Trainings (my cv)

during Yaniv Mintzer CI workshop, April 2024, pix : Barbara Mrazkova

1981 – now
2 children (2011 + 2013)

Here is a brief timeline of my on-going journey of learning, peeling off layers, de-conditionning, de-colonising, rising, and having fun researching on health, movement and subtle energies :

2024

Dance

  • Decolonizing our ways, with Kaia Hawkins, open Floor (July-August)
  • Butoh workshop on Metamorphosis with Yael Karavan (1-2 June)
  • Contact Improvisation workshop on Water with Yaniv Mintzer (3 days in May) 
  • Assistant of Deborah Lewin for Congruency, Newcastle (UK) – (2,5 days in May). 
  • Horses in the Ink, dance & poetry workshop with Villy Tichkova (Open Floor), April-May. 
  • Open Floor Teacher Training, with Deborah Lewin, Lucie Nerot and Sara Davies (2,5 years program)

Sexual health and well-being 

  • CervixHoney – exploration of the cervix – with Clara (January-February) 
  • Producer and assistant of Libido Fundamentals – Embodied Sexuality with Monika Körschner (dance research on sexuality) – February. 
  • Erotic Embodiment classes (online) Institute of Somatic Sexology.

2023

Dance

Energy work / accompaniment

    • Systemic constellation training with Neta Artzi (April-May-June 2023)

  • Sexual health and well-being

    • Erotic Embodiment classes (online) Institute of Somatic Sexology.

2022

  • Sexual health and well-being

    • Erotic Embodiment classes (online) Institute of Somatic Sexology.

2021

Dance / Movement

    • Deep Focus, with Adam Barley (5 rythms, inner work through movement and witnessing)
    • Arrabida Dance Gathering 16th and 17th (contact dance, gaga, contemporary dance, Butoh, dance theater) with Pedro Paz, Natalia Vik, Louise Chardon, Yael Karavan…
    • Contact impro (various intensive workshop : with Irene Coto Alvarez, Vega Lukkonen,…)
    • Introduction to Butoh (Yael Karavan, Aude Fondard, and online)
    • Introduction to Social Presencing Theater with Rita Venturini (Quinta Tenchi)
    • Gaga classes online

Womyn health

  • Sexual health and well-being

    • Erotic Embodiment classes (online) Institute of Somatic Sexology.

2020

  • Arrabida Dance Gathering 13th (contact dance, gaga, contemporary dance) Pedro Paz, Catarina Ascensao, Natalia Vik…
  • Kali practices, teaching of Daniel Odier online (non-duality, path of the spontaneous awakening)
  • Awakening the feminine with Juliet Haines (online – 1 year program)
  • Shamanic rituals and ceremonies

2019

Dance

    • Body Mind Centering cycle with Louise Chardon (6 months cycle)
    • Arrabida Gathering 9th, contact dance, gaga, contemporary dance…

Reproductive health

Energy work

2018

  • Kashmiri massage, yoga of touch, with Daniel Odier (Germany)
  • Kashmiri Yoga, teaching of the non-duality, path of the spontaneous awakening, Tandava (dance meditation) with Daniel Odier (Paris, France).
  • Assistant of Luna Nurit Burstein Nevo for a training of Theta Healing Basic DNA
  • Shamanic rituals and ceremonies

2017

  • Kashmiri Yoga, teaching of the non-duality, path of the spontaneous awakening, Tandava (dance meditation) and Kashmiri massag e (yoga of touch)with Daniel Odier (Lausanne, Switzerland, & Rome, Italy).
  • Communication with trees with Daniel-Bar Feuerstein (Portugal)
  • Theta Healing Basic and Advanced DNA with Luna Nurit Burstein Nevo (Portugal)
  • Shamanic rituals and ceremonies

2016

– Core shamanism training, with Gertrude Croé (Brussels, Belgium)
– Shamanic rituals and ceremonies
– Dance of the 5 rhythms with Anne-Mieke Haanzen (Brussels, Belgium)
– Movement Medicine (Belgium)
– Creative intimacy, with Fabrice George and Muriel Claeys (Belgium)

2015

  • Shamanic retreat around the sacred feminine with Carine Thiran and Anne-Chantal Misson (Belgium)
  • Liquid Body Touch, workshop with Felix Falkenhahn (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Tuina pediatrics, Chinese massage for children with master Elizabeth Martens, Haute Ecole Ilya Prigogine CREA-HELB (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Iyengar Yoga, Willy Bok and Rita Poelvoorde studio (Ixelles, Belgium)
  • Mindfulness cycle, with Laura Perichon (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Zen meditation

2013 – 2014

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine modules, with master Elizabeth Martens, Haute Ecole Ilya Prigogine CREA-HELB (Brussels, Belgium):
    – Study of the meridian system in Chinese medicine
    – Philosophical and practical foundations of Chinese medicine.
    – Chi Nei Zang (Chinese massage of organs and viscera).
  • Iyengar Yoga, Willy Bok and Rita Poelvoorde studio (Ixelles, Belgium)
  • Zen meditation

2012-2013

  • Photography (digital and silver film) : Rhok Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten (Brussels, Belgium).
  • Iyengar Yoga, Willy Bok and Rita Poelvoorde studio (Ixelles, Belgium)
  • Zen meditation

2012

  • Shiatsu retreat (diagnostic) with Sensei Yuichi Kawada (Brussels, Belgium).
  • Body weather (bodywork for dancers), with Ozan Aksoyek
  • Iyengar Yoga, Willy Bok and Rita Poelvoorde studio (Ixelles, Belgium)
  • Zen meditation

2010-2012

  • Photography (silver film) : School of Arts of Ixelles (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Iyengar Yoga, Willy Bok and Rita Poelvoorde studio (Ixelles, Belgium)
  • Zen meditation

2009

  • Shiatsu retreat (extraordinary meridians) with Sensei Yuichi Kawada (Rochefort, Belgium)
  • Shiatsu mentoring by Sensei Yuichi Kawada
  • Iyengar Yoga, Willy Bok and Rita Poelvoorde studio (Ixelles, Belgium)
  • Zen meditation

2008

  • Traditional Thai Yoga Massage, with Itzhak Helman (Lahu village, Chang-Mai, Thailand)
  • Shiatsu retreat (extraordinary meridians) with Sensei Yuichi Kawada (Rochefort, Belgium)
  • Photography course (silver film technics, history of photography) with Scott Typaldos (Brussels)
  • Iyengar Yoga, Willy Bok and Rita Poelvoorde studio (Ixelles, Belgium)
  • Contemporary dance (Yantra dance studio)
  • Zen meditation

2005 – 2008

  • Shiatsu training with Sensei Yuchi Kawada, Yoseido Shiatsu School (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Zen meditation

2002 – 2003

Master in International Politics, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

1998 – 2002

  • BA in Economics, University of Sussex (Brighton, UK)
  • Maîtrise de Sciences Economiques, Université Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble, France)

1984 – 2002 : the base of my dance journey

  • Contemporary dance (France, 1998-2002, Belgium 2008)
  • African dance (Brighton, UK, 2000-2002)
  • Ballet (Grenoble, France, 1984 – 1998)

Contact :
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photo : Franca Franchi, 2021