5Rhythms® Dance with Bernadette Ryder
Cycles, Bristol 2025
Residential 5Rhythms® Workshop
with Tammy Burstein
summary • about • prices, booking & payment • venue • meals • travel • prerequisites • FAQ
Connected to past, present in now, open to possibility.
“Life is a journey. Its route is essentially the same for everyone, even though we start in different settings and with different baggage.” – Gabrielle Roth
Bristol
Wed April 9 - Sun April 13, 2025
Location: Badminton Drama & Dance Studio, Badminton School, Westbury Road, Bristol, BS9 3BA
Times: 10am Wed – 5pm Sun
– for full details see ‘Workshop Schedule’ below
Prices: £750 early bird until Feb 9th, £785 thereafter
(including accomm & meals)
Booking: £150 deposit, online
Teacher: Tammy Burstein
Format: 5 day fully residential
Level: Cycles
Prerequisite: 1 Heartbeat™ weekend workshop
(upcoming UK Heartbeats)
Bristol is very well connected, internationally and within the UK, and is compact and easy to get around.
Bristol Airport has direct low-cost flights to a wide range of cities in Europe and beyond and, if you can’t fly direct…
Heathrow Airport is only a 2 hour bus ride away (it can be as quick as getting in to Central London!)
Temple Meads Rail Station has regular fast trains to London, and direct routes to many places in the UK, including the North of England and Scotland.
About the workshop
We are not just one but all the stages of life. What has been, what is, and what will be is alive in our bodies, hearts, and minds. In Cycles we give ourselves the opportunity to fully embody them all, from birth to death, by moving with the shapes, the breath, the rhythms of a lifetime.
The Cycles map is a journey of endless investigation – one in which we create the opportunity to meet and melt old wounds, move and be moved by the medicine of forgiveness, and explore and expand the possibility and potential of being a wholistic being.
Whether young or older, your first or your latest Cycles experience, this workshop is for every human being with stories to express, realities to accept, ancestral wisdom to uncover, and nascent wonders to recover. Join us as we grow together.
Tammy started practicing the 5Rhythms® in the 20th century, emerged as a 5Rhythms® teaching at the dawn of the 21st, and has been living them since before she knew they existed. She is an urban life form who made New York City her home base and soul inspiration until 2020, and the mountains of NY State her continuing teacher since then.
An itinerant wonderer, she is a 5Rhythms Global and 5Rhythms Teacher Training teaching staff member, teaching the Waves (2001), Heartbeat (2010) and Cycles (2015) maps locally and globally. She has made her living as a dancer, a lighting designer, a travel agent, and a librarian. She creates her life dancing the 5Rhythms®.
Bristol is very well connected, within the UK and internationally, and is easy to get around.
Bristol Airport has direct low-cost flights to a wide range of cities in Europe and beyond and, if you can’t fly direct…
Heathrow Airport is only a 2 hour bus ride away (it can be as quick as getting in to Central London!)
Temple Meads Rail Station has regular fast trains to London, and direct routes to many places in the UK, including the North of England and Scotland.
“Tammy is an exceptional woman, teacher and DJ both on and off of the dance floor. I encourage you all to experience the soft, wild dancing space that she has created.”
— Jonathan Horan, Executive Director , 5Rhythms Global
Prices, booking & payment
Workshop
Price (incl accommodation & meals)
£750 (early bird, until Feb 9)
£785 full price thereafter.
See below for optional extras.
Planned timing (core sessions):
Wed 10am – 5:30pm
Thu 10am – 5:30pm
Fri 10am – 6pm
Sat 10am – 5:30pm
Sun 11am – 5pm
We are also planning early morning yoga sessions (optional; with invited teachers, all 5Rhythms teachers/dancers), and evening sessions with Tammy (details t.b.a.).
Your accommodation includes Tuesday night – you can check in from 4pm, but please note Tuesday dinner (6pm) is extra, must be booked in advance, and must be served by 6:30pm.
(Tuesday check-in, Wednesday start and Sunday finish are definite, so you can make travel plans on that basis. All other timings are indicative only.)
5RTA discount: 15% reduction (on tuition element = £67.50 off early bird)
for teacher/spaceholder members:
£682.50 early bird
£712.25 thereafter.
Accommodation & Meals
This is a residential workshop. The accommodation is onsite on a beautiful campus, in twin and single rooms.
