Dancing with Love

At its heart, 5Rhythms is a practice in love.

An embodiment practice which gives us the space to feel into our loving essence at our core. A practice which also gets us to feel all the things which get in the way of that essence. This work is foundational to our understanding of how we exist in relationships to others.

When I can connect to myself with love (and this takes practice) I'm more likely to be able to meet others with this same energy. This kind of loving connection is what we need to cultivate more of in the world today. 

This workshop is an opportunity to practice connecting with love, using our whole body, not just our mind. It is also a one day immersion into the 5Rhythms. No previous experience is necessary

Reach out if you have questions! Beginners are welcome.

ENOUGH Waves and Heartbeat (Castlemaine)

'I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?'

Vincent Van Gogh

This workshop explores and challenges the societal forces that manufacture compare-despair & discontent. It aims to restore our sense of having, doing, giving and simply being enough.

We investigate Enough with 2 different perspectives: David using the language of Waves, our physical exploration and Meredith offering Heartbeat, the emotional map of the 5Rhythms. Both investigating our experience of lack, jealousy, overwhelm, distraction and avoidance, all the way through to a sense of enough. Breathing life into places where we get stuck in either not enough, too much and everything in between.

Taking inspiration from Van Gogh’s words, we’ll reclaim our true creative nature. With music, movement, poetry, space and silence we’ll cultivate individual and collective appreciation of what is quite simply… enough.

Meredith & David: For more than 2 decades, Meredith Davies and David Juriansz have been a dynamic duo for 5Rhythms in Australia. Their weekly Melbourne & Castlemaine classes are a 5Rhythms mecca for conscious dance travellers from around the world. Their pioneering spirit helped nurture many movement teachers whilst turning thousands of people onto 5Rhythms and conscious dance practices.Collectively they bring 35 years of shared 5Rhythms teaching experience. This workshop will blend Meredith’s deep embodiment & playful, compassionate exploration of the emotional heartbeat landscape with David’s wise storytelling, musical mastery and comic sensibility.

Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms has been a global movement practice for 40 years and Moving Essence started the first weekly classes in Melbourne 20 years ago. Workshops offer a deeper experience of process through this life-changing work.

Workshop details

2 – 4 May 2025

Friday May 2 – 5:45pm – 9:00pm – the weekly Castlemaine 5Rhythms class as a warm up + a second wave for the workshop group from 7:30 – 9:00pm

Saturday May 3 – 11:00am – 6:00pm

Sunday May 4 – 12:00pm – 5:00pm

Enough – Pricing

Given the theme of the ‘Enough workshop’, we offer dancers a chance to reflect on what they can afford via a segmented sliding scale.

We have a broad range of financial capacity in our community. We invite you to pay what is ‘enough for you’ to afford. We offer this without judgement. We wouldn’t have created this payment method if we were not genuinely interested in exploring the theme of “enough”.

Our booking system doesn’t allow you to choose an amount. So we have listed here FOUR COUPON CODES which reduce the workshop price by a percentage.

NO COUPON USED = Pay the $300 Workshop Price

ME25 (25% reduction) = Pay $225

ME50 (50% reduction) = Pay $150

ME75 (75% reduction) = Pay $75 

ME100 (100% reduction) = Pay nothing

We offer the ‘pay nothing’ option with the consideration that some exchange may be possible: either food, volunteering, cleaning or gift of your energy like bodywork, gardening etc. Please email us directly at 5Rhythms@movingessence.com before booking this option.

The other category ‘pay it forward’ invites members of our dance community to join us in paying $50 extra to help create subsidised places for those who need it. You can apply the % coupon code to this amount also, adding price levels to the sliding scale.

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