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Notes on Practice: Things to Climb & Games of Invention

I was overly optimistic in putting on a bathing suit. During a brief glimpse of blue, we rushed to get to the sea, hoping for at least a few moments of beach fun. As it was, the blue was enclosed again by white sky long before we made it to the beach, but we decided to explore anyway. We found a place to park near Bonmahon Beach in Co. Waterford, Ireland and set up the sandy path to the sea. I shivered with

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5Rhythms with Jonathan Horan | August West Coast USA

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.” -Rabindranath Tagore       Dear Friends and Dancing Maniacs,   Halfway through my summer in Europe, I am in …

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5Rhythms Tribe | Love Letters to the 5Rhythms

Love Letter Ramblings to 5Rhythms: (from Ghost Dance Manchester with Alex Mackay) Memories flickering in rare sun streams, saturated with our many dances and glances, touches and crushes, loving smiles; …

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5Rhythms Tribe | 5 days drawing the 5Rhythms

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5RTA | July 2016 Teacher Spotlight

Recently, one of my old stomping grounds, Orlando, Florida became the backdrop to the deadliest mass shooting in America. As shock, anger and grief spilled through many of our hearts, …

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Notes on Practice: Open Sky, Going Anywhere &Partnership

For the second week in a row, I unexpectedly attended the Sunday Sweat Your Prayers class. For the second week in a row, the class was guest taught by an accomplished teacher from another country, in this case Hannah Loewenthal from South Africa. And for the second week in a row, I explored new and delightful aspects of partnership.

I took a long time to gather myself on entering; and I went silently through a ritual of bowing into the space. I felt emotional and took tiny steps, moving like water through the many floor-moving bodies that were distributed equally around the studio. I found a spot near the middle of the room and began to move in energetic circles, rolling over the back of my head again and again and letting the gestures cast me in arcs, pausing to tense in key stretches as I was quickly called to action.

Hannah, perhaps noting the quickening of the room,

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