5Rhythms with Special Guest, Julia Mercurio
Inhabiting your body via a 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Our bodies carry wisdom that goes far beyond our thinking mind and the practice of 5Rhythms can help us to get in touch with that innate embodied intelligence.
This Saturday night, March 7, we have the pleasure of welcoming in special guest, Julia Mercurio, who will infuse our dance space with her love of dance and its potent medicine.
Julia will guide us into the wisdom our bodies carry far beyond our thinking mind using the 5Rhythms framework, to get in touch with that innate embodied intelligence.
Come and let your body move as we welcome in this wonderful being onto our dance floor to inspire and move us.
About Julia Mercurio
JULIA MERCURIO is a certified 5Rhythms teacher with 15 years of dancing experience. She has trained with Gabriel Roth’s 5Rhythms Global in New York. Her work is infused with her love for soulful music, her experience of being a woman in this world, years of bodywork and somatic practice, as well as an animist worldview. A core theme of her teaching is how to fall in love with ourselves and the world through embodiment as a natural source of healing.
For you
Perhaps you want to release tension from daily life and connect with your body? Or, you really love good music and want to dance outside the club space? Or, you’re curious to find greater freedom in your body …
Maybe you’ve danced 1000 times, or never before. Wherever, however, come as you are and give yourself the permission to dance, to be curious and to meet yourself in ways you might never have imagined.
5Rhythms dance is an open and non-judgemental space that invites you to come exactly as you are. No previous dance or other experience required.
Flow
Doors open at 19.15 and close promptly at 19.45. Please note entry after 19.45 isn’t possible.
- Welcome + Introduction: After a guided warm-up through the body, we’ll have a general welcome and introduction to the theme for the evening before we go into the dance.
- Dance + Music: Let go of any preconceived notions you might have about dance. Unlike anything you’ve experienced before, there is no choreography or special moves in this space. The music is played in a form of a wave where the rhythms will rise to a crescendo and then gently fall – and you’ll get to discover how it feels to move to those beats, moment by moment. During the dance, you’ll be guided with some words of inspiration and invitations (never instructions) to enhance your experience.
- Gathering after class: Once the official dance is over, we open the space for all who want to stay and connect. There will be snacks, opportunities for exchange and spaces for quiet reflections, too.
- No phones: To allow for greatest spontaneity, creativity and freedom of expression, no phones on the dance floor.
Contribution
Packs may be purchased and/or used for this special class.
To celebrate the power of regular practice, the beauty of dancing together and your dedication to showing up, you can now buy a discounted class pack — 5- or 10 dances – payable in cash at the door. Single classes are still available at the door and here on the website.
5Pack @ 20% Discount (Cash @ Door)
€60 (Reduced) | €80 (Regular) | €100 (Supportive)
10Pack @ 30% Discount (Cash @ Door)
€105 (Reduced) | €140 (Regular) | €175 (Supportive)
Single Class (via “Get Ticket” link or Cash @ Door)
€15 (Reduced) | €20 (Regular) | €25 (Supportive)
For single classes, you are welcome to purchase these with PayPal or Bank Transfer via the “Get Ticket” link here or pay cash at the door.
What to bring
- A water bottle, there is a bathroom to fill up your water bottles.
- Indoor shoes optional – most people dane barefoot.
- Clothing that feels good – easy to move and sweat in. And maybe a towel (for your sweat :-))
Additional Information
- Class begins at 19.30 and doors open at 19.15. Please be on time for our journey together. We close the doors promptly at 19.45 to help us create a positive holding for the evening and for safety measures.
- Please do not talk on the dance floor so you, and others, can drop into movement, sounds and noises without the distraction of words.
- Please do not use your cell phone during this time so you can stay present and alive in your dance.
- When you love a track, just ask after class (not during the dance :-)) so you can enjoy that moment fully in all its glory.
- Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable to a future date if you are unable to join. However, you may personally pass on your ticket to someone else. In this case, please let me know via an email the name of the person taking your spot. Thank you for understanding and helping to keep the dance alive!
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FAQ’s
5Rhythms brings a beautiful framework to the world to the conscious dance space. It is a practice developed by Gabrielle Roth who identified that life moves in different energies. The more we experience being in these different energies, the more prepared we are for life.
I am a certified 5Rhythms® teacher and use the 5Rhythms framework as a gentle guideline for the music I play. At x-dance, we begin the evening with a 5Rhythms Wave.
You may find a video here which provides some information about the five rhythms – Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, Stillness.
You may read more about 5Rhythms here. There is also one article available about 5Rhythmen auf Deutsch here.
