Music and dance have been my pas­sion since child­hood. When I first stepped onto a 5 Rhythms dance floor in 2004, I final­ly felt like I had found what I had been search­ing for. Where else could I find a place where I could com­plete­ly lose myself and find myself at the same time, if not on the dance floor… Since then, I have set out, bro­ken into a mil­lion pieces, been reborn and rein­vent­ed myself a thou­sand times. I cried my heart out, I screamed from the depths of my soul, I was afraid to even breathe again, I felt joy flow­ing through my veins like sweet, melt­ed hon­ey, I felt at peace with every­thing around me and much, much more. There is sim­ply no end to the rich­ness we can expe­ri­ence when we open our­selves to what is already hap­pen­ing with­in us and around us. We learn to trans­form our­selves through all the pos­si­bil­i­ties avail­able to us as human beings and to expand our abil­i­ty to be our­selves. Wild and unadul­ter­at­ed. It is an hon­our for me to be able to guide you even deep­er into your own dance. I look for­ward to meet­ing you on or off the dance floor so that we can walk this path of embod­ied liv­ing together

more info about Chris

For me, the 5Rhythms were and still are ‘love at first dance’ – more than twen­ty years have passed since then, and noth­ing has changed in this love.
After many years of self-explo­ration in this move­ment prac­tice – as well as in fine art and art ther­a­py – I have been an enthu­si­as­tic 5Rhythms teacher since 2014, hap­py to share my ‘trea­sures’ with every­one who wants to explore, (re)discover and cel­e­brate their vital­i­ty, pas­sion and inner truth in this dance practice.

My need to design and cre­ate first led me to the visu­al arts. In sculp­ture, paint­ing, pho­tog­ra­phy and spa­tial instal­la­tion, my inter­est was pri­mar­i­ly in being human, in both exter­nal and inter­nal expres­sion. When I dis­cov­ered the 5Rhythms, it was like com­ing home after a long jour­ney: they offered me the oppor­tu­ni­ty to move com­plete­ly freely and redis­cov­er myself: here and now – with lots of vital­i­ty! Con­scious danc­ing allows me to come back to myself again and again, and what my body has to say often chal­lenges some of my fixed beliefs.

It makes me very hap­py to teach and pass on this move­ment prac­tice. Every­one who enters this space is the main actor in their own life, danc­ing more and more their own unique and authen­tic dance, becom­ing ever more radi­ant and beau­ti­ful in the process.

more info about Verena

I am often com­plete­ly fas­ci­nat­ed by what I see on the dance floor. It is breath­tak­ing when peo­ple dis­cov­er their vital­i­ty and wild beau­ty through dance, rhythm and sweat. I love my work. I love the trav­el­ling that comes with it, the con­nec­tion to dancers all over the world. I love bod­ies in motion. I love being alive and chang­ing. Peo­ple describe my work as pro­found, heal­ing, gen­tle, expan­sive and liberating.

more info about WillemijnSusanna

The first time I came into con­tact with the 5Rhythms, I felt that this was it for me. Since then I have been work­ing on myself, on my issues, and I keep find­ing new aspects. Move­ment and encounter are essen­tial for me, at work, in my pri­vate life and with the 5Rhythms. Even if there are phas­es when it is dif­fi­cult for me to feel, I still try to keep at it, to open up again and again and to encounter myself and oth­ers in a new and open way. This fes­ti­val is a mat­ter close to my heart. Chil­dren are our future.

more info about Andreas

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