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.
I’s of the Soul
This is the journey of the spirit through the body. We bring awareness to the space within as we carve our path through our existence. When spirit has the space to move freely, we find ecstasy. Ecstasy, not as an escape or a high, but as embodied awareness and presence.
“The path to ecstasy is up through the five layers of consciousness, the five levels through which energy most naturally flows from purely physical existence to its highest spiritual potentials. “ ~ Gabrielle Roth Maps to Ecstasy
The 5Rhythms will be our container and guide. Flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness are the teachers that will inform our exploration. The 5Rhythms is our practice and our ritual.
Join me on this I-map of the soul’s journey to ecstasy as we explore inertia, imitation, intuition, imagination and inspiration together on the dance floor.
REGISTER TODAY!
SOUL REVIVAL: A LIVE WIRE EXPERIMENT UNEARTHED
WITH LORCA SIMONS, MEREDITH DAVIES & DAVID JURIANSZ
Let’s gather to whisper and circle from the ground our rites of restoration.
Let’s stand and shout to rally the forces that revitalize our spirited dreams into creative realities.
Let’s surrender our bones to the beat that can hold it all and regenerate our faith in the mystery.
Let’s deliver our stories from the heart of the feet to resurrect the light and shadows that seep, shine and soar through us.
Let’s invite spirit to be our barometer and witness in this exploration and celebration of what it means to be soulfully revived.
Rooted in the Waves Map with live, interactive and in the moment explorations in a grounded container, and concentrated in 5Rhythms Ritual Theater perspectives Lorca, Meredith and David in renaissance, will invoke this dynamic practice’s principal: If you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself. Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor. Setting your compass for the unpredictable come and be prepared for individual and collective fascination, radical unity and edgy grace.
~~~
Renee Yerondais
Melbourne, Victoria
 
Dancing Since: 2007
Rivka Worth
Melbourne, Victoria
Teaching Since: 2014
Dancing Since: 1992
Evelyn Switajewski
Torquay, Victoria
 
Dancing Since: 1981
Lucine Eusani
Melbourne, Victoria
Teaching Since: 2016
Dancing Since: 2006
Natalie Poole
Melbourne, Victoria
Teaching Since: 2014
Dancing Since: 1972
Thais Sansom
Castlemaine, Victoria
 
Dancing Since: 2000
David Juriansz
Melbourne, Victoria
Teaching Since: 2010
Dancing Since: 1996
Meredith Davies
Melbourne, Victoria
Teaching Since: 2001