Click below for options and prices:
| #nights | arrive | depart | cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| included in all bookings: | |||
| 5 nights | Tues | Sun | [included] |
| additional options: | |||
| Single supplement (your own room) | £ 55.00 | ||
| +1 night | Sun night (incl dinner & b/fast) | £ 70.00 | |
| +1 dinner | Tues night (if you arrive before 6:30pm – must be booked in advance.) | £ 10.00 | |
PRICES INCLUDE: 5 nights accommodation, Tuesday-Saturday nights inclusive; all meals; security access badge.
Your deposit guarantees your place on the workshop and your accommodation, provided we receive your balance payment by the due date.
Please be sure to read the Cancellation Policy below.
[May now be possible, primarily for local dancers – the cost reduction is small – call Jon on 07970 069 256 to discuss before booking]
Standard workshop price includes 3 good meals per day, from breakfast Wednesday to dinner Sunday.
If you arrive early enough on Tuesday, do join us for dinner (+£10). The kitchen closes at 6:45pm sharp and this must be booked in advance.
*Note: Available provided at least 20 people book it – which should be no problem – and we’ll confirm nearer the time.
Most special diets can be catered for (see booking form). There’s plenty of variety, including a salad bar and pasta bar as well as the main hot meals.
Note: If you attended GSB in 2023, please note that this time the quality will be consistent throughout!
There will also be a “5Rhythms Café” upstairs at the dance studio itself, for teas and snacks and chillout space throughout the workshop.
See also ‘Venue‘.
Changes to your booking:
Please book carefully – changes before March 9 will attract a £10 admin fee; changes after that date are subject to acceptance by the venue, and a £25 admin fee.
(see also ‘cancellation policy’ below).
Booking & payment
Booking deposit: £150 (online or by bank transfer) secures your place. If you prefer to pay in full upfront 🙂 please choose the “Offline Payment” option when booking, and we will send you bank transfer details.
Click below for full details and to book online:
The balance of your booking (tuition, food and accommodation) is payable, by bank transfer (or cash), by March 9th*, or immediately on receipt of bank details, if you book after that date. Earlier payment is always appreciated.
Full details will be in your booking confirmation email. For international payments we recommend Wise.com.
For security, you may wish to confirm the account number(s) with Jon by SMS/text on +447970069256 before making payment.
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*To qualify for the ‘early bird’ discount, we must have received payment in full by this date, otherwise ‘full price’ applies to your balance due. If we have not received your balance payment, your place may be offered to someone on the waiting list.
Cancellation Policy – Workshop Fee:
(PLEASE READ CAREFULLY)
If you cancel your workshop booking:
- A full refund, less a £40 admin fee, will be issued if notice is received by Mar 9, 2025.
- A full refund, less a £100 admin fee, will be issued if notice is received by Mar 26, 2025.
- A 50% refund* will be issued if notice is received by Apr 2, 2025.
- No refund will be issued for cancellations after Apr 2, 2025.
(a discretionary 75% refund* MAY be issued if the workshop is at capacity, and a replacement attendee registered.)
* less an appropriate admin fee
Cancellation Policy – ‘extras’:
(PLEASE READ CAREFULLY)
If you cancel your workshop booking:
- The above policy simply applies to your entire booking.
- If you keep your workshop booking but cancel any accommodation/meal extras, the above policy applies separately to those additional elements: between Mar 9 and Mar 26, the deduction will be 50%, after Mar 26, there is no refund for cancelled ‘extras’.
- Modifications: Simple changes (e.g. to dietary requirements only) can be made to your accommodation booking free of charge until 1 month before, but any change that involves significant work will incur a £25 admin fee.
If we are forced to cancel:
(PLEASE READ CAREFULLY)
If we are forced to cancel/postpone this workshop for whatever reason, then we will refund participants 100% of their workshop fees (tuition, food & accommodation). Please note that we are not able to cover any costs incurred by participants for transportation or accommodations, so please organize your travel and travel insurance with this in mind.
Accident/Injury/Medical conditions:
It is your responsibility to ensure that you are of a sufficient standard of fitness and ability to partake in the event or course. Please speak to us if you are unsure about this, and advise us of any medical condition which might be in any way relevant (you will receive a form requesting this and other relevant info during the month before the workshop). We will not be responsible for any accident or injury, whether at the venue for indoor sessions or elsewhere on the site, or in the residential accommodation (save where it can be shown to result from our negligence).
