| GABRIELLE
ROTH - Over 35 years ago, a young teacher at the
Esalen Institute began experimenting with an ancient body-based spiritual practice
all but forgotten in our time: ecstatic dance. Today that teacher, Gabrielle Roth,
is acclaimed worldwide for her pioneering work with The Wave, a sequence of improvised
movements to five rhythm patterns that the New York Post has called a "map for
the entire creative process."
On Ecstatic Dance
- The Gabrielle Roth 3 DVD Collection, viewers join Gabrielle for three
complete dance workouts, each with its own special benefits:
The Wave From the pages of Shape and Elle to the Utne Reader and New York Magazine,
Gabrielle Roth has been put in the spotlight for her revolutionary approach to
dance as an ecstatic practice anyone can do. At packed workshops and retreats
across North America and Europe, people who never thought they could dance are
having a high-energy experience that frees the body and inspires the creative
spirit. On
her first home workout video, Gabrielle Roth introduces us to The Wave, a moving meditation based on five universal rhythms that flow through our lives.
Gabrielle teaches that each of these rhythms has the capacity to teach, catalyze,
and even heal. As we join Gabrielle and her dancers (all non-professionals), we
learn to improvise our own unique dance forms using every part of the body, from
the inside out.
There is a dance that only
you know how to do, Gabrielle says. The Wave makes it fun to experience
the ecstasy of your body in motion to some of the most irresistable high-energy
dance music weve ever heard! VIDEO - 30 MIN
The
Inner Wave A moving meditative trance dance
journey to the stillpoint within. For calming the mind and body, and creating
peace in our lives.
The
object of meditation, teaches Gabrielle Roth, is to still the mind
and the fastest way to do that is to move your body. On The Inner
Wave, the third video in Gabrielle Roths Ecstatic Dance video collection,
we join this pioneer of ecstatic dance to investigate stillness, the mother of
all rhythm, through a meditative trance dance journey.
Joined
by dancers of all age groups and body types, Gabrielle leads a physical meditation
that has been called a living prayer. As we surrender to the dance,
exploring and improvising with every part of our bodies, we will experience how
ecstatic dance can clear the mind and open the heart, and allow us to approach
the stillpoint within. The more deeply we enter
our bodies and breath, Gabrielle says, the more deeply we know ourselves. Now every viewer can know their body and mind in a way they never have before,
with The Inner Wave.
The
Power Wave Super high-velocity dance workout
puts the psyche in motion and helps trigger spontaneous states of creative, intuitive
power.
The
Power Wave is the next step in Gabrielle Roths breakthrough ecstatic dance
series: a high-velocity, nonstop celebration of the human body in motion.
Pumping up the beat to maximum, Gabrielle guides us through
five universal rhythms that flow through our lives and world. Viewers join dancers
of all sizes, shapes, and age groups whirling, sweating, transforming for a super high-energy workout to explore and practice with, at home or in a
dance space, alone or with friends. How viewers
move to The Power Wave is up to them: the steps to follow are simple. This dynamic
practice allows us to experiment with breathing, body angles, edges, and patterns.
Soon we feel how our energy merges with the pulse of life around us. We awaken
our deepest creativity and open to our own intuitive way of moving. At
last, here is a home workout video for energizing our entire being, flexible enough
to adapt to anyones schedule and body type: Gabrielle Roths The Power
Wave. VIDEO - 30 MINUTES
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