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“Sweat Your Prayers®”
– this Friday night

March 29, 8pm-10:30pm

To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self.
Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release
your past. The more you dance… the more you sweat, the more you
pray. The more you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.
— Gabrielle Roth

This Friday is clearly going to be a day to pray…
… one way or another – so lucky for us that…

This Friday is also the last of the month – so join us to ‘Sweat Your Prayers’
– A guided warm-up then a wave with no words, simply moving through the
5 Rhythms® with music as our guide.
Usual time, usual place, cafe after (details also below).
 

And don’t forget to check your diary, and make sure you catch our guest teachers, booking deadlines etc
(and full details will usually follow by email, closer to the time)

See you on the dance floors

With love

Bernadette, Jon & team xxx

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The sun is winning, the light is returning… and so is Bernadette 😀
So many good reasons to dance…

This Friday: Spring Equinox, Full Moon…

March 22, 8pm-10:30pm

Put some Spring in your Steps… at this time of year more than any other, latent energies awaken, creativity flowers… we look forward to sunshine, green trees and long summer evenings. And the Full Moon adds potency to the mix

… and, as if that wasn’t enough …

Bernadette’s Back

Each week, I’ve sung the praises of our wonderful guest teachers, so – since Bernadette rarely blows her own trumpet – this week I’m blowing it for her 😉

So join us to dance for Spring and a big Bristolian ‘Welcome Home Bernadette’
 usual place, usual time.

See you on the dance floors 🙂

With love

Jon, for Bernadette & team xxx

P.S. And as we tumble towards April, don’t forget…
– Elemental Rhythms: Earth – April 25-28, first in the series… and nearly full
– Rhythm Circle – weekly closed group – next term starts Apr 30
(details below and on the website)

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This Friday: Neil Pinnock

March 15, 8pm-10:30pm

Who better to round off our series of guest teachers than Neil? His first visit since last August, it’s well time for his particular blend of playfulness and depth:

From his 5RG profile:
Dancing a lifetime, teaching since 2007. 5 Rhythms is my home, my sanctuary. It has transformed me and my life. Now as a teacher I offer the space to heal, to grow, the rejoice and to be alive more fully… I’m equally happy cooking up big waves, taking the powerful passion of a group through wild chaos into tender lyrical and sweet stillness. You are always welcome on my dancefloor. I hope to meet you in the midst of the wave.

This quote, from another of my favourite teachers, sums up beautifully my personal experience of Neil’s teaching:
“Neil has passion, and energy, and a sense of humour. He stirs up whirlwinds, and then drops through surprising doors into tenderness and vulnerability.” – Andrew Holmes

So I’m really looking forward to this Friday, usual place, usual time. 🙂

5 Rhythms – “Festival of Fridays” 2019
5 Weeks of drop-in classes by wonderful guest teachers

Feb/Mar 2019, Hamilton House Bristol

While Bernadette is away*, Friday drop-in classes continue as ever, with renowned visiting teachers – a chance to dance with our fabulous guests, both familiar and new (full list). We’ll let you know each week and, for the full line-up, see the ‘Dance Calendar’ below 🙂
Usual time, usual place, cafe after (details also below).
And don’t forget to check your diary, and make sure you catch all our guest teachers, booking deadlines etc. (and full details will usually follow, closer to the time)

See you on the dance floors 🙂

With love

Jon, for Bernadette, our guests & the team xxx

* Bernadette’s next Friday class will be March 22.

This Friday: Jessica Howie

March 8, 8pm-10:30pm

Don’t miss this Friday’s class — we’re in for another treat. Jessica Howie is visiting us for the first time (of many, I sincerely hope). If you’ve attended her workshops, or visited her weekly Oxford class, I know you’ll join us 😉

Jessica has been dancing all her life, dancing 5 Rhythms® since her mid-teens, and teaching since her late-twenties. She has studied psychosynthesis, written a self-empowerment book for teenage girls, founded Earth Yoga center in Mallorca, and now runs Wild Honey – two health food shops in Oxford. She teaches regular weekly 5 Rhythms classes and workshops, as well as women only groups and retreats.

Speaking personally, Jessica co-taught some of the most powerful and memorable workshops I’ve ever attended, collaborating seamlessly with other fabulous teachers, including Lorca Simons (‘Live Wire‘) and Adam Barley (‘Us – The Dance of Men & Women‘). I am absolutely delighted that she is teaching our Friday class this week, and can’t wait to dance with her again 🙂
– This Friday, usual place, usual time.
 

