5RHYTHMS is freeing, artful meditation. There's room on the dance floor for all, and for everything.
The Wave
Flowing: fluid continuum of movement, supports and nurtures us from the ground up.
We can soften, sensitize, tune in, begin to receive and allow whatever is authentic, however it arrives.
Staccato: articulation in conscious action, ignites us to claim and attend to our direction, boundaries, purpose, clarity, and heart. A time for unhindered expression from our centres to the cosmos.
Chaos: vibrational download of movement freedom, catches us as we fall into releasing, unpatterning, and surrendering to the intensity of the mysterious, creative unknown.
Lyrical: dissolving and resolving updraft of movement, lifts us through the surface of things. We can relax into more room, see farther horizons, and break into new, soulful fractals of freshness and effortlessness.
Stillness: devotion in motion, guides us back to centre, where we can remember we're whole unto ourselves. A gift of pure space to re-integrate, and align our awareness with the breathing, changing, sacred whole.
more about the 5Rhythms
Created by Gabrielle Roth and practiced by tens of thousands worldwide, 5Rhythms® is a movement practice - a chance to dance - rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion, it will heal itself. In the 5Rhythms world, which observes no borders, our own body’s movement is:
- a meditation: we practice being in the moment by being in this body and this breath
- a medium: our way forward is to keep moving our bodies and take the next step
- a medicine: we dive into ourselves, connect with others and the group, and there is no stopping the healing this brings
- a metaphor: the impulses and shapes of movement are a rich language of expression, exploration, meaning, creativity
- a message: we freely share the discipline and the liberating tendencies of this dance with all who show up
The 5Rhythms form a Wave of energy and experience.
As human beings, we are part of the natural order of things, and we each know this Wave from simply being alive. Whether we’ve thought about it or not, we are intimate with the way all things naturally arise, take form, grow strong and destabilize, come to a new resolution, and finally pass away. The 5Rhythms - Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness - re-create that natural wave, over and over, on a dance floor.
Through practicing the Rhythms, communities form that dance, sweat, change, support, and provide a good space for each of us to enter the heart of the big dance. Our dedication to moving and shifting can shatter the ego’s hold and awaken the part of ourselves that is ready for more freedom.
5Rhythms lives as a philosophy and a perspective - a way of looking at the world and its phenomena.
It encompasses different “maps” of exploration, and many different teachers - with as many circles of community. The 5RHYTHMS movement reaches across languages, cultures and age groups to empower people to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action.
Find out about current classes here.
My invitation as a student and teacher in this discipline is permanent: come dance your own waves.
5Rhythms lives as a philosophy and a perspective - a way of looking at the world and its phenomena.
It encompasses different “maps” of exploration, and many different teachers - with as many circles of community. The 5RHYTHMS movement reaches across languages, cultures and age groups to empower people to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action.
Find out about current classes here.
My invitation as a student and teacher in this discipline is permanent: come dance your own waves.