We cannot accept any responsibility for loss or theft of property or valuables whilst you attend the event or course.
We recommend that you consider taking out your own insurance to cover these eventualities.
Safeguarding:
The venue is on a school campus, and there will be students around, attending another event. You will be required to agree to basic ‘safeguarding’ principles – primarily not conversing significantly with anyone you encounter onsite who may be under 18.
IMPORTANT: Your booking is with 5Rhythms Global (US), through Jon Ralls (UK) and subject to these terms and conditions not those for In-Rhythm/Bernadette Ryder’s workshops shown elsewhere on this website. Publicity via this website and mailing lists kindly provided by In-Rhythm, and creates no contract with or legal liability of any kind by In-Rhythm/Bernadette Ryder.
Prerequisites
1 weekend 5Rhythms Heartbeat™ workshop.
This must be with a Heartbeat-accredited 5Rhythms Teacher and completed beforehand.
(upcoming UK Heartbeats)
5Rhythms® Teacher Training
This workshop counts towards the Teacher Training Cycles prerequisite, for those on the Teaching path. Please note that, in line with 5Rhythms Global policy, teacher discounts are only available to qualified members of 5RTA, not to those completing training prerequisites.
Venue
Drama & Dance Studio
Badminton School, Westbury Road, Bristol BS9 3BA – a beautiful venue in its own peaceful grounds.
For local bus routes see ‘Other local info/resources’ below.
The studio is spacious with an excellent floor, all recently refurbished for dance and theatre teaching – shown here set up for a previous 5Rhythms workshop in 2023.
This workshop is fully residential in the school’s ‘sixth form’ block – so all accommodation is in single and twin rooms (no dorms!)
- Shared accommodation:
Accommodation is in twin or single rooms, each with a washbasin, and with plenty of shower rooms. - Room allocations will be male/female/non-binary – if non-binary, please indicate preferred share on the booking form. Those choosing to stay on Sunday night will be kept close together, so that other parts of the block can be vacated for cleaning.
- Choosing sharers: If there is somebody with whom you wish to share a room, we need to hear separately from both parties. Please ask your ‘roomie’ to contact Jon to confirm.
- Single rooms: Single rooms may be requested, on payment of a single supplement of £55.
- Local dancers: Staying and eating together onsite is an important part of the deeper process of a residential workshop. If ‘non-residential’ places are offered, they will still include all meals (see also FAQ below).
Meals
Your workshop fee includes all meals.
The catering is varied and flexible, but should you wish to supplement the food provided, local options are somewhat limited, but there are cafés and a deli about 8 minutes walk away, and a Waitrose supermarket 15 minutes away.
Meals will be served in the onsite refectory. The standard is high, and we have discussed with the chef to ensure suitability of the menu for dancers.
All meals Wed-Sun are included; if you are arriving early enough on Tuesday, dinner at 6pm is available as an added option, but MUST be booked in advance. See the ‘drop-down’ under ‘Prices, Booking & Payment’ for details.
Most dietary requirements can be catered for by prior arrangement at no additional charge (see booking form).
Travel & local info/resources
Click on a heading for info and links:
There are flights direct to Bristol and Cardiff airports from many European cities and farther afield. (If you have to fly to one of the London airports, Heathrow is only a 2 hour bus ride to Bristol – quicker than to many parts of London!)
There are direct trains to Bristol from London and many other cities across the UK.
National Rail website
Similarly there are low-cost bus links to either the rail station or the city centre bus station.
National Express website
(other operators are available and often cheaper, e.g. Megabus).
IF POSSIBLE PLEASE CAR-SHARE 🙂
Bristol is close to the junction of the M4 and M5.
[Google map to approx location (in new tab)]
The Car Park has limited space – please share with other dancers if you can.
To reach the venue from the centre of Bristol, the easiest local buses are the numbers 1, 2 and 3 (and 4 isn’t bad, but not very different from 3 anyway), so if you find somewhere near one of those routes, your journey in and out will be easy. You can download route maps (look for ‘Henleaze’) and timetables here:
Bristol bus routes 1 & 2
Bristol bus routes 3 & 4
(And if they change their website and those break, go to the First Bus regional home page here.)
