The 5 Rhythms were created by Gabrielle Roth in the 1960s. She was teaching movement classes and noticed five distinct patterns, which she eventually called the 5 Rhythms - flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, stillness. She still teaches classes on the 5 Rhythms in New York City to this day.

More about each rhythm at Gabrielle Roth's website under the link "5 Rhythms" on right hand side

This entry was posted on October 16, 2007 at 2:20 AM and has received 1081 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

People have always danced. Originally we danced for worship and healing. Our ancestors viewed nature and all of its elements as an expression of God. To duplicate or mimic nature through movement and sounds was their first and highest way to connect with spirit, and I believe was the origin of dance.

In present times you can find spiritual dancing in every country in the world. There are dances based on animals and other natural things. People dance to alter their state of consciousness or become the spirit of the sun, moon, animal or plant.

Read more

This entry was posted on October 16, 2007 at 2:09 AM and has received 1099 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

I lost my "What if everyone's a different gender?" button at PDF so I figured a google search for the text might find me someone who sold the button. Little did I know that I would find an amazing button store with hundreds of cool buttons for at Nancy's buttons!

Some of my favorites are in the math and programming sections:

• "There are 10 kinds of people, those who are comfortable with binary, and those who aren't "
• " x^n + y^n = z^n has no integer solutions other than 0 for n>2 I have a wonderful proof, but it won't fit on a button"
• "One of the main causes of the decline of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs"

Also check out sections on Bush, religion, pagan, magic, logic and many more!

This entry was posted on October 11, 2007 at 9:08 PM and has received 1131 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

I went ot Reid and Marica's (Of Cuddleparty fame) workshop pn poly-mono relationships last weekend - it was very good. One idea I got from it is that both poly and mono are preferences of loving, like the type of music we prefer. Just because I like jaz doesn't invalidate that you like rock.

Also that one of the key wants of poly folks is freed to love and for mono folks it is security of their love. And that both can met if we work on increasing trust.  (which is a good thing for all relationships!)

And that for a poly-mono relationship to work all parties need to be skilled at relating and not taking stuff personally.
coments?

This entry was posted on September 29, 2007 at 5:31 PM and has received 1458 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Sacred Sexuality Beltane is a great festival in northern Maryland. The next for next year are Thurs, May 1 to Sun, May 4, 2008. New this year are pre-conference set of intensives beginning Wed, April 30, in the evening and continuing into the next morning. These intensives will be an opportunity for attendees to get in-depth knowledge from select presenters. Registration will open in January 2008

I have been for the past five years and it is a lot of fun. More info at

http://freespiritgathering.org/beltane/index.html

This entry was posted on September 25, 2007 at 8:08 PM and has received 1522 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Interesting article by relationship author Sharyn Wolf on fighting in a relationship suggesting that if you are stuck in a pattern of "always" fighting with your partner in a particular situation then get the fight out of the way beforehand. I would add the idea of doing the pre-fight in gibblerish too to avoid hitting more triggers on the way.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNKFX8HKN6Y0CTQ

This entry was posted on September 25, 2007 at 4:07 PM and has received 1728 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

This is a greet song about poly relationships called complications called "My boyfriend's girlfriend isn't me"

This entry was posted on September 25, 2007 at 3:52 PM and has received 1567 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Good tips on PWYC or free theatre plus Karen's reviews at http://dctheatrereviews.com/review/karens-tips-tix/.

This entry was posted on September 20, 2007 at 9:57 PM and has received 1771 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

At my honesty salon last night we came up with the concept of levels of anger and how languaging affects how we feel. We had these levels:

• homicidal
• rage
• anger
• irritation
• peeved

There seems to be a big gap in levels between irritation and anger - any suggestions on what fits in there?

I wrote out similar levels for other emotions fear, sadness, happy, apathy, love and put them in a circle with levels from the center. Has anyone seen anything like this elsewhere?  Update 12/10/11 - I found this Plutchiks wheel of emotions:

This entry was posted on September 20, 2007 at 9:51 PM and has received 1793 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Usually at group when someone has an issue to work with someone who is not present (eg their mother) on I ask for a volunteer to role play the other person so that the first person has someone to express their feelings towards. The volunteer doesn't have to say anything - just sit there, make eye contact and listen.

Last night a new group member said he thought this practice was unhealth for the receiver. Any thoughts on this?

What I came up with at the time is that when I receive for someone else that I notice that their emotions no matter how hot are on their site of the fence and that if I react emotionally it is due to my triggers. It has also helped me get over my fear of being with anger from others because I know if I breath and stay with them it will pass.

On the giver side I think it helps them really imagine that they are talking with their mother or who ever they are role playing. Of course the usual idea is that after group they will go to the real person and express themselves too!

This entry was posted on September 20, 2007 at 9:50 PM and has received 1628 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.