Chloe (she/they) has been a committed Conscious Dance practitioner for over 20 years, and a Accredited 5Rhythms™ teacher since 2010. She is a licensed masters level Social Worker, Artist, Community Maker and life-long student.
Chloe teaches 5rhythms™ classes and workshops informed by studies in somatics, trauma healing and embodied social justice practices. She facilitates brave movement journeys that cultivate somatic sensibility and transformative awareness. She leads with sensitivity, heart and humor. She calls on music as medicine, movement as ally, and community as catalyst.
Social/Cultural Locations: Chloe is a white, able-bodied, cisgendered person dis-oriented in gender and sexuality binaries. Descendent of Russian Jews and people of the British Isles, she is a 4th generation Anglo Santa Fean, teaching and living on land colonized by the Spanish, ancestrally and currently home of the Pueblo People.
Education
Masters Degree in Social Work (2004)
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Comparative Religion and Art (1994)
Accreditation
5Rhythms, Waves level, The Moving Center New York (2011)
5Rhythms, Heartbeat level (2023)
Professional Certifications
Mind-Body Therapy
Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology
Informed By
Shakaya McFarland (she/her) is a Licenced Mental Health Counselor, Professional DJ and Dance Artist. She teaches Open Floor a resourced based movement meditation practice. Her musical prowess and skillful space holding catalyze expansive, joyful and deep dance journeys.
Accreditation:
Open Floor International Teacher Training Completed in 2024
Ashleigh Shepherd (she/her) is a lifetime student of the body, breath, and all things wild. She spends her time primarily outdoors in the company of vibrant preschoolers who teach her daily about love, curiosity, how life moves, and the changing waves we are made of. Ashleigh is fascinated by the physics of what it means to be human: physically, emotionally, cognitively, spiritually, and relationally. She is trained as an Open Floor Movement Teacher and is known for her intense love of practice. Open Floor movement is a lively and playful dance inquiry; a moving meditation with curiosity at its core. We come together to practice presence, to pause, feel, experiment, and pay attention to the living body and its insight. To be embodied is to come to our senses, more fully alive, awake, and aware in the world. The Open Floor is a place for us to practice just that - breath by breath growing our capacity to show up more fully in our lives and in our relationships.
Accreditation:
Open Floor International Teacher Training Completed in 2019