DRUMMING AT THE EDGE



"In the beginning was noise.
And noise begat rhythm.
And rhythm begat everything else.
This is a kind of cosmology a drummer can live with."
--from Drumming at the Edge of Magic





MAGICAL, MYSTICAL, WOMEN OF RHYTHM






"RHYTHM IS OUR MOTHER TONGUE"
GABRIELLE ROTH


"It's like the soul speaks to us in certain repetitive patterns that form a wave of energy. It's like I'm here to surrender my body every day to the spirit of life, to be breathed deeply, held in the breath of God. To let myself go..." "Instead of resisting chaos, I enter into it like a lover and to allow it to show me the way to my truest and deepest self because in that self I know who I am and I can see very clearly who I am not. So that's been my spiritual path. Dance for me has been everything. "


"When we experience moments of ecstacy - in play, in stillness, in art, in sex - they come not as an exception, an accident, but as a taste of what life is meant to be.
Why shouln't we be able to live more and more in ecstacy, if we have the courage to come out of inertia and imitation into intuition and imagination?
Ecstacy is an ideal, a goal, but it can be the expectation of every day.
Those times when we're grounded in our body, pure in our heart, clear in our mind, rooted in our soul, and suffused with the spirit of life, those times are our birthright."
Gabrielle Roth, "Maps to Ecstacy"

Maps to Ecstacy initiates us into the five sacred rhythms inherent in all our actions - an illuminates the five cycles that lead us to enlightenment. We awaken our latent shamanic powers as we reconnect to primal knowledge through exercsies, dance, song, poetry, meditation, theater, and ritual - discovering how shamanic principles can be incorporates here and now in our contemporary, urban lives.

"Sweat Your Prayers" is an expedition through five universal rhythms - flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness. These rhythms catalyze motion deep in the psyche. Each is a practical tool of awakening that will release us to dance on the edge, to be outrageous, to transform suffering into art, and art into awareness.
Flowing holds the feminine mysteries.
Staccato explores the masculine mysteries.
In chaos, we are challenged to integrate these principles into the stream of personal energy.
Lyrical is the rhythm of trance and self-realization.
In stillness, the mother of all rhythms, we seek the emptiness within us and take refuge in it.

Embracing the rhythms as spiritual practice is a dynamic way to free the body, to express the heart, and to clear the mind. Complete with useful, provocative tools and down-to-earth teaching, "Sweat Your Prayers" is a radical new perspective on the architecture of the soul, revealing simple yet profound methods to integrate spiritual practice into everyday life. It is Western Zen, a liturgy for life in the new millennium. This breakthrough book shares heartfelt stories of how the five rhythms have transformed people around the world.

Energy moves in waves.

Waves move in patterns.

Patterns move in rythms.

A human being is all of those: energy, waves, patterns, rhythms.

We are the dance.

Gsbrielle Roth...1997







UBAKA HILL







LAYNE REDMOND







WEAVING PEOPLE TOGETHER THROUGH RHYTHM








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