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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.
Upcoming events
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- $99.00
Practice: A 5Rhythms® workshop with Jeffrey Boynton
Richmond Movement Center, 14 East Broad St, Richmond, VA, US#### This workshop is an inquiry into the 5Rhythms as a practice.
The surest way to understand the 5Rhythms' powerful potential is to move our bodies with intention, however we are able, through Wave after Wave after Wave. Our dance becomes practice – and we become more proficient, as practitioners – as we show up, over time, in almost any inner state and external circumstance, dancing with others and alone; with little energy or range and with a lot; with different life moments, questions, and emotions; for seconds, minutes, hours, or for days.
In this practice, the specific nature of each Rhythm invites us to know ourselves in distinct ways and capacities, and to deepen into this way of knowing, of being in contact, over time. We practice shifting from Rhythm to Rhythm and Wave to Wave, cultivating our ability to live fluidly, and to respond to change. We practice giving ourselves permission to be every part of who we are, while noticing and being with what is – however it happens to be.
Through practice, and by sincerely giving our time and attention, we follow the road to building innate skill and developing the sense of embodied safety that personal experience and proficiency can bring. Then, we can effortlessly improvise within our own earned understanding of what is possible. With practice, we can relate with more ground and more presence to what is moving, to what is needed, and to who and what is alive around and between us. As we touch this place of knowing, nurturing, and unleashing our full selves, we encourage others in our world to do the same.
** Workshop participants will be provided access to several of Jeffrey’s waves for home practice via Mixcloud to support their personal practice and inquiry before and integration after the workshop.**
Pricing:
$99 early bird rate available in limited quantities until Mar 28
$135 April 1 to date of event, or after early bird sells outRichmond Movement Center, Richmond, VA
11am-6pm
Saturday, April 11, 2026Pre-Registration required at this LINK
PLEASE NOTE that you must click the link above to register on our site. RSVP here is helpful, but does not register you for the workshop1 attendee
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