Willemijn de Dreu
Often I am in total awe of what I see on the dancefloor, again and again. It’s breathtaking when people find their aliveness and wild beauty through dance and beat and sweat. I love my work. I love the traveling that it brings, the connection with dancers all over the world. I love bodies in movement. I love being alive and in change. People describe my work as deep, healing, gentle, spacious and liberating. Come and find out for yourself. I look forward to meet you.
Alex Mackay
Alex Mackay is a dancer and artist, who is known for light and depth in her teaching, using few well-chosen words, and opening a sense of wonder. She is embodied, energetic and creative, and loves to dance with the group. She lives in West Wales and teaches internationally. Gabrielle Roth called her Raven Sister. Alex met her at the age of 22 and following her indication started to teach very soon. She is entitled to teach Waves, Heartbeat and God Sex and the body level.
She opens her heart into her feet
She plays the mandolin with her teeth
She rides the raven through the winds
She shelters in the moment
She calls and calls and calls
They hear her.
(Hilary Kneale 2013)
Olivia Palmer
I was born and grew up in London with a love and need to dance from an early age. However I came across many shadows in Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance that nourished my insecurities of not being "right". At 21 I left the UK for Italy where I still live. Where I became a mother and where I found my home in the 5Rhythms. My restless searching ended as the rhythms led me the way to finding my own dance. This practice has held me ever since through many deep dances teaching me to trust and let go. Always leaving me feeling refreshed and released at the end of dancing a wave, a blessing that I would like to share in my classes. My previous trainings in dance and shamanism come together very naturally and nourish my passion to share the 5Rhythms as I dance this teaching path.
Silvija Tomčik
Silvija Tomčik was introduced 20 years ago to Gabrielle Roth’s teachings through her book Maps to Ecstasy. It was a powerful encounter, which motivated Silvija to begin searching for teachers of the 5Rhythms to begin her dancing path. Since then she has been organizing 5Rhythms workshops in Croatia bringing it for the first time to this part of the world. At the time she was working in the Center for Peace Studies and leading workshops on gender issues.
She has finished Waves Teacher Training with Gabrielle in 2001, and in 2010 the Heartbeat Teacher Training. She is a part of the Teaching Staff at the Teacher Training. Silvija is teaching both nationally and internationally. She teaches weekly classes and weekend workshops using her imagination, great variety of music, her grounded way of dancing and her love for the freedom of being in the body to prompt people to discover their personal dance and healing movement. She is living with her husband Thierry Francois, also a 5Rhythms teacher and their son, Numa Rock, in Zagreb. She is also the mother of 14 year-old Tara.
Noelia Ruiz
Noelia is an adventurous spirit in search of new challenges that make her find her essence, her purest form of being.
I dare say that I was born dancing. Dance is my way of life, I feel, I express, I nurture, it rebuilds me and I am, through it. For years I have sought in classical and contemporary dance my goal in life.
I worked as a dancer, choreographer and teacher, but something was missing in my life, at that time I did not know how to identify it.
"The 5 Rhythms of Gabrielle Roth" planted a new seed in my ballet heart, after obtaining the certification of teacher a new adventure took me by the hand.
My greatest gift was to discover that the dance could show me the most beautiful of the ways to love. "To fall in love with oneself is one of the greatest gifts of life." And keep that flame alive one of the duties as individuals.
Throughout my life I have worked deeply in different disciplines, I have been assistant in different groups of therapy. I currently work with different groups of people, of all ages, with different deficiencies or problems. I attend groups or individually.
All my baggage is what sustains my work. And more than a job is a way of life. I continue to be a student of life. And I hope to remain so for a long time.
My only goal is to convey my experience as fun as possible.
She discovered the dance in 2012, since then she travels, dances, study and produces workshops with experienced teachers from abroad internationally known.
She leads Sweat, 5Rhythms practice wave classes with passion and authenticity.
She gives and incourage Freedom, Intensity and Vulenrability.
With Education Degree, she has been working in Fashion for more than 10 years.
Joanne Winstanley
Waves and Heartbeat Level 5R certified teacher.
Dancing since: 1996 Teaching since: 2004 - Victoria, Canada
For me this practice is energy work; when we enter fully into our dance, we move and engage with forces within and beyond us.
I use patience, humour, great music, and clear intention to create a container where the 5Rhythms can work their magic.
“Week in, week out, Joanne holds a space for 5Rhythms® with passion, patience, clear intention, great eclectic music, a sense of humour and, above all, deep respect for the transformative nature of this work.” JB, student
Joanne is skilled at grounding, tracking, and transforming the energy of a group. A natural catalyst, she uses evocative music and language, clear intention, good humour to consistently create a field where energy moves and healing happens. Her teaching is rooted in a lifelong engagement with her own personal work. Joanne continues to deepen and refine her work through ongoing practice with teachers, mentors, and colleagues from a range of modalities and traditions.
In Victoria, Joanne’s classes and workshops provide a place of nourishment, connection, and steady practice – a local watering-hole – for activists, counselors, parents, healers, gardeners, students, artists, craftspeople, meditators, guides, service-workers, community contributors and soulful seekers of all stripes. She considers it her job, her joy, and her great good fortune to hold space for people whose presence, good work, connection and well-being enlivens and sustains our community.
“Joanne’s teaching style uniquely combines both gentleness and fire: nurturing us where we’re at while also challenging our growth.” Tamara, student
Erik Iversen
Dancing since: 1981 Teaching since: 1987
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Maps: Teacher to Teacher 5RTA mentor, Waves
I am a 5Rhythms teacher , a reflexologist and a practitioner of Hellerwork Structural Integration. I've observed thousands of bodies , both in dancing and through movement patterns i see in my bodywork practice. From this body of knowledge , I introduce the building blocks of movement through developmental explorations, core anatomy and structural integration . Once we have a whole sense of our bodies, I facilitate the pathway to enjoyable and expressive embodiment through sensorial discovery , creativity and play.
"Teaching people to experience the pulsating sensual energy inside themselves and to awaken their connection to flowing breath, to rooted feet and to a centered ,alive pevis-reach up, root down, live in the heart center."
Erik’s life commitment is to playfully awakening the body-mind-heart connection. He co-founded the first 5Rhythms Teacher’s Training in 1988, and has been teaching across North America and Europe ever since, to movers from the ages of 4 to 92 years old.
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