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Victoria

The oldest 5Rhythms community in Australia, Melbourne is a must-dance destination for lovers of 5Rhythms.


Meredith Davies was the first teacher to start a weekly 5Rhythms class in Melbourne in 2003.  Five years later Madhuma Thompson began a second weekly class and initiated a monthly Sweat Your Prayers, and now more than a decade later, with Meredith’s husband David Juriansz joining the teaching field, they have grown a huge dancing tribe.  The weekly ‘Tuesday Tsunami Wave’ in North Fitzroy may be one of the biggest weekly 5R classes in the world ~ a pulsating, deep ride for over 150 dancers.  With sometimes 6 classes a week, workshops with international teachers, a growing roster of local teachers and more in training, Melbourne is a vibrant 5Rhythms dance community.

Weekly Classes


Upcoming Workshops



Double Feature: Dances with Wolves - Waves

Melbourne - 18 Jan 2025 to 22 Jan 2025
Natalie Poole

Double Feature Summer Workshop  10 days

Dances with Wolves: 5Rhythms Waves 5 days, Jan 18-22nd


Join us for a transformational 10 days, 5 days or at least for the weekends.

Exploring a rhythm a day, through body-mind and heart this workshop, or workshops, will set the ground for the coming year by re-orienting and enabling ourselves to step into life and relationships with renewed vitality, creativity and compassion. When we dance through the 5Rhythms wave we re-awaken what matters.

In this workshop, we'll dive into our own ecosystems. Our mornings begin with somatic explorations to support and guide us as we dance through the rhythms, while the afternoons offer space to deepen, integrate, and develop our experiences. As we journey through the 5Rhythms Waves map, we fully engage with the body, awakening all our inner dancing selves to ground, express, and embody new possibilities. This dance becomes an act of agency, empowering us with fresh insights and potential that can be carried onto the dancefloor of life.

Inspired by themes from the film Dances with Wolves, we’ll explore our inner ecosystems through the somatic map—connecting with the bones, organs, fluids, endocrine system, and nervous system. Through this holistic approach, we discover new layers of movement and embodied awareness.


We dance the rhythms supported by somatic explorations in the morning, and we take the opportunity to develop, deepen and integrate in the afternoons. This is a Summer retreat, so you can work at your own pace. When we dance through the Waves map we engage with the body, calling forth all our dancing parts to ground, enable, express and enact. We discover and affirm new forms of agency, and new empowered possibilities arise. We will be working through an eco-somatic wilderness map I have been developing through the deserts, forests, oceans, and mycelium of our bodies.


This workshop can be counted as one of the pre-requisites for the 5Rhythms teacher training. As a member of the 5RTA, all hours with Natalie can be counted towards the 5Rhythms teacher training. As a DTAA supervisor, all hours can be counted towards Dance-Movement Therapy personal hours/ supervision.


JOIN US FOR 10 DAYS, OR 5, OR LESS. BUT DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS CHANCE TO BE PART OF THIS QUEST.

FURTHER INFORMATION ON ACCOMMODATION, CONTENT, SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS, ON REQUEST!


https://www.trybooking.com/eventlist/twirlingwolf



All hours with Natalie count towards the 5Rhythms teacher training path - and can be counted towards Dance Movement Therapy hours.



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Double Feature: Storm Boy - Heartbeat

Melbourne - 25 Jan 2025 to 29 Jan 2025
Natalie Poole

Storm Boy: 5Rhythms Heartbeat Workshop - 5 Days

Summer Double Feature 5Rhythms Intensive 

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Local Teachers

Lucine Eusani Melbourne, Victoria Teaching Since: 2016 Dancing Since: 2006

“Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don'ts, Not the God who ever does anything weird, But the God who knows only 4 words. And keeps repeating them, saying "Come dance with Me, come dance." --Hafiz”

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Natalie Poole Melbourne, Victoria Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 1972

“As a 5Rhythms teacher I see myself as a midwife on the dance floor - supporting the births of our more embodied, more expressive and more alive selves.”

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Renee Yerondais Melbourne, Victoria   Dancing Since: 2007

“My vision is to transform this world to one of ease, one body at a time.”

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Evelyn Switajewski Torquay, Victoria   Dancing Since: 1981

“"5Rhythms brings together my greatest passions, the driving influences for change and growth in my life - music, movement, joy and community." Evelyn Switajewski. ”

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Rivka Worth Melbourne, Victoria Teaching Since: 2014 Dancing Since: 1992

“Love the dance, it loves you back.”

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David Juriansz Melbourne, Victoria Teaching Since: 2010 Dancing Since: 1996

“Our pure flame is only obscured by human strain. The joy in this dance is to see it revealed again and again. Courageous dancing souls Moving Essence.”

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Meredith Davies Melbourne, Victoria Teaching Since: 2001  

“A deep listening A moving essence A dancing prayer Each breath a surrender to the spirit of life”

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Thais Sansom Castlemaine, Victoria   Dancing Since: 2000

“as we move and breathe, the dance flows out of us follow my feet trust my breath allow and be with fierce tenderness and curiosity”

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