by Meghan LeBorious, based on an interview with 5Rhythms teacher Tanya Goldman on May 27, 2018, and journal notes from 2008-2019. “It’s 2019. Just thought I’d let you know that,” …
by Irene Hernández Sánchez, Spain “To the beat of the drum we travel on Courageous we sail into the storm Singing our song and feeling strong On a voyage to …
Joine the 5Rhythms NYC Tribe at the 13th annual Dance parade! We will be dancing our way down Broadway to the beats and guidance of Jonathan Horan and Peter Fodera on Saturday May 18th
When I finished my 5Rhythms teacher training in 2001 Robert Ansell asked me to write, at Gabrielle’s suggestion, something about how New York City was Chaos. I never wrote the piece. I let the request fade away. But the question lingered, a meditati...
For best results… ADD HOT WATER & STIR. My first time to Esalen was for Cycles with Jonathan in December, 2011. Combining profound dancing, moving emotions and letting it all go in those healing hot springs would forever imprint the deepest YES on my so...
When I started doing this practice about 20 years ago, we would often talk about letting go of the mind, of thinking, so that we can dance and truly be. As if the mind were a villan keeping us from being real, and all that was valid was the physical, the ...
I was 29 years old in an African dance class when I felt joy and grief, my past, my future, my present all at once moving in my body. The power of that night in Port Townsend Washington lead me to San Francisco, within a year I was in my first 5Rhythms cl...
This practice never stops to amaze me, to nourish me, to challenge me. Since discovering it, I have fully dedicated myself to this practice and have had great teachers all along. This practice has been with me, even before I embraced it, even before I kne...
In the early days of my 5Rhythms journey I learned something precious about the dance, the body and the heart. One dark, wet evening at a drop in class, the teacher was taking us through body parts. He invoked elbows and as I became aware of mine, ...