Expression and Transformation through the 5 Rhythms
THE POWER OF BEING
MOVES INTO CONSCIOUSNESS
5 RHYTHMS ONGOING CLOSED GROUP
This Ongoing Group is for those who love to dance the 5 Rhythms. It is both an opportunity to make a deep study of this dance form, and a contemplation and reconnection with ones own beliefs values and purpose in life. This practice offers great potential benefits to emotional, mental, physical, psychological and spiritual health. Applied study can be truly transformational.
Through detailed and careful attention to the movement form of each Rhythm we explore how energy can move in a variety of ways in us, shaking up old patterns, freeing and realigning trapped vitality and so unlocking our fullest potential. This continuum of exploratory movement invigorates the psyche so that we engage with life more fully and creatively.
The group will dance and study together for four modules over ten months looking in depth at the form, expression and territory of each individual rhythm through the maps provided by Gabrielle Roth’s deep body of work coupled with our own experience and carefully shared observation.
In each module we pay precise attention to the physical form of the 5 Rhythms, the quality of movement, breath and relationship to space, together with the elemental and basic developmental map of the rhythm we are focussing on.
In the first module we study the dance of Flow deepening our trust of the Earth and the material of our own bodies.
The second meeting focuses on Staccato; the dance of personal truth and authentic communication. Working to feed the heart Fire that burns in all living things.
From the foundations that we have laid in these first two parts we engage with the dances of Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. Whilst the Wave is a continuum of moving energy, these last three rhythms are the transformational gateways. We will work with them and with their associated elements over the last three modules.
Participants will be working within a committed group, closed to all others for the duration of the course.
The only prerequisite is the agreement, desire, focus, and clear intention to study the 5 Rhythms through guided movement practice for the entire duration of the course.
Such groups are a melting pot of deliberate and attentive shared intention. Personal stories; our individual experience, history and own felt identity is the raw material for self – healing and deep learning. The work is alchemical. Together we dance, we sweat, we witness, we pool our creativity and intention to realise the souls own deep knowledge and desires. This process often catalyses change in peoples lives supported as it is by the pooled empathy and focus of group connection and purpose.
This work can be deeply healing but is not therapy.
Students are strongly recommended to secure or establish the support structures within their own lives as it is a condition of participation that they take responsibility for their own physical and mental health and well being before signing up for intense work such as this. Having attended to this the group itself is often a source of great joy, friendship, learning, realisation, shared vulnerability and mutual support. The dancing of Waves is often exhilarating, inspiring and deeply nurturing.
To see when are next offering this workshop check the calendar or contact us.