Dance First Association Members Events

This is an opportunity for those who want to explore the dynamics of relationship in the luminous mirror of repetition, rhythm and ritual theater. We will cultivate and deepen our ability to see and hear each other as we breakthrough the masks and myths of relationship to face each other with naked souls. Repetition allows us [...]

“A warrior is self-oriented, not in a selfish way, but in the sense of a total, continuous examination of the self." - Castaneda Mirrors is an initiation into the world beyond self-importance -- into the art of seeing. To enter the world of Mirrors is to take off our blinders and begin to see through the [...]

In these funky, frenetic times, we need our feet on the ground, our instincts intact and our intuition in full force. Being true to the signs and signals that come from within is our survival art, not to mention a way to move with integrity in a world in flux. Hidden in chaos, like the eye [...]

We all long for a place to call home, a place where we feel totally connected and at peace. But there is no home unless we find it in ourselves. The way home is a journey into trance. Trance is soul food, an injection of spirit that can carry us for days and weeks through subways [...]

In this class we dance hard, we dance bold, we dance deep. Jonathan takes us to the place where the soul of hip hop, the catharsis of rock and roll, the trance of techno and the heart of house collide into the world beat. And in this beat, we get together to reinvent ourselves, to discard [...]

Time: 11-6pm Earlybird date September 15, 2018 Price $150 ($125 if before September 15, 2018)

Energy--it has a rhythm, an organic pulse, a way in which it expresses itself. We each have a home rhythm, or perhaps, a combination of multiple rhythms combined, where we feel the most at ease. Shifting life circumstances can shake us out of these rhythms of comfort and we are asked to enter terrain of transformation, [...]

The Equinox where the day and the night are equal in length, is a time of balance. As you are reflection of the natural world, it fulfills your true self to spend time feeding your soul, & finding balance within. Your task is to create balance in your life between motion and stillness; light and dark; [...]

We're always in a constant state of flux, traveling and traversing from our essential selves to our shadow selves -- a place where if we stay too long our ego starts to run the show. It is our constant struggle and our shamanic task to create a personal awareness of our shadow places and spaces. The [...]

T H R I V E What makes you come alive? What turns you on and connects you to your own creative wellspring? Join Amber Ryan in T H R I V E as we will explore the embodiment energetics that help us to move our force field into a positively attuned vehicle. Bring about the [...]

    How do we track the direction and trajectory of our soul? With dedicated inquiry, might we begin to understand our place within the divine mystery? Though the nature of these questions are elusive, we can start to connect the threads of our existence past, present and future to find clues along our life’s journey as points [...]

Elective workshops combine the 5Rhythms practice with other disciplines. These workshops hold true to the 5Rhythms Maps and weave in deep investigations that compliment the teachings. This workshop will count as an Elective on the 5Rhythms Dancing Path towards Teacher Training.

"God Sex and the Body is and always will be a profound and integral part of the 5Rhythms® curriculum. It has personally informed my way of being, my teaching style, and, most deeply, my acceptance of who I am and who I am not." -- Gabrielle In the series of maps that comprise the dancing path [...]

Mirrors is an initiation into the world beyond self-importance -- into the art of seeing. To enter the world of Mirrors is to take off our blinders and begin to see through the delusions and difficulties that trap us in unhappiness and destructiveness. We start to step back and get some insight into the predictable patterns [...]

In this workshop, rooted in Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms movement practice, we use our dance like archeologists to dig beneath the surface, to seek buried treasures and pearls of wisdom gleaned from our own life experience. The 5Rhythms offer us both a map to understanding and a way to deeply embody the patterns, waves, and vibrations that [...]

On July 7th, in Nosara, Costa Rica, we will take a tribe of adventurous souls on a journey to practice the art of being human. With the 5Rhythms® Waves and Heartbeat maps as our foundation, we will take Refuge from the world of doing in order to arrive into a nourishing state of being. Together, we [...]

With stable ground underneath we will take a journey to integrate the loose threads of the past and weave them as an emblem of support at our back. We will dance to ignite our passion for life and remember the gifts we were born with so that we may share them truly, confidently and with ease [...]

"God Sex and the Body is and always will be a profound and integral part of the 5Rhythms® curriculum. It has personally informed my way of being, my teaching style, and, most deeply, my acceptance of who I am and who I am not." -- Gabrielle In the series of maps that comprise the dancing path [...]

We work. We love. We run households and we run businesses. Day in and day out, we juggle. A lot. Meetings and emails, school plays and snow days, grocery shopping, laundry, friends’ birthdays, and our own anniversaries — and everything in between. Basically, we’re in overdrive all the time, often sacrificing our personal well-being, and getting [...]

Everything in life moves in waves, including our thoughts, feelings, desires, and sensations. Everything alive moves at an ever-changing pulse. The 5Rhythms Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness, offer us a way to embody these waves, giving us a physical vocabulary to express where we are and to trust wherever we are going. We practice the [...]

In this elemental movement workshop, we will explore the teachings and medicine alive within each of the five rhythms: FLOWING / STACCATO / CHAOS / LYRICAL / STILLNESS We will gather In community, to practice, to embody and discover which of the rhythms are thriving within us as well as the ones lying dormant just waiting [...]

In this elemental movement workshop, we will explore the teachings and medicine alive within each of the five rhythms: FLOWING / STACCATO / CHAOS / LYRICAL / STILLNESS We will gather In community, to practice, to embody and discover which of the rhythms are thriving within us as well as the ones lying dormant just waiting [...]