DESCRIPTION

A Mirrors level workshop founded in the 5Rhythms movement practice

Group processes & Individual attention led by Jan Redsted

This practice emphasizes a spiritual, collective approach, rooted in indigenous traditions rather than a therapeutic, individualistic, or Western framework.

Some of the elements we explore may feel familiar if you’ve worked with Open Floor or with the workshops once called Perspectives. 

Open Floor was originally developed and explored within the 5Rhythms framework, particularly as part of the Mirrors-level curriculum, before evolving into a separate modality under its own leadership.

I want to be clear that this is not Open Floor work, and I am not teaching under that certification. This practice was shaped by earlier experiences, but it now follows a different path—one that is spiritual, collective, and rooted in the original cosmology of 5Rhythms as I experienced it.

It operates within circles, emphasizing shared experience rather than individual display and performer/audience dynamic.

The person in the middle of the circle is in service to the collective process, rather than working on themselves individually. The group is within a field that is both created and affected by the energy of everyone in the circle.

Rather than seeking solutions, healing, or redemption in the individual, the focus is on achieving harmony within the collective field. 

This field can be felt, moving something in all participants simultaneously. - a space where all can feel and take part of its movement and its transformative power.

This practice is ritual rather than medicine. The circle represents what comes close to the concept where life is seen as a paradox: everything is in constant movement, nothing is fixed or permanent, yet there is an essence and core that remains unchanged.

Indigenous traditions speak of us as “double beings.” One part lives in separation, threat, and competition. The other in unity, harmony, and shared belonging. This paradox is mirrored in the medicine wheel—a circle in motion whose center remains still.

Here, in this circle of movement, we gather around that center of stillness and unity. We are both, and yet one.

Come together to witness and hold space for our shared humanity.