What is 5Rhythms® ?
A movement practice rooted in the body's instinctive expression
The 5Rhythms® is a movement practice that releases us from our overthinking mind – reconnecting us to our authenticity through a poetic and dynamic art form.
Each of the five rhythms offers a different quality of energy: fluid, fiery, edgy, wild, and still. In name they are Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. Moved in sequence, they create a wave of embodied energy — each one a teaching that opens to the next. A movement art and meditation.
When we move with them in this sequence, it creates a wave of embodied energy. Each one a teaching that opens to the other. A Movement Art and Meditation.
There are no steps to learn. Improvised, spontaneous dances are unveiled as self-consciousness gives way to the body's own movement language.
Every dance is unique. We dive into the unknown mystery that reveals us to ourselves — in all our diversity. There is nothing that can't be danced. A safe place to study what it is to be a human being.
'Transforming Suffering into Art, Art into Awareness, Awareness into Action' — Gabrielle Roth
Why 5Rhythms® with Emma?
Emma has spent over 30 years exploring the edges of 5Rhythms® practice — bringing it to places and people that few others have reached.
Her work has taken her into prisons, addiction recovery centres, inner city schools, and youth-at-risk programmes in London. To children in the slums of Kolkata, India. Into theatres and studios with movement and arts professionals worldwide.
What draws her back, always, is the moment of personal breakthrough — when the practice reveals something true in the dancer. That potential to transform lives is what continues to inspire her teaching.
Emma is based in East Sussex, and teaches weekly and monthly classes in St Leonards-on-Sea and Hastings, as well as workshops nationally and internationally.
Want to know more about Emma and her journey with 5Rhythms®? Read about Emma →