5 Rhymn Dancing

I wanted to tell you a little about my experience of the 5 Rhythm dancing technique. I enjoy the structure of the dancing, which is split into five parts in the order of flowing,staccato, chaos, lyrical, and stillness . The five rhythms, when danced in the sequence, are known as a "wave." A typical wave takes about an hour to dance.

Essentially what I love most is the music and how it makes me feel. When a certain piece of music resonates with me ....it can simply be amazing and you feel exhilarated. Dancing 5 Rhythm takes me out of my head (away from thinking about day to day things ). I focus on the music
and my movements. I  focus on the present moment. I think to myself " I am here, alive and present" and that is such a good feeling. I spend too much time not being really present.

I can be rather self-concious, but when I am doing the 5 Rhythm I dont feel judged by others.  I immerse myself in the enjoyment of the dance. Of course on occasions I have felt uninspired by the music and become stuck, but usually as you move through the rhythms, with the guidance of the teacher you become unstuck.

I do believe you need to have courage to dance the 5 Rhythms because you get in touch with your feelings and often you are unaware of what is lurking there. It is not easy for everyone to explore those feelings more deeply. It can be fun, sad, exciting, powerful, confusing, challenging ...... (please dont let me put you off though cos these are just my thoughts).

I have been working on myself for a while~ I hoped the dancing would be a way to deal with my grief. I am happy to say it did help and it still does. But what surprised me was the amount of anger & rage in me. In the 5 Rhythms I have danced with such aggression in my veins, wanted to wreck havoc on everything and everyone around me, felt such rage about what happened to me.

I believe it will be an on-going process, perhaps a life long process of dealing with the feelings of rage and grief about loosing my mum & my dad (in seperate incidents) as a young child and then my aunt when I was 17.

But I count myself lucky to have embarked on a journey of working through these painful emotions to lead a happier and more creative life. The dancing continues to be an enormously therapeutic experience for me.


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