TEACHERS & EMBODIED LEADERS
May leadership be for you
A true adventure of growth.
John O’Donohue from “For A Leader”
The sacred threshold of leading and teaching is open to all but crossed by only a courageous few. All teachers and embodied leaders listed here have committed body, heart, mind and spirit to the path of Soul Motion. Each soul has devoted themselves to tend the seeds of this body of work, growing and sharing the blossoms of their love and labor in their own unique and diverse ways. No two offers their gifts in the same way which keeps Soul Motion a living and evolving prayer and practice. Please take some time to peruse the teachers and embodied leaders listed below and may this be a portal and pathway to a deepening and thriving love affair with yourself and the world.
ARGENTINA
Carmen Tarifa Reischle
ctarifa25@gmail.com
Offering: online classes, in-person retreats, workshops, series, Foundations, trainings 1: 1 sessions in spanish, english, german
Practice in the everyday: fine tuning and listening to body intelligence and the whisperings of the surroundings. Dancing to keep emotions fluid and soft. Holding the high watch for myself and others. Cultivating humor friendship and solidarity
as well as growing in silence.
María Fernanda Rodríguez
cuerposquedanzan2014@gmail.com
www.cuerposquedanzan.com.ar
Offering: in-person classes and workshops in spanish
Practice in the everyday: Practice in the everyday: to explore that sacred place where my being dwells, to enjoy myself, to feel gratitude, to follow the rhythm of Life flowing through my body... because dance is the most beautiful expression of the body in motion. And in movement it is possible to let go to renew and be reborn, to balance everything that inhabits me to move towards what I long for.
AUSTRALIA
Kate-Marie Mutsaers
inbodymovement@gmail.com
www.inbodymovement.com.au
Offering: (online and in person) classes, 1:1 sessions, workshops, foundation immersions, teacher and leadership trainings.
Practice in the everyday: bringing the rich learnings of life alive from within, whilst serving and sharing with others. Listening and leaning into the precious ordinary moments of each day.
AUSTRIA
Gertraud Raffelsberger
Gertraud.raffelsberger@aon.at
Offerings: in-person courses
Practice in the everyday: accept everything that comes as the dance of life; Soul Motion keeps my energy alive and makes my heart shine.
Hermine Sperr
contact@herminesperr.com
www.herminesperr.com
Offerings: in-person classes, 1:1 sessions, workshops, trainings
Practice in the everyday: taking walks in the wood, listen deeply to the wisdom of the body and beyond, being inspired by small things, seeing beauty, being grateful, loving music.
Lisa Moser
lisa.moser@danceworks.at
www.danceworks.at
Offerings: abundance classes inside and in nature, workshops and abundance coaching
Practice in the everyday: using dance to process what moves us and wants to be moved. Finding abundance, joy and fulfillment in free movement and dance. Holding space for those who want that too.
Sandra Kocher
sandra.kocher@icloud.com
www.sandrakocher.com
Offerings: in-person classes, coachings, workshops
Practice in the everyday: resting/ Embracing authenticity/ Offering rooms for me and you/ Giving and receiving/ Move together/ YEAHHH in all directions.
BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA
Alma Hasanović
Offerings: in-person classes, 1:1 sessions, workshops
Practice in the everyday: creating space for development of full potential with curiosity and creativity. Listening to the wisdom of the body because the body never lies. Building coherence through connections, compassion, openness and deep listening.
CANADA
Katriona Ilsedóttir Curry (she/they)
www.bodysongs.dance
https://www.bodyaswisehealer.com/
Offerings: classes, workshops, retreats, & trainings, 1-to-1 sessions, and mentoring, in Victoria, South Coastal BC, and online
Practice in the everyday: My everyday dance centers the practice of play and embodied loving: warm heart, gentle hands, feet snuggling Earth.
loving of breath, ancestors, children, hearth-mate, parents, friends, colleagues, clients, students, and animal kin. tending of harms. Solitude practices outside with Light and Wind moving across Land and Waters.
