What we’re about
This is an invitation to the dance only you can do. There are no steps to learn, no preparations to make, no prerequisites to participation. Only curiosity, breath, and your presence, moment by moment, a practice of being.
Creativity. Community. Connection.
# The 5Rhythms are a map to everywhere we want to go—inner, outer, forward, back, physical, emotional, intellectual—they reconnect us to the wisdom of our bodies and unleash movement’s dynamic healing power.
5Rhythms is a movement meditation practice devised by Gabrielle Roth in the late 1970s. It is informed by indigenous and world traditions using tenets of shamanistic, ecstatic, mystical and eastern philosophy. It also informed by Gestalt therapy, the human potential movement and transpersonal psychology. Fundamental to the practice is the idea that everything is energy, and moves in waves, patterns and rhythms. In practicing these 5Rhythms the body becomes our spiritual path.
# 5Rhythms is devoted to the cultivation of the tribal individual: wildly independent, yet yearning for community; totally free, yet deeply disciplined; in love with form, yet identified with the formless -- willing to dance the leap of consciousness required for future generations
The 5Rhythms include “flowing,” “staccato,” “chaos,” “lyrical,” and “stillness,” and form the “Wave,” a simple moving meditation that encourages us to find our own dances of embodied feeling and to discover ourselves at our most fluid and creative levels.
Wear clothes that allow you move freely, including layers to adjust for more or less active movement.
Dance barefoot or in soft-soled shoes only.
Move at your own pace.
Be responsible for your own body.
Don’t distract yourselves or others with talk.
Move as you are, and remain open to change.
This is an opportunity to find and express your dance of aliveness.
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