The first of this year’s 5th Friday Specials at Bethesda will be a Benefit. All proceeds after expenses will be donated to Amnesty International, the worldwide grassroots movement of people campaigning to protect human rights.

Jan 30th 2015, 8.00 – 10.00 pm       (More about Amnesty International below)

All over the world people are imprisoned for choosing authenticity.

Let us not squander our freedom or take it for granted. Instead, let us dance together deeper into our authenticity and contribute our little piece towards the freedom of others.

Wherever the 5Rhythms are practiced, a community is born to dance, to sweat, to change, to support, and to provide a safe space for each of us to shatter the ego’s hold and awaken the juicy, unpredictable, fascinating, edge-walking part of ourselves that yearns to be free.

with Richard Jerram

See Bethesda Classes for all details, but do Feel free to give more: it will go to Amnesty, not to us!

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’s VISION

“We have a vision of a world in which every person enjoys all of the rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.

When those human rights are violated, we:

Search out the facts,

Expose what is happening,

Mobilize people to put pressure on governments and others to stop the violations.

Around the world we protect people and communities who come under attack, encourage governments and others to respect human rights and raise awareness of the international standards that protect us all.”

We have had to cancel Release & Renew this time round.

Sorry to disappoint you if you were secretly planning to come!

Cherry hill lost some momentum because the dates in November & December conflicted with holidays this year, so there has not been enough interest in the workshop.

I have emailed but not posted about this.

My new colleague Ann Kite will be teaching a 5 Hour workshop in Bethesda tomorrow Sunday Dec 7th. You can pay on the door ($100) but it would be helpful to let Sue Green know beforehand.

Claire & I shall be dancing there of course.

Full details (including what to bring with you)
at http://www.danceintheusa.com/workshops-and-events/

I shall lead an extra class in Charles Village on November 30th.

3.00 – 5.00 pm at Homewood Friends, 3107 N Charles Street, as usual.

Thanks for the suggestion, Jim.

Great to see so many come for our Halloween Special at Bethesda! -From the depths of the soul to the heights of absurdity (‘Ding Dong’ & ‘The Monster Mash’) in two and a half hours. . . .

Gabrielle Roth Feb 4 1942 – Oct 22 2012

Today is the second anniversary of Gabrielle’s passing. Click on image to see the video of her ashes being scattered from a mountain in Utah at the conclusion of the recent Teacher Training.

The fall is always a 5Rhythms anniversary time for me: 18 years since I started to dance with Sue Rickards in London; 14 years since I started teaching the London Elders at Gabrielle’s suggestion; 13 years since I became a certified teacher; 9 years since I met my wife Claire on the dance-floor in London. . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . And last Friday we celebrated 10 years of the bethesda 5Rhythms tribe.

Dance on!

The Dance Loft up 14th Street is a great initiative & I am supporting it. Every $ contributed goes toward a home for your feet!

Check it out here and contribute here

The Charles Village class will run from 5.00 – 7.00 pm on Sunday September 28th. The space is required by Homewood Friends before that.

Back to normal time (3.00 – 5.00) in October and onwards.

The introductory Moving The Spirit class booked up amazingly quickly: there wasn’t room for my wife and we had to turn 3 people away from the door. (We did recommend booking!)

So we strongly recommend booking before going to any of the Class Series in the fall (2nd & 4th Sats in Sept & Oct). -And of course you can save money by booking all four for $60. Otherwise they are $20 each.