{"id":5747,"date":"2018-03-27T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T11:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/?p=5747"},"modified":"2018-03-27T22:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T21:44:45","slug":"a-dance-with-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/a-dance-with-my-father\/","title":{"rendered":"A last dance with my father…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Almost three weeks ago my father died. I am in turmoil; I dance, walk, meditate and write\u2026 I keep on moving, to stay in touch with my flow, my breath, my trust, my ground\u2026<\/p>\n

One of the things I am sad about is that I never succeeded in talking with my father about the 5Rhythms. I tried many times\u2026<\/p>\n

My mum was interested and curious, when she was 82 I danced a wave for her, together with eight friends, to show her what the rhythms are about and what they mean to me, to my friends, to the world.<\/p>\n

That happened in 2012, almost three years before she died. I still feel so blessed to have shared this dance with her. She totally got it, she tapped with her foot on \u2018Don\u2019t push me, \u2018cause I\u2019m close to the edge\u2026\u2019 and was in tears by the time we moved into Stillness\u2026<\/p>\n

With my father\u2026 well, that was less easy\u2026 always when I just started to share something about \u2018my work\u2019, he would instantly change the subject or say: \u201cI have no idea what you are doing\u2026\u201d\u00a0 with the crystal clear intention to keep it that way.<\/p>\n

Now, with both parents gone to the other side, me and my siblings are busy emptying and cleaning our parental home. Yesterday I found the last newsletter my father received from the Prostestant congregation he belonged to. I could not believe my eyes\u2026 the front page was about movement, about \u2018why wouldn\u2019t we dance in church?\u2019<\/p>\n

It said: \u2018\u2026 not so long ago, we believed dance was from the devil, eliciting lust and vanity\u2026 we grew up in this Calvanistic way, which restricts us\u2026\u2019 The vicar who wrote this added he once was in church somewhere in Ghana, Africa, where people danced their path through the church towards the front to bring their offerings. He was deeply impressed by the spiritual power of this dance.<\/p>\n

The vicar continued quoting Nietzsche: \u201cI would only believe in a god who could dance.\u201d And he ended with: \u201cHope is the ability to hear the music of the future. Religion is the courage to dance it today.\u201d<\/p>\n

I know my father must have read this, though I will never know\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost three weeks ago my father died. I am in turmoil; I dance, walk, meditate and write\u2026 I keep on moving, to stay in touch with my flow, my breath, my trust, my ground\u2026 One of the things I am sad about is that I never succeeded in talking with my father about the 5Rhythms. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soulrebel.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}