Our Teachers
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The body and health have always been my thing, although professionally I was working with numbers. In 2010 I came across the 5Rhythms in Thailand and fell in love, I devoted myself to practice intensely, and after 8 years of self-discovery, I began to share what the rhythms give me. The practice for me opens the way to the pleasure and fascination of feeling the body in art, sometimes it softens me, sometimes it energizes me, sometimes it picks me up, sometimes it expands me, I don't know where it takes me, but I know that it is my medicine. It is a privilege to accompany and witness the art that we are all in motion.
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Movement Medicine® Teacher, Custodian of Sacred Cacao, and Designer for your visibility with 'Embodied Brand Coaching’. Born in Venezuela, my connection to the land and my ancestors runs deep; drums and dance are at the heart of our culture. Even in difficult moments, these connect us to life and provide us with strength and joy. I love to dance because through movement, I find a profound connection with myself, with nature, with others, and with the Great Mystery. I live guided by an open heart and healthy boundaries, honoring the power of ceremony and rituals that bring beauty and meaning to daily life. In my offerings, I create sacred and inclusive spaces where authenticity, body, and soul can nourish and rediscover their truth in freedom.
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Only when I dance I don't think. My mind settles down and the body starts moving as it knows. I have followed many paths and I have exposed myself to many experiences in order to understand something about me and about this mysterious life. But only in free movement I found peace, intuition, joy, presence and comfort. I am a naturopath nutritionist and looking at bodies is my job. Bodies that have always spoken to me beyond measure and volume as they have their own pre-verbal language that cannot be silenced. When you invite the body to move, the soul reveals itself and whispers its own truth. Listening to the message is the purpose. Soul Motion for me represents a journey of discovery, beyond words. Discovery of oneself, of the other, of the community that welcomes us and of the Infinite that lives inside and outside our own space.
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Movement Medicine came into my life as a clearing wind and swept away what was meant to go. Right from the beginning I have become passionate with the sense of freedom, clarity and safety that it elicits in me. It reconnects me with the modern and the old ways at the same time. It reveals the unity between past, present and future in my and everybody's gestures and dances. Over the time I have come to appreciate the worth of sharing whilst including diversities and differences within myself and in others along with a deep sense of gratitude towards Life as a whole. I am also a certified Biodanza Teacher.
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Movement and dance have always been my home. But thanks to 5Rhythms and Soul Motion, movement has become my path, my journey of reconciliation with the body, with the earth, with the world. My medicine, my release, my joy. I have a degree in philosophy that allows me to wander into the highest systems, and when I'm not dancing I write fairy tales for adults and children for my small publishing house: www.fiabeperdire.com. I am a certified teacher of Soul Motion and 5Rhythms Spaceholder and teacher in training.
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Nishta’s teaching style is heartfelt, humorous, clear and transformative. She works with people to cultivate their highest conscious creative compassionate potential so it spreads like wildfire. She uses movement, mindfulness meditation, humour and matters of the heart as a ground for exploration into deeper states of being. Nishta has a degree in Psychology with a specialization in Art Therapy. She began dancing and producing Soul Motion & 5Rhythms over 20 years ago when she was co-director of a Healing Arts Center in Maui, Hawaii. She is a transformational coach, founder at 4WTF and Conscious Dance Italy. She is a certified International Open Floor teacher. On most days, she can be lost or found in the hillsides of Lago Maggiore.
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Dance has been part of my life since I was 6 with classical dance, and then I opened myself experiencing contemporary style, African, bio-dance and much more. In 2016 I began to lead the first NIA classes (Neuromuscular Integrative Activity). The experimentation continued with a year training in Fux Method Dance Therapy and Contact Improvisation. Then arrived the immense world of Conscious dance. I met the 5 Rhythms in Australia in 2014 for the first time and I immediately felt the desire to learn more. Living near Rome I was able to experience Ecstatic dance, Movement medicine, 5 rhythms and Azul. And it was precisely Azul that chose me, a practice in which the body is danced by what the music moves, an authentic embodiment experience. I offer classes and workshops in Rome and other regions in Italy, and in several festivals. I often offer dance experiences in nature. I believe deeply in the power of the community and I really love collaborating with other creative souls, with whom new projects are being born. I am a holistic operator specializing in Ayurvedic massage and harmonic sound massage, a yoga teacher for adults and children. I love travelling, walking in the woods, rivers and mountains of my place of birth, breathing the immensity of the ocean, animals, photography, and dance, in all its forms.workshops nel Lazio e in altre regioni, oltre a portare questa pratica in diversi festival. Spesso offro esperienze di danza in natura. Credo fermamente nel potere della community e amo molto la collaborazione con altre anime creative, con le quali stanno nascendo nuovi progetti. Sono operatrice olistica specializzata in massaggio ayurvedico e sonoro armonico , insegnante di yoga per adulti e bambini. Amo viaggiare, respirare il bosco, i fiumi e le montagne del mio Friuli, l'immensità dell'oceano, gli animali, la fotografia, e la danza, in tutte le sue forme.
