holocene.
Jon Hopkins, Recovery.
Rüdiger Oppermann, Wind Songs 1.

wave 001 | Slow dance, Wild dance

I love how these mixes are a reflection of my life at the time of the mix. They are alive, a brew of beats and harmonies and moods, cooked and stirred for you, whoever you are, in this country or on the other side of the world. For you to find your own dance, your own wave, moving what is true.

Right now, in the middle of all the corona madness and death and tragedy and upheaval... I am falling in love, ain't that funny, seems life is about balance after all. I'm in that slightly giddy place of belly butterflies and a non-stop grin that makes my face ache. And of course, it shows in this mix. It's a heart-opener. So come aboard the magic carpet for this week's 5Rhythms bootyshake and prepare to find your wings. I'm certainly discovering mine.

Gigi 5Rhythms Bootyshake #7 HEART WINGS

Surrender is a grace and a choice we can make every day. It is a giving over, a softening into the pulse of life, a sweet letting go of controlling and needing to know. In this 5Rhythms® dance journey I invite you to find the sweet spot between pushing and resisting and riding the waves with ease as they move through you.

Surrender 5Rhythms®  Wave

A heart journey with the all inclusive Jah.  Deep in the technocratic matrix we find a path of no distance back to our true nature in the remote wilderness of our internal solitude.  A vibrational sound experience created to support humans on their journey of life on earth.

Anahata

A classically trained dancer, Gabriel Roth was involved with the early ’60’s counterculture movement as a dance instructor for therapeutic workshops at the legendary Esalen Institute in San Francisco and Arica School in New York. These facilities and groups played key roles in the Human Potential Movement in psychology which later led to Transpersonal Psychology and the New Age Movement.

Through direct encounters and training from the era’s noted psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, and spiritual gurus, she single-handedly rediscovered and redefined the ancient shamanic technique of ecstatic dance, establishing a method she named 5Rhythms in the late 70’s.

The practice of 5Rhythms consists of five movements: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. Through this dance sequence difficulties and obstructions in life can be identified and ultimately overcome. The sequence of the rhythms helps create waves that allow the dancer to reach a point of inner stillness. It is a globally recognised movement meditation practice with over 400 qualified teachers in more than 50 countries. Though Gabrielle Roth passed away in 2012, her spirit and legacy have been passed down through her family and extensive followers. It is still being practiced today.

Music plays a key role in these workshops. Following the shamanic tradition of using live percussion as a driving force, the music is necessarily rhythmic in nature and repetitive enough to focus on self-movement without invasive melodies or lyrics to distract one’s mind. It must be fairly lengthy in duration, with the journey defined by the pulsing waves of emotional flow that guide the body’s movement. The music was not intended to be consumed while socialising, but as an aid to the internal journey into one’s soul. It is minimal, abstract, and atmospheric. As a result of these characteristics (or rather functionalities), their albums didn’t fit into any conventional styles at the time of their release in the early 80s. Theirs is a pure form of dance music that also shares many commonalities with ambient music in the modern context. Yet ambient music had yet to establish itself as a genre at the time despite the early efforts of Brian Eno while underground dance - the genre with which it shares many of its stylistic qualities - was yet to be born. Their releases were rarely appreciated outside of workshops.

Between 1982 and 2008, Gabrielle and her husband Robert Ansell produced 16 original albums as Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors. Robert brought together some of the best studio musicians that New York had to offer while his son Scott - who later became a Grammy-winning sound engineer - recorded and mixed all of their crystal clear productions.

Endless Waves Volume One was originally released on their own private label in 1996 on CD. Comprised of a selection of their past recordings, the first part acts as a seductive entry point into their rhythmic sound world, with Roth’s voice intoning gentle instructions over each track. The opener Body Parts commences with a series of rolling polyrhythmic beats to prepare the body for meditation. From there the music shifts through a series of ambient moods that evoke each of the ‘5Rhythm’ states of being. Atmospheric synths and stately violins combine to help ease into movement on Flowing. Didgeridoos and funky bass lines evoke masculine energy on Staccato before the tumbling rhythms of Chaos encourage the uninhibited release of one’s mind and body. The soft vocal harmonies of Lyrical help the listener towards a lighter, more fluid, and creative state of being creating a becalming state that continues with the deep ritualistic chants and languid drums of Stillness.
The second part of the album consists of a non-guided version of the same journey. Freshly recorded for the album’s release in 1996, the band deliver up an equally vital series of brilliantly realised rhythmic excursions.

Endless Wave: Vol 1

Endless Wave Volume One

A1 Body Parts(Eternal Dance)

Let your heart lead in this dance. Let the music be your personal soundtrack to support your heart in expressing itself. This 5Rhythms® Wave allows for a wide range of emotionality and will leave you feeling more connected with your feeling nature. 

“We are here to love hard and true. 
Here to give ourselves over to the rush and bliss of it all. 
Here to offer our patchwork hearts over and over again. 
Here to feel and fall and hurt and bleed. Here to say yes and to choose wholeness and to break anyway 
and to do it all again.”

― Jeanette LeBlanc

Let your HEART speak 5Rhythms® Wave

Bettina Rothe (DIVA-B) is a facilitator of conscious movement practices and community building whose passion is to ignite one's connection with self, to others and to the continuum of all life. Her work is grounded in holistic, somatic based modalities with a strong focus on the 5Rhythms®, Gabrielle Roth's powerful movement form, mindfulness practices and leadership embodiment principles. Bettina is a licensed 5Rhythms® teacher based in Vancouver, BC who offers weekly group classes, individual sessions, workshops and retreats in North America, Central America and Europe. 

As DJ DIVA-B she is passionate about creating soundscapes as a gateway into ecstasy, heart-centered connection and experience of divine bliss. She grew up in the Berlin House scene and is known for her creative blend of Organic House, Tech House, Nu House, and devotional tunes from around the globe. She has performed at Burning Man, Beloved, Bitf and many other festivals on the West Coast. 

Her latest fascination is DIVA House in honour and celebration of the Feminine Rising. DIVA House honours female artists, spotlights uplifting and empowering lyrics, and co-creates high vibes with dancers from all walks of life.

Surrender 5Rhythms® Wave

DIVA-B

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