Samar Linn’s music style is eclectic, edgy; an invitation to express yourself in all shades and flavors. The music is a backdrop and support as you discover, express and let go into your own spontaneous and free dance.
Our bodies are always 100% present no matter where our thoughts might be. So when we dance and bring attention to our physical bodies, we teach our minds to be present with the body in that exact moment.
Meditation is when we develop ways to bring our attention and awareness into focus. In turn, this leads to mental calm, emotional peace and a clear state.
In this way, we use the music, our bodies and dance to quieten the thoughts and build tools that we can use in daily life.
Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable to a future date if you are unable to join
However, you may personally pass on your ticket to someone else. In this case, please let me know via an email the name of the person taking your spot.
Please note that there are no refunds if you come later than 15min post start time and the door is closed.
Thank you for understanding and helping to keep the dance alive!
Yes, there are usually tickets at the door.
However, we cannot guarantee you’ll get a spot if the event is fully booked.
As the Conscious Dance Festival gets ready to celebrate its 10th anniversary in October 2026, here is a live recording of the 5Rhythms x-dance I facilitated.
Arriving to a room full of beings who had been deep in their bodies for 2 days, I was taken on a beautiful journey right alongside each and every one.
5Rhythms is a beautiful map of 5 essential energies. The more we offer ourselves to the dance and these foundational rhythms, the more present we can be in our lives.
☍ soundcloud.com/samarlinn/wave-020
Flowing: Let the energy in
Staccato: Express the energy out
Chaos: Release the energy down
Lyrical: Invite the energy up
Stillness: Allow the energy to be
☍ soundcloud.com/samarlinn/wave-020
#consciousness #consciousdance #consciousdanceberlin #5rhythms #soundcloud
Mar 26
I live in Berlin and work with many people from around the world who are deeply affected by escalating wars, ongoing genocide and natural feelings of drain, overwhelm, rage, anxiety or numbness.
Being told to stop being informed or focus on the positive or how to change or regulate feelings are not usually helpful approaches).
What you might be experiencing is this -
Chronic misattunement - when your current state and the external environment are not in alignment.
In sessions with my clients, I offer guidance to sync, to attune and to expand the nervous system to hold the capacity for these emotions.
As humans, we are social creatures and having another being to support us to attune, feel and connect can be a vital step to our sanity, integrity and capacity to stay present.
╰┈➤ DM or email me @ samarlinn.com/contact to learn more about Integrative Coaching, my approach and feel into what it could be like to work together.
#collectivegrief #nervoussystemcare #bearingwitness #diasporamentalhealth #berlincoaching
Mar 23
One of the (most) powerful things I learned about myself on the dancefloor was the way I relegated my er0t*c energy. Like it belonged somewhere very constrained.
I uncovered and then discovered so much. (thank you courage)
All my offerings weave together a combination of the personal x professional x collective. And this coming workshop for the FLINTA+ community is no exception. It is thanks to you glorious beings that offerings for the FLINTA+ community begin so come and join us for this workshop, May 24.
Being able to courageously get curious about ourselves, finding ways to communicate and to hold the vulnerable of ourselves x each other is a skill for deepening our er0t*c lives - yes. Yet, I find it is a gift for daily life, living in integrity and allowing the life force energy (aka creativity and aliveness) to flow through us.
We will use tools of:
° 5Rhythms® Dance
° Sexological Bodywork®
° Authentic Relating
° Creative Expression
CLOSER (fundamentals)
An introduction to er0t*c needs × requests
❥ FLINTA+ Edition ❥
⟢ May 24 | 12:00–19:00
⟢ Center of Dance, Kulturbrauerei (Berlin)
⟢ €70 (Reduced) | €85 (Regular) | €110 (Supportive)
⟢ If cost is a barrier, reach out
☍ Link in Bio
#5rhythmsworkshop #5rhythms #sexualhealing #flinta #sexologicalbodywork
Mar 18
How much energy can be spent on trying to convince yourself your needs matter?
That internal courtroom where you`re both the prosecutor and the defense ....
Questions like:
⬥Is this a legitimate enough need?
⬥Am I being too much?
⬥Maybe I should just ...?
What I like to remind my clients is:
Your needs don’t require a compelling argument. They’re not on trial.
The fact that you HAVE a need? That makes them valid.
Once the internal battle can drop, a much richer, more intriguing an intimate dialogue with the self may arise. And that intimacy, it requires courage- because we just don`t know what we`ll discover. But, my goodness, it is so very worth it.
╰┈➤ Drop a 💙 if you know what I`m talking about. Or some words about your own experience.
╰┈➤ DM for inquiries on Integrative Coaching that I offer for individuals or couples.
