The Practice
The 5Rhythms Wave is a physical and spiritual
dance practice which promotes a fullness of life and
freedom in movement. At the heart of this comprehensive
body of work is the physical experience of your body
in motion. 5Rhythms classes and workshops typically
include moving meditation sessions in which students
dance the five rhythms of flowing, staccato, chaos,
lyrical and stillness. The rhythms together form the
wave. While dancing the wave we practice allowing our
bodies to move freely as we explore the circular and
grounding rhythm of flowing, the shapes of staccato
and the release in chaos. We discover curiosity and
freedom in lyrical and reverence in the spirit of stillness.
Roots of the Work
5Rhythms teachers have lived their own deep
and meaningful dance practice for years before being
extensively trained by Gabrielle Roth and her Moving
Center School faculty. Gabrielle Roth formed this body of work over thirty
years ago out of the flames of her passion for music,
theater and dance. Currently there are 5Rhythms teachers
offering classes and workshops in cities, dance studios
and retreat centers all across the world.
Spiritual Practice
The 5Rhythms are a physical, spiritual dance
practice that offer a lifetime of discovery. Always beginning with the body in motion, we engage
the work of freeing the body, opening the heart and
focusing the mind. In this practice we connect to our
natural state of being; a fluid body in motion. Through
this dance we reclaim our own instinctual nature, and
practice being fully alive and present human beings.
Community
Again and again, on the dance floor, we practice
being fully ourselves. 5Rhythms dance floors are safe
and supportive places for people to experience and study
the 5Rhythms dance practice. This dance practice is
for, and currently populated by, seasoned seekers, innocent
newcomers, young bodies, old bodies, shy bodies, bold
bodies, open hearts, broken hearts and all the different
parts that together form this world of humanity.
Our 5Rhythms Faculty
Amara Pagano - bio page
Sara Pagano - bio page
Kabba Anand - bio page
- "Heartbeat" is a dancing shamanic journey into the underworld of forgotten feelings. In this work we invite the energy of feeling that is held within the cells of our bodies to come out and dance.
Amara is currently teaching a four-week workshop-style class on Tuesdays exploring the "Heartbeat" map. For those of you that couldn't make it, and for those of you ready to dive further into this potent work, we are offering this specially priced weekend workshop!.
photo by Giada Fried
April 1- 3, 2011
Embodied Soul
Sometimes we light up and shine, spontaneously and with a simple purity. We shine right through our suffering and struggles. We shine without having fixed anything or having made things better. And when this happens we feel connected to ourselves and the world around us. With little effort and lots of enthusiasm, even is spite of ourselves, we simply shine. And it is this energy that radiates from within that is embodied soul. So then, can we cultivate this shine? Can we learn to feel ourselves rooted and grounded within our own soul-wisdom? This is the jumping off point in our investigation of "Embodied Soul".
"Embodied Soul" is an opportunity to take the critically necessary time to dance our way to the soul-wisdom that lives just below the humanity of our everyday lives. To do this we use the 5Rhythms: sinking into our flowing bodies, stretching and opening our hearts, and emptying and quieting our minds... and in this body of work, this is soul, these connected moments of fluid body, open heart and free mind. This soul is seductive, mysterious and wise. This soul-body is absolutely authentic. And with the irresistible quality of our own authenticity we find deep meaning and purpose in the lives we live. Soul and humanity, it is all a dance, an opportunity to find our deepest selves and shine.
Amara Pagano is a visiting teacher from Maui Hawaii where she is the Director of the 5Rhythms Program at Studio Maui. She has been traveling and teaching workshops internationally for 10 years sharing her love of the dance and the 5Rhythms Practice. For more information on Amara and and the 5Rhythms www.thestudiomaui.com and www.gabrielleroth.com
Location: High Mountain Hall, Camden Maine
Friday 6 - 9 Saturday 2 - 9 & Sunday 12 - 5
Cost $225 early bird by 3/18 $195
Contact: Kari Luehman 5rhythmsme@gmail.com 207-701-9557
photo by Giada Fried
June 10-12, 2011
US$235, US$195 prereg by May 15, 2011
BODY PRAYER
We have one life in this body and yet we spend most of our time dis-connected from the profound sense of well-being that comes from fully occupying our bodies.
We race through our lives, thinking first, feeling second and occupying ourbodies a distant third.
To make things worse, we have learned to relate to things from this state of being dis-connected. And this causes needless suffering.
And yet right under our nose is a pathway of connection. A pathway of the body that connects us to a sense of knowing who and what we are, a pathway that guides us to ourselves and to everything that we find meaningful and important. "Body Prayer" is this pathway. The work of "Body Prayer" is to cultivate our relationship to our own bodies in motion.
We dance ourselves into our bodies, and from this place, LIFE OPENS UP.
