Teachers

Barbara Marlowe is a certified 5Rhythms® Teacher

Barbara teaches a regular Thursday night class: 5Rhythms® DANCE LIKE YOURSELF. Class starts at 6:00 PM and ends 7:45 PM. Homewood 19 Zillicoa in The Montford Area of Asheville, NC.

She also teaches workshops and provides 5R introductory sessions. Barbara is a member of the 5R Teachers Association and all her classes and workshops qualify for 5R Teacher Training.  Barbara also completed 5Rhythms® Movement Therapy with Andrea Juhan and uses the 5Rhythms to facilitate personal growth in the context of individual therapy and topic-related growth groups.

PROFESSIONAL
Barbara is a Licensed Clinical Social Work (LCSW) since 1980 and has worked in gerontology, mental health, trauma, medical social work, pain management, chronic/terminal illness, crisis intervention, stress management, community relations, philanthropy and inspirational speaking.

During her career, she established three non-profit organizations and a hospital-based occupational medicine program; maintained a private clinical practice for 13 years; held management positions in a variety of settings and received training,supervision in Cognitive Hypnosis, EMDR; Therapeutic Touch, Critical Incidence Stress Management, 5Rhythms Movement Therapy and 5RhythmsTeacher Certification.

PERSONAL
In the late eighties and as a demographically early-on adaptor baby-boomer, I became interested in the mind/body/soul connections. Early on in my life, I became disconnected from my physical self. In fact, I was afraid of my body as it carried hidden and unwanted memories.

In my mid-forties, it was as if a honing devise was activated and I embarked upon a journey into very own blood and bone; muscles and fascia; physical insults/injuries and the deep desire for bodily pleasure.

Most of all I felt a huge desire to DANCE. I had always been a closet kitchen dancer ~ rocking out to special tunes and lovers while making dinner, organic salad and chocolate cheesecake. However this was different. I suddenly wanted to dance my TRUE and deepest self. I went to barefoot boogies and ecstatic dance. I danced wildly.

MY JOURNEY WITH THE 5RHYTHMS

When I attended my first 5RHYTHMS workshop, my body started to sing! The invitation to explore my body through the rhythms of my soul, offered a map to dance like myself and to truly come home. Thus, I embarked on an eight year journey of learning more, practicing more and deepening my understanding of the 5RHYTHMS. All my vacations were devoted to taking workshops with trained teachers. I traveled many places to dance in New York, California, London, Scotland and Costa Rica.

As I moved deeper into the practice, I became curious and not afraid to literally ‘move’ into all those places in my body where I had been afraid to go. 5RHYTHMS led to much personal growth and because of this plus having the background as a clinical social worker, I completed extensive in 5RHYTHMS Movement Therapy. Upon completion, I began to offer movement growth groups and stress management movement groups.

It was then I decided I wanted to be a 5RHYTHMS teacher and become formally trained. The teacher training was rigorous, awesome and humbling. Learning exactly how I had been taught to have the tools and discipline to becoming a free spirit has forever changed me.

I have been given a gift and I want to share it.