Moving Sparkles -5Rhythms with Mirjam van Hasselt

December Delight | Early bird for 5 day Heartbeat workshop | NY dances | 5Rhythms with Mirjam -

December Delight | Early bird for 5 day Heartbeat workshop | NY dances | 5Rhythms with Mirjam Drie weken geleden liep ik op de laatste wandeldag in de Sahara door de bedding van de Draa, de grote levensader van het achterland van het Atlasgebergte. In de droge rivierbodem ontvouwt zich een prachtig, gevarieerd landschap van uitgedroogde modderplaten, zand en stenen in alle mogelijke kleuren....

The dance as an adventure | November update | December workshop with Super early bird | 5Rhythms with Mirjam -

The dance as an adventure | November update | December workshop with Super early bird | 5Rhythms with Mirjam For me, the dance — the 5Rhythms wave — is always an adventure. Each journey through movement touches and transforms us. When we dance with dedication, connecting to our inner motion, the dance itself becomes a true adventure.

dear dancers.....
HAPPY 2025!!!
Much love and light, peace, health and joy!}
I wish you many good and deep dances
Tomorrow, Friday January 3rd, we dance in the Dokzaal, last day of the retreat Rite of Passage to 2025
We had magical days dancing so many dances the last 7 days..
You can jump in to join this Friday January 3rd @10:30 or @14:30.
Details in the comments.
We wee so lucky to have Isabel Watson on violin treating her on her magic...

Staccato: Rhythm of the heart!
For me that’s always a good thing to remember.
Staccato has its most profound quality when its rooted in flow, where it can be connected to the heart, to love, to generosity and compassion.

This 2 upcoming weeks I'll let the classes be inspired by the rhythm of staccato.

Staccato is the rhythms where the beat and the heat comes in.
Where passion comes in, in many different ways. What if we let that passion and heat be rooted in our flow.

If I say Staccato, I get an instant feeling of life energy exploding in me. For me, staccato has always been a rhythm I enjoyed.
Flowing is the rhythms of softening and melting into who, what and how I am. Delightful and nourishing in so many ways. Staccato shoots, at the same time, straight to my heart and opens it.

Staccato invites me to rise up, to expand, to expose, to explode from inside out. There is a joy that comes with that energy. It’s the rush of life energy that wakes me up and that brings me forward. It’s not necessary the joy of “joyful” emotions, but much more the joy of being alive. The joy of feeling connected to me and others.

In that rush I can feel the need to ground myself, to be able to move the life-force, that wakes me up. I can feel myself expanding in both directions. Downwards to connect to the ground. Punching my feet on and in the ground. And up and around with energy that wants expression and moves through me. The deeper I ground, the bigger the staccato that I can hold.

I feel and understand that staccato is the rhythm of the heart. I can feel the energy igniting in my hips, it moves up from there to the heart and out. Here, all the flavors of the heart can become sensible, visible, accessible.
I enjoy exploring that landscape with others, as I take it as a celebration of being alive together.

This and next weeks upcoming classes are inspired by the rhythm of Staccato.

Classes this upcoming 2 weeks:
Monday evening NDSM & Online
Wednesdaymorning Jup Online
Wednesday evening Weesp: Laurentiuskerk & Online
Fridaymorning DOC zaal, Amsterdam & Online
Saturdaymorning Flevopark - Amsterdam
Saurday afternoon - Hilversum- Anna's Hove Park
Sundag Morning - Bloemendaal Beach.

See schedule in the comments

Flow as the mother or base drum of all rhythms

I was having a morning walk in the park close to where I live, making an effort to find my flow. Starting to tune in to my connection to earth and following my impulses. When I saw a little open space with some grass I felt the urge to lie down, in the grass with the higher grass waving around me. The mild autumn sun on my face. I could sense this deep letting go. Letting go of tension, letting go of holding myself together, what creates some tension too.
A deep surrender to the earth. And as soon as I surrendered I could feel the support and the holding of the earth. I this way remebering why we tend to call her "mother earth."
Moving towards home I found this black feather. As Gabrielle Roth, as she was called "the raven" said hi to me.

The Rhythm of Flowing

Flow is the mother of all rhythms, its the starting point of any movement, to any sense of getting somewhere.
Flow is a state of surrendering to movement, the movement of life, to our connection to the earth, to our connection with gravity, to the physicality of our body, to the way that energy moves through.
Its a deep surrender to the life as it is, right now. From here we can move, start, change, create, communicatie.
But is starts here and now, where we are.
Here and now is the place where every new movement starts.
This upcoming 2 weeks I wil focus the classes of the rhythm of flowing. We will dance all the rhythms, but we facus on exploring the part of flowing of the 5Rhythms as a base and a nurturing of our dance.

When & where

You can join me this week on Monday (Amsterdam) and Wednesday evening (Weesp), Friday Morning (Amsterdam) & evening (Cologne), Saturday morning & afternoon (both Amsterdam outdoors) or Sunday morning (at the beach).
All the indoor classes are also Online via livestream available.

We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst. The beat is a lover that never disappoints and, like all lovers, it demands 100 percent surrender. It has the power to seduce moves we couldn’t dream. It grabs us by the belly, turns us inside out and leaves us abruptly begging for more… We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things.

(Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms)

We gaan weer...
De uitgestrekte ruimte en stilte in..

In november genieten we weer van een reis door de woestijn met wandelen, stilte, dans, nachtelijke maan- en sterrenhemels. Heerlijke maaltijden in een nomadentent.
Begeleid door locale begeleiders.

Samen met Marije Klumpes organiseer ik deze tocht..
Deze editie speciaal voor vrouwen.
Ben je man en wil je ook graag mee, laat het ons weten, dan houden we je op de hoogte voor de volgende reis.

Vanavond, woensdag 22 mei en volgende maand woensdag 26 juni is er een informatieavond bij mij thuis op Ijburg, Amsterdam.
19:30-ca. 21:00
We laten dingen zien, vertellen en beantwoorden je vragen.

Kom je, laat het me even weten dan stuur ik je alvast wat informatie en het adres.

Heb je interesse en kan je deze dagen niet. Dan vinden we een andere manier om je vragen te beantwoorden.

Fijne dag...

Meer informatie vind je op mijn website..

Precious Monday evening Pickup NDSM
where we dance Magic Monday every week..
In this nice creative area, we dance in a dance studio...
to shed our skins, to roar our roars, to offer our sweat to life itself... to let de dance of live transform us inside out...

see you there next time..

het bijzondere van de dans is dat het zo moeilijk in woorden te vatten is...
dat het een reis is die we meemaken en die zoveel rijker is dan woorden alleen..
en dan zijn er woorden die meer zeggen dan de woorden alleen...
dankbaar voor de reis, waarop deze woorden ons meenemen..
dank Ruud, voor je reflectie, die mij raakt..