
Why do we dance?
Dear Dancers
Friday 5Rhythms® with Bernadette Ryder
Horfield Parish Church Hall, Bristol (weekly)
Mar 28, 2025, 8:30-10:30pm (+café)
Why do we dance? In this affirming BBC podcast, she doesn’t mention 5Rhythms, but she could have done… I so recognised the trust, connection, warmth and appreciation of our common humanity that she describes. Come and get yours on Friday
And you might want to have a listen here:
“Why Do We Do That? – episode 10” (on BBC Sounds).
£££: Can you offer a bed to a ‘Cycles’ dancer?
Dancers visiting Bristol for Cycles seek accommodation April 8-13. Onsite they would pay £30/night; you don’t have to feed them as their booking includes all meals; the days are long, so they won’t be around much. If you live reasonably close or an easy journey to Badminton School (The Downs) and can offer a bed they’d be grateful.
Please let me know ASAP, before their cancellation deadlines for expensive hotels/B&B they may have booked as backup. Thank you.
The Deepening 5 day Waves Intensive

EarthSpirit Centre, nr Glastonbury
June 13-17, 2025 (Fri – Tues)
5 day Residential workshop with Bernadette
A deep dive into the fundamental teaching of the 5Rhythms®:
How to surrender to the flow of our own energy through dance, enabling us to recover that vital spontaneity…
See you on the dance floors.
All Love,
Bernadette & the teams xxx
For your diary:
Friday 5Rhythms in Bristol:
Weekly including:
– Mar 28 onwards – Bernadette
Sunday 5Rhythms in Weston-s-Mare:
Monthly including:
– Apr 13 – Jean Rankin
– May 11 – Jon
Workshops:
– June 13-17 – The Deepening – 5 day Waves Intensive
5 days residential at EarthSpirit Centre nr Glastonbury
Find our more & book online
– Sept 17-21 – Wild at Heart – 5 day Heartbeat workshop
5 days residential at Rhossili, Gower Coast, S Wales
(for your diary – watch this space for details)
See also: