31 December, 2005

Sweat Your Prayers (Gabrielle Roth)

This is a non-fiction book about ecstatic dance - movement as method of spiritual awakening and personal enlightenment.

Roth uses five rhythms as a metaphor for the stages of life (and many other things) - flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness. You can get a good sense of what she means by these rhythms through the book, and she recommends her own CDs as accompaniments to dancing the rhythms.

I really enjoyed this - I plan to get my own copy, and I'd like to get a CD or DVD to accompany it.

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