DENMARK
Camilla Steen Larsen
https://camillasteenlarsen.com/
camilla@camillasteenlarsen.com
Offerings: online and in-person
Classes, workshops and programs
Trainings & 1:1 Mentorships
Practice in the everyday: returning. I come back to my body again and again. I soften instead of speed up.I speak with the trees like old friends
and let music move me in the kitchen as I let love speak and the knife dance. I listen to what is underneath, let Earth find me, and what rises to meet me -I let it.This is the rhythm I return to.
FRANCE
Albane de Chalain
www.verslaconscience.com
contact@verslaconscience.com
Offerings: online and in person sessions, workshops
Practice in the everyday: seeking to embody life as a joyful and conscious pilgrimage, tending to choose love no matter what, sharing my movement as I would offer a prayer.
GERMANY
Doreen Tönjes
doreen.toenjes@gmx.net
www.doreentoenjes.de
Offerings: online and in-person classes / 1:1 sessions / workshops / trainings
Practice in the everyday: listen to a field full of wonder / trust the movement / allow the dance / love the people / include my not-knowing / walk on common ground / rest.
Dorothea Jecht
https://love-in-motion.eu (will be available soon)
dorothea.jecht@love-in-motion.eu
Offerings: sessions, workshops, community gatherings, adventures
Practice in the everyday: pausing, relaxing, opening my heart in wonderment.
Edgar Spieker
info@edgarspieker.de
www.edgarspieker.de
Offering: classes, international workshops, trainings
Practice in the everyday: honesty, authenticity and clarity. Accompanying people in growing into their full potential. At the core each of us is a dancer, a creative soul in motion that not only craves to be freed, but is also much needed in the world.
Heiko Mahr
https://www.heikomahr.art
Offerings: regularly classes in-person and online, 1:1 sessions
Practice in the everyday: sensing the beauty of this world and echoing it in art. Deep listening to my body and connecting to the big body of our earth. Cultivating curiosity and compassion and
deep listening to the mystery of our universe.
Janos Grimm
Offerings: Teacher Trainings, Leadership program, Foundations, Workshops , yearlong groups, classes, dance in nature
Practice in the everyday: breath conscious is the essential dance, I start there, I arrive there. I trust. I enjoy DANCING. I am connecting to everything and everybody.
Kathrin Jungmichel
kathrin@diefarbenpracht.de
www.diefarbenpracht.de
Offerings: 1:1 sessions, in person sessions
Practice in the everyday: I am a seeker and finder, knowing that there is deep inside of us an unscathed, beautiful flower which wants to bloom. Keeper of the true light which glows in each of us.
Linda Mossbauer
www.lindamossbauer.de
offerings: classes, workshops
Practice in the everyday: dance is my way to feel, to find my center, and to move with life. Soul Motion opens spaces for acceptance, vitality, and clarity. The dance floor supports and invites exploration. I believe dance lives within everyone. When we move what moves us, our dance begins.
Lisanne Otto
www.lisanneotto.de
offerings: weekly classes, workshops
Practice in the everyday: dancing in everyday life/ dancing as an osteopath with the tissues of the body, nourishing the elements inside of me, learning to trust into the mystery of life, everything is already there and the power of love.
Lothar Hennig
www.mitdemlebentanzen.de
offerings: classes, workshops
Practice in the everyday: remembering what I came here for on earth and transforming it into my dance. Listening to the universe and bringing it into movement. And in gratitude sharing all the gifts and joy I have received.
Michael Illies
Offerings: in-person classes, 1:1 sessions online and in-person
Practice in the everyday: inspired by sights, sounds and sensory experience, I observe movements within and without as expressions of the Divinity alive in a body.
Monika Ananda Wiese
mail@wesentlichwerden.de
https://wesentlichwerden.de
Offerings: online and in-person
classes, workshops indoor & in nature
Practice in the everyday: finding and loving the empty spaces in between. Body and nature is my source of inspiration: as touch, movement, song and love. I am a weaver, a woman, a wondering one. Mystery is my shelter to move with. Movement starts from the heart, the rest will follow.
Moya Geers
www.mukulala.com
Offerings: regularly in-person classes, 1:1 sessions, workshops
Practice in the everyday: the dancefloor is a huge playground to explore, to rest, to be. And to bring it into your life.
The beat you drum to is the beat you dance to.
