The Silent Pulse

 A 6-Week 5Rhythms® Series through the Winter Passage

December 2 – January 13 (skipping Dec. 23)

Tuesdays | 6:30–8:30 PM | Metta Healing Arts, Pittsburgh

At the Heart of It All, There Is a Pulse.

A rhythm that hums beneath thought, beyond words.

The body knows it. The Earth knows it.

And when we slow down enough to listen

we can hear the silent pulse that connects us to everything.

Winter invites us inward.

It strips away distraction and noise until all that’s left

is the soft thrum beneath the surface

the quiet wisdom that’s been there all along.

In The Silent Pulse, we’ll move through the 5Rhythms® map

Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness

as a way of traversing the inner landscape of winter.

Each rhythm becomes a doorway -

to listen with the whole body,

to breathe with what remains,

to rest in the spaces between.

This is where we metabolize experience through motion,

and remember that even in stillness, something sacred stirs.

Gabrielle Roth spoke of The Silver Desert

that luminous space of inner quiet where movement becomes prayer.

A place of emptiness and fullness all at once.

The dance that happens not under stage lights, but under moonlight.

A hoy hush before the fire.

Here, the body becomes the priestess of the pause

listening to the subtle undercurrents,

knowing when to wait, when to listen, and when to leap.

Right action arises not from pressure, but from presence.

In stillness, we discover the part of ourselves that is both the wave and the witness.

Where We’ll Go Together

Each week, we’ll journey through one rhythm at a time

exploring how it lives in your body, psyche, and spirit.

You’ll be guided through movement, breath, and reflection

to access the medicine each rhythm holds.

This is a reclamation of the body as both compass and sanctuary.

As you move, you may find yourself :

Softening into what is, instead of pushing against it.

Listening for your body’s own timing and truth.

Noticing the quiet difference between effort and emergence.

Letting stillness meet momentum, and presence become prayer.

Artmaking Meets Meditation

This series weaves together the movement practice of 5Rhythms® with the contemplative art of creation.

Each week, we’ll explore how the rhythm of stillness can become a channel for creativity, connection, and ritual ; crafting, writing, and making art as extensions of our dance.

We’ll deepen into seated meditation and breath-based practices, allowing the inner currents of movement to ripple into stillness.

This is artmaking as meditation — a way to translate what the body knows into color, image, and form.

Oh yes, we’ll still be dancing through waves, 

but the essence of this winter practice is softer, slower, and deeply restorative.

Each session will be bookended with practices of self-regulation, reflection, and rest,

inviting you to honor the full arc of movement, stillness, and renewal.

Why We Dance

As George Leonard wrote:

“At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections,

there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm…

absolutely individual and unique,

and yet which connects us to everything in the universe.”

This practice is how we find that pulse again

not in thinking, but in moving.

Not in talking, but in listening.

Not in doing, but in being moved.

For those feeling the pull inward

This is for the ones listening for something deeper

who are tired of the noise,

who crave quiet movement, honest breath,

and the slow medicine of winter.

For those walking the edge between exhaustion and renewal,

ready to soften, listen, and let the body lead them home.

Investment: $210 / 6 weeks

Where: Metta Healing Arts, Pittsburgh

When: Tuesdays, 6:30–8:30 PM

Dates: December 2 – January 13 (no class Dec. 23)

→ Space is limited. Registration opens November 1.

REGISTER HERE

This Dancing Body

This body ~ often taken for granted, sometimes ill or in pain, always ageing..
We feed it, rest it, keep it warm
Wish it other than it is
And then attend to higher things..

But then again.. this body ~ home, a miracle of design
The creative instrument through which our dance takes form
A crucible of life and breath
A begging bowl for Spirit..

This is a day to more consciously inhabit our physical form
To breathe, and move, and feel
To celebrate the physical, and fill it luxuriantly with ourselves
To find acceptance and then revelation in our flesh and bones
And attend with honour to this body that loves to dance.