5Rhythms®

What are the 5Rhythms®?

“Each of the Five Rhythms is a practical tool of awakening that will release us to dance on the edge, to be outrageous, to transform suffering into art, and art into awareness.

Flowing holds the feminine mysteries. Staccato explores the masculine mysteries. In chaos, we are challenged to integrate these principles into the stream of personal energy. Lyrical is the rhythm of trance and self-realization. In stillness, the mother of all rhythms, we seek the emptiness within us and take refuge in it.

Embracing the rhythms as spiritual practice is a dynamic way to free the body, to express the heart, and to clear the mind.” - Gabrielle Roth

In Waves we explore the dynamic practice of the 5Rhythms®. This form of ecstatic dance is a workout for the body and soul – a moving meditation – a spiritual practice where we “sweat our prayers.”

The 5Rhythms®  was developed by Gabrielle Roth over a lifetime of study in dance, theater, and the healing arts. This practice is one that married breath, movement and spirit in a conscious way. This concept is what creates a meditative space. One that brings us out of the chattering mind and into the mind of awareness, into the present moment.

Lucia is certified to teach two levels of the 5Rhythms®. The first is 5Rhythms®; Waves. This is the foundational map of the practice. In Waves we explore the rhythms of flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. The second level is: 5Rhythms®; Heartbeat. Heartbeat is a dynamic map that teaches us about our relationship between the rhythms and our emotional body. We explore how the emotional body has a cellular influence of the who we are and how we hold ourselves in the world.