Dissolve: A 5Rhythms® journey from Lyrical into Stillness

There comes a moment in the season when the trees stop holding on.

green turns gold.
full becomes bare.
reaching outward begins its long return inward.

And still, something remains.

DISSOLVE is a weekend exploration of the threshold between Lyrical and Stillness - the shapeshifting dance of autumn giving way to the quiet, spacious mystery of winter.

𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 5𝑅ℎ𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑚𝑠® 𝑚𝑎𝑝 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙: 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙, 𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡.

Lyrical teaches us the art of becoming.

It loosens the identities we have gathered around ourselves. It asks us to shapeshift, to travel lighter, to discover what becomes possible when we stop gripping so tightly to who we have been.

And then comes Stillness.

The silver desert.

Bare. Spacious. Awake.

Stillness does not ask us to disappear. It asks us to become quiet enough to notice what remains.

Across three days of movement, breath, embodied inquiry, and shared practice, we will explore the passage from soul to spirit through 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭, 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 - listening for what the body has gathered, what is ready to dissolve, and the deeper truth that was never lost.

As we follow the wave of the 5Rhythms map, can we reach lyrical to rejoice in all that has moved through us? To let the hands celebrate what has been touched, held, created, and loved?

And as we enter stillness and the dance grows quieter, can we listen for what remains? What does the breath carry when there are no more words? As the body quiets, what happens when the dance becomes an offering?

We will dance with shedding and remembering. With gravity and lightness. With the visible and the barely perceptible. With the strange generosity of becoming bare.

Because perhaps winter is not empty.

Perhaps the quiet is an invitation to devotion

a bow toward what remains,
listening for the sacred in the barely perceptible,
trusting what is gathering beyond our knowing.

On this threshold between becoming and being, some things become clearer when we stop asking them to speak. We begin to listen differently - to pulse, to breath, to the quiet intelligence of the body.

Here, the dance has not disappeared. It has simply become more subtle.

The pulse moves beneath the quiet. Breath travels through the open space. The body keeps what it knows.

And somewhere within that spaciousness, the next movement is already beginning.

DISSOLVE invites us to meet that threshold together - to rejoice in what has moved through us, remember what the body knows, and follow the dance as it dissolves into a quieter form of devotion.

𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎, 𝟔:𝟑𝟎𝐩𝐦-𝟗:𝟑𝟎𝐩𝐦 - open dance at SomArt at the Hive, 561 Windsor St. Somerville MA
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟏, 𝟏𝟐:𝟎𝟎𝐩𝐦-𝟔:𝟑𝟎𝐩𝐦 & 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟐, 𝟏𝟏:𝟎𝟎𝐚𝐦-𝟓:𝟑𝟎𝐩𝐦 - Watertown Center for Healing Arts, 17 Spring St., Watertown MA

Full weekend
$350 full price
$305 early bird (12 tickets)
$375 pay it forward (allows those in financial need to attend at reduced prices)

Friday night only
$35 full price
$25 early bird/supported (20 tickets)

Led by longtime colleagues and 5Rhythms® teachers Alyssa Jurewicz Johns & Joel Stanley.

About Alyssa:
Alyssa Jurewicz Johns is a weaver of movement, magic, and mystery. As a 5Rhythms® teacher and somatic expressive arts therapist, she guides people back into their bodies to move what’s been held, reconnect to joy, and step into the wild aliveness of their becoming.

About Joel:
A certified 5Rhythms teacher and integrative therapist, Joel creates dance spaces that enliven, elevate, and connect. Through his 5Rhythms teaching and DJing, he holds a simple but powerful container for dancers to accept and include all parts of themselves, unfolding through movement into their vibrant, loving, and expansive true nature.