Top 53 Gabrielle Roth Quotes
#1. We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.
Gabrielle Roth
#2. If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.
Gabrielle Roth
#3. Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.
Gabrielle Roth
#4. 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.
Gabrielle Roth
#5. We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.
Gabrielle Roth
#6. Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us ...
Gabrielle Roth
#7. Movement practice gets all your creative juices flowing. It doesn't just release your body, but it opens up your heart and empties out your mind, as well.
Gabrielle Roth
#8. Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.
Gabrielle Roth
#9. Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
Gabrielle Roth
#10. 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.
Gabrielle Roth
#11. You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.
Gabrielle Roth
#12. When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.
Gabrielle Roth
#14. Don't be afraid to show your light.. If it ends up being too much for people.. tell them to wear sunglasses!
Gabrielle Roth
#15. Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.
Gabrielle Roth
#16. The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves.
Gabrielle Roth
#17. Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
Gabrielle Roth
#18. There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.
Gabrielle Roth
#19. Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.
Gabrielle Roth
#21. The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.
Gabrielle Roth
#22. Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
Gabrielle Roth
#23. Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.
Gabrielle Roth
#24. Dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things
Gabrielle Roth
#25. There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality.
Gabrielle Roth
#26. The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body
Gabrielle Roth
#28. Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional ... a map to self discovery.
Gabrielle Roth
#29. We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces
the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.
Gabrielle Roth
#31. Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.
Gabrielle Roth
#32. Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action
Gabrielle Roth
#34. I want to take you to a place of pure magic ... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.
Gabrielle Roth
#35. The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed.
Gabrielle Roth
#37. Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.
Gabrielle Roth
#39. Shed the past, forget the future, and fall into the moment feet first.
Gabrielle Roth
#40. In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened ... or depressed would be asked, ... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.
Gabrielle Roth
#41. Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.
Gabrielle Roth
#42. When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer
Gabrielle Roth
#43. I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.
Gabrielle Roth
#44. The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit ...
Gabrielle Roth
#45. If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.
Gabrielle Roth
#46. My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.
Gabrielle Roth
#47. Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.
Gabrielle Roth
#48. It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God.
Gabrielle Roth
#49. Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.
Gabrielle Roth
#51. Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'
Gabrielle Roth
#52. Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.
Gabrielle Roth
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
