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Created by Gabrielle Roth , and practiced by a global community, 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. Through mindful, embodied, conscious movement, the cosmology that is the 5Rhythms® keeps us curious and alive to the conversation of life, of living, of dying, of the cycles in everything, inside and out. It tunes us into the songs of our bones, the stories in our muscles, the surge of vitality in our blood, the cosmic lineage in our cells and the pounding knocking-on-our-door- through- the- soles- of- our- feet call to remember. Remember who we are, and our birthright to Freedom. The map of the 5Rhythms® through the Wave is an arc of energy through states of being we call Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness Freeing the BODY, Expressing the HEART, Emptying the MIND, Awakening the SOUL, and Embodying the SPIRIT. The map invites us to adopt the perspective of the magician or the shapeshifter in being with our experience, in relation to others on and off the dancefloor and in this dance with life; to stay curious, to get playful and creative with our way of seeing and being; close in and eagle vision all at once on all planes of consciousness. We move with what is here, held through the container of the Wave, with or without music, welcoming all that we are in each moment. The 5Rhythms® calls us deeper in, through the body-mind-heart, to transform our suffering into art, as Gabrielle would say. It calls us to embrace the cyclical nature in everything on this grand life-stage we find ourselves in; all the parts we play, have played, will play; how it all forms one big beautiful interwoven portrait of patterns we begin to recognise; the cosmic joke of it all and the breathtaking sheer rawness in our humanity interconnected with all living beings and every living phenomena that exists. The 5Rhythms® as a practice, a perspective, a philosophy, a community, an anchor is a bedrock in my life upon which I stand. And now, as a Certified, Accredited 5Rhythms® Teacher, and as an Eternal dancer, I look forward to welcoming all your dancing feet. “Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know.” - Gabrielle Roth