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5RTA | October Teacher Spotlight

Adam Barley

When I was a messed up 17 year-old nerd studying Further Maths, our teacher gave us the most inspiring lesson of my entire education, showing us the extraordinary beauty and elegance of the relationship between the five most fundamental numbers in existen...

Andrew Holmes

When I first met the dance, I had been living in my mind for 30 years. I remember being asked to feel into my spine, and having no connection to the physical sensation - I just couldn’t feel it. I didn’t even know how to begin.. And being a “wa...

Notes on Practice: Natural Disasters, Friendly Animals & the Need for Warriorship

The ultimate test of our practice is to keep moving even inside a swirling maelstrom of Chaos. To find a way to ride the Chaos so it doesn’t destroy us. As the rhythm of Chaos unfolded, I was often low, finding a growling thread of Staccato, realizing the need for action. Deep in my knees and hips, I held my arms cactus-like and rocked and cracked into my upper spine at great velocity. I joined two friends, including the very woman who brought me to a 5Rhythms class for the first time over ten years ago, and we leapt and twisted and spun, inspiring me into a whole new set of gestures and ways of working with weight and extension, every minute muscle of my feet steering me into unending expression.

5RTA | September 2017 Teacher Spotlight

Silvija Tomcik

My home rhythm is Staccato in a serious flirtation with Chaos, that finds its roots in Flowing. You can see, it is not a pure Staccato. I love going into a messy pile of papers on my office table and sorting them out, by alphabet, by date, by theme. I lov...

Joanne Winstanley

I love the hum of a room full of movers, dropping into a deep vibration and riding it all the way home. I love when our bodies find patterns of motion belonging to no-one, moving through everyone, just borrowing our hands and our heads and our feet f...

5RTA | August 2017 Teacher Spotlight

Kelly Satz

I fall in love with the 5Rhythms when I had in my hands for the first time the book Maps To the Extasis. And after two years of reading, once and again, and practice without teachers or appropriate music, just for intuition ... I started my journey to NY ...

Mirjam Van Hasselt

One of the many powerful experiences I had in the years I am dancing the 5Rhythms was in California during Mirrors. I was doing repetitions (with a partner) in front of the group. Gabrielle inferred, inviting me into a repetition with her: “You’re a w...

5Rhythms Tribe | Community That Inspires | July 2017

July 2017 Musings + Art + Happenings from our Tribal Individuals The 5Rhythms practice | A lens for life Raising Kids with the Rhythms + Practical Suggestions to …

Practical Suggestions for Raising Kids in 5Rhythms

Some Practical Suggestions for Raising Kids in 5Rhythms by Meghan LeBorious: (Read Meghan’s full story on raising her son in 5Rhythms here) I – Off the dance floor 1. Dance …

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