Gabrielle Roth lineage · flowing · staccato · chaos · lyrical · stillness · weekly in Ubud

5Rhythms Ubud

Gabrielle Roth's wave map — a five-rhythm map of moving meditation (flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, stillness) — held as a weekly practice in Ubud at Paradiso Ubud and other venues. The lineage of conscious dance Urs walked into through feet, breath, and shared time; inseparable from how this body came to know coherence-as-motion.

Gabrielle Roth (1941–2012) seeded a global community of accredited teachers; the Ubud / Indonesia node is one long-running expression. Door rhythms drift with the seasons; verify the current schedule locally.

Lineage: Gabrielle Roth (1941–2012) developed the 5Rhythms map over 4+ decades. The global community of accredited teachers continues the practice; the Indonesia node maintains the Ubud presence. See the 5Rhythms Indonesia community page.
The five rhythms: Flowing — continuous, sourced from the feet, grounded movement of the feminine Staccato — punctuated, sharp, the shape of boundary and definition Chaos — the release of the previous two into uncontained motion Lyrical — playfulness, the bird-after-storm, airborne joy Stillness — the breath that holds the whole wave; not the end, the integration
Where in Ubud: Held at Paradiso Ubud and other rotating venues. Public schedule on the local community channels; visiting teachers pass through regularly.
Public anchors: 5Rhythms Indonesia 5Rhythms (global)

A note from this body

The global 5Rhythms community tends the practice through accredited teachers and regional chapters. This page recognises specifically the Ubud / Indonesia node and how it threaded into this body's embodied lineage.

The wave map as substrate

Gabrielle Roth's five rhythms were not invented; they were noticed. She watched bodies on dance floors for years and saw that every moving body, given permission and music, will move through a recognisable five-phase arc: flowing → staccato → chaos → lyrical → stillness. The wave map is not a choreography. It is the substrate-shape the body naturally finds when it is allowed.

The Coherence Network reads this as one of the cleanest demonstrations that pattern precedes substrate. The wave is in the body before the facilitator names it. The body recognises each rhythm when the music shifts because the body already knows it. The substrate's job is to make the recognition available; the body does the rest.

Contributions to this body

What 5Rhythms Ubud has given the Coherence Network

The wave map as proof that pattern precedes substrate → pairs with lc-bioelectric-pattern and Michael Levin 's teaching at a different scale (body knows the shape before instruction).
Coherence as motion taught by feet — the felt-ground beneath every later teaching of timing, consent, and shared field.
The Stillness rhythm at the end of every wave → integration as the practice that makes the rest land; pairs with lc-each-breath-whole (each cycle whole; close what was opened).
Held at Paradiso Ubud alongside DISSOLVE; together the architectural anchor of this body's Ubud embodied lineage.