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My name is Tamara, I’m from Italy and deeply inside I feel a citizen of the world. I'm a Movement Medicine Teacher and I've been teaching Movement Medicine for 4 years, mainly in Italy. I'm a passionate of life and of the human being, with a strong sense of social justice, which includes everyone and everything. And I love creating connections and bridges between different worlds and people. I trust in human development, on a personal and on a collective level, both as a process and as a creative life's project, done by small steps. Breathing, dancing and being together, creating a safe space for each other, to blossom and celebrate differences. I've been working with a humanitarian organization since 2006, at the beginning in the field, in Ethiopia and Brazil (with another NGO) and Kenya, Sri Lanka, Mozabique and with migrants in Sicily. My role is now Career Manager and I am based in Rome. This has widened my perspective and my ability to put into practice the values of equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism.
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Azul Teacher and contemporary dance teacher, performer, actress and dancer. Always searching for what colours the days, what brings light into the world and fullfill the heart of emotions: that's what dance is for me. Since I was a child, body and movement were my main channels of expression. While growing, Life brought me to know another layer of the existence, more subtle and evanescent, connected with the ways in which energy moves and flows. So I learned some holistic disciplines, like Reiki, Bach Flowers, Access Bars and Energy balancing methods...since I quite lost my direction. Azul gave me the opportunity to gather all these parts of me, and to connect the dance with the higher level of the existence, the Mistery...and to embrace myself in wholeness. My desire is to share the dance with more and more people, and to connect and collaborate, in order to make available this potent tool of transformation and discovery of our true nature. In order to make the world a better place all together, at the rhythm of the heartbeat and of the dancing feet.
CONTACT SARAH
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I began dancing 5 Rhythms in the 1990s, with dreams of training with Gabrielle Roth, but life with young children in Scotland kept me closer to home. Now, as an Open Floor teacher living in Italy, I draw on decades of experience as a professional homeopath, a musician and music teacher, and a facilitator of compassionate communication (having trained with Marshall Rosenberg the founder of NonViolent Communication). As an academic I am currently grateful to be funded to research the impact of embodied movement and music for people living with dementia and their families. I love my work, as it allows the poetic wisdom of the body to speak, gifting us a precious resource for our relationship with ourselves and others.
CONTATTA JENNY
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Explorer of movement and of the dance-life relationship. She graduated in Hawaii with Amara Pagano. Shiatsu Therapist and Hawaiian Massage. I've been dancing since I was in my mom's womb and I'll never stop. In constant search of movement, I have always explored various types of dance in order to feel the freedom of the body that thanks. I started dancing with the 5Ritmi since 2012, following workshops in Rome and abroad, until the day I met Azul and I started to transform my life, awakening my true essence. Dancing life ... tapping into the wisdom of the body. Listen to it, open up, allow yourself to meet what life whispers to you, learning to recognize that whisper. This is Azul Conscious Movement. This is my practice.
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Evangelos is a Dharma teacher of the Namgyal lineage, certified 5Rhythms®️ teacher and coach. He is Greek-Canadian. He has studied and taught for 20 years and continues to practice regularly with a wide variety of contemporary teachers and modalities. His compassionate and investigative nature encourages students to view life's challenges and conflicting emotions as an opportunity for personal growth and somatic transformation. He has a passion for integrating the path of awakening through somatic expression, art and business. Evangelos teaches regularly in Canada, Asia, Europe and the Americas. He is a founder at Four Ways to Freedom and is currently writing a book on inner liberation.
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In Findhorn, Scotland I met for the first time the 5Rhtyms. Hesitantly at the beginning then more and more consciously they became the center of my daily life. They represent the thread that evoked my passion for the dance that was in me since I was a teenager. The 5 Rhythms practise is a blessed encounter with myself, an opportunity to explore the balance of body, mind, soul and spirit deeply. It's a precious invitation to sweat, to uncover hidden emotions and feelings and to find my highest self. For me the 5Rhythms is a way of life, a dancing path that embodies the voice of truth.
