Spirituality of the Body
A 5Rhythms Movement Meditation
This workshop brings together two distinct — and at times contrasting — understandings of 5Rhythms as a spiritual practice.
Rather than presenting a unified method, the work holds a living paradox at the heart of human experience: we experience ourselves as separate, bounded individuals, and yet we belong to something fundamentally unified. Both perspectives are explored through direct bodily experience.
The body is not bypassed or reduced to biology. It is the place where life is met directly. When the body is listened to and allowed to move, it does not demand constant attention. It becomes trustworthy ground. From that place, attention can widen. Instead of monitoring oneself, there is participation. Instead of tightening around identity, there is contact. The question is no longer - Who do I believe myself to be?, but - What is moving through me?
At times the work will be precise, sensory, and grounded in somatic awareness. At other times it will open into spacious, archetypal, and devotional movement. The tension between these modes is not something to resolve, but something to stay with — and to dance.
Indigenous traditions speak of humans as “double beings.” One aspect of us lives in separation, threat, and competition. Another knows itself as part of a larger unity, held in harmony and shared belonging. This workshop does not ask participants to choose between these views, but to experience how both arise — and dissolve — through movement.
The central inquiry is simple and uncompromising:
Is the body the place where identity takes shape?
Or the place where the sense of separation relaxes, revealing what has always been one?
This is a practice space — rigorous, embodied, and experiential — for those willing to remain present in paradox, difference, and not-knowing. Not as a search for answers, but as an exploration of what becomes visible when movement is allowed to move us.
An invitation to inhabit the body, to let movement unfold, and to allow spirituality to emerge.
Bio
About Erik Iversen
Erik Iversen is a founding member of the 5Rhythms worldwide community. He was in his first training with Gabrielle in 1988 and become one of her first workshop producers out of Montreal in the 80’s. Over the following 40 years, he has taught the 5Rhythms in 15 countries as well as maintaining a one-on-one bodywork practice; over time he has integrated the wisdom he gained from his hands-on work with the insights from guiding thousands of dancers on the dance floor.
In 2016, he graduated from the 2-year Leadership and Transformation training at the Hendricks Institute. In 2020 he designed the Somatomy,™ a 3-module training that guides participants playfully through an experiential understanding of their anatomy. This approach offers powerful tools for creating deep presence and flow through 5Rhythms movement and conscious embodiment.
ABOUT JAN REDSTED
5Rhythms Waves-, Heartbeat- and Mirrors Teacher.
Psychotherapist — Diploma in Psychiatry (UCSyd) — Humanistic health sciences (AAU) — Certified Psychedelic assisted Therapy provider (Integrative Psychiatry Institute, CO, US). I met the 5Rhythms in 1998 and completed 5Rhythms Teacher Training 2005 and taught the 5Rhythms since.
In recent years, I have been involved in several research projects on cancer and 5Rhythms, and have created initiatives, workshops and research projects for hospital staff and healthcare workers. 6 years leading rehabilitation projects for men with cancer.
Venue
Bygningen, Ved Anlæget 14, 7100 Vejle, Denmark
+45 75 83 86 77 · bygningen-vejle.dk
Price / Payment
Costs (VAT incl.)
Early bird: 2150 DKK (295 EUR)
Full Price: 2550 DKK (350 EUR)
Early bird ends July 1st. 2026
15% discount of the early bird price for Teachers that are members of 5RTA
Prerequisites
Participants are recommended to have worked with several Certified 5Rhythms Teachers.
All workshop hours contribute to 5Rhythms® teachers training prerequisites.
Contact / Booking
Please send an email with your name, country, and phone number to Jan Redsted and you will receive all the information you need.
Email: jan@redsted.dk
Tel: +45 29 62 29 76
Parking
Free parking in the street “SKOLEGADE”: Parking in Vejle
Information about Vejle
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