A descent into pulse, a climb through depth, an invitation to the other side of all that we know.

A live-wire transmission where breath becomes percussion, gesture becomes story, and the floor becomes a map of remembering.

Within the spiral of 5Rhythms—flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, stillness—the body is invited to shed its explanations. Ritual theatre threads through movement like fragments of story, sparks of character, glimpses of the untamed self.

This becomes a route to the root of our practice itself: beneath technique, beneath story, beneath identity—into the raw ground where movement is not performed but discovered. Where it is not expression of something known, but the emergence of something true in real time.

You are not guided along a straight path. You are routed—through sensation, through instinct, through the root system of the body—toward something raw, grounding, and enlivened.

On the route to freedom.

A road map to authentic presence, possibility, and profound play. The real deal.

Expect sweat. Expect silence that hums. Expect moments that feel like they were always waiting for you to arrive.

At the heart of it is the essence of our practice: not form, but listening. Not choreography, but the intelligence of the moment itself unfolding through bodies willing to be moved.

Hit the gas. Floor it and drop down into your feet.

Don’t forget your jumper cables.

Location:
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
Delridge Way SW & SW Oregon St, 4414 Delridge Way SW, Seattle, WA 98106, United States

Dates:
October 2 – 4, 2026
Friday: 7- 9:30 pm
Saturday: 11 am- 6pm
Sunday: 10:30 am – 5 pm

REGISTRATION: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/route-to-the-root-5rhythms…

Contact Kellie for more information: kellie5rhythms@gmail.com

Join us here: https://www.lorcasimons.com/route-to-the-root

The Live Wire 5Rhythms® Ritual Theatre Wing is a dynamic artistic practice, global community, and creative home devoted to the transformative power of the expression of the spirit in all things. Rooted in the movement maps of 5Rhythms®, we have cultivated an evolving body of original laboratories, theatre performances, and creative explorations. This awakens imagination, deepens presence, and reveals the poetry of the moving body. Guided by the visionary work of Gabrielle Roth, Lorca Simons and artist Martha Peabody, the Theatre Wing continues to shape a unique language of movement, ensemble, and embodied storytelling—creating spaces where art becomes awareness-awareness becomes action-and the body remembers its deepest creative intelligence.

Lorca Simons
Lorca Simons is the Artistic Director of the Live Wire 5Rhythms® Ritual Theatre Wing, devoted to the creation of embodied ritual theatre that is both interactive and transformative. Her work explores the meeting place of conscious movement, ritual theatre, and embodied artistry, awakening embodied intelligence and the visionary imagination of the soul. She creates revolutionary theatre that dissolves the fourth wall—and all the walls that separate us.

For more than three decades, Lorca has been creating original embodied theatre experiences throughout the world, cultivating spaces where art becomes ritual, presence becomes an art form, and dance becomes a living prayer.

An internationally certified 5Rhythms® facilitator, Lorca is devoted to the shape-shifting beauty of ensemble and to the fertile meeting place of the healing and creative arts. Through movement, imagination, and embodied

storytelling, she invites people to awaken their unique creative voice and step more fully into the poetry, mystery, and intelligence of the body.

Lorca creates original theatre in 5Rhythms communities around the world. Her work honours the extraordinary creative potential within every body and is dedicated to scattering the seeds of this transformative process wherever she travels.

Returning us to the artistic nature of the body—sculpting spirit into shape, soul into story, dancing the mind into the wind, and tracing the heart home. www.lorcasimons.com

DJ MUSE: Chloe Goodwin
Chloe (she/they) has been a committed Conscious Dance practitioner for over 25 years, and an Accredited 5Rhythms™ teacher since 2010. They are a licensed masters level Social Worker, artist, community weaver and life-long student. Chloe teaches 5rhythms™ classes and workshops informed by studies in somatics, trauma healing and embodied social justice practices. They facilitate brave movement journeys that cultivate somatic sensibility and non-ordinary awareness. Chloe leads with sensitivity, heart and humor. They call on music as medicine, movement as ally, and community as catalyst. https://chloegoodwin.com/