The 5Rhythms® comprise a simple movement practice designed to release the dance that lives in everybody, no matter what your shape, size, age, limitations and experience. To find your dance is to find yourself at your most fluid and creative level. While the practice itself is the essence of simplicity, it has the power to catalyse deep healing and creative expression. The primary teaching of this work is: if you put the psyche in motion, it will heal itself.
The five rhythms are Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. They come together to create the Wave, a movement meditation practice. Rather than having steps to follow, each rhythm is a different energy field in which you find your own expression and choreography, thereby stretching your imagination as well as your body. Each rhythm is a teacher and you can expect to meet different and sometimes unknown aspects of yourself as your dance unfolds and your practice of the rhythms deepens over time.
The rhythms are the foundation of Gabrielle’s body of work, a series of healing maps for the body, heart, mind, soul and spirit that provide a lifetime of self- discovery and a path to awakening. The 5Rhythms® practice starts you on that journey and is the place to which you will always return.
The five rhythms are Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. They come together to create the Wave, a movement meditation practice. Rather than having steps to follow, each rhythm is a different energy field in which you find your own expression and choreography, thereby stretching your imagination as well as your body. Each rhythm is a teacher and you can expect to meet different and sometimes unknown aspects of yourself as your dance unfolds and your practice of the rhythms deepens over time.
The rhythms are the foundation of Gabrielle’s body of work, a series of healing maps for the body, heart, mind, soul and spirit that provide a lifetime of self- discovery and a path to awakening. The 5Rhythms® practice starts you on that journey and is the place to which you will always return.
Open Floor is a dance practice providing a container to experience our feelings and thoughts in movement. The emphasis is to awaken our sensate experience, emotional intelligence, rational skills and our mindful, imaginative and spiritual awareness. We learn how to listen to our inner movement cycle, and be in touch with our sacred circle.
Exploring the essential movement language that we all speak on the dance floor - our common ground - Open Floor is a context for movement, a path to experiencing oneself in all dimensions of embodiment, and an impulse for movement, expression and creativity.
Using Open Floor Movement Practice, we enter the body and dance space through a doorway, opening a world of sensations, feelings, thoughts, images, intuitions and prayers. We let this world move us, nourishing our hunger for solitude, connection, belonging and spirit. Each new dance is a new experience that enriches us, weaving all dimensions of embodiment and hunger to create a tapestry of life in the moment, through our dance.
Exploring the essential movement language that we all speak on the dance floor - our common ground - Open Floor is a context for movement, a path to experiencing oneself in all dimensions of embodiment, and an impulse for movement, expression and creativity.
Using Open Floor Movement Practice, we enter the body and dance space through a doorway, opening a world of sensations, feelings, thoughts, images, intuitions and prayers. We let this world move us, nourishing our hunger for solitude, connection, belonging and spirit. Each new dance is a new experience that enriches us, weaving all dimensions of embodiment and hunger to create a tapestry of life in the moment, through our dance.
What happens on the dance floor?
In every class or workshop, there is always a wide range of experience, from those who have danced for years, to those who try it for the first time. There are no steps in either 5Rhythms or Open Floor. These are practices designed to support you find your own dance. It is an opportunity to drop in, meet your experience and move through or with it. In movement we make visible what is invisible in us. There are no demands on getting it right, there are no right or wrong ways. It is always just the dance.
You are different every time you walk into the room, so is the group and so is your teacher. Therefore, each class holds completely unique possibilities.
You are different every time you walk into the room, so is the group and so is your teacher. Therefore, each class holds completely unique possibilities.