Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms

01/19/2025

Here we are in the deep dark heart of winter! And I couldn’t be more fu***ng happy about it powder is coming down. Snowboarding is happening fireplace is rocking planning my trip around the world. I love you all. Bless you bless you bless you. 

01/19/2025

Hey hey hey, Gabrielle‘s birthday is coming up February 4Th

01/19/2025

After much meditation, trials and tribulations about my next tattoo, I have come up with something that I feel is most fitting past present and future! Please chime in before I get this! I wanna hear what you feel!

10/22/2022

Today, I looked at my dancing feet and felt the blessing of them not being ordinary, but transformative and extraordinary. I have only one person to thank for this, my mom, my best friend and my teacher Gabrielle Roth. These feet take me into prayer and ecstasy as they caress the great mother earth each day.
~ Jonathan Horan

In Honor of Gabrielle Roth
February 4, 1942 ~ October 22, 2012
Jens Wazel created a tribute to Gabrielle to honor the 10th anniversary of her taking flight. Over a period of 6 years, Jens interviewed a number of dancers and teachers as part of an ongoing project to document the history of Conscious dance. What was discovered is that many shared the story .....and then I met Gabrielle. This is Jens' incredible compilation released today in honor of Gabrielle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6txcwVDEG_Q

Over the past 6 years, I interviewed movement leaders around the world to document the history of conscious dance. Many would eventually say something like "...

05/30/2022

Dear Friends,

True to his fast paced home rhythm of staccato, our beloved Robert passed away peacefully and quickly in the comfort of his home on Friday, May 27th. Refuge was the soundtrack of his passing. We ask that you beat a drum or dance in his honor. The beat goes on.....

With Love,
Scott and Arthur

https://madmimi.com/p/972a041?pact=367931-168046742-8863470904-6d7b48172d5bfb75271f763dc57e68142a1261a7

05/30/2022

Dear dancing feet, dear friends, dear holders of this powerful and yet fragile practice we called the 5Rhythms,
A few nights ago our beloved Robert Ansell, Gabrielle’s soulmate passed peacefully in his sleep and comfortably in his own bed at home.
He contributed so much to the torch that we so lovingly carry on. He will be missed and may he Rest In Peace with his beloved Raven.
This beautiful poem has been holding me in depth and speaks in rhymes to how our family feels.
In Loving Grief,
Jonathan

On The Death of The Beloved

"Though we need to weep your loss
You dwell in that safe place in our hearts
Where no storm or night or pain can reach you
Your love was like the dawn
Brightening over our lives,
Awakening beneath the dark
A further adventure of color.
The sound of your voice [and drum]
Found for us
A new music
That brightened everything.
Whatever you enfolded in your gaze
Quickened in the joy of its being;
You placed smiles like flowers
On the altar of the heart.
Your mind always sparkled
With wonder at things.
Though your days here were brief,
Your spirit was alive, awake, complete.
We look toward each other no longer
From the old distance of our names;
Now you dwell inside the rhythm of breath,
As close to us as we are to ourselves.
Though we cannot see you with outward eyes,
We know our soul’s gaze is upon your face,
Smiling back at us from within everything
To which we bring our best refinement.
Let us not look for you only in memory,
Where we would grow lonely without you.
You would want us to find you in presence,
Beside us when beauty brightens,
When kindness glows
And music echoes eternal tones.
When orchids brighten the earth,
Darkest winter has turned to spring;
May this dark grief flower with hope
In every heart that loves you.
May you continue to inspire us:
To enter each day with a generous heart.
To serve the call of courage and love
Until we see your beautiful face again
In that land where there is no more separation,
Where all tears will be wiped from our mind,
And where we will never lose you again.”
~ John O’Donohue

http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=1372203&f=7647&s=14848&m=492931&t=957372ccc5eedc6bb75cfc06f054ee00520030904bedd412bedf9765182c6452

08/19/2021

Be sure to join as we dance a 5Rhythms wave with live music, played by musician Baba Kone from Burkina Faso, playing the djembe and kora. Dancing with live music is the possibility to become more present in your body, just following the drum, wherever it takes you.

We will dance all there is, feel all life has to offer us, find movements and get moved, feel the presents of the heart dancing in unity across the globe. Express what’s inside us and find its roots and expressions - dare move the unknown, surrender and let joy fill us up - finding inner stillness.

Friday August 20th
Percussion Waves
Worldwide Online 5Rhythms Class
2pm EDT / 11PDT
(or On Demand for 30 days after)
Register: https://live.5rhythms.com/subscriptions/friday-waves/

08/18/2021

Layah Jane is back on LiveStream tomorrow for Raven Waves! Be sure to join her!
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Exploring my capacity to welcome myself exactly as I am.
To know all the parts of me belong.
Grief, frustration, boredom, contentment, elation…
All of it.
How do I practice making space for it all?
By bringing the inquiry to my movement practice, and asking myself “how does it move?”
Again and again and again.
Come join me in this dancing question?

Thursday August 19th
Worldwide Online
2pm EDT/11am PDT
(or On Demand for 30 days after)
Register: https://live.5rhythms.com/subscriptions/worldwide-5rhythms/

06/23/2021

Bella Dreizler is back for a roll and dance for today’s (Wednesday) 5Rhythms at home practice online and on-demand.

Stiffness or flexibility originate right in your central axis. This is a 90 minute immersion in support of creating a fluid spine. Begin with expert guidance in the “how to” of using a foam roller to release spine & ribs, pelvis & legs. Then experience this new fluidity come alive in a guided wave of 5Rhythms. Finally? Settle into the stillness of gently guided stretching. Juicy, accessible, may be just the medicine you need. Bella Dreizler is a facilitator of 5Rhythms, yoga and a 50 year practitioner of physical therapy. Need to order roller? Density is everything; info here: https://bodyjoy.net/preparing-for-class/

5pm PDT + on-demand replay for 30 days.
To practice: https://live.5rhythms.com/subscriptions/the-city-waves/

06/04/2021

:::FREE::: community class

Celebrating a whole year of offering Percussion Waves 5Rhythms classes with live music filmed in our woods and available worldwide.

Massive thanks to everyone who has danced with us from your home, and helped me navigate this year of learning curves - free class available for a week!

Love,
Alex Mackay

To dance live (Friday, June 4th 7pm GMT) or replay this week:
https://live.5rhythms.com/subscriptions/community-classes/

06/02/2021

Péter Fejér (Budapest) invites us into connection with nature for this Thursday's online Raven Waves class.

PRACTICE TOGETHER 8pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT
+ On-Demand replay (class is available for 30 days)

To join: https://live.5rhythms.com/2021/06/01/peter-fejer-hungary/

05/26/2021

Masayo Benoist brings an invitation of simplicity for this Thursday's online Raven Waves class.

PRACTICE TOGETHER 8pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT
+ On-Demand replay (class is available for 30 days)

To join: https://live.5rhythms.com/2021/05/26/masayo-benoist-california-usa/