Earth Beat, a 5Rhythms Journey for Earth Day
a ritual x dance journey with the elements
I've been practicing 5Rhythms weekly with Samar Linn for 1 year. After trying different teachers I'm staying with Samar. Why? She is such a heartfelt, authentic, generous person who invites all people to BE themselves... to express through the body all emotions which we have inside - if it's fear, anger or happiness! To dance in her space is a liberation and such a deep experience! I will never forget: it's written in my soul and my body.
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This Earth Day, we gather to move in honour of the Earth that holds us through the map of the 5Rhythms. This is a dance to evoke the elemental pulse of life — grounded, alive, electric and nourishing.
The 5Rhythms is a dynamic movement practice that seamlessly blends dance, self-expression and meditation in the same breath. Each rhythm carries its own intelligence and elemental vibration. Each body holds its own wisdom and unique expression. The music rises and falls like a wave as you’re guided on a journey through the five fundamental life energies + elements. A potent way to connect with yourself, community and nature all around us.
On this journey, you’ll find 3 essential ingredients:
- 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.
About Samar Linn
Samar has a promiscuous love affair with music, is enamored by dance and is a curious investigator of freedom of expression. She is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher, a trained Integrative Coach and Bodyworker. Samar runs a range of workshops and regular classes to bring more curiosity to ourselves, openness to our uniqueness and permission to embrace the magic in daily life. Her raw attitude, vulnerability and fascination in ways to embody freedom of expression provide an electric, creative and safe environment.
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 :-))
Connect for info on new events x music
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.
My intention this year is to connect to the power of 5Rhythms as a practice and deepening our capacity to hold ourselves and each other in all flavors, expressions and experiences.
So - here`s to another month of weekly Saturday dances and a growing schedule of workshops.
❥ 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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❖ April Saturday Offerings ❖
❖ x-dance | Creativity in Motion via a 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ Apr 4
A cue from springtime. Sowing Seeds. This Saturday, we dance with an invitation to plant seeds ... what`s ready to grow?
❖ Cleansing x-dance | A 5Rhythms Dance to Release
Saturday ✦ Apr 11
A bi-yearly intentional dance for each of us to cleanse and release through dance. Weather you`re aware of what you`d like to let go of as we step into the longer days and seasons, or curious to just let unfold what needs unfolding - come let go with us.
❖ CLOSER x-dance | An Er-t-c 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ Apr 18
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.
❖ 5Rhythms with special guest, Julia Mercurio
Saturday ✦ Apr 25
Julia is back to hold space with her potent energy and deep wisdom. Taking you on a deep journey through a 5Rhythms wave, come and inhabit your precious body with her.
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🜂 Workshops / Retreats in / around Berlin 🜂
🜂 FLINTA | An intro to Er-t-c Needs x Requests
Sunday ✦ May 24
A 1day exploration to learn and understand your needs and desires through a variety of body-based techniques accompanied by frameworks to support you during the workshop, and in your daily life.
🜂 My Other Sides | Meeting your Er-t-c Personas
Thursday - Sunday ✦ July 16 - 19
A rich deep dive into discovering, meeting and expressing your er-t-c personas through a combination of frameworks to hold you, dance and other creative modalities so you may expand fully into yourself.
Apr 2
Time and again, I have been reminded of the way Chronic Stress sucks life out of us.
Time and again, I witness glorious souls seeking to break out of survival mode into living life.
Quite frankly, I didn`t even understand there was a difference between "surviving life" and "living life" until my late 20`s.
During CoVID (maybe the full story another time), I became acutely aware of addiction to Stress - the way my system knew how to interact with the world and how a "stress hit" was a strange sort of "high".
Going deep into the exploration myself has allowed me to offer much more to my clients over the last 6 years. After holding a series of small groups and seeing the impact of a mind-body-heart-spirit combination in individual sessions transforms, I put together Wildly Calm - a 28day self-study to disarm stress in daily life.
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If you`d like a preview before buying this course, DM me.
Or head to my link in bio to find out more.
www.samarlinn.com/wildly-calm
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Please note that this program does not minimize or replace approaches needed for acute stress, continuous traumatic stress or chronic misattunement - to name a few - especially as many of us are feeling the ongoing impact of war, genocide, and escalating violence by "those in power".
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#chronicstress #burnoutrecovery #nervoussystemhealing #emotionalregulation #stressrecovery
Apr 2
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
