Our bones, breath, and muscles hold vital questions about who we are, where we have come from, what we need, what we fear, and what we have to give. When we dance the 5Rhythms we engage these questions through movement, expanding beyond our separate sense of self and our personal life stories toward a physical experience of ecstatic Oneness. This Oneness is a collective Spirit, made up of each one of us, the lives we lead day to day, and the greater life force that runs through us all.
Our personal contribution to the group field may be both conscious and unconscious, beneficial and destructive. The Open Floor, in combination with the 5Rhythms movement practice, gives us a way to become more aware of our part in the whole. When we trust the language of movement to articulate subtle states of being which may be too delicate to express through words alone, our process becomes poetry in motion.
The patterns and emotions of our humanity are organically balanced, regulated, and shared by the communities we find ourselves in. These processes become exceptionally clear in our community of dancers on the Open Floor. Through the Open Floor structure, which contains elements of individual sessions and group process, what is inner becomes outer for all to see, support, and respond to. We witness ourselves as we are mirrored by others, embracing and embodying our own shapes and movements with the support of the group. Collectively and individually, we allow each and every part that emerges to move and then we offer it all to the spirit of the dance, releasing it back to the One.
This work was created by Dr Andrea Juhan a 5Rhythms teacher with over 25 years experience and a gifted psychotherapist and teacher. Alain studied with her for many years and assisted her in her Undercurrents programme where the Open Floor is the predominant tool of exploration. He has been authorised by her to give Open Floor workshops, he has to date run 3 year long Ongoing groups. This work is particularly suited for students with a strong grounding in the 5rhythms who have an interest in process, self development and meditative enquiry.