5RHYTHMS is freeing, artful meditation. There's room on the dance floor for all, and for everything.
The 5Rhythms Wave
Flowing: come in
We practice a fluid continuum of movement that supports, nurtures, and circulates in us from deep in the ground, all the way up.
We can soften, sensitize, tune in, and begin to receive and allow whatever is authentic, however it arrives.
We can soften, sensitize, tune in, and begin to receive and allow whatever is authentic, however it arrives.
Staccato: come out
We practice articulating with our bodies, moving in conscious action.
We let our response to the beat ignite us, to claim and attend to our direction, boundaries, purpose, clarity, and heart.
A time for unhindered expression from our centres to the cosmos.
We let our response to the beat ignite 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: come down
We practice shaking, rocking, rumbling and rolling medicine. We give way to vibrational downloads of movement freedom.
We let the ground catch us as we fall into releasing, un-patterning, and surrendering to the intensity of the mysterious, creative unknown.
We let the ground catch us as we fall into releasing, un-patterning, and surrendering to the intensity of the mysterious, creative unknown.
Lyrical: come up
We practice offering ourselves to dissolving and resolving, re-patterning updrafts of movement. We lift right through the surface of things.
We can relax into more room, see farther horizons, and break into new, soulful fractals of freshness and effortlessness.
We can relax into more room, see farther horizons, and break into new, soulful fractals of freshness and effortlessness.
Stillness: come home
We practice following our own devotion in motion, guiding ourselves 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.
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 worldwide, 5Rhythms is a movement practice - a chance to dance - rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion, it can heal itself. In the 5Rhythms world, our own body’s movement is:
- a meditation: we practice being with reality by being in this body and this breath
- a method: our way forward is to keep feeling and moving our bodies, taking one step at a time
- 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, and imagination
- a message: we reach out with the discipline and the liberating tendencies of this dance to all people, across languages, borders, colours, cultures, creeds, genders and sexualities, life stages, sizes, abilities, and health status
The 5Rhythms form a natural Wave of energy and experience.
As earthlings, we're 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 re-create that basic wave, over and over, on a dance floor.
Through 5Rhythms practice, communities form that dance, sweat, change, support, and provide a good space for each of us to enter, experiment, and learn. Our dedication to moving and shifting can interrupt the ego’s hold and awaken the part of ourselves that is ready for more freedom and responsibility.
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. This school of movement seeks to empower people to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action.
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. This school of movement seeks to empower people to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action.
My invitation as a student and teacher in this discipline is permanent: come dance your own waves.