Nadine

After studying jazz and contemporary dance in my native Europe, I had my first taste of improvisation when I moved to Houston in 2000 and discovered Gabrielle Roth’s Five Rhythms. The freedom and emotional outlet I found in the weekly sessions were exhilarating, and I soon went on to apprentice under Pablo Bobbio in the Silent Language of the Body (El Lenguaje silencioso del cuerpo), a technique he brought from Argentina. Its creator, Susana Milderman, wanted to help actors find more freedom of expression from their whole body and its various energetic centers. That technique, which I adapted to the chakra system, was to have the deepest, longest impact on my practice.

I went on to facilitate Ecstatic Dance for five years, before evolving my own approach, InnerFlow, itself in constant evolution. As I encounter and learn them, I integrate useful new tools such as the mudras shared by my yoga teacher, the various sound healing techniques I study, and more recently contact improvisation, which is proving to be a great way to break the ice and connect participants during warm-up.

InnerFlow continues to have such a liberating, healing impact on my life that I love nothing more than to share it with others and witness their own transformation – their newfound lightness after a spontaneous emotional release; the comfort and safety brought on by a general sense of belonging and acceptance; the inner peace that emerges when one is celebrated for embracing and embodying one’s own authentic self; the sense of hope when we rediscover the joy of playing and simply being, breathing and moving together; the ease and grace that take over our lives when we truly connect and surrender to our inner flow…