Dance & Embodiment
I’ve been dancing since I was four — classical ballet first, then hip-hop, street dance, and bellydance. Twenty years of teaching, choreographing and performing across Germany, Spain and the Netherlands, including work with Tanzhaus NRW, Marvin A. Smith and an artistic collaboration with Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. What I teach now draws from all of it.
Different movement languages teach the body different things. The work is knowing which one a person, or a room, actually needs.
Why Movement, and Why Like This
Some people come to my classes because they want to dance. Others come because they need to come back into their body. Both are welcome.
If you want to learn — to get better at hip-hop, to feel a bellydance move click into place, to remember what it’s like to be a body that knows how to move — that’s here. My classes are technical, expressive, and fun. Real dancing.
If you’re coming for something deeper — to release what’s stored, to regulate a nervous system that’s been running too hot for too long, to find your way back into a body that stress or illness or life has pulled you out of — that’s here too.
The dance is the same dance. What changes is what you bring to it, and what it gives you back.
You don’t need to be a dancer. You don’t need to be flexible, coordinated, or good at anything. You only need to be willing to move and notice what happens.
The Movement Languages I Work With
My work is organised around three pillars — each one a different door into the body.
Urban Expression Hip-Hop · Street Dance · Ragga Jam
The body as cultural voice. Raw energy, rhythm, attitude, community. I trained in hip-hop and street dance from age thirteen, competed at championship level, and have been teaching these forms for over twenty years across Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. My classes build coordination, confidence and uninhibited self-expression — taught with authenticity and soul, for real bodies and real grooves.
Levels: Beginner · Intermediate · Advanced
Roots & Feminine Power Bellydance · Oriental Dance
An ancient practice of embodiment, taught not as performance but as a path to body confidence, sensual intelligence and deep self-possession. The form is technically rich — isolations, layering, musicality — and emotionally wide. It opens parts of the body and self that other movement forms don’t reach. Every body, every age, every background welcome.
Levels: Beginner · Intermediate
Body, Breath & Soul Somatic Movement · Breathwork · Expressive Dance
The deepest layer of my practice. Breath, movement and somatic awareness woven together to access emotion, release the nervous system, restore self-esteem, and return home to the body. Movement without choreography — guided, intuitive, responsive to what’s actually moving inside you. No prior dance experience needed.
Levels: Open to all levels
Each pillar is offered as regular classes, workshops, or intensive series — and can be tailored to context, community and depth of practice.
How I Work With Movement
Six contexts.
1:1 Sessions
Private, personalized movement work — often blended with breathwork and presence. Built around what your body is asking for. Many clients come not because they want to dance, but because they need a way back into their body that talking hasn’t given them. Movement does what words can’t.
Classes & Workshops
Regular group classes across the three pillars. Some are technical and energetic — proper dance classes for people who want to learn, sweat, and have fun. Some are slower and more internal, focused on expression, regulation, or release. All are paced for real bodies and welcoming to people who haven’t moved this way before. Come for the dance. Stay for whatever else shows up.
Workshops for Studios & Teams
I teach workshops at fitness studios, dance studios, and corporate environments. A typical workshop combines technique with embodiment — so participants leave having actually felt something, not just learned steps. Adaptable to the group: dance studios looking for embodiment programming, fitness studios wanting to add expressive work, corporate teams interested in body-based resilience or creative expression.
Children & Young People
Dance and movement programmes for children aged 4 to 12, including after-school programmes (BSO) in the Netherlands. Hip-hop, creative movement, and embodied play — taught with the same care and craft as adult classes, scaled to young bodies and attention. For schools, BSO programmes, and parents looking for movement that’s joyful, technical, and developmentally thoughtful.
Other Workshops
Beyond my regular offerings, I take on workshops in different styles, for different audiences, or for specific contexts — women’s groups, recovery communities, intergenerational classes, one-off events, or guest workshops at retreats and festivals. If you’re putting something together and you think movement might be part of it, send me the brief and we’ll see.
For Teachers & Choreographers
Mentoring and training for working dance teachers, choreographers, and movement facilitators who want to teach better.
A lot of teachers in this field are excellent dancers who were never actually taught how to teach. They got promoted into teaching because they were good at the form, and they’ve been figuring it out as they go. There’s nothing wrong with that — it’s how most of us started. But there’s a craft to teaching that exists alongside the craft of dancing, and it can be learned.
What I work on with teachers:
• Class design — how to structure a session that actually goes somewhere
• Reading the room — recognizing what’s happening in your students’ bodies and energy, and adjusting in real time
• Giving corrections that land — how to teach without making people feel small
• Holding the space — managing group dynamics, emotional shifts, and the moments that throw less experienced teachers
• Trauma-awareness and nervous system basics — how to work with bodies that are carrying more than just the choreography
• Your evolution as a teacher — what kind of teacher you want to be in five years, and the work it takes to get there
For teachers who are serious about the craft — and ready to take responsibility for what their teaching actually does to people.
Offered as 1:1 mentoring, small-group cohorts, and intensive workshops.
How Sessions and Classes Work
1:1 movement sessions are typically 60 to 90 minutes, in person in the Netherlands and Spain, or online when the work allows. We start with where you are physically, emotionally, in your day. Then we move.
Group classes vary in length and focus. Urban Expression classes lean toward technique, energy and play. Roots & Feminine Power classes balance technique with expression. Body, Breath & Soul classes are slower, more internal, and often include breathwork.
Workshops for studios and teams are typically 60 to 90 minutes, custom-shaped to the group’s level and goals.
Children’s programmes are scaled to age and attention, typically 45 to 60 minutes, with structure and play in equal measure.
Teacher mentoring is structured around the teacher, typically ongoing 1:1 work, weekend intensives, or small-group cohorts running over several months.
You don’t need experience. You don’t need a particular kind of body. You need clothes you can move in, water, and willingness.
Rates
Group Classes — see upcoming schedule
1:1 Movement Session — €85 (60 min) or €110 (90 min)
Workshops for studios & teams — quoted per engagement
Children & young people programmes — quoted per programme
Teacher & Choreographer Mentoring — €120 per 1:1 session, intensive and cohort pricing on enquiry
Free intro call — 20 minutes, no charge
Sliding scale available for women in recovery and people on limited income. Please reach out — we’ll find a way to make it work.
Movement starts with one yes.
Book a class, a 1:1 session, enquire about a workshop for your studio or team, or reach out about teacher training or children’s programmes. If you’re not sure where to begin, book a free twenty-minute call and we’ll figure out what fits.