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Monday 9am - 5pm Tuesday 2pm - 10pm Wednesday 9am - 5pm Thursday 9am - 5pm Friday 10am - 8pm Sunday 9am - 12pm

Moving Essence

5Rhythms Dance classes and workshops in Melbourne, run by Meredith Davies and David Juriansz Are you seeking the fastest way to still your mind?

Are you willing to move your body? Developed by Gabrielle Roth in the 60’s, 5Rhythms is a community of people who love to dance for celebration, refuge and inspiration. The practice is done globally and held by over 350 registered teachers, meaning each week, thousands ‘sweat their prayers’. As a simple and exhilarating dance practice, it has no steps and requires no experience – suitable for all

ages and abilities.

5Rhythms® is a practice for our times ~ to free your body, express your heart and clear your mind. Our Regular Classes:
https://movingessence.com/classes/

Weekly MELBOURNE TUESDAY ‘Early and Late Waves’
'Early' class - Light Waves 5:45-7:15pm ($20)
'Late class - Tidal Wave 7:30-9.30pm ($25). Please arrive on time, doors shut 30 mins after class begins to hold a contained space. This is a respectful, fun-loving and welcoming class, held with the intention of going deep and remaining silent. St Brigid’s Parish Hall, 378 Nicholson St, Fitzroy North

Monthly SUNDAY ‘Sweat your prayers’ - Music-only, un-facilitated, family-friendly, 5Rhythms sessions, 2 per month.
10:30am – 12:30pm ($15). Children welcome, under 16s free. St Brigid’s Parish Hall, 378 Nicholson St, Fitzroy North

We run two Sunday's each year at Abbotsford Convent. In CASTLEMAINE FRIDAY weekly classes

5:45pm - 7:30pm all welcome $20/$15
St Marys Hall
Corner of Hargreaves & Lyttleton St. Castlemaine

We offer weekend workshops & special events
https://movingessence.com/workshops-events/

02/06/2026

This month, Meredith is offering a new workshop in 2 different places.
Soon, she heads to Perth to offer this 1 day workshop.
June 27, she will bring Nourish to Castlemaine! 🌱

"The year can sometimes feel like it has moved so quickly. I often find myself needing to slow down and find nourishment that serves me in a deeply restorative and internal way.

Nourish is a day for just this. We’ll move gently and purposefully through the 5Rhythms. Allowing rather than pushing, and exploring the nuanced, subtle and sometimes potent dance that winter invites. Dancing for ourselves and all that we care about and seek to nourish.

I hope you will join me for this rejuvenating day of movement, rest and reflection in the heart of winter." - Meredith

Book NOURISH in Perth June 14:
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1586470?fbclid

Book NOURISH in Castlemaine June 27:
https://movingessence.com/events/nourish-castlemaine/

01/06/2026

Winter is officially here and our next Sweat is this Sunday, June 7. Come and dance the frosty mornings with us at St B's, we would love to see you there!

29/05/2026

Our Autumn Leaves recorded class series is complete! 🍂
These recordings are taken from our Light Waves & Castlemaine classes with a mix of both David and Meredith teaching. Fall into them if you haven't already.
Check out our website to find all of our Recorded Classes.

28/05/2026

Soul Revival. Hallelujah!

We’ve been love bombed by Lorca Simons who held an extraordinary Live Wire workshop. 5Rhythms dance and Ritual Theatre last weekend. St Bs Hall was transformed into a theatre space of dancers and players in black and white. With a willing group, embellished with the creative use of props, Lorca used magic, mastery and mystery to take us on a soulful ride.
For both of us were collaborators in this artistic ride. As producers, DJ muses, musicians and dancers. All the while, with Gabrielle Roth’s silver boots as part of the theatre installation, we felt the potency of her legacy. Such powerful work, turning suffering into art, art into awareness and awareness into action.
We love the deep encounter that workshops bring. Until the next one…
Love
D&M

“YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. YOU ARE SOULFUL MAGIC. YOU ARE HELD. YOU ARE LOVED.

Until soon.” - Lorca

🤍🖤

21/05/2026

Soul Revival Night Open dance is tomorrow Friday 22nd May from 7pm at St Brigids Hall in North Fitzroy,

Online booking ($35) is open until 6pm. Tickets at the door ($40) available. Doors close at 7:30pm.

If you are joining on Friday night Lorca asked those coming to please wear all Black.

We don’t want this to cause extra stress - it’s a request only.

Even if you could wear ONE BLACK ITEM on FRIDAY or some dark clothing that will suffice.

The invitation is an opportunity to unify our collective creative presence and enhance our visual imagination.

Looking forward to this special evening…

Love from Moving Essence

https://movingessence.com/events/soul-revival-workshop-opening-night/

20/05/2026

Let’s gather to whisper and circle from the ground our rites of restoration.

Let’s stand and shout to rally the forces that revitalise our spirited dreams
into creative realities.

Let’s surrender our bones to the beat that can hold it all and regenerate our
faith in the mystery.

Let’s deliver our stories from the heart of the feet to resurrect the light and
shadows that seep, shine and soar through us.

Let’s invite spirit to be our barometer and witness in this exploration and
celebration of what it means to be soulfully revived.

Rooted in the Waves Map with live, interactive and in the moment explorations in a grounded container, and concentrated in 5Rhythms Ritual Theatre perspectives Lorca, Meredith and David in renaissance, will invoke this dynamic practice’s principal: If you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself. Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor. Setting your compass for the unpredictable come and be prepared for individual and collective fascination, radical unity and edgy grace.

This weekend...
SOUL REVIVAL with LORCA SIMONS

18/05/2026

Join us FRIDAY MAY 22 for the opening night of Soul Revival: LIVE WIRE with Lorca.
This is an open-to-all event with a deep wave dance offered by Meredith & David and an introduction to Ritual Theatre with Lorca. Dancers are welcome to drop in and pay at the door, but it is cheaper to book in-advance..
Head to our website to BOOK.

There is a place inside you that has never been choreographed.
Never corrected. Never asked to be anything other than what it is.

Ritual Theatre is an invitation into that place.
Through movement, rhythm, and raw presence, you begin to peel back the layers of performance that life has asked of you. What’s left is not emptiness - it’s essence.
And from that essence, something unexpected emerges:
a character, a force, a fragment of truth that has been waiting for space.
You don’t create it.
You allow it.
And in allowing, you meet yourself in a way that is both ancient and entirely new.
- Lorca Simons

Soul Revival with Lorca Simons

16/05/2026

"Life is sacred. Life is artistic expression. Life is a sacred art. The soul is the artist. Its nature is creating, and its natural expression is through the sacred archetypal roles: the dancer, the singer, the poet, the actor and the healer. Every earthly activity is an opportunity for complete, authentic self-expression. It is up to each of us to celebrate and realise our being. " Gabrielle Roth

SOUL REVIVAL, MAY 22-24, MELBOURNE
with Simons

14/05/2026

5Rhythms is an art form. Application and vision are one and the same from an artistic perspective, both evoking creative expansion which is at the root of our practice. The beauty of the 5Rhythms from a theatre perspective is that we have the opportunity to mirror life, absorbing every morsel of its offerings and giving it all back to the dance over and over again.

SOUL REVIVAL, MAY 22 - 24, MELBOURNE
with Lorca Simons

https://movingessence.com/events/soul-revival-with-lorca-simons/

Address

St Brigid's Hall, 378 Nicholson Street
Fitzroy North, VIC
3068

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	2pm - 10pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 8pm
Sunday	9am - 12pm

Telephone

+61409992656

Website

https://movingessence.com/

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