Nicholas Brautlecht
resonanzraum.hamburg@gmail.com
https://resonanzraum.weebly.com
www.movingsenses.de
Offerings: in-person sessions
Practice in the everyday:
"if you don't do your dance, who will?" Gabrielle Roth
Dancing and sharing yourself with the world takes courage. It's like sharing your diary. But nothing tastes better than moving like you truly are: This is who i am. In this moment. So, don't wait for someone to give you permission. Simply be.
Sebastian Drießen
mail@tanz-im-sein.de
https://tanz-im-sein.de/
Offerings: regular classes, workshops, 1:1-sessions
Practice in the everyday: act from the heart, be authentic, find moments to breathe, relax, move, embrace the unknown.
Stephanie Kokot
lebenistkunst@gmx.net
www.lebenistkunst.net
Offerings: In person classes; 1:1 sessions; Workshops
Practice in the everyday: creating spaces where fullness/emptiness - light/darkness - silence/movement - heart, mind, body and soul, dance together. beings on the ground of infinity and boundaries, combining creative tools of movement, colors, nature, systemic therapy.
Ulli & Su (Ulrike Schoenian & Sudhindra Thomas Heidmann)
info@soulmoves-bremen.de
www.soulmoves-bremen.de
Offerings: Classes, one day workshops, local cooperations
Practice in the everyday: alone and as a couple, means meeting whatever is present and welcoming it.
In the dance of life, we make space for light and shadow, for movement and stillness, for ourselves and for each other.
Healing, honest, and connected – in body, in heart, in life.
ITALY
Chiara Crovetto
crovetto.chiara@gmail.com
ocyphercompany.it
Offerings: online and in-person classes, 1:1 sessions
Practice in the everyday: meditating while moving and moving while meditating, breathing as a conscious practice, putting my creativity first, finding new ways to be myself. I surf the mystery of life, playing with curiosity and deep listening. Hip-hop and dark chocolate addicted.
Daniela Lurilli
daniela.iurilli@hotmail.com
https://www.danielaiurilli.it/soul-motion/
Offerings: classes in person - workshops
Practice in the everyday: receiving all what comes as the dance of Life; catching this little movement that makes all the difference; sinking in my body to expand my life experience.
Staying in movement with awe, gratitude and curiosity for more.
Federica Colangeli - Maya
Soulmotionroma@gmail.com
Offering: classes in person
Practice in the everyday: losing control and getting lost to be guided by life and live adventurously, Exercising the sense of irony, Nurturing trust. Discovering treasures left by the storms. Dancing and breathing to be present and meet the sacred. Be amazed by beauty of nature around me, smell flowers and play with my pets.
Marcella Panseri
info@marcellapanseri.it
www.marcellapanseri.it
Offering: classes, workshop, training
Practice in the everyday: soul Motion is keeping my energy alive, my heart soft and my listening deeper.
Simona Vassallo
vassallo.simona@gmail.com
Offering: in-person classes and workshops
Practice in the everyday: walking the dog, paying attention to the beauty of sky, trees and birds.
Breathing fully to open my chest and quite my mind.
Exploring and playing with movements, listening deeply to what the body wants, what it needs, giving it respect and attention. Observing the craziness of the mind
Shoba Arturi
iShobhaarturi@hotmail.com
Facebook page: Gestalt in movimento con Shobha Arturi
Offering: workshops, trainings using dance, meditation, poetry
Practice in the everyday: being grateful for every step I take.
Caressing my beautiful cat, becoming a caress. Letting my heart be touched by poetry everywhere. Invoke creativity through light and shadow, dance, music and silence. Appreciating the smallest in the infinite. Laughing at myself.
SWITZERLAND
Martín von Ruette
https://soulmotion.ch
https://martinbodyvoice.ch
Offerings: in-person classes, 1:1 sessions, workshops
Practice in the everyday: curiosity. The joy of exploration. To encounter passion in dance. To merge. To witness. To grow. To go beyond. To dare to enter the space beyond.
POLAND
Anna Maria von Ossowska
soulmotion.poland@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/anna.fon
Offerings: in person classes
Practice in the everyday: gazing at the Sky, while staying mindful & alive on the Earth. Pausing to listen tales of my body & bigBody. Nature spirit. Moon lover. Life dancer. In silence, I connect. In movement, I am free.