[More may be added nearer the time]
Local shops – food:
There are a couple of cafes, a deli and some local shops in Henleaze – ~7-8 minutes walk.
There is also a Waitrose supermarket – ~10-12 mins walk.
Green spaces:
The campus itself is very green. We are also less than 10 minutes walk from the top end of The Downs (open grass).
For woodland, Blaise Castle Estate (a wooded gorge and arboretum) and, across the famous suspension bridge, Leigh Woods – both popular for early morning walks (though you might want to hook up with somebody with a car).
Exploring Bristol:
We are about a 20-30 minute bus ride to ‘The Centre’ (near Bristol Harbourside).
Before or after the workshop, you might also like to visit Gloucester Road, for lots of independent shops, cafes, bars etc.
(See also FAQ below.)
Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
This is a fully residential workshop, and staying onsite, and fully ‘immersed’, is part of the process. Mainly for this reason, non-residential places are only available under special circumstances, even for local dancers.
If you concerned about privacy/’space’, there are plenty of single rooms for a modest supplement, the venue is in a large, quiet and beautiful campus, and for even more space, The Downs (a large open green space) is a short walk away.
If you are asking for financial reasons, the residential element of the cost is relatively small, so you wouldn’t save much anyway.
NOTE: If this is the only way you can attend, please contact Jon to discuss.
Sorry, no – 5 nights is the minimum – we pay the venue for your Tues/Wed bed and breakfast, whether you choose to take it up or not. (However, do let us know if you definitely don’t want Wednesday breakfast, and we can tell the chef, possibly reducing food waste.)
Please arrive Tuesday afternoon/evening if you can – check-in from 4pm – we strongly recommend it, to give you time to ‘land’ before we start 🙂 But if you can only arrive on Wednesday morning, please make sure you arrive early enough to check in to your room, and be ready to start by 10am. Thank you.
No, they’ll be better. The issue which led to a ‘quality lapse’ for part of that workshop has been resolved, and we are assured that the quality will be consistent this time 🙂
The kitchen are used to catering for very diverse diets indeed, and they want everyone to be happy with their meals – if you’re concerned, please let us know your needs, and can talk to the chef – you may be surprised what’s possible 🙂
(Note: We pay the venue ‘per person’ including accommodation and food, so meals are not optional.)
At most, one other person – all the accommodation is in twins and singles – no ‘dormitories’!
You can guarantee a single room with a supplement of just £55 (subject to availability).
And there are lots of showers!
Yes – remember, this is usually occupied by teenagers!! There’s wifi throughout the campus, at its best in the accommodation block – the rooms have all have desks, and there’s also a common room.
Watch this space!
Further details
Here’s some general information applicable to In-Rhythm classes and workshops – it’s included here because most of it is relevant here too. Some further information specific to this workshop is shown in ‘variations’ below, but please read the emails you will be sent before the start of the workshop!
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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:
- 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.
Note: Some Variations from above ‘standard’ info (see also pre-workshop emails):
- We have exclusive use of the venue, with use of an additional room for changing etc. This means that bags and valuables should not be brought into the studio, as they can safely be left in the changing space while dancing, and even overnight.
- If you are unavoidably going to be late, please contact the mobile number provided in your welcome letter, as we shall be locking the door once we start.
See also:
Facebook Event Page
please click ‘Interested’ or ‘Going’ to help us get the word out 🙂
(But please DON’T use FB Messenger to contact us – we might not see it for several days!)
(Note: There is also a private group for those who have booked on the workshop – if you have booked, and have not yet received an invitation/link please get in touch!)
DISCLAIMER: Cycles, Bristol 2025 is offered by Tammy Burstein, promoted/organised by Jon Ralls, ‘hosted’ in Bristol by kind invitation of Bernadette Ryder. Your booking is with Tammy Burstein/Jon Ralls, and subject to Tammy’s terms and conditions not those for In-Rhythm/Bernadette Ryder’s workshops shown elsewhere on the In-Rhythm website. Publicity via this website and mailing lists etc are kindly offered by In-Rhythm, and create no contract with or legal liability of any kind by In-Rhythm/Bernadette Ryder. We have a contractual relationship with Badminton School for use of their premises as a venue only, and they are in no way otherwise associated with the workshop content, organisers, teachers or 5Rhythms Global.
