Liz Jaeger Temple
Liz began her journey to health and healing in the 1980’s, when as a teen, she discovered the art of meditation and the music of Gabrielle Roth. She brings with her a background in shamanic & energetic healing as well as a legacy of spiritual leadership. 5Rhythms has been her daily practice for over a decade. Liz brings compassion, humor, humility, and a depth of discernment; born from thousands of deep dances. She knows what it is to be a dancing spirit inside a body that doesn’t always cooperate.

Liz helped birth and grow one of the strongest dance communities in the world, Olympia’s Waves Studio, which she and her beloved recently re-built into a beautiful new sacred space.

Ronny Temple

Ronny is a 5Rhythms teacher with a wide breadth of experience in movement meditation and leadership that serves him well as he co-owns and helps guide Waves Studio. He is a published author, successful business owner, strategic planner, world traveler, and master sailor. His most salient experiences though are in the realm of spirit. A lifelong yearning for truth eventually led him to people like Krishnamurti, whom he met in the early eighties, and to Osho Rajneesh with whom he practiced meditations such as Vipassana, Sufi Whirling, and Kundalini for nearly two decades in India as well as the U.S.

Ronny's intent is to offer practices of joy and enlivenement at Waves Studio featuring the 5Rhythms movement meditation.

Shawn Swanson
Shawn has spent much of his life exploring the present moment through movement and athletics. In 1993 Shawn began his study of meditation, breath work and other forms of self-inquiry. Dance had been a love of his since his first middle school ball, and over the years Shawn could feel some greater possibility lurking just out of reach while dancing. This possibility became a rich reality when he discovered the 5Rhythms in the year 2000.
Amara Pagano
Amara Pagano was born to teach this dance practice. She brings warmth and compassion to her teaching, but most of all, Amara is a living example of the results this dance practice offers students. She is physically and emotionally present, and clear in her mission as a teacher. Her devotion to her students’ own freedom in their bodies, hearts and minds is immediately apparent, and her commitment to her students’ discovery of their own dance of life is transparent. People instinctively trust Amara as she guides them into deeper connection with themselves and the world. Amara has been teaching the dance and 5Rhythms internationally for the past eight years.
Sara Pagano
Sara Pagano is one of those rare people who is able to listen beyond what is known and see unknown possibilities. She is a visionary who has fallen in love with the work of the 5Rhythms, and has dedicated her life to bringing this dance practice to the world. More importantly, Sara has discovered her own dance, her own body in motion, and she has taken this off the dance floor and into the world. She is very creative and passionate in sharing both the discovery of the dance and the possibility of living the 5Rhythms as a physical and spiritual practice with her students. Sara first stumbled onto one of Gabrielle’s dance floors fourteen years ago, and has since been blessed with exploring and sharing this unfolding dance of life.
Amara & Sara have moved to Maui, Hawai. where they are teaching and doing workshops at the Studio Maui. They are also available to
facilitate workshops in your community.

An important message from Amara & Sara


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