UK
George Petrou
george@beok.uk
https://www.beok.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/
Offerings: fortnightly in person classes and intend to begin offering online sessions during Spring 2026
Practice in the everyday: returning to the exquisite gift of infinite presence through curious portals of breathing, stillness and movement. Flowing through emptiness, wholeness and formless fullness in expressions of ecstatic cosmic motion. Accepting, becoming, connecting, expanding, forgiving, grieving, grounding, healing, knowing, letting go, playing, receiving, releasing, trusting and repeating with gratitude harvested from the deepest recesses of an open heart ever overflowing.
Leela Fisk
https://www.leelafisk.com
Offerings: in-person sessions for all & online for women, 1:1 sessions, workshops, trainings
Practice in the everyday: listening to the body to navigate life, seeing through the wonder of my daughter’s eyes, moving in water as teacher, making art through my heart.
USA
Chris Nock
christinenock@gmail.com
www.christinenock.com
Offerings: in person weekly classes, 1:1 sessions
Practice in the everyday: breathing deeply, trusting the wisdom of the body, cultivating love and connection, striving to be the change I wish to see in the world, supporting others to shine their light and share their gifts.
Heather Chittamo aka Dr. Heather Kim
https://intuitivepeds.com/
Offerings: online, in person, 1:1 offerings uniquely combining osteopathic awareness with Soul Motion embodiment
Practice in the everyday: honoring the fantastic messiness of being human, growing capacity through embodiment and cultivating kindness as an internal landscape in order to return our world to a healthy state of care.
Iku Miyazaki
Offerings: online and in-person classes, workshops
Practice in the everyday: awareness of my breath. Deep listening to my body. Feeling my feet and receiving support from the earth. Greeting trees & plants. Releasing & Receiving. Openness & curiosity to the unknown. Tending to the subtleties of each moment.
Kit McGinnis
Offerings: in-person indoor and outdoor classes, women’s circles and workshops, 1:1 sessions
Practice in the everyday: being on the Earth, with the Earth, as the Earth, of the Earth always and in all ways
Lina Návar AKA as Lina Katarina
www.austinspiritheartmindbody.com
Offerings: online and in-person 1:1 and group sessions, workshops, and retreats with a psychospiritual flavor in English and Spanish.
Practice in the everyday: empty cup/silent mind while taking in more of what life wants to teach me. At dusk, dancing in my backyard like nobody's watching, hugging my favorite tree often, lying on the grass in the morning, eating outside watching and listening to the latest bird gossip, drinking hot water after a meal, and touching foreheads with my loved ones.
Lynne Herbert
Offerings: in person classes, workshops, and ongoing therapeutic groups
Practice in the everyday: bringing curiosity and an open, vulnerable heart to exploring our world through movement, emotion, play, and tenderness; cultivating richer connection with myself, other, nature, breath, spirit, and presence.
Michael Molin-Skelton
https://movements-matter.com
Offerings: online and in-person classes, 1:1 sessions, workshops, trainings
Practice in the everyday: smiling for no reason, noticing the movements of a stranger.
I pray out loud with my body, listen deeply with my heart, get in trouble with my mind and seek quietly with my soul.
Michael Zipkin
JustStartHere.org
Offerings: a sunday morning class, live in berkeley dance worshops, guided journeys
Practice in the everyday: as i learn to trust myself more fully on the dance floor, the world opens up and i have more and more to give—there and back again
Winky Wheeler
https://ecstaticdancers.com/
Offerings: online and in-person classes and workshops, personal mentoring and trainings
Practice in the everyday: to stand in gratitude, live in creativity, offer kindness
practice listening more
cultivate curiosity and connection
become more personally resourced breath and love deeply and courageouslyand search for awe of what is and what is possible.
Zuza Engler
https://zuzaengler.com/
Offerings: online and in-person groups, classes, workshops, trainings
Practice in the everyday: lover of motion and stillness. Trainer and mentor of teachers. Devoted though imperfect wife. Closet writer. Work in progress.
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