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Sweat Your Prayers : Movement As Spiritual Practice |
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- 217 pages (January 1998) | |
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Synopsis:
Lest you think that spirituality is relegated to the higher mind, Sweat Your Prayers is a reminder that our bodies are indeed cradles of the soul. Physical movement can be a potent medium for spiritual awakening, according to Gabrielle Roth, who has dedicated much of her life to teaching and exploring the holy rewards of dance. The soul has five natural rhythms, explains Roth: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness. She teaches us how to identify our natural rhythms, but she also encourages us to practice dancing through all five rhythms in order to become more whole, evolved, and complete beings. Roth is also an acclaimed music producer who has released numerous compact discs that work as excellent dance companions to this energizing book.
Reviews:
A reader from Boston, MA, 05/27/98 Provocative
and authentic.
Roth begins with a beautiful poetic autobiog-journey about her own body
and how she came to be doing her work in trance-dance/movement as spiritual
practice. The book then explores her framework of five rhythms, and also
delves into her view of archetypes within everyone . . . dual trinities,
one male and one female. I didn't quite embrace all of it, but it's provocative.
If you are new to Roth's work and want to try "sweating your prayers"
at home, her 1993 video "The Wave", which is excellent, is where
to start, but the book gives a deeper look at her work and explores why
people yearn for this kind of movement. Also, Roth's personality is rich,
theatrical, warm, sassy, genuine . . . it was a pleasure to get to know
her through this book.
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