New York

For 20+ years, the streets of New York City have been Gabrielle & Jonathan's laboratory, daily community, and the inspiration that is the 5Rhythms body of work and vision.

Our NYC teachers service the dynamic, diverse and dedicated tribe you could expect to make their way onto our dancefloors here. It provides a refuge of rhythm for those who are hungry to maintain a real self within the creative pulse, urban edge, and tribal soul of Manhattan. There is no more exciting place on earth, as it perfectly mirrors the complexity and challenges we face when we look within. Our NYC offerings of daily classes, short and long form workshops are available to dance you through all levels of the 5Rhythms every year.

MEET THE MOVING CENTER NEW YORK

Weekly Classes

Monday

BODYWERK: A 5Rhythms Waves Happening New York Nico Allen

Tuesday

NYCity Waves New York Henya Emmer

Wednesday

Online Shaking Spirit Waves New York Kierra Foster-Ba
Virtual Wednesday Morning Waves New York Ariel Karass

Friday

FRIDAY MORNING WAVES New York Ariel Karass
Body Waves New York Alyssa Jurewicz-Johns

Saturday

Hudson Valley 5Rhythms at the Ascend Center Cold Spring Stephanie Diamond

Sunday

Sunday ReSet New York Henya Emmer

Periodic Classes

Upcoming Workshops

Seeds of Compassion

Brooklyn - 30 Jan 2026 to 1 Feb 2026
Tammy Burstein

Compassion – an alchemical mixture made from our own blood, sweat, and tears.
Compassion – a homeo-empathic remedy for separation.
Compassion – a tincture for the hardened heart, medicine for the broken heart.
And
A poultice to draw out our fears of being compassionate, of being vulnerable, of being precious and temporary.

We’ll gather together to hold each other in giving the space for each of us to explore the tender dances of how we shy away from compassion, the raw dances of how we step back from compassion, the complicated dances of how we avoid our natural instinct to be compassionate. Towards others, and towards ourselves.

We’ll plant the seeds of compassion with our feet, and allow our sweat to bring them to life.

I hope you can join us. It won’t be the same without you.

Local Teachers

Gabrielle Roth New York, New York Teaching Since: 1987 Dancing Since: 1970

New York

For 20+ years, the streets of New York City have been Gabrielle & Jonathan's laboratory, daily community, and the inspiration that is the 5Rhythms body of work and vision.

Weekly Classes

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Periodic Classes

Upcoming Workshops

Seeds of Compassion

Local Teachers

“Movement is my medium, my medicine, and my metaphor.”

“When I dance, the earth becomes my canvas, my body is like a brush, and my spirit sheds the colors of my soul! Through dance, I create the painting of my life. Transform my joy, suffering and love into art. And this art has become my healing.”

“Movement is the universal language of the heart”

“The dance offers the most alive and creative field in which to connect with self and Spirit: both wildly sacred and blessedly fun!”

“look for me on the shores, washed up in the spirit of stillness -- having given myself to the great wave again and again. having given myself to each moment of each rhythm. ”

“a moving meditation of bawdy, bright & broken prayers; a treasure hunt amongst the bones, the chambers of the heart, for buried wonder, a map to love.”

“Dancing is bigger than the physical body...because you are dancing bigger than that. You are dancing spirit. - Judith Jamison”

“The Universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; Everything that you want, you already are. -Rumi_”

“"We dance to fall in love with the Spirit in all things"-Gabrielle Roth”

“My dance is my connection to the divine.”

“I believe that everyone should have a grounding practice, whether it’s meditating or playing basketball or walking around the neighborhood.”

“Dive deep and take every opportunity to lighten up!”

“Listen to your life, see it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness. Touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments a”

“Dance until the dancer disappears and only the dance remains”

“When you dance, you can really love." - Neil Young”

“this is it....where my heart fell in love with my soul. ”

“"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous." Bill Moyers”

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