Gabrielle Roth Quotes
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Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.
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You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.
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Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.
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Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.
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Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
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It takes discipline to be a free spirit.
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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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Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.
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Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.
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When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I offer my shoulders back to the dance, my elbows, my hands, my spine, my knees, my feet, my whole self, my bones, my blood, my experience, my suffering... I offer it all back to the dance and I say: take it, do whatever you want with me. Release me.
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The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves.
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My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.
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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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When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer
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Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us.
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Your voice takes you to your heart.
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We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.
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Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action
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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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To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
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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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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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Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
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If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.