5Rhythms® with Tammy Burstein

Change Change Change
Summer ending, school starting, space shifting, time warping, opportunity is afoot starting this Friday. Check it all out below and be in the know of the now on the dance floor.

Night Waves News
Night Waves has moved to the Joffrey’s brand new, big as we’ve wished for, Studio 6 on the 5th Floor at 434 6th Ave. (near 10th St.).  We practiced creating space in Studio 3 for 5 years.  We’ve manifested that empty space upstairs in Studio 6 and hope to be finding it there for many years to come.

Night Waves class time changes as of this Friday, Sept. 3  to 7.30-9.30PM and prices are also changing.  Our studio rental cost has tripled and so for the first time in a decade I must raise the class price.  The new Night Waves prices are:
$20 – Full Price
$15 – Students
$150 – Class cards (10 Classes, good for use at my regular NYC Friday night class, and Thursday morning class)

Night Waves, Sept. 17 – Special 3 Hour Class
Night Waves Friday, Sept.17 will be the first session of the weekend workshop, Waves: from Start to Starting Over.  This special class will be 3 hours long (8PM-11PM) and will be held at the Merce Cunningham Studio. The cost for the Friday, Sept. 17 class is $25, $20 for class card holders and students.  Join us for the evening and experience the 5Rhythms® at this historic location.  Registration and pre-payment is suggested.

Waves: From Start to Starting Over – Early Bird Price ends Sept. 3
The “early-bird” price ends this Friday. Register and pay at Thursday morning or Friday evening classes, with cash, by check or credit card, to secure the price of $175 for the full weekend (see below for more info).

Waves: From Start to Starting Over
Waves is the foundational map of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® movement meditation practice.  It’s the map that first sets us free to explore our life-long dances of moving and being moved. We come to the Wave to be held, heartened, informed, lightened and inspired by and through our personal and collective creativity. We keep coming back to the Wave to realign body, heart and mind, to remember to move body and soul, and to reconnect body to spirit, flesh to breath, 5Rhythms at a time.  Come start or start over; a weekend respite on the dance floor, to begin, ignite, and re-kindle our love affair with the Wave.

Location:     Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune St. (btwn. Washington & West Sts.), New York, NY
Schedule:    Friday, Sept. 17, 8PM-11PM; Saturday, Sept. 18, 2PM-7 PM, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2PM-6PM
Prices:         $175, $195 after Sept. 3rd.  Friday night only: $25, $20 for class card holders.  Student
discounts available.
To register:  Email:  [email protected] / Call: 212-219-0019.

Thursday Morning Waves Class
Thursday morning Waves class continues at the Sandra Cameron Dance Center, 199 Lafayette St. (near Spring St.),11AM-12.30PM.

Thursday morning Waves class prices remain $15, $10 for Students.  Thursday morning only class cards are available, 10 classes for $120.

Heartbeat: A Journey to the Heartland
Gabrielle Roth’s Heartbeat map teaches us to move more freely with our emotions. Instead of denying them, resisting them, or persisting with them we learn to move with them and through them into a fuller expression of them. The 5Rhythms practice gives us a language to speak with our bodies; the Heartbeat practice leads us to move with the shape, breath and locomotion of our emotions. We all have dances that hold us back, tighten us up, tie us down, and keep us from moving with joy. In Heartbeat we practice releasing those dances, moving forward, loosening up, shaking free, lightening up. Let’s join together on the dance floor and find our way home to the heart one step at a time.

Location:     Summit Presbyterian Church, 6757 Greene St., Philadelphia, PA
Schedule:    Friday, Oct. 1, 7PM-10PM; Saturday, Oct. 2, Noon-6PM, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2.30PM-6.30PM
Prices:         $175, $195 after Sept. 17th, Friday night only: $30, $40 after Sept. 17th.  Student
discounts available.
To register:  Email:  [email protected] / Call: 215-842-5976


Sept. 17-19, 2010, New York City, NY

Waves: From Start to Starting Over
Waves is the 5Rhythms map that first sets us free to explore our life-long dances of moving and being moved. We come to the Wave to be held, heartened, informed, lightened and inspired by and through our personal and collective creativity. We keep coming back to the Wave to realign body, heart and mind, to remember to move body and soul, and to reconnect from body to spirit, from flesh to breath, 5Rhythms at a time. Come start or start over; a weekend respite on the dance floor, to begin, ignite, and re-kindle our love affair with the Wave.

