Across Cultures, One Nervous System -- A 4-Week Guided 5Rhythms® Practice

If you carry a lot — mentally, professionally, and internally — and don’t always have a place to process it, this is for you.

4 Thursdays | Apr 2, 9, 16, 30 | 7:00–8:30 PM (PDT)

No class on Apr 23.

In a city like San Francisco, many cultures, identities, and ways of living move alongside one another every day. This brings richness and creativity, and also speed, friction, and subtle stress in the nervous system.

Many high-functioning adults live in patterns of override. The body keeps functioning and performing, while its signals lose influence. Over time, the nervous system loses range — the ability to move between effort and recovery, activation and rest.

This 4-week 5Rhythms® practice works directly with that — not by thinking about it, but by moving through it.

Each evening moves through the full wave — Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness — while different musical landscapes invite the body into new textures and responses. The structure remains the same. What changes is how the body meets it.

This is not about performing cultural dance forms. It is about experiencing how rhythm organizes human movement across difference — and how the body responds through the same living nervous system.

The space is guided and intentionally personal: less crowd, more guidance, and more contact with your body. There is room to move at your own scale, without performance or pressure.

No choreography. No performance. No dance experience needed.

Come as you are. Move at your own pace. Restore the range that allows your body to respond, adapt, and feel alive again.

WHOLENESS

 In this workshop we turn toward the simple, essential truth, that we are already whole. Through the map of the 5Rhythms®, movement becomes a way to remember, not to perfect or perform, but to return to the body’s innate intelligence. When we surrender to the body’s wisdom , letting breath, rhythm, and instinct loosen the habits that fragment us we open the pathways that reconnect us to our original aliveness.

Throughout the day we’ll weave dance with, embodied inquiry, & journaling amongst the grounding presence of community. Together we’ll explore the places where we feel divided or uncertain, and tap into the deeper current beneath them that is steady, resourceful, and wise. “Wholeness” is an invitation to come home to yourself: to stand in your center, to feel your full range, and to be witnessed in the beauty of your own integrated presence.

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Prerequisite: None. All workshop hours contribute to 5Rhythms® Teacher Training prerequisites.

Tom Truman is a Santa Cruz based 5Rhythms® teacher and artisan woodworker whose life and work reflect a deep commitment to embodied expression, creativity and mindful living. Tom first encountered the 5Rhythms in New York in 2007 and has been dancing this practice for nearly two decades, becoming a certified teacher in 2016 and offering regular classes and workshops in Santa Cruz and beyond ever since. https://www.tomtrumandance.com/

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Registration

EXCHANGE FOR DAY WORKSHOP

Creating Access not Scarcity: Following the class and economic justice sliding scale created by Alexis J. Cunningfolk, please review and select the price point below that allows you to attend the workshops. Discounts available are on a first come basis (10 discount spaces available) and our hope is to create a space where all can participate so reach out if you need further assistance.  

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I am comfortably able to meet all my basic needs, I am employed or do not need to work, I have access to financial savings and have an expendable income and can afford at least an annual vacation. I may struggle at times, but overall I feel financially comfortable. 

Partial Discount: $112.50 (25% Discount) Use code WHOLE25 when registering:

I frequently stress about meeting my basic needs and don’t always achieve them, I have debt that sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs, I rent lower end properties or have unstable housing, I am unemployed or underemployed without access to savings, I have no or very limited expendable income and cannot afford or have the ability to take time off work for a vacation without financial burden. 

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Questions? please inquire with an email to Majica Alba. majicasonrisa@gmail.com

LOCATION

The Tannery in Santa Cruz

1:30pm-6:30pm

There will be a short break for food. 

Link to payment: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wholeness-a-5rhythms-day-long-workshop-with-tom-truman-in-santa-cruz-tickets-1982381046073?aff=oddtdtcreator