Dear Dancing Friends... It feels like a good time to dance!! I do admit this could easily be a generic opening for any 5Rhythms newsletter or blog at any time of day, night or year! This feels like a good time to dance. As the flowers are blooming color magic, asI can almost see the gardens … [Read more...]
Still Moving by Christina
I went for a walk yesterday in the evening, cold and clear and the light was magnificent and is there for a little bit longer. We are slowly moving upwards again, out of the deepest dark (and wet), first spring flowers show up and Tuis make evening noises. I have been very much in a place of … [Read more...]
My first 5Rhythms Workshop, by Callan
My first ever 5Rhythms workshop was a 5 day workshop in Belgium with Ya'acov Darling Khan. I arrrived in a bit of a state after having spent half the night in a train station in Brussels – followed by a train journey to the belgian countryside, a bus journey further in and finally a walk through the … [Read more...]
Julie on The Dance of the Witness
Dear dancers, I am writing this from London, at the start of my 2 month trip to the UK to visit family and work on the West Coast of Scotland. And – oh joy! – to dance with Oya Moore in Spain for a week. As well as being a teacher of 5Rhythms, I also have a day job, working as a medical … [Read more...]
Dance ~ a poem by Julie Forsey
I don’t know your name but I know your body, how you move and turn and trace the story of your life before my eyes. Electrifying space, I feel your passion, your grace, the wisp of tenderness you weave upon the air. And after, when I change my clothes from red and gold into streetwise black, I … [Read more...]
The 5Rhythms Map
Geordie Jahner, Ph.D. reflects on the map of the 5Rhythms work... As free-form as the 5Rhythms dance practice is, not everyone is aware that it also follows a very specific map as developed by founder Gabrielle Roth. As we progress in our understanding of the practice, we see that each level of … [Read more...]
Riding the Waves
Sacha Paddy writes... The change feels like it has finally come here in Auckland/Waiheke, the winds have picked up, even a little much needed rain, the seas are choppy and changeable, and I’ve started wearing socks again. The summer felt eternal this year and I must admit I am enjoying the relief … [Read more...]
A Holiday Wave by Sacha Paddy
Up north on holiday with my family, a lovely big noisy bunch of sisters, their partners and children, and my mother at an old bach by the water. I sleep in my tent for a bit of night time peace and quiet. Waking in the STILLNESS of the morning, all is calm and slow, gentle water lapping on … [Read more...]
5Rhythms and Gardening
Ok so I’m not the world’s greatest gardener and there is still some serious weeding to be done, but I was reflecting on the 5Rhythms yesterday when I was gardening. First there was Flowing in the sense of gathering information, musing on what might grow in this soil, finding out what Tui’s like … [Read more...]
Love After Love
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the … [Read more...]
