Autumn Equinox – dancing with change
Dear Dancers Dancing with Autumn Equinox Friday 5 Rhythms with Bernadette RyderFri 23rd SeptemberHorfield Parish Church Hall When day equals night, and the nights lengthen the fastest – let’s dance our balancing acts, while riding the changes – summer into autumn, light into dark, outside and inside… and, continuing the “festival of in-gathering”, our gratitude […]
Unplugging our busy heads
Almost everything will work again when you unplug it for a few minutes…including you.~ Ann Lamott* Dear Dancers Friday 5 Rhythms with Bernadette RyderFri 16th SeptemberHorfield Parish Church Hall (as usual, booking openfor the next 4 classes) All Love,Jon, for Bernadette, & team xxx * Thanks to 5R teacher Evangelos Diavolitsis for this great quote. […]
Harvest Moon
Dear Dancers Dancing with the Harvest Moon Friday 5 Rhythms with Bernadette RyderFri 9th SeptemberHorfield Parish Church Hall This week we will have the full moon with us. Whether we dance or not, its subtle, powerful influence will be affecting us – But it’s so much fun to dance in and with the moon’s influence. […]
Celebrating Harvest – and dancing dates for your diary
Dear Dancers Friday 5 Rhythms with Bernadette RyderFri 2nd SeptemberHorfield Parish Church Hall It’s September and we’re well into the season of harvest – and we can dance to celebrate and appreciate all that we have grown and tasted this year – physically and metaphorically – and everything and everyone that has fed and watered […]
Neil Pinnock this week
The more you sweat, the more you pray…
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 Dear Dancers Friday 5 Rhythms […]
Friday… fantastic music that keeps calling you to dance…
Dear Dancers Friday 5 Rhythms with Bernadette RyderFri 5th AugustHorfield Parish Church Hall No steps to learnNo demand to be coolNo one right wayJust fantastic music that keeps calling you to Danceand just enough guidance to take you beyond inhibition and into expansion. (as usual, booking openfor the next 4 classes) Coming up… Neil Pinnock […]
Just One Thing: Dance… often
(e.g. this Friday)
Friday 5 Rhythms with Bernadette RyderFri 1st July, Horfield Parish Church Hall Dear Dancers You probably don’t need any convincing that dance is good for you… but have you any idea just how good? This fun, short radio programme quotes research that “dancing has been shown to be better than traditional fitness exercises for improving your […]
Back to Back Bernadette – Bristol & Glastonbury
Dear Dancers You can dance with Bernadette both ends of this weekend, at two well-established and much loved open/drop-in 5 Rhythms classes: Friday 5 RhythmsHorfield Parish Church HallBristol, 24 June(as usual) Find out more (as usual, booking openfor the next 4 classes) The Monday MiracleGlastonbury Town HallGlastonbury, 27 June(cover for Jean Rankin) Find out more […]
Irem Luqman returns to Bristol – this Friday
Friday 5 Rhythms with guest teacher Irem LuqmanFri 17th June, Horfield Parish Church Hall Dear Dancers Our friend Irem used to come and dance with us back in Hamilton House, so it’s really exciting to welcome her back to Bristol as our guest teacher this week. Irem says: “I cannot imagine a life without 5Rhythms now. […]
It’s ‘Jubbly’ weekend …
sounds like an excuse to dance
Friday 5 Rhythms with Bernadette Ryder3rd June, Horfield Parish Church Hall* Bank Holiday – dancing as usual * See also: About our Drop-in/Open Classes Weekly Class Terms & Conditions ‘Covid-Safe Dancing’ (also at foot of classes pages)