5Rhythms® Dance with Bernadette Ryder

5Rhythms® Dance with Bernadette Ryder

Awaken the Creative Self

A 5-Day, Residential, 5Rhythms® Dance Journey

Unleash your Authentic Creativity

with Bernadette Ryder

Exuberant dancer made of paint with paper, brushes etc

About the workshop

Are you ready to dive into the depths of your creative potential?

Join us for 5 days of transformative movement in this immersive 5Rhythms dance programme, designed to liberate your body, open your heart, and awaken the creative self within.

What You’ll Experience:

Free Your Body – Discover movement as a gateway to unlocking physical freedom and creative flow.
Express Authentically – Dance through self-imposed boundaries and limiting beliefs.
Connect Deeply – Explore the power of community and shared movement.
Awaken Creativity – Tap into limitless inspiration as you discover and recover your innate: poet, musician, artist and more.

5Rhythms dance practice is our gateway, working to free your body and release your creative flow, to:

✨ Engage the intuitive mind to unlock your spontaneous poet
✨ Unlock inhibitions to release your musician: your voice, your music or your beat
✨ Unleash your artist’s visual expression in colour, shape, texture, working in different dimensions
✨ Give form to your creative blocks as masks, allowing them to be understood, embodied and released.

Venue

Just five miles from Glastonbury, on the edge of Compton Dundon village in Somerset, EarthSpirit Centre has won awards as a retreat centre, and as an ethical business.

The centre is situated in a beautiful landscape between two nature reserves; and just two minutes walk from St Andrew’s church, which has within its cemetery a yew tree of 1,800 years old. The seventeenth century farm buildings have been restored and specially converted for use as a venue. They are set within seven acres of fields and gardens.

The complex is based around a converted long barn, with oak timbers, reed torching (lining the inside of the roof) and stone walls. The feeling is medieval, but with modern comforts such as under-floor heating and a large woodstove. The high roof and skylights create a light, airy atmosphere.

For more details see: EarthSpirit Website.

Accommodation

EarthSpirit has a variety of accommodation in different buildings. All is comfortable, warm, and well furnished and maintained.

Options and pricing are as follows:

Standard: included in workshop fee.
(shared accommodation)
Ensuite: +£48

Single rooms:
Standard (single supplt): +£80.00
Ensuite (single supplt): +£128.00

Camping/Campervan: -£44.00

For those familiar with EarthSpirit (or looking on the EarthSpirit website), the standard accommodation is in the Dairy or Barn Dorm, while the ensuite is in Cow-sheds, SkyLights or Cordwood.

Travel

Click on a heading for more info and links:

There are direct trains from Bristol, London and the South-West to nearby Castle Cary (from there either lifts or cabs can be arranged), or to Bridgewater from Wales.
National Rail website.

There are also direct buses from Bristol Temple Meads (for example).

There are flights direct to Bristol Airport from many European cities and even farther afield. (And if you have to fly to one of the London airports, Heathrow is only a 2 hour bus ride away – can be quicker, and certainly easier than getting to central London!) Then train or bus from there.

We can usually arrange car shares from Bristol, and sometimes farther afield 🙂

For more travel info see:
EarthSpirit Website > Getting here

Details

Dates: 12 – 16 February, 2025
Times:
Arrival from 6pm Wed.
Departure by 3:30pm Sun.
There will be a Wed evening session – further details t.b.c.

Venue: EarthSpirit Centre, Compton Dundon, nr Glastonbury
Prices: £650 early bird until Jan 8
* incl food & accommodation *
Booking: £100 deposit payable online
Format: 5 day residential
Level: Waves

Prices, booking & payment

Workshop:
£650 early bird paid in full by Jan 8
£695 full price thereafter.
5RTA members: 15% discount on tuition element.
(=£56.25 off early bird)

Price includes:

  • tuition
  • art materials
  • all meals, teas, coffees etc.
  • 4 nights ‘standard’ accommodation
    (for options see under ‘Venue’)

Booking deposit:
£100 secures your place.
Deposit payable online or by bank transfer.
Balance payable by bank transfer or cash.
Please note that deposits on residentials are usually non-refundable.

  • Please see our full Terms & Conditions here, but with the following amendments:
  • 5 weeks prior to the event or course commencement, twice the deposit (£300) is non-refundable.
  • 2 weeks prior to the event you are liable for the full cost of your place.
  • If we are forced to cancel (e.g. due to covid regulations), moneys paid will be refunded in full, or rolled forward to a future booking (at your option).
Man bursting out of colourful paint with paper and brushes below

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for this workshop, but it is suggested that you have attended at least a few drop-in classes with an accredited 5Rhythms Teacher beforehand. Related ecstatic dance practices such as Movement Medicine, Soul Motion and Open Floor are also helpful, as are other practices which bring focus to movement, attention and breath, such as yoga.

Further details

General information applicable to all our classes and workshops: (click/tap on heading to expand)

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:

  • 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.

“Learn to enjoy the process of being a creative channel and to surrender your need to control the result.”
– Julia Cameron

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    5Rhythms® Teacher Training

    This workshop fulfils the requirements for a 4 day Waves Workshop prerequisite (24 Waves hours) for those on the Teaching path – please let us know if this is your intention, so we can ensure that everything is correctly documented, and that you are aware of any specific detailed requirements.

    NOTE: If you are looking to complete the 5 day Waves prerequisite, do contact us to pre-register for The Deepening, a popular residential workshop with Bernadette from June 13-17, 2025, also at EarthSpirit Centre – full details and booking will be available soon.

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