💜 Nurturing Our Hearts – never a better time than now
“Let’s stand up and Love through the confusion”
~Directions in Groove, “Dig Deeper”
How’s your heart? When so many heartbreaking things surround us, taking time to care for ourselves can feel like a luxury. Yet if we don’t tend to our own hearts, our capacity to care, respond and make a difference can become depleted — in our own lives, for those around us, and therefore in the wider world.
The 5Rhythms Heartbeat™ map invites us to free the heart from its history — old feelings held in the body, locked in our limbs or frozen in our chest. Through movement, we begin to loosen what has become stuck, opening the way to greater emotional freedom and spontaneity.
As we learn to let feelings move through us — neither holding onto them nor pushing them away — we discover their transformative power: fear into courage, anger into forgiveness, grief into acceptance, joy into generosity, and compassion into love.
Beneath them all, we discover a heart that is free to feel — and free to respond with love.
This month there are two opportunities to dive into this beautiful work with Bernadette — and we have spaces on both:
Let There Be Love is a weekend Heartbeat workshop a deep dive into this map, September 18th–20th.
And this Thursday we begin a new term of the Rhythm Circle closed group, where we will begin to explore this territory in community.
Listen to the call of your heart.
Come and dance, exploring the landscapes of the emotional body with curiosity, kindness and courage. Together we will move, breathe, witness and be witnessed — listening for the wisdom within our feelings and allowing the Rhythms to guide us towards greater presence, authenticity and freedom.
We look forward so much to dancing with you soon.
Much Love
Bernadette, Jon, Dan & team xxx
For more info, please see below, or call Jon on +44 (0)7970 069 256
image ©2026 Bernadette Ryder
Let There Be Love
A 5Rhythms® Heartbeat™ weekend
with Bernadette Ryder
Bristol, Sept 18-20, 2026
Fri night: 8:30-10:30pm
Horfield Parish Church Hall, Bristol BS7
Sat & Sun: 10am – 5pm
Kingswood Estate, Bristol BS15
Price: £165
Prerequisites:
Some 5Rhythms Waves experience is recommended.
5R Teachers & Teacher Training ‘credits’:
This workshop counts as 2.5 days Heartbeat (=15hrs) towards the prerequisites for the 5R Waves Teacher Training; Qualified 5Rhythms Teachers: 15% discount.
Rhythm Circle
weekly closed group
Sept 10 – Dec 17, 2026
(15 sessions, no break)
7:30pm – 10:00pm
St Michael’s Parish Hall,
Park Ln, Bristol BS2 8BE
Price (for 15 sessions):
£217.50 / (£172.50 concession)
plus £40 off workshop Let There Be Love
(discount code issued on Rhythm Circle signup)
Bernadette Ryder has been teaching the 5Rhythms® dance practice since 1998 — and she did the first Heartbeat Advanced Teacher Training in 2006. She is also a certified Yoga Teacher and an experienced Counselling Therapist. She is currently a student of the meditation practices of Dr Joe Dispenza.