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Art has been my blessing, my cure and my life teacher. I studied painting and sculpture from an early age, explored the world of acting and that of ballet, contemporary dance, african dance, belly dance, but I have always lacked a more "spiritual" component linked to the expression of the movements of the soul; I found this dimension, as well as in yoga and meditation, in the 5Rhythms practice that allowed me to rediscover and finally express the suffocated sides of my soul, improving my life profoundly.
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My path began in the late 90's with Reiki and over the years has developed through Vipassana meditation, Osho's active meditations, energy treatments, shamanic paths and tarot cards, passing also through theater and contemporary dance. I have found my point of balance in Azul. Meditation and dance create a perfect fusion in this Conscious Dance path. The answers come through the Feeling of our body, they do it spontaneously with movement, creating a space where everything happens in a natural and simple way.
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My name means "of the Forest". I love trees and my land, Friuli. My passion are circles, circumferences and the red thread. I am the first Italian teacher of Movement Medicine, the co-founder of Movement Medicine Italia and the Community Weaver of Conscious Dance Italy. I also trained at the Red School as a cycle mentor. I am a dreamweaver and I shared my vision on a TEDx talk: a change of narrative on the topic of the female body, and a future that is more human, where intergenerational groups of people dance and sing around the fire.
My project, #REDvolunionaryWeaving, started in Italy in 2012, uses the archetype of the red thread to weave the stories and roots of women from different countries. So far it has taken me to Lithuania, France, Belarus, Hungary, Switzerland, Turkey, India, Greece, England and Malta. CONTATTA SILVANA
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Marina Giazzi, driven by a deep inner search, has explored various paths of personal transformation and healing. A certified Mindfulness teacher and Reiki Master, she has delved into disciplines such as Alchemy, Shamanism, and Spagyria. Her journey also led her to dance, starting with the practice of 5Rhythms and later discovering Open Floor, of which she became a teacher in 2024.
With a degree in Psychology and a thesis on the use of dance as a tool for emotional regulation, she considers the body as the main vehicle through which to experience human life. For Marina, movement is a powerful means to connect with emotions and face daily challenges. In her journey, she has deepened the connection between embodiment and emotions, drawing inspiration from Embodiment theories and holistic approaches to healing. Her vision of dance goes beyond artistic expression: for her, it is a sacred path towards self-awareness and psychophysical well-being. Through her practices, she offers tools to rediscover one’s inner potential, promoting a life lived in full authenticity and deep connection with the body, mind, and soul.
CONTACT MARINA
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I have always had a passion for dance, as a child I used to go wild with improvised steps and movements. I simply followed the rhythm. I loved it so much... Dance, theatre have always been an integral part of my life, my work. As a dancer, performer, author, choreographer, teacher for adults and children.Then, I met Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms and I completely fell in love with it, because I can be and express myself. Unleash my creativity. They are a cure for the soul, body and mind.
In the 5Rhythms, I have finally found my home, my body is my home. I am my strength and the tribe is part of this beauty.
CONTACT LAURA
laurabenfenati@gmail.com
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Moon Mother by Miranda Gray and PNEI Holistic Psychosomatic Counselor for women. She has worked in the world of adult’s education and fashion for more than 10 years. Research and personal growth have always been his path. Since 2017 she is a certified 5Ritmi Teacher. In her group sessions as well as in individual paths, she brings the integration between the dynamic and liberating experience and the more static and subtle one, as a way of deep transformation. Welcoming, inclusion and raw authenticity are the values that guide her offerings.
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Since I was a child, I have been fascinated by spiritual research and self-development, driven by the desire to cultivate those superpowers that each of us holds within. I am a professional dancer and I was very soon interested in active meditation techniques, Reiki and ritual and shamanic dances from different traditions, such as Sufi whirling dance, which lead the participants into states with profound effects of transformation. My research journey, which has always been syncretic, leads me to synthesize all these elements into a daily practice of dance and meditation which is constantly evolving.
I am a certified Soul Motion Teacher since 2022, driven by the aim to spread everywhere the wonderful power of conscious movement.
www.ocyphercompany.it
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After his classical studies, in 2007 he graduated in Entertainment Science. Until 2009 he was president of Anima Mundi, the first association of pagan culture appeared in Sicily. Founder of the Trinacria Group which aims to carry out an information project on the recovery of ancient religions. Today, in addition to working in the field of sport, he is teacher and priest of the Temple of Ara, Wiccan tradition founded by Phyllis Curott. Author of the book "My indian Trip”, In his spare time, he enjoys travelling the world on his own.