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Miaka pictured here with me back in 2021 - one of my beautiful animals who taught me a lot about permission to have needs. A self-appointed enlightenment consultant. (Miaka, 2006-2022)
#therapistlife #mentalhealthmatters #therapyinspiration #needsmatter #berlincoaching
Mar 17
B E R L I N - Very honored to have special guest Julia Mercurio tonight holding the space on our dance floor.
Julia will guide us into the wisdom our bodies carry far beyond our thinking mind to get in touch with that innate embodied intelligence.
Saturday ✦ March 7
Center of Dance, Kulturbrauerei, P`Berg 19.30 - 21.30
✦ About Julia ✦
JULIA MERCURIO is a certified 5Rhythms teacher with 15 years of dancing experience. She has trained with Gabriel Roth’s 5Rhythms Global in New York. Her work is infused with her love for soulful music, her experience of being a woman in this world, years of bodywork and somatic practice, as well as an animist worldview. A core theme of her teaching is how to fall in love with ourselves and the world through embodiment as a natural source of healing.
☍ Link in Bio / www.samarlinn.com/events
#5rhythmsberlin #5rhythmen #5rhythmenberlin #ecstaticdanceberlin #centerofdance
Mar 7
“Je est un autre”
“I is another”
— Rimbaud .
I love this sentence. I love the way that grammar is used to evoke a question to the belief in a single, determined “self”.
That the identity of self is fluid, undefined and mysterious.
I love that I can shape shift, discovering and uncovering new personas. I love that these personas get to play and create, and that the er0t-c energy is ripe for them to emerge.
╰┈➤ How does this quote feel to you?
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My Other Sides Retreat is a 4-day Retreat to develop (a better) awareness of your er0t-c personas, how to express them and how embracing the attributes of them in saf(er), experimental space brings freedom x fun x creativity to life. Together, we will drop away from daily surroundings, and gently land into ourselves to meet our eroticism through the body x dance x creativity.
Join us and approach your eroticism as the creative force it is, reaching far beyond a narrow understanding of eroticism as “s e x”.
| PRACTICALS |
Dates: July 16-19
Venue: Seminarhof Drawehn 2 hours from Berlin or Hamburg
⟢ Workshop CONTRIBUTION ⟣
⟢ Early Bird – ends April 30
Individual: Reduced: €240 | Regular: €280 | Supportive: €320
Couple: Reduced: €430 | Regular: €500 | Supportive: €570
⟢ Accommodation, including delicious meals:
Single Room €105.0 per person/night = €315 (3 nights)
Double Room €85.00 per person/night = €255 (3 nights)
☍ Link in Bio / www.samarlinn.com/links
#5rhythms #ritualperformance #ritualtheatre #5rhythmsworkshop #sexologicalbodywork
Mar 6
wave 019 | Beginnings
☍ www.soundcloud.com/samarlinn/wave-019
When does something begin?
How much awareness do you offer into a beginning?
Without holding onto it ... without expectations of it ... without pushing to any other moment.
How much curious space can you give beginnings, how much openness is available for you to be with others in a beginning?
Do you allow yourself to begin again, as if for the first time?
☍ www.soundcloud.com/samarlinn/wave-019
#5rhythmsdance #danceathome #5rhythmen #5rhythmsdance #beginnings
Mar 2
Bouncing into some sunny March days, we dance every single Saturday starting with a special guest, Julia Mercurio, on March 7.
Traveling dances and workshops are coming up (stay tuned) and the yearly summer retreat at Seminarhof Drawehn is taking place July 16 - 19. Early Bird tickets (individual / couples pricing) available until
❥ Save this post, pass it on, and most certainly come and dance with us.
☍ Link in Bio: www.samarlinn.com/links
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❖ March Offerings ❖
❖ 5Rhythms with special guest, Julia Mercurio | Inhabiting the body via a 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ March 7
Julia will guide us into the wisdom our bodies carry far beyond our thinking mind to get in touch with that innate embodied intelligence.
❖ x-dance | Creativity in Motion via a 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ March 14 + 21
Rooting us in the 5Rhythms practice, we`ll explore how we connect to ourselves, each other and the wider field via the 5 essential energies (rhythms).
❖ CLOSER x-dance | An Er-t-c 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ March 28
Bringing awe to what arises when there is permission for the erotic to have space to dance, this evening especially offers invitations to play with clothing, sensations and dropping our perceptions of eroticism = s-xuality. Rather, we make space for the energy to light our creativity, integrity and freedom of expression in its sacred aliveness.
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🜂 Workshops / Retreats 🜂
🜂 Earth Beat | A 5Rhythms Dance Journey in honor of Earth Day
Wednesday ✦ April 22
A potent way to connect with yourself, community and nature all around us.
