I completed the training with Gabrielle in 2001 and ran a weekly class in Newcastle upon Tyne and occasional workshops for more than 10 years while my daughters were growing up. At the same time I co-founded the Bare Toed Dance Company,  teaching and performing movement and aerial dance for children and families in the north east of England.

In 2012 I began a degree course at Durham University, which led me to research for a PhD in Embodied Learning through their School of Education.

My research explores ways of embedding movement and physical awareness into classroom practices for both children and teachers in mainstream English primary schools. It draws together several different threads of interest: dance, working with children and academic research, with each informing the other.

I currently teach classes in Newcastle, Cumbria, Darlington and Durham, and occasionally longer workshops too.

My 5 Rhythms work draws strongly on neuroscience and a variety of creative disciplines - in longer workshops I often use paint, writing, music and other media. I also love to work in nature. I am particularly interested in levels of relationship, shadow work and supporting deep transformation through regular practice. 

I'm an artist/improviser and a spacious facilitator; please join me as we explore the generous maps of the 5rhythms. 

I'm a certified teacher of 5 Rhythms®, having completed the training with Gabrielle Roth in 2011, after a lifetime spent mainly teaching in mainstream education, but also with periods of working in social care and creative coaching.

I found the Rhythms in 1999 - love at first sight!  I'd found a doorway into a different world, a space where I was not only allowed but positively encouraged to dance, and a dance form that was not just for the young, the fit, and the slender.  It changed my life.

My loves are my son and his family, my friends; poetry, ancient places, my birthplace in Central America; the beauty of the natural world, silence, solitude, and the things of the spirit.

But the dance is both my passion and my practice.  In it, I find my body set free, and my heart, mind and soul opened...to a greater authenticity, a deeper connection, with myself, with others, with Other.  I feel most fully myself, yet expanded beyond myself.  When I dance the Rhythms, I begin, once again, to become more of who I am.

And teaching this practice continues to lead me down new paths, creative, challenging, and deeply rewarding. 

I am a passionate heart, a woman and a seeker. I am fire and water, wind and earth. I am chaos and flowing, i am a lyrical, travelling soul. Co-creating with life  the dynamic balance between taking new adventures and welcoming the change and feeling at ease.

I am a Certified Dharma Coach and Psychosomatic Cpunselor for women.  In my group sessions as well as in One2one Processes I integrate movement as well as a deep research of the inner truth through de-conditioning work. Inclusion, depth and mystery and humour are the flavours of my offerings.

My 'home territory' is Lucca, in Tuscany, Italy, though I love to teach and dance with people anywhere!

So much time we spend thinking as adults in the modern world!

Let’s get back to the body, feel the music and reconnect with ourselves and each other!

Andrew has been teaching the 5 Rhythms for more than twenty-five years. He studied extensively with Gabrielle Roth, and runs workshops in many countries. For twenty years he also worked as a theatre director, and his workshop The Holy Actor, which combines the embodied aliveness of the dance with the transforming freedom of improvised theatre, has become one of the classic workshops of the 5 Rhythms programme. He lives in England with his partner Sharon.

Andrew teaches with precise subtlety, imperceptibly guiding you deep, without fuss. His gentle compassion creates a safe space in which transformation can happen. He works with a light touch, and an embodied intelligence, bringing great delight to the spiritual practice he loves.