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The Moving Body Map 6-Week 5Rhythms® Series

San Francisco - 8 Jan 2026 to 12 Feb 2026
Bettina-Kira Neumann

The Moving Body Map is a 6-week 5Rhythms® workshop offered as a weekly class series for dancers and conscious movers who want to dance with more freedom while caring for their bodies.

Each week includes a full 5Rhythms® wave (Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, Stillness) and practical, somatic body-care guidance you can feel immediately and use beyond the dance floor. This work supports sustainable movement—grounding, breath, balance, and recovery—so you can dance fully and feel supported afterward.

If you’ve ever left a dance with sore knees, tight hips, a cranky neck, tense shoulders, or feet that complain later, this series offers real tools to move differently. Not medical. Not theoretical. Just movement, awareness, and anatomy-in-motion inside a lived 5Rhythms® practice.

This workshop is open to dancers and movers of all levels. You move at your own pace, within your edge, in a welcoming and inclusive space.

This is a weekly class in a series (Jan 8–Feb 12). Consistency supports deeper benefits.

Come as you are. Your body already knows the way.

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In the Belly of the Earth - 5Rhythms-Inspired Embodied Installation Walk

San Francisco - 31 Jan 2026 to 31 Jan 2026
Bettina-Kira Neumann

 5Rhythms-Inspired Embodied Installation Walk

Mount Davidson · San Francisco

This workshop is a 5Rhythms-inspired embodied installation practice—an extension of moving inquiry into the natural world.

We’ll gather in nature and begin with a somatic check-in, then walk in quiet, tracking sensation, breath, sound, and contact with the land. Drawing from 5Rhythms principles of presence, listening, and embodiment, we’ll allow what’s alive in the body to guide us.

Together, we’ll create a simple shared visual arrangement (installation/altar) from found natural objects—a way to let the body speak visually. The installation becomes a reflection of our physical and emotional presence in this moment, and an offering from our bodies back to the body of the earth.

This practice supports:

returning to the body

nervous system regulation through sensory contact

marking seasonal thresholds and turning points

expressing what’s present without words

No art experience is needed. This is not about performance or aesthetics, but about listening, relationship, and return.


Date & Time: Saturday, Jan 31 · 10:00–12:00

Location: Mount Davidson, San Francisco (meeting point shared after registration)

Cost: Free · optional contribution welcome

Bring: Comfortable layers, footwear for trails/grass, water

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Local Teachers

Christina Graham-Smith San Diego, California Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 2007

“Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.- Martha Graham ”

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Majica Alba Sacramento, California   Dancing Since: 2008

“My job is to hold a sacred space where people can see what is already there.”

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Juliette Kunin Nevada City, California Teaching Since: 2010 Dancing Since: 2001

“Keep dancing with that spark of truth that resides in all of us. Allow it to lead. Have the courage to leap, even when it is scary...”

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Sylvie Minot Sausalito, California Teaching Since: 2001 Dancing Since: 1994

““The body holds stories and old wounds, and medicine as well. It has the antidote to heal itself. Through moving, we release our stories and allow healing to come through.” - Sylvie Minot”

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Tom Truman Santa Cruz, California Teaching Since: 2016 Dancing Since: 2006

“" Your Body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds" Khalil Gibran ”

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Jenelle Smith Irvine, California   Dancing Since: 1997

“This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of (themselves) and out of something greater than all selves. ~Joseph Campbell”

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Albo Mussmann Arcata, California Teaching Since: 2024 Dancing Since: 2017

“Dance the World into being”

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Bettina-Kira Neumann San Francisco, California Teaching Since: 2024 Dancing Since: 2012

“"The most precious jewels may never see the light—but once they do, they shine." "It is a gift to have the courage to move through your wounds and find your freedom." "Deep wounds once held me hostage—believing I wasn’t good enough, that ”

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Tim Doody New York, New York Teaching Since: 2024 Dancing Since: 2012

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Qibei Shen Steiner Berkeley, California Teaching Since: 2024 Dancing Since: 2013

“In movements, everything is possible. ”

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jacia Kornwise Chico, California Teaching Since: 2004 Dancing Since: 1990

“Dance when your broken open. Dance when you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. Rumi”

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Jake Smith San Diego, California Teaching Since: 2023 Dancing Since: 2015

“If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough”

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Alessandro Moruzzi San Francisco, California Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 2007

“Rain, oceans are my Flowing. Street traffic, crowds chatting are my Staccato. Waterfalls, pounding jack hammers are my Chaos. Winds, hummingbirds are my Lyrical. Echoes of drops in a cave, my breaths are my Stillness.”

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Vehllia Tranne San Francisco, California Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 2010

“I dance to rediscover, remember, recreate, and to return to love. It takes courage to live one's truth. Your courage breeds courage in me. Will you join me and dance our truth?”

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Masayo Benoist Los Angeles, California Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 2009

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Jo Bainbridge Cobbett Los Angeles, California Teaching Since: 1997 Dancing Since: 1988

“this dance is my practice; my presence, playfulness and passion meet
and the truest sense of my self emerges
here i connect to source & know my depth ”

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Margaret Wagner San Francisco, California Teaching Since: 2004 Dancing Since: 2000

“Discover your ground, define your passion and voice, dissolve what holds you back, delight in your originality, dance with whatever is in the moment.”

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Davida Taurek San Rafael, California Teaching Since: 1987 Dancing Since: 1987

“We reside in our body to express the unique and amazing being living inside. Telling the truth through the body liberates us from the confines of social structure and hardened beliefs of self. In other words, dancing ROCKS!”

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Bella Dreizler Sacramento, California Teaching Since: 2008 Dancing Since: 2001

“After all this time I have no doubt: embodied physical practice in the context of a shamanic 5Rhythms wave delivers. Must be present to win. ”

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Daniela Peltekova Los Angeles, California Teaching Since: 2007  

“We are Gods and Goddesses with a global case of human amnesia. We dance to remember, we dance to forget, we dance to let go, to heal the cells of our body-mind and reignite the crystal imprints of our souls.”

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Kiaora Fox Santa Barbara, California Teaching Since: 2016 Dancing Since: 1983

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Jay and Amber Kaplan California Teaching Since: 1994  

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Aaron Lifshin San Francisco, California Teaching Since: 2016 Dancing Since: 2010

“What a surprise it was to find all the answers in the body, not the mind.”

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