Notes On Practice | Grass Roots

Just keep practicing, I told myself. If I practice with devotion, if I am relentless in interrogating the stories that limit me, and if I stay connected to raw, unfiltered presence, things will shift radically and this foot pain won’t be such a big deal. Some days, I winced through every step, but still managed to find freedom and inspiration. I even saw the pain as helpful, in that it brought me right into my feet and into the body.

After the “Elemental” workshop in April, my feet got still worse. It would have been difficult to spot, as I still swooped and soared, but I knew I had to seek help, not just hope that enlightenment would eventually free me. A friend suggested I visit an orthopedic doctor who specializes in working with extreme athletes.

Sara Cereghetti

My heart was empty and lost, my body still in shock and shaking for the absolute absence of logic in the painful and toxic relationship I was gently leaving behind. Seven years ago, winter time. The perspicacity of a soul friend brought me to my first 5Rh...

Irene Hernandez Sanchez

I feel so grateful that I found the Rhythms early (I was 21), through my mum!! They have become my navigation map. My GPS to go through all the challenges of being alive. This decade has been full on for me, changes, losses, ups, downs, contracti...

Katarzyna Kat Pugowska

As I prepare to teach today I sit with a rather humbling question: why do I dance the 5Rhythms? Slowly, I am reminded how, through this practice, I have been able to awaken the perceptive skills of feeling and sensing - never stopping to call myself back ...

Kate Shela

“I am a renegade, Out for the truth”. Kate Tempest. I dwell in the outside verges and bring them back into the main stream. At 22, Gabrielle was a sign post on that illuminating bright dark path. She was the first adult I had met tha...

Notes on Practice: Alive! Alive! Alive!

I started in a squat, deep in the hips, stretching the inner thighs, feet and calves, rotating and staying low. I soon found my way to the ground, where I continued to stretch and coil, rolling over the fronts of my shoulders, the back of my head, and through the hips, moving from my stomach to my back over and over in a wide circle. Staccato arrived more quickly than I expected, and…

Ray Diaz

When I found 5Rhythms, I realized I had found my path forward to self-realization in dance, movement, energy, and awareness. For the last 13 years, I have been an OSHO follower predominantly with respect to his Dance Meditation Practices. Seven years...

Catherine Llewellyn

My background is eclectic. My parents were con-conformists from opposite ends of the social scale – I was immersed in a bohemian lifestyle and a philosophy of self-determination. They showed me that change is an adventure. They carried their courage and...

5Rhythms Tribe | April 2018

MOVING WITH GRIEF by Julia Mercurio, Hungary
ONCE UPON A TIME by Eliza Bouwens, United Kingdom
LOCKDOWN ~ SEEKING SPACE by Xoli Fuyani, South Africa
WAVES IN HIGH PLACES by Torie Partridge(USA), Louise Hall (Sweden), Lucy Howgego (England), Maha Sarraf (Uganda)
SONG BEHIND THESE EYES by Morag Donnelly, United Kingdom
DANCING YOUR WAY BACK TO YOU by Alex Rodriguez, New Zealand
HEART TO HEART | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH GABRIELLE ROTH from Eliezer Sobel & Robert Ansell of Raven Recording