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'''5Rhythms''' is a movement meditation practice devised by [[Gabrielle Roth]] in the late 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|last=North|first=Madelaine|title=TALK OF THE TOWN: Just do it Rhythm is a dancer
|work=Independent on Sunday|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20050220/ai_n9771257|date=20 February 2005}}</ref>  It draws from indigenous and world traditions using tenets of [[shamanism|shamanistic]], ecstatic, mystical and [[eastern philosophy]].  It also draws from [[Gestalt therapy]],<ref name=Juhan-PDF/> the human potential movement and [[transpersonal psychology]].<ref name=Juhan-PDF/>
Fundamental to the practice is the idea that everything is energy, and moves in waves, [[Patterns in nature|patterns]] and rhythms.

Roth describes the practice as a soul journey, and says that by moving the body, releasing the heart, and freeing the mind, one can connect to the essence of the soul, the source of inspiration in which an individual has unlimited possibility and potential.

==The practice==
(contracted; show full)an began to teach their own movement methodology, Open Floor, and The Moving Center in California has since been rhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesenamed Open Floor School California. <ref name="Open Floor School California">{{cite web|title=Open Floor School California|url=http://openfloor.org/find-open-floor/california-school/staff|accessdate=16 October 2016}}</ref>

The 5Rhythms movement has spread worldwide with 293 certified teachers (in 2016)<ref name="
5Rhythms Global, Find A Teacher">{{cite web|title=Find A Teacher|websiteurl=http://www.5rhythms.com/TeacherSearch.php|website=5Rhythms Global|accessdate=16 October 2016}}</ref>
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==Reception==

Charlotte Macleod, writing in the ''[[London Evening Standard]]'', describes dancing the 5Rhythms as a kind of antidote to life in a large city, and how she was attracted to a dance class by a video of Thom Yorke. The class leaves her "mentally and physically refreshed, and oddly connected to the other dancers." The dance was "a kind of moving meditation" for her.<ref name="EveningStandard">{{cite web | url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/(contracted; show full)
 | first2=Karen  | last3=Scott | first3=Nadine  | author-link= | year=2003
 | title=Dancing for Living Report: Women's experience of 5 Rhythms dance and the effects on their emotional wellbeing | publication-place=Sheffield | publisher=UK Advocacy Network | url=http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/dancing-for-a-living/}}</ref>

The 5Rhythms have been the subject of a
t least number of two PhD theses.<ref name=Juhan-PDF>"WorldCat Listing of Andrea Juhan's Thesis">{{cite web|title=WorldCat Listing of Andrea Juhan's Thesis|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/open-floor-dance-therapy-and-transformation-through-the-5rhythms/oclc/60710012|website=WorldCat Listing|accessdate=16 October 2016}}</ref><ref name=Hogya>{{cite web | url=http://boldgirldance.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Anne-Marie-Hogya-5Rhythms-Selected-Thesis-Chapters-May-16-.pdf | title=5RHYTHMS™ IN THE WORKPLACE: EXPLORING MOVEMENT AS A CORPORATE TRAINING APPROACH | publisher=Royal Roads University | date=March 2004 | accessdate=March 17, 2012 | author=Hogya, Anne Marie}}</ref> 
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