5Rhythms

5Rhythms is a movement meditation in which a teacher and music guide you to dance freely through five rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness. It was developed by Gabrielle Roth in the late 1970s and draws on world dance traditions, Gestalt therapy and transpersonal psychology. Roth described it as a journey of body, heart and mind. 5Rhythms itself is untested, but there is some evidence that dance and exercise may lift low mood: see “5Rhythms: what the research says”.