5Rhythms® Dance with Bernadette Ryder

5Rhythms® Dance with Bernadette Ryder

Bernadette’s Back ;)

Following Bernadette up grassy hill

Many happy returns… Friday 5 Rhythms Fri 20th May, Horfield Parish Church Hall Dear Dancers “Many happy returns” – a phrase we usually associate with birthdays – so Happy Birthday Us: it’s exactly a year since our return to dancing Friday 5 Rhythms ‘in person‘. Big love to everyone who has danced with us since last […]

Jean Rankin back in Bristol – this Friday

Friday 5 Rhythms with guest teacher Jean RankinFri 13th May, Horfield Parish Church Hall Dear Dancers This Friday our great friend Jean Rankin will be taking the class, bringing her playful irreverence, that can sometimes belie the depth of her work. As she herself says: “The dance floor is my palette, my playground and my prayer […]

This Friday… just as our ancestors did…

Etruscan Dancers

Friday 5 Rhythms Fri 6th May Horfield Parish Church Hall Dear Dancers Humans love to dance. We always have and – hopefully – we always will. In our Friday night 5 Rhythms sessions, we dance who and how we are. We dance when we are stressed, we dance to celebrate, we dance through wars, we dance to […]

Dance deeper Thursdays
– last minute Rhythm Circle spaces

St Michaels Parish Hall, Bristol

Dear Dancers ‘Rhythm Circle’ ongoing closed groupThursday nights, Apr 21 – July 7 5 Rhythms is an enormously powerful practice – and even just as an evening class, people love it, and benefit greatly from it 🙂 … and, as Bernadette explains (in the video on our website), there’s so much more… Have you ever […]

Good Friday Dancing

Dear Dancers Good Friday – 5 Rhythms (as always) Friday April 15, 8:30pm – 10:30pm Horfield Parish Church Hall Kick off the Easter weekend by joining us to move with the energy of Good Friday the Easter Full Moon, and the rising tide of Spring. Moving with the inherent themes of death and life, resurrection […]

Neil Pinnock in Bristol for April Fool’s Night

Neil Pinnock 5Rhythms teacher

Dear Dancers This week, April 1 – Neil Pinnock (guest teacher): We are delighted to welcome Neil Pinnock back to Bristol again to take this week’s Friday class while Bernadette is away. Many of you will know Neil and his playful embodiment of the trickster energy… we can anticipate a lively evening — if you […]

Dance with the Full Moon tonight – and upcoming dates

5 dancers

Dear Dancers We’re here for you every Friday… and here are a few highlights… 🙂 Dance with the Full Moon – tonight (Mar 18) We’re mostly water, so it’s no surprise that many of us feel the tides of the moon, especially in our emotions. So a Full Moon class is always a juicy place […]

Improvements to booking system … and Gratitude

5 dancers

Dear Dancers We’ve just launched a new much better booking system with Bookwhen – quicker, easier, more reliable, and (even) more secure. We’d love you to help us test it 😉 Anything new can have teething troubles, and thank you to a couple of you who let me know about an issue making payment – […]

We’re dancing, there are spaces

5 dancers

Dear Dancers Spaces tonight (booking system fixed) There ARE spaces at tonight’s class – humble apologies if you tried to book last night and got a ‘Class Full’ message, which was due to a booking system ‘bug’. The remaining spaces have been re-listed, and are available now. Storm Which means… YES, we’re dancing tonight 🙂Here […]

Dancing through the Dark

5 dancers

Dear Dancers Dance can help us traverse the cold dark Winter months – it warms our souls as we move our bodies. And this time of year it’s particularly true that ‘the less we feel like it, the more we probably need it’… So come and join us at our weekly Friday 5 Rhythms Dance […]