5Rhythms Tribe | October 2018

Veterans, especially ones with service-connected injuries, are notoriously resistant to and skeptical of alternative health practices like Yoga and Dance. Although these have been found effective for rehabilitation and are readily available, they remain ignored and held in contempt because of the stereotype of being perceived as feminine. My own story bears out this reality

5Rhythms Tribe | One Veteran’s search for non-toxic masculinity

by Alexander Litvak, New York City, USA Veterans, especially ones with service-connected injuries, are notoriously resistant to and skeptical of alternative health practices like Yoga and Dance. Although these have …

5Rhythms Tribe | Permission and Pain

by Sue Sutherland, United Kingdom | Chronic pain sufferer, dancer, listener, truthsayer, tree hugger, skyclad howler, probably a witch and definitely a lover https://thefeelinstitute.com In the last couple of days, …

5Rhythms Tribe | Whirling in Darkness with Dervishes

by Mona Abu Rayyan, Jordan I can’t seem to write about the dance. It’s so strange. Because it’s all whirling in my head, the words. I can’t put them down …

5Rhythms Tribe | Wave within the Wave

by Laura Branco, Ohio, USA In one of our sessions during Teacher’s Training, Jonathan talked about pain in the system. He announced to the attentive TIT novices: “It’s not a …

Marcia Wakarchuk Jones

“Mine is a dancing path” — Gabrielle Roth <br><br> My first experience of the 5Rhythms was around 1997, in Cambridge, England with Adam Barley at the helm. I was perplexed that everyone seemed to know what to do without detailed chor...

Bella Dreizler

First memory? I’m four years old and dancing…trancing out to Liberace of all things. Seven decades later I can fully appreciate the blessings of a challenging childhood. Despite the trauma, a fascination for nature was nurtured…ocean, lakes, forest,...

Gabrielle’s mantra to “move the body in order to heal the psyche” was a revelation for me. I became fascinated with how the moving body was intimately interconnected with the emotional and spiritual aspects of our “being”. I dove