5 Rhythms – “Festival of Fridays” 2019
5 Weeks of drop-in classes by wonderful guest teachers

Feb/Mar 2019, Hamilton House Bristol

While Bernadette is away*, Friday drop-in classes continue as ever, with renowned visiting teachers – a chance to dance with our fabulous guests, both familiar and new (full list). We’ll let you know each week if you’re on our mailing list 🙂
Usual time, usual place, cafe after (details also below). And don’t forget to check your diary, and make sure you catch all our guest teachers, booking deadlines etc. (full details here on the blog or via email, closer to the time)

See you on the dance floors 🙂

With love

Jon, for Bernadette, our guests & the team xxx

* Bernadette’s next Friday class will be March 22.

Dawn’s website

This Friday: Dawn Morgan returns

March 1, 8pm-10:30pm

Need I say more? Dawn gave us a storming class a fortnight ago — and judging by the reaction, I’m looking forward to dancing with most of you again this time around. And if you missed it… well, you get a second ‘bite’ at that cherry this week 🙂

Dawn says:
“I dance because I love the freedom, truth and wakefulness I find through movement, the sense of connection to all that I am, to others and to life itself. When I teach I offer my love of dance and enthusiasm for this practice.”

That enthusiasm is deep, profound… and often playful and surprising.
– This Friday, usual place, usual time.
(Note: This class will not be our usual first of month ‘fundamentals’.)

5 Rhythms – “Festival of Fridays” 2019
5 Weeks of drop-in classes by wonderful guest teachers

Feb/Mar 2019, Hamilton House Bristol

While Bernadette is away*, Friday drop-in classes continue as ever, with renowned visiting teachers – a chance to dance with our fabulous guests, both familiar and new (full list here). We’ll let you know each week and, for the full line-up, see the ‘Dance Calendar’ below 🙂

Usual time, usual place, cafe after (details also below).
 

And don’t forget to check your diary below, and make sure you catch all our guest teachers, booking deadlines etc.
(and full details will usually follow, closer to the time)

See you on the dance floors 🙂

With love

Jon, for Bernadette, our guests & the team xxx

* Bernadette’s next Friday class will be March 22.

This Friday: Reem Behzad (from Bristol)

February 22, 8pm-10:30pm
(Sweat Your Prayers®)

Reem wowed us on The Deepening workshop with her fab warmup sessions – now we have a chance to dance a couple of full Waves with her… as well as give her a wonderful Bristolian send-off as she heads off to take the 5 Rhythms back to her homeland of Qatar. (More from Reem follows)
– This Friday, usual place, usual time.
 

Reem’s latest 5 Rhythms Teacher Profile:
Originally from Qatar where I intend to take this practice back to. Sweat Space holder from 2016. Graduated as a 5Rhythms Teacher in 2018.
The 5 Rhythms gives us the tools to un-learn what we know, to empty out in order to let something different in. The first time I felt compassion for myself was on the dance floor. The first time I could separate enough from my very convincing thoughts to truly witness my patterns and dive with divine wonder into total presence and connection, was on the 5 rhythms dance floor. The dance expands my capacity for empathy, evolves my awareness, fluidity and my ability to surrender. As a puppeteer and Waldorf teacher this has massively heightened my aptitude in my work. If you value freedom in all its forms, dance. Because a liberated body is a liberated heart and mind.

5 Rhythms – “Festival of Fridays” 2019
5 Weeks of drop-in classes by wonderful guest teachers

Feb/Mar 2019, Hamilton House Bristol

While Bernadette is away*, Friday drop-in classes continue as ever, with renowned visiting teachers – a chance to dance with our fabulous guests, both familiar and new (full list below). We’ll let you know each week and, for the full line-up, see the ‘Dance Calendar’ in our mailing list emails 🙂

Usual time, usual place, cafe after (details also below).
 

And don’t forget to check your diary, and make sure you catch all our guest teachers, booking deadlines etc. (Including today’s early bird deadline for Earth.)
(and full details will usually follow,
closer to the time)

See you on the dance floors 🙂

With love

Jon, for Bernadette, our guests & the team xxx

* Bernadette’s next Friday class will be March 22.