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Sweat Your Prayers |  | Author: Gabrielle Roth
Publisher: Tarcher
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 38947
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0874779596
Dewey Decimal Number: 204
EAN: 9780874779592
ASIN: 0874779596
Publication Date: December 28, 1998
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Roth takes readers on a journey through rhythms--flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness--that can free the body and spirit from ordinary consciousness and catalyze motion deep in the psyche.
Amazon.com Review
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.
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 THE LADY CAN WRITE AS WELL AS DANCE. June 17, 2008
SEBROF (Spain)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book. I found it to be inspirational to the point of becoming teary eyed. Apart from the author's dance your way to God message I enjoyed her writing style...witty, hip, intelligent and humourous.
Amazing October 28, 2005
Jeffrey T. Zelnio (West Des Moines, IA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book helped to me recognize that life is a dance to me. It has given me tools to ground this flighty Gemini in a dance. The 5 rhythms are amazing to use dancing to electronic music (especially goa trance!) and recommended for all of us "new school" dancers that listen to electronic music as our way of life.
Wonderful April 11, 2004
ilona (Ontario Canada)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Everything I've ever felt about dance and movement she's put into words. Very clear, organized and insightful.
BOOM!! February 15, 2002
Nilsa Martinez (New York, NY)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Every single word is this book is packed w/Boom Bang, it had so much power, I couldn't sleep. This book just totally rocks, every sentence, makes you look @ what keeps you from dancing w/out the criminations or the guilties or your catholic religion. Read it, you'll sweat in your own escatsy fluids. Yeah!!
 Dance for the Soul December 23, 2001
Boudica (Ohio USA)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Another artist making a literary crossover is Gabrielle Roth. She is probably best known for Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors, her percussion, rhythmic music group. However, Ms. Roth is more involved with dance as a spiritual map. Ms. Roth has developed a five part rhythmic expression to transform music into dance, dance into emotion and from this emotion to a Spiritual experience.Her book is a handbook to transform dance into a Spiritual expression. I loved her mix of personal experiences, stories, and humor to teach her five rhythms, what they mean and how to apply them. The path always leads to our own personal spiritual growth. She explores the five rhythms of flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. She blends the feminine with the masculine and melds this with trance and dance, lifting it to Spirituality. The five rhythms dancing can be done with your group, or you can do it alone. You do not have to have lessons, or be expert, or graceful, just willing to let yourself go and explore your sense of rhythm and spirituality. This is a wonderful instructional book, lots of feeling and sincerity on the part of Ms. Roth. I enjoyed her style of writing and her treatment of the subject shows a true commitment on her part. An excerpt from her opening chapter stuck in my head for a long while: "Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that, energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance."
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