Tribe

One of the biggest gifts of dancing the 5 Rhythms™ is that it creates undeniable community. When we show up week after week, offering our sweat to a dance larger than ourselves, an intimacy is born that goes beyond words – in fact, it is born not from words at all but from movement, breath, shape, laughter, tears, and surrender. How often have I not heard a dancer speak these words after having traveled through yet another wave, with both known and new dancers: “This is the only place I can really be myself.”

My prayer is that these tribes of lively and ever-more open-hearted dancers will spread like weeds, like wildfire throughout our fragmented society. As we dance together, at home and away, we’re weaving a web of mindful, inspired, alive community that teaches us a new way of being together – one that we can take beyond the 4 walls of our dance spaces and into our lives, our families, our world.

As you are reading this, the 5 Rhythms™ are being danced by communities in the Netherlands, Kroatia, Germany, Maui, California, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, England, New York, Belgium, Argentina……. Just to name a few. I invite you to join this sizzling global tribe of dancers, or if you are already connected, to come dance with us in Maine sometime!