5Rhythms Tribe | Community That Inspires | October 2017

Hot off the press! We are happy to announce that, after a few years in the making, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeingis now a fully published tome with a chapter on 5Rhythms. (The 5Rhythms® Movement Practice: Journey to Wellbeing, Empowerment, and Transformation) written in collaboration by 5Rhythms Teachers Mati Vargas-Gibson (Dallas, Mexico), Sarena Wolfaard (Edinburgh, South Africa), and Emma Roberts (Brighton, Paris).

5Rhythms Tribe | Remembering the Perfect Circle

by Karen Ritscher The first time I walked in to lead the Dancing with Dementia group, I was vetted by one of its “founding elders.” “Are you one of us …

Jup Jansonius

The first time I entered a 5Rhythms class (22 years ago) it felt like coming home to a life I intuitively knew existed but was unreachable till that time. <br><br> For the first time my movement, my energy, my waves through life had a physic...

Katya Verbrugghe

I discovered the 5Rhythms 10 years ago when my life finally fell into place after a long and exhausting quest. I had been struggling for a long time with anorexia. The disease not only affected my body but it also deeply hurt my soul and my spirit. I long...

I had been struggling for a long time with anorexia. The disease not only affected my body but it also deeply hurt my soul and my spirit. I longed to vanish from this world for so many years. I was stuck in a vicious circle and didn’t know how to escape from it.

Notes on Practice: Journey into Trance

“What’s real, what’s true, what’s deep, what serves the big dance of love,” Jonathan chanted, ever suspicious of sanctimonious bullshit, calling out our egos stories, our feeble escapes, our neurotic self-making again and again.

5Rhythms Tribe | Committing to the Dance

by Simon Tanner, United Kingdom Today I have decided to commit to life as I commit to the dance. Moving to centre floor, I begin in stillness. Facing the altar, …

5Rhythms Tribe | The Reach of the Rhythms: Transsexual Sex Workers in Paris

by Marc Silvestre, Paris As a 5Rhythms teacher, I have worked with a wide variety of people, including business managers and children. Years ago, at a big class I organised …