I first fell for the 5Rhythms® in my late teens, and after 15 years of practice, I completed the 2013 5Rhythms® Waves Teacher Training. Delighting in dance since childhood, I have a background in Modern, Ballet, Eurythmy, and Continuum Movement, and I am passionate about offering dancers sacred space to experience music and motion as medicine. Movement mentors and teachers include Gabrielle Roth, Lucia Horan, Kathy Altman, Adam Barley, Kim Brodey (Continuum), and David Treleaven (Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness). I produce 5Rhythms workshops in Toronto with visiting teachers, and have taught expressive arts and led all-ages dance events in Toronto since 2003. The musical offerings I make are those that rock my own heart, move my soul, and make me sweat, be it a funky groove, a soulful melody, or a big thumping tribal beat. Informed, inspired and nourished by the natural world, ritual, making music, and holistic medicine, off the dance floor I am a Folk/Soul singer/songwriter, a lover of local food and improv cooking, an urban farmer-in-training, an eldest daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, and a hearty lover of life.