5Rhythms® Dance with Bernadette Ryder

5Rhythms® Dance with Bernadette Ryder

Let There Be Love

A 5Rhythms® Heartbeat™ weekend
with Bernadette Ryder

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What if love is not something we seek, but a truth that emerges when fear loosens its grip, when anger is met with compassion, when grief is given room to flow, and joy is freely shared?

Fear can become courage.
Anger can soften into forgiveness.
Grief can open into acceptance.
Joy can blossom into generosity.
Compassion can move us into wholehearted action.

Every human being has this challenge and this potential…

We each carry stories of love and loss, hope and heartbreak, connection and separation. These are not obstacles to the dance – they are the dance.

The Heartbeat map reminds us that every emotion carries a gift. Nothing needs to be fixed or pushed away. When we welcome what is here and give it space to move through the body, we discover that our darkest places can become gateways to our greatest strength.

Over these two days, we will explore the landscapes of the emotional body with curiosity, kindness, and courage. Together we will move, breathe, witness, and be witnessed. We will listen for the wisdom beneath our feelings and allow the Rhythms to guide us towards greater presence, authenticity, and freedom.

Love is not a destination. It is what remains when we stop resisting the movement of life. Through the intelligence of the dance we will practise the art of becoming more fully, fiercely and tenderly human.

Let there be love.

The Purpose of the 5Rhythms Heartbeat™ map is to release the heart from its history – the old feelings that have been locked in our limbs or frozen in our chest – beginning to shake them loose and release an expanded emotional maturity and spontaneity.

As we become comfortable with allowing and giving expression to feelings, neither getting attached, nor denying them, we discover how to transform the energies of the heart, and the power of a heart fully able to feel and respond with love.

“Feelings are the language of the heart, but we have silenced them. We talk about feelings, we think about feelings, but when we actually feel them, we get so scared we immediately shove them back into the deepest chambers of our hearts. Yet none of us wants to be numb. We long to connect. We long to be real. We long to be intimate.”
~ Gabrielle Roth from “Connections”

Stay in your heart and I’ll know where to find you.”
Gabrielle Roth

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Stay in your heart and I’ll know where to find you.”
Gabrielle Roth

Bernadette Ryder 5 RHythms Teacher

Bernadette Ryder has been teaching the 5Rhythms® dance practice since 1998 – and she did the first Hearbeat 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.

Teacher Training & CPD

  • This workshop constitutes 2.5 days Heartbeat for TT prerequisites.
  • For info for 5RTA CPD requirements, Bernadette completed her Waves teacher training in 1998.

Details

When: Sept 18-20, 2026
Fri night: 8:30-10:30pm (tbc)
Sat & Sun: 10am – 5pm (tbc)
(please be on time! see ‘Further Details’)

Venues:
Sat/Sun: Kingswood Estate, Bristol BS15
Fri evening: Horfield Parish Church Hall, Bristol BS7
(Details below – please use the map links.)
Prices:

  • Early Bird: £145 (until Aug 23)
  • Full price: £165
  • (5Rhythms teachers 15% off:
    £123.25/£140.25)

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Further details

Here’s some general information applicable to all our classes and workshops:
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5Rhythms is both a very ‘free’ individual practice which offers significant permission – while simultaneously being a group/community practice which calls for consideration and respect for the group process.

Bring & wear

  • Loose clothing in which to move freely, and have a good sweat! – layers are good;
  • Something warm to put on or wrap round you when not dancing;
  • A water bottle;
  • Your curiosity!
    also…
  • Please don’t wear any kind of fragrance – the dance is an environment that heightens allergies and other sensitivities.
  • For safety, bags, valuables etc may be brought into the hall/studio.

Some dos & don’ts

  • FEET:
    Many find bare feet easy and comfortable – some prefer Dance Sneakers which prevent sore feet and give support to arches, knees and ankles;
  • Other shoes are not recommended: trainers have too much grip so are hard on knees.
  • Don’t dance in socks – they slip too easily!

“Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?” – Gabrielle Roth

This is a meditation/embodiment practice which has clear boundaries which need to be honoured if the full potential of this work is to be achieved.

Please:

  • Don’t use phones/tablets, even on silent – if you need to check on a babysitter or something, take devices outside the hall/studio (or, at Horfield, outside the building) and check them there.
  • Don’t talk – words take us straight back into our heads!
  • Arrive on time – the warm-up, including the initial ‘unguided’ warm-up is an important part of the process. The doors will be locked and there is no admittance 15 minutes after the start.
  • Stay until the end both for yourself, and for the group – if you leave early you will disrupt the collective energy and your own process will be incomplete.

Open/Drop-in Classes

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Workshops/Courses

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Our Venues

We shall be dancing at two great venues – one on Friday night, and another for the rest of the weekend. Please click/tap below to see further details, directions, and map links:

Creative Youth Network (Studio 1)
20 Old School House, Britannia Road, Bristol BS15 8DB
Free parking onsite (under 20 mins drive from centre)
Buses to Two Mile Court/Grantham Rd, Two Mile Hill
(43/45 from Cabot Circus)
(local map below)
[Google map]

Creative Youth Network Kingswood - Studio 1

There is a wonderful British/Thai cafe attached – we are currently in discussion with them re opening hours. This will be advised in your welcome email shortly before the workshop.

(More detailed ‘how to get there’ info here is also included with your booking confirmation – please read carefully and bring with you if you have not danced at this venue before!)

Horfield Parish Church HALL
43, Wellington Hill,
Horfield, Bristol, BS7 8ST
[Google map]
(just off Gloucester Road – please refer to the map, and be sure to come to the hall not the church, which is on a different street, with no signage!)

The hall is in a beautiful green and spacious area – peaceful with mature trees, and plenty of fresh air. It is spacious with a lovely high ceiling, plenty of good ventilation, and a really nice wooden dance floor.

The first session of the workshop is to join our Friday night drop-in class in Horfield. Please note that this is part of the process, not an ‘optional extra’ – please enquire before booking if, for any reason, you are unable to make this session.

There is a small car park and ample free on-street parking. Please be sure to come to the hall not the church! 

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