🜂 in here x out there | A 5Rhythms Workshop on Relating
Friday - Sunday ✦ April 22-26
Freedom is when we can choose (vs react) to when and how we want to be in these different constellations of relating: Alone. With another. In a triad. In a Group.
🜂 My Other Sides | A 5Rhythms x Erotic Retreat
Thursday - Sunday ✦ July 16 - 19
Together, we will drop away from daily surroundings, and gently land into ourselves to meet our er-t-c personas through the body x dance x creativity.
#5rhythms #5rhythmsworkshops #consciousdancefestival #selfdevelopmentworkshop #conscioushealing
Mar 1
My Other Sides: a 5Rhythms x Sensual Retreat
My Other Sides is an invitation to explore our inner x outer selves with curiosity and a sense of play (openness).
Using a variety of creative, body-based methods, we will get to know ourselves and each other as explore the erotic pulse x creativity:
✧ In what ways may I sense different sides of myself, may I meet them in myself and others?
✧ How may I give them expression within an experimental and safe(r) space?
✧ What if (another) side of me could offer me a new way of relating to myself? To others?
✧ What forms of expression emerge when “identify” is allowed to bend – to play and create?
This Retreat takes place in the gorgeous Seminarhof Drawehn, a historically protected retreat centre, that serves home-grown and regional vegetarian and vegan meals. We will dance in their signature Mandala room, that will infuse our exploration with nature, light and love.
☍ link in bio with (many) more details, FAQs, contribution amounts .....
#5rhthyms #sensualretreat #5rhythmsworkshop #sexologicalbodywork #berlinworkshops
Feb 19
words are really not my thing .... I`m so grateful for the abundance of music and sounds to nourish our native tongue - dance.
How fascinating that our very first language of communication is movement and how often we forget that.
The 5Rhythms Wave offers a holding for our exploratory dances, freedom of expression and curious discovery about ourselves and others.
Come and dance with us tonight, practice your native tongue.
x-dance: Creativity in Motion via 5Rhythms
| PRACTICALS |
Date x Time: Saturday, Feb 14 @ 19.30
Venue: Center of Dance, Kulturbrauerei
⟢ CONTRIBUTION ⟣
⟢ €15 - €20 Sliding Scale
⟢ Buy online or cash at the door
🔗Link in Bio
#5rhythms #nativetongue #dancelanguage #5rhythmsberlin #5rhythmen
Feb 14
Oh I love the snow. Curling up some days, long sleeps, slow conversations. This is delicious.
Yet some days, some days, the grey of winter seeps deep into my bones.
And so, there are these moments where I sweat and move and connect in my body, with others to music that seduces me, holds me. To the creative expression that lights my fire and enlivens me. This is so nourishing too.
❥ Come x-dance with us this February
☍ Link in Bio: www.samarlinn.com/links
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❖ February Offerings ❖
𖣘 x-dance | Creativity in Motion via a 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ Feb 7 + 14
Rooting us in the 5Rhythms practice, we`ll explore how we connect to ourselves, each other and the wider field via the 5 essential energies (rhythms).
ৡ CLOSER x-dance | An Er-t-c 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ Feb 28
Bringing wonder to what arises when there is permission for the erotic to have space to dance, this evening especially offers invitations to play with clothing, sensations and dropping our perceptions of
s-xuality. Rather, we make space for the energy to light our creativity, integrity and freedom of expression in its sacred aliveness.
❍ Integrative Coaching. For focused individual support with a holistic approach. These are one to one sessions, or open for couples, looking for ways to deepen awareness and transformation.
Feb 6
Here`s a little taste of x-dance: Creativity in Motion via a 5Rhythms® Dance Journey.
5Rhythms dance is the art of surrender and creative self-expression, of letting go and allowing your unique movement to arise moment by moment. Without restriction or constraint.
Using the 5Rhythms framework, we will explore 5 fundamental life energies (rhythms) through the dance. The music is played like a “wave” where it goes up and comes back down again.
There are 3 essential ingredients to each event:
✺ Freedom to be: You’re invited to let go of the thinking mind, explore physical and emotional landscapes without any pressure of performance or “getting it right”
✺ Invitations, not instructions: You’ll receive impulses and ideas to explore different aspects of movement and self-expression. Most importantly, you’ll be encouraged to follow what feels true for you.
✺ Presence: Dance becomes a meditation in motion, inviting presence directly through the body in each movement. As you feel the music and let the dance move you, your thoughts will be allowed to quiet down.
❥ These experiences are best experienced so come dance with us and check it out for yourself.
☍ Link in Bio
☍ www.samarlinn.com/events
Feb 6
