5Rhythms Dance for Everyone.

Beginners and Experienced dancers Welcome

5Rhythms is a free form dance of deep surrender, a moving prayer, a medicinal prescription of furious dancing for these graphic times.
Founded by Gabrielle Roth, 5Rhythms® is a kickass dynamic moving meditation that journeys through a mandala map called the Wave-Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, Stillness

May 7 & 14
6.30-8.30pm
$25
Araluen Dance Studio rear of Arts Centre

About 5Rhythms® - Created by Gabrielle Roth and practiced for decades by tens of thousands worldwide, 5Rhythms is a philosophy, perspective, performance art and a dynamic movement practice rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself. Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor, reaching across all languages, cultures and age groups to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action. Wherever the 5Rhythms are practiced, a community is born to dance, to sweat, to change, to support, and to provide a safe space for each of us to shatter the ego's hold and awaken the juicy, unpredictable, fascinating, edge-walking, rock star part of ourselves that yearns to be free. Creativity. Connection. Community.
for more info on 5Rhythms please visit www.5Rhythms.com

THINGS TO KNOW:
5Rhythms is a Kickass Moving Meditation
5Rhythms is:
PHONE FREE
If you must check your phone, please leave the hall and do so in the Foyer
SHOE FREE- usually
Due to Covid soft shoes or socks with grips need to be worn
CHAT FREE
The Dance Floor is a sacred silent space. Please talk in the foyer before or after class.
Your silence on the dance floor makes all the difference
SUBSTANCE FREE
We get high on being alive!
JUDGEMENT FREE
All people are welcome. We all evolve in our own timing
WHAT TO EXPECT:
As you enter the dance space, most likely the teacher will be playing a Wave for you to warm up to. This is a time for you to warm up from the inside out. Take some time to tune into your body, surrender the day and allow your body to guide you with what it needs as you transition through the 5Rhythms, Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, Stillness
After the warm up, the teacher will guide you through the 5Rhythms and more Waves will be danced. Please pace yourself where you need to be. You know your body best.
Dance YOUR dance, for you, your body holds the medicine you need.

The space held is sacred and safe.
This is an inclusive event open to all.
LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, Disability friendly space
Mob always dance free- no cost

We acknowledge the First Nations Peoples of this Country and their connection with land, sea, community and story. We offer our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land. We work humbly and respectfully with the land as teacher and ally towards better listening and caring. Personal Space must be respected at all times. Touch always requires consent.
This is a clothes on practice.Covid and Well-Being Safety:
Do not attend if unwell or exposed to someone with Covid. You will be issued a full refund.

Rivka Worth is a certified 5Rhythms teacher since 2014 offering classes and workshops in Melbourne, South Australia and Alice Springs. To go on her mail list for upcoming classes, workshops and events please subscribe via https://www.rivkaworth.com
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Rivka Honeybee Worth | Naarm, Melbourne, AUS
At 19 I was thrown into facilitating community dance for young people with disabilities and in my 50's, I continue to enjoy supporting a broad diversity of people to move and express freely in their bodies. My teaching has moved thousands of different people in health, justice, education, arts, remote and environmental settings. Dance floors range from inner city halls, leafy forest beds, community gymnasiums to red desert earth. My qualifications include three decades of community dance leadership, including BA Dance Uni SA, Certified 5Rhythms® teacher & Certified The 360 Emergence facilitator, Somatic Movement Educator, (BMC) Certified The Work that Reconnects Facilitator & Futuring Trainer. I have worked extensively in Community Dance, Community Cultural Development, Improvisation Practice, Somatic Practice and as a professional Choreographer, Artistic Director and Production Manager. I specialise in Ecosomatics and in Ceremonial Dance, where sacred connection and transformation are individually and collectively embodied. I focus on cultivating a symbiotic relationship with Nature through Eco Soma™, Ecosomatic practice.
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