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Bernadette Ryder
5 Rhythms in Bristol with Bernadette Ryder

Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® is a map of how energy flows – through the body, through our lives. 5 Rhythms is a movement meditation practice, an ecstatic dance, with no steps to learn, no one right way, just fantastic music that keeps calling you to dance, and guidance to take you beyond inhibition into expansion.

About Bernadette

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Flowing

first of the 5 Rhythms

Flowing is the state of being receptive and flexible. Teaching us to free the body, connect with the earth and experience the power of being. When this energy becomes stuck we experience inertia, an inability to get going and resistance to change.

 

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Staccato

second of the 5 Rhythms

Staccato is the rhythm of action. It brings clarity and direction and establishes boundaries. This central teaching of staccato is the expression of the heart, how to free the emotions to experience the power of loving. When stuck this energy becomes rigid and we become inflexible and controlling.

 

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Chaos

third of the 5 Rhythms

Chaos is the dance of surrender. The practice of riding life’s unpredictable and ever changing waves, whilst holding a deep sense of purpose, presence, clarity and balance.   It enables us to release from the clutter of our thoughts, teaching how to empty the mind, open to intuition and the power of knowing the self. The shadow of chaos is a loss of clarity and balance. The stuck energy leaves us ungrounded, confused and unable to cope with life.

 

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Lyrical

fourth of the 5 Rhythms

The dance of Lyrical holds a lightness of being. In this energy field the maturity and responsibility of the adult merges with the creativity and playfulness of the child, engendering an on-going passion for life. It is the expression of the soul, which manifests as we learn to bring body, heart and mind into alignment, enabling us to experience the power of insight. Its shadows disconnect us from reality, leaving us spaced-out, with big dreams but no capacity of manifestation.

 

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Stillness

fifth of the 5 Rhythms

From Lyrical, we drop down into the deep meditation of Stillness. When this energy becomes stuck, we feel deadened and numb. But when moving fully it takes us to the stillpoint at the centre of our being, revealing our unity with the infinite and offering the experience of the power of healing.

 

5 Rhythms Ecstatic Dance Practice

A dancing yoga and profound meditation practice, created by Gabrielle Roth that presents a radically holistic, and effective, approach to transformational work.

The 5Rhythms® is a simple, powerful moving meditation that anyone – of any age, size, or physical ability - can practice. There are no steps to follow, no choreography to learn, no way to do it wrong. The only requirement is a body that is still breathing, a heart that is still beating, and mind that is still curious!

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5 Rhythms in Bristol – News/Events

Journey to the Heart - 5 Rhythms Year Group, Wales UK, 2020
Upcoming and recent events
  • “Journey to the Heart” 2020
    5 Rhythms Year-Group
  • Sweat Your Prayers, Friday Nov 29 (drop-in); & heads up: Solstice Celebration
  • Bernadette’s back – This Friday – Nov 22
  • What’s so special about Tuesdays?

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5 Rhythms in Verse

We have come to be danced
not the pretty dance ---
not the nice invisible, self-conscious shuffle,
but the matted hair flying, voodoo mama
shaman shakin’ ancient bones dance,
the strip us from our casings, return our wings ---
the shed dead cells and slip into
the luminous skin of love dance. ----
(The) Free Free Free dance
the everyone can come to our heaven dance.
We have come to be danced
 
- Jewel Mathieson

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