Ecstatic Dance Fridays - A 5Rhythms Session

♫ ECSTATIC DANCE FRIDAYS - A 5Rhythms Session ♫

★ Are you ready to put your body in motion?
★ Physical expression with dance as well as Spiritual meditation?
★ Each rhythm is a teacher…..

Come dance & sweat your prayers at 'Ecstatic Fridays' on Friday 1st February at Alserkal Avenue from 11:30am - 1:30pm with facilitator Lina Nahhas in musical collaboration with DJ Charl Chaka. Come dance & meet different & unknown aspects of yourself as your dance unfolds naturally!

☼ Essential Info ☼
Venue: Alserkal Avenue | Date: Fri 1 Feb
Time: 11:30am – 1:30pm | Energy Exchange: 110AED
Classes will be on 1st Friday of each month.

★ About Lina ★
Lina Nahhas, an Arab-Canadian based in Dubai, was one of the first in bringing 5Rhythms® practise to the region in 2010, and her passion for the practise has led her to Waves® level teacher certification by 2014, weaving teaching into her life whilst running her social innovation work via The Sameness project.

★ About Charl Chaka ★
Having build a musical career for over 23 years as a DJ, promoter & entrepreneur, Charl Chaka has been a key player in Dubai’s nightlife & music industry for over a decade & one of Dubai’s best-loved resident DJ’s. Currently head honcho of Infusion Magazine, the oldest Nightlife & Music platform in the UAE since 2005 & founder of HOUSEofAFRIKA, he is forever growing and reinventing himself in the sandpit we call Dubai.

★ What is 5Rhythms? ★
Created by Gabrielle Roth over 50 years ago, amidst modalities within the human potential movement, and now practised by tens of thousands worldwide, 5Rhythms® is a philosophy, perspective, performance art and a dynamic movement practise rooted in the principle that “if you put your body into motion, the psyche will heal itself”.

With overlaps in philosophies within Yogic, Shamanic, Sufi and even Jungian psychology fields it straddles both ends: Physical expression as well as Spiritual meditation. Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor, reaching across all languages, cultures and age groups to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action.

Wherever the 5Rhythms® are practised, a community is born to dance, to sweat, to change, to support and to provide a safe space for each of us to shatter the ego's hold and awaken the juicy, unpredictable, fascinating, edge-walking, rock star part of ourselves that yearns to be free and alive.

The five rhythms are: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness. They come together to create the Wave®, a movement meditation practice. The Wave® allows us to get in touch with our bodies and innermost feelings, and in the process catalyzes deep healing in the mind, body, heart and soul and brings out their creative potential. Rather than having steps to follow, each rhythm is a different energy field in which you find your own expression and choreography, thereby stretching your imagination as well as your body’s range of articulations. Each rhythm is a teacher and you can expect to meet different and sometimes unknown aspects of yourself as your dance unfolds naturally.