For more info email: rhythmsdancer (at) gmail (dot) com or call: 212.219.0019

Oct. 1-3, 2010, Philadelphia, PA

Heartbeat
The 5Rhythms Heartbeat map teaches us to move more freely with our emotions. Instead of denying them, resisting them , or persisting with them we learn to move with them and through them into a fuller expression of them.  The 5Rhythms practice gives us a language to speak with our bodies; the Heartbeat practice leads us to move with the shape, breath and locomotion of our emotions. We all have dances that hold us back, tighten us up, tie us down, and keep us from moving with joy.  In Heartbeat we practice releasing those dances, moving forward, loosening up, shaking free, lightening up. Let’s join together on the dance floor and find our way home to the heart one step at a time.  NOTE:  Pre-requisite: 12 hours Waves classes and/or workshops with certified 5Rhythms teachers. Note:  Attendance at  June 6, 2010, Heartbeat: an afternoon visit to the heartland fulfills the pre-requisite.

For more info email: 5rhythmsphilly (at) gmail (dot) com or call: 215.842-5976

Nov. 19-21, 2010, Bethesda, MD

Heartbeat

The 5Rhythms Heartbeat map teaches us to move more freely with our emotions. Instead of denying them, resisting them , or persisting with them we learn to move with them and through them into a fuller expression of them.  The 5Rhythms practice gives us a language to speak with our bodies; the Heartbeat practice leads us to move with the shape, breath and locomotion of our emotions. We all have dances that hold us back, tighten us up, tie us down, and keep us from moving with joy.  In Heartbeat we practice releasing those dances, moving forward, loosening up, shaking free, lightening up. Let’s join together on the dance floor and find our way home to the heart one step at a time.  NOTE: Pre-requisite: Pre-requisite: 12 hours Wavesclasses and/or workshops with certified 5Rhythms teachers.

For more info email: jim (at) aphroditephoto (dot) com or call: 202.627.9903

I’m thrilled to be going south to the sun on March 5th and 6th for an evening of Waves and a day of Heartbeat at the New World School of the Arts.

March 5 from 7 to 10PM
Stepping Out: An evening’s explorations following the Waves map of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms® movement meditation practice. An opportunity to both start the journey and revisit familiar landmarks with curiosity and creativity.  Allowing ourselves the freedom to surrender to the simplicity of rhythm and moves we give ourselves the opportunity to wake up to body and soul. No previous experience necessary.

March 6 from Noon to 6PM
Moving On: A day-trip to the heartland.  As the body moves so does the heart.  The same we way practice moving in, out and through in our Waves practice, there is a 5Rhythms® map to moving fully through our embodied emotions, Heartbeat.  In this workshop we will begin to investigate that map through the shape, breath and locomotion of emotion. Prerequisite: Waves.

For more info or to register:
Email: miamirhythms (at) gmail (dot) com or Call: 305.582.6007

As we reach the mid-point in our 6-week progressive workshop Spirit: Silence and Stillness I am excited to announce a new spring offering, 5 Maps to Freedom, 6 weeks of exploring the rhythms in the Rhythms, dancing on the edges between the Rhythms, moving with where they merge, surrendering to where they separate.

Dates: Starting in April 2010
Location: TBA
Cost: TBA
Pre-requisite: TBA

Watch this space for more information soon!

Unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrolled… life happens and occasionally there are last minute time or location changes for my classes and workshops.

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Finding an empty space!

As we all know finding the empty space is a big part of our 5Rhythms practice, a big part of life as practice. And, at the moment, finding space is a big part of holding 5Rhythms classes in New York City!

No matter how well we adjust to the Night Waves time change what we really need is a new home for the class. If you know of a space, in Manhattan, 1800 sq. ft. or larger, with a sprung wood floor, a sense of humor and an open mind, please let me know.

Effective immediately Friday’s Night Waves class will be held from 8PM – 10PM at the Joffrey Ballet, 434 6th Ave. (near 10th St.), 4th Floor.

Why?  So that we can practice being our wild, bigger than life selves without interfering with the classical practice of the ballet on the other side of the studio wall.  So that we can pursue the practice of living in a peaceable kingdom where there is room for every dancer to be in love, moving from the heart.

Looking forward to sharing the dance floor with you every Friday night.

Interview with Tammy on WRLN, Miami