Online Classes

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance”

Alan Watts

Dance 5Rhythms Online

We offer ‘Hybrid’ Online Classes.  These are ‘Live in-person classes’ which are also available for people to join on Zoom.  Click on the class date to book.  If you are a first-timer, see information below about how online classes work.

Weekly Online classes are at 5:45pm on Tuesday and Friday.

We also offer a Monthly Sunday Online at 10am.

Attending an Online Moving Essence Class

HISTORY & PURPOSE

After 15 years of offering 5Rhythms in different venues, the pandemic thrust us into working online in 2020.  Since then, we have continued to offer Online classes because our regular Zoom dancers have told us things like:

  • they don’t have access to a regular local class,
  • they have health reasons that prevent them from attending in-person,
  • They love to explore dancing with different teachers who live on the other side of the world, and
  • They love home practice for all it offers – privacy, intimacy, flexibility, time saving…just to name a few reasons

If this sound like you – why not try a Moving Essence Online class!

HOW TO DANCE ONLINE WITH US

1. Book a class on line

2. If you book just before the class time, click on the Zoom link to join.

3. If you booked in advance – the Zoom link will be sent to you by email.

4. You can choose to download the app or click on the Zoom booking link and join from a browser.

5. You will be in a waiting room and the host will let you in.

AUDIO REQUIREMENTS

Online dancers should understand that:

  • You must join with computer audio

  • You will not have adequate sound unless you have wireless headphones or a connection to a wired or bluetooth speaker.  The inbuilt speakers on a computer or phone will not be sufficient

  • Both the in-person & online groups share the same process

  • During the class, the camera is mostly facing the teacher and apart from the occasional visit from dancers in the room, the online dancers do their own self practice and form their own group.

  • Online dancers can choose to have their camera on or off

  • Sometimes we record the session but this is the music only (not camera)

  • When the class ends, we sometimes gather the group in the hall, so online dancers can log off, choose to leave a farewell message in the chat or stay online and chat with other online dancers you want to connect with.

If you are a few minutes late and you cannot book because the event has started, in most circumstances you can find the next date by clicking the dropdown arrow on the date button. You will be directed to the following week where you can book the next occurring class and get the SAME link to join the Zoom class you are a few minutes late for.

Our online classes are weekly events. The exception to this is when we have guest teachers.  On these occasions we offer a Recorded Class.

To hear about how Moving Essence Online Classes helped people through the pandemic watch our online dance video

Guidelines for Online Classes

  • Please commit to moving in silence. This is a moving meditation practice.  Even though your computer will be muted, the act of chatting or talking with others in your space is distracting to others who are witnessing the group on-screen.   

  • Please avoid using mobile phones or any extra technology whilst the dance is on.  One screen is enough!

  • Our classes are offered as a drug & alcohol free dance – please respect this..

  • Please come on time. Class entry opens 15 minutes before starting. New participants will not be able to join ½ hour after class starts.  If you were already in the group & your Zoom connection drops out that is different – please rejoin the group. 

  • Pace yourself. Be responsible for your own wellbeing. Go gently with any injuries you may have & go at a manageable intensity. If you need to leave early, please send a message in the chat or wave goodbye.   Moving on the floor or on a chair is fine.

  • Wear loose comfortable layers & please keep clothes on even if you are hot.

  • If you join with a partner please save kissing or sexual engagement for after the dance.  Even though it’s your own home, for the time of the class it is a shared space so we ask that you lose yourself to dance, not romance.

Happy Dancers

The 5R philosophy and practice has had a profound effect on how I show up in the world.  I am more centered and connected with myself and others.  For me, this extends back 16 years.  Meredith and David, expressing and sharing the rhythms of life with passion and skill.  To both of them I am truly grateful.

Carl Quinsee

I have been a 5Rhythms dancer for the last 10 years. Words cannot convey how much joy, self-love and healing I have experienced through this movement meditation practice.
I experienced true freedom for the first time in my life. Freedom from judgement of others & freedom to move my body with intuition and curiosity.
Thank you David and Meredith for this precious gift.
GypZy Szworak

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