Last week Evert and I jumped into this amazing adventure of having our four days 5Rhythms® workshop Into the Rhythms of Life on the beautiful Greek isle of Santorini. This isle has the scenery of a fairytale, its people are warmhearted men and women that flow with generosity.  The dance venue -right on the cliffs by the sea- is a temple … Arriving late on Monday evening with an almost full moon rising, we easily fell in love with this heavenly place …

For this workshop 16 beautiful dancers showed up, coming from 6 different countries, Greek movers from the isle, from other islands, from Athens or elsewhere from the mainland among them. A colourful mixture of eager people; the youngest in her twenties, the eldest in her seventies; two men only, counting for ten though, considering the way they held male energy during this workshop.

All these dancers were committed and ready for a deep dive into the rhythms of their life.  Together we jumped, we dived, we swam, we rode the waves, one after another; we danced starfishes, jellyfishes, seahorses, waves, dolphins, pufferfishes; fully inspired by breathing sea air all through the day. We moved the 5Rhythms® over and over again; diving deeper and deeper; we experienced, expressed, explored, expanded and empowered ourselves, others and our surrounding world. What amazing creatures we are! The 5Rhythms® do work miracles. That we are able to expand them with Eckhart Tolle’s  teachings, meditation and bodywork is a gift and a blessing.

So, we jumped into this adventure and now we’re landing just arriving home. I can clearly feel something in me changed, there’s something new in my body: I understand, feel and embody now what Gabrielle Roth meant by saying:

After you jump and before you land is god…