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I’m Linda Bedin, passionate about movement and body. I found my first inspirations in TranceDance, Massage and Active Meditations. Literally struck by the reading of "Maps to Ecstasy" by Gabrielle Roth, I began the practice of 5 Rhythms in Paris in 2010 and in 2019 I took the path to become a Certified Teacher. When I don’t dance, I lead SoulCollage® atelier and workshops to develop creativity. For the time being I teach classes in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Vicenza (Italy) and Paris.
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I simply enjoy dancing. In Azul I celebrate the energy that moves through my body. I encounter my soul and I surrender to my spirit.” My first approach with conscious dance ( 5 rhythms) has been in Milan in 2010, thanks to Daniela De Bartolo. I felt immediatly in love with this unconventional movement practice. I explored for many years 5 Rhythms, Movement Medicine, Open Floor, Soul Motion, Creative Dance and Chakradance with international teachers. Finally I became an AZUL Teacher, a Creative Movement teacher and a Chakradance facilitator. I have a scientific background as Biologist. Nature is where I find my inner silence and my inspiration for my music and my actual Artwork. Azul helps me to navigate inside and outside caos, finding always back to myself. I offer different levels of Azul sessions from beginners to experienced dancers.
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Olivia Olla Palmer is a 5Rhythms teacher and producer, certified to teach “Waves” & “Heartbeat” levels of the 5Rhythms practice. She was the first teacher to lead classes & seminars around Italy promoting the 5Rhythms and the concept of dance as a source of healing. Olivia was born in London and has lived in Italy since 1986. She has been studying dance since she was a child, followed with years researching into various movement and dance practices, Celtic and Native American Shamanism, Trance Dance, Dance and Movement Therapy and studies on personal growth .
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A bachelor’s degree in Psychology, nature lover, curious and “researcher”. I have a holistic approach to wellness, integrating the power of sound, colour and touch as instruments to return to vibrate in harmony with Life. Dance is my greatest passion, but it was through the encounter with meditation, Osho's vision and Conscious Dance that the quality of movement became central in my life. Then came Movement Medicine, which brought awareness, presence and authenticity. It was love revealed: going back home. I like to integrate knowledge, visions and tools to offer the possibility of self-listening, self-finding and re-shining.
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My name is Sandro and I live in Padua. I completed my training and became a teacher in July 2024.I have been dancing since 2015: before encountering the 5Rhythms, I avoided living in my body, preferring to disconnect from it. The practice has allowed me to return to my body, accepting its lights and shadows and has taught me that every emotion and every pain can be faced through movement.
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5Rhythms Accredited Teacher, Active Meditation facilitator and Meditative Art teacher. Meditation, dance and art have allowed me to create, transform and expand my presence, and this is what I work on and share: experiencing absolute freedom in the body, the true expression of our soul.
CONTACT NIRVANA
info@spaziorebelde.com
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My passion for dance can be traced back to my childhood. My favorite memories embrace the joy for rock and roll and bughi bughi dances with my father. It was a transformative experience unraveling a journey of musical notes. Hence, the inspiration for photography, art therapy and meditation. I’ve been practicing 5Rhythms since 2014. It has changed my perception of the world becoming a healing tool into my Self discovery. I want to share 5Rhythms practice and I invite more people to experience the magic in expressing themselves fully in life with courage and awareness.
CONTACT MAUDA
maudamengarelli@gmail.com
Producers
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Teaching and producing events are part of the same project: spreading conscious dance in Italy.
We have produced the founders of two practices to Italy for the first time: Andrea Juhan, Open Floor and Vincent Martin Grieco (Soul Motion)
We aspire to continue to produce international teachers: to bring together Italian teachers and create events in which practices can be explored and a common language can really be co-created. Practicing together!
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The first tool I spontaneously turned to as a child, was dance. As a natural form of self-expression, dancing made me feel alive, it made me feel free and vibrantly happy. I studied ballet and contemporary dance for many years. Travelling through India, in 1999,I became a disciple of Osho. In his community I discovered and fell in love with Ecstatic Dance - Trance Dance, Sufi Whirling andFree Dance, and participated in meditation, spiritual therapy and shamanism workshops and trainings. After sitting at the feet ofenlightened masters and discovering Advaita Vedanta Non-Dual Spirituality, I explored NeoTantra and, through that path, I discovered Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms. Since 2009 I have been organising 5Rhythms and Conscious Dance workshops, bringing international teachers to Rome, and organising retreats in the Italian countryside and in magical Apulia, on the Mediterranean sea.