ABOUT ME

I’m Rahel (she/they). I’m a teacher, an artist, a healer, a storyteller, and a fellow human being.

As a movement arts teacher (and a Registered Clinical Counsellor by day), I offer embodiment, empowerment, and self acceptance through mindful movement.

Through my decades as a dancer, and my training in somatic trauma therapies, vedic spirituality, and social justice, as well as my lived experience in a queer, femme body…I aim to create spaces that are safe, joyful, compassionate, trauma-informed, inclusive, ethical, nerdy, and whenever they can be…fun!

My hope is for you to find your way home to your body; whether it’s through ethical cultural engagement in the magical world of Raqs Sharqi (Bellydance) and Arabic dance; or it’s on (and off) the Yoga mat through structured poses, mindfulness and breath; or it’s reclaiming healing gestures, implicit movement impulses, and somatic resources in Embodied Movement.

My mission is to make the world a better place, one regulated nervous system at a time.