For more information and to register contact Daniela de Bartola daniela.debartolo@fastwebnet.it
Amara Pagano is offering two workshops in Italy. Milan June 10-12 and Rimini June 17-19. If you are interested in traveling and experiencing Italy and the dance together please contact Amara at amara@thestudiomaui.com.
photo by Giada Fried
Rimini, Italy
June 17-19, 2011
US$250, US$210 prereg by May 15, 2011
Living Fully Loving Deeply
Imagine the possibility of moving fluidly with all of what life brings.
Imagine resting in this fluid motion, knowing that you can meet all of life's challenges and opportunities.
Imagine that this fluid motion connects you to the physical experience of living more fully and loving more deeply.
The 5Rhythms is a physical approach towards real and tangible connection to our selves, to each other and to our own place in life. In the dance, we create the possibility of re-discovering ourselves in our natural state of being, a body in motion. We cultivate our ability to move fluidly with the rhythms of our lives, the people in our lives and the world we live in. By moving fluidly with all of who we are we cultivate our ability to live more fully and love more deeply.
For more information and to register contact Sara Bindi sarettabi2004@yahoo.it
Amara Pagano is offering two workshops in Italy. Milan June 10-12 and Rimini June 17-19. If you are interested in traveling and experiencing Italy and the dance together please contact Amara at amara@thestudiomaui.com.
photo by Giada Fried
July 2-6
DANCING WARRIOR
Success is measured not by how much we control our external experiences but by how well we respond to the experiences that we have. This is the path of the dancing warrior; to stay in motion and dance with all that life brings to us, navigating our experiences with the grace and passion of a dancer.
We live in an ever changing and chaotic world, where we need to know how to ride the waves of change: when to be fluid; when to articulate; when to let go; when to surrender; and when to be still. Our ability to ride the waves of change comes from learning to trust our instincts and intuition. The 5Rhythms dance practice is the pathway to this instinctive, intuitive awareness.
The 5Rhythms guide us to our own authentic dance, the dance that is ours to fill. In this world, people can do amazing things for us. But each of us must take on the deeply personal work of discovering our own authentic dance, our dance that serves humanity. This is the work of the dancing warrior, to be fully our selves engaged in the motion of our lives, responding with grace and passion.
This workshop is appropriate for beginners as well as experienced dancers. It is a combination of Waves and Heartbeat.
For more information contact Ann Kite ann@danceville.com 434-989-4841
Starts Saturday July 2 2:00 pm ends Wednesday July 6 2:00 pm
Housing Options Shared Rooms or Camping / Healthy Gourmet Meals Included
Shared Rooms $695 before 6/14 and $745 after
Camping $575 before 6/14 and $625 after
For more information on 5Rhythms Dance www.gabrielleroth.com or Sevenoaks Retreat www.sevenoakspathwork.org
photo by Giada Fried
Buenos Aires, Argentina
HEARTBEAT
Our motions through life is guided by our emotions, and our emotions shape the world around us.
We do have the power to change our world and the key is coming into deep, intimate and open relationship with our own emotions.
"Heartbeat" is a gateway to this relationship."Heartbeat is the 5Rhythms map of freeing the heart and achieving emotional fluidity.
In "Heartbeat" we explore our emotions as energy, as power, as part of what it is to be human. By working with the five essential emotions of
fear, anger, sadness, joy and compassion we come into deeper contact with our own heart, strengthen our emotional vocabulary
and free our whole being to dis-lodge, express and release the emotions that have shaped us. As we embrace the full range of our emotions
we free ourselves to move and be moved, to feel and be felt, to love and be loved.
Prerequisite for Heartbeat Level work: At least 3 hours of Waves Workshop
For more information and to register please contact Kelly Satz kelly@diuca.com.ar
photo by Giada Fried
"Tribal Spirit" is an annual gathering of 5Rhythms teachers and dancers from various states and communities.
Our shared language of movement guides us into the depth of the tribal pulse that connects us all.
It is a delicious long weekend of ecstatic motion and deep connections, on and off the dance floor.
Come join our tribe!
Tribal Spirit Faculty
Amara Pagano is the director of the 5Rhythms Program at Studio Maui and travels internationally teaching workshops. www.thestudiomaui.com
Sara Pagano is the co-founder of Waves Studio with Amara Pagano where the 5Rhythms Gatherings were born eight years ago and travels teaching workshops in the US. www.thestudiomaui.com
Other Teachers - TBA
Come be a part of the WE!
Register Now!
photo by Giada Fried
Full Workshop $425, $345 through 4/30/2012
Spirit Body & Tribal Spirit $645, $495 through 4/30/2012
What does it mean to be a spiritual being living a human experience?
What is the relationship between spirit and body?
How does this relationship unfold in our daily lives?
How can we manifest our fullest potential?
These are the questions we will explore in “Spirit Body”.
“Body knows Spirit through a constant dialogue that ears cannot hear and mind cannot grasp.
We find this conversation on the dance floor.
This conversation that becomes our life.”
Amara
Accommodation assistance is available. Please contact amara@thestudiomaui.com