Natalie Southgate FOUNDER

Natalie founded CHAKRADANCE™ in London in 1998 and on returning to live and practice in Australia has developed CHAKRADANCE™ into the energising and healing dance practice it is today.

Natalie has been passionate about dance since she was a child, gaining certificates with ‘The Federal Association of Teachers of Dance’ in Tap Dancing and Modern Dance. Trained and accredited as an energy healer with both the ‘College of Psychic Studies’ (London) and ‘The National Federation of Spiritual Healers’ (UK), Natalie also has accreditation as a Healing Therapist with ‘The National Federation of Healers Inc. (Australia). She has a Diploma in Jungian Psychology and Healing (The Society of Psychology and Healing, London), and is currently completing an MA in Psychology.



Douglas Channing TEACHING CO-ORDINATOR

Douglas joined CHAKRADANCE™ in 2002 and is working with Natalie in facilitating and developing CHAKRADANCE™ further. He is formally trained in classical ballet, is a qualified Fitness Instructor and teacher in Tiandi Qigong and is currently completing studies in Comparative Religion.

Since participating in CHAKRADANCE™ Douglas has become deeply interested in the way that creativity can strengthen the mind/body/spirit connection. Over the last three years he has actively participated in qigong, polarity therapy, dream groups and sandplay therapy. Douglas has found that these practices combined with CHAKRADANCE™ has not only opened him up creatively but also allowed for physical and emotional healing to take place within himself.

Contact Douglas on 0425 327 722 or email: douglas@chakradance.com



Rebecca Lindsay EASTERN SUBURBS, NSW

Rebecca is passionate about music and dance. Since gaining a Diploma of Contemporary Music and graduating from NIDA's Singer, Actor, Dancer course she has worked in both areas.

Rebecca also has a active interest in natural therapies. She is a yoga instructor and works as a remedial massage therapist & reflexologist in Sydney's Eastern suburbs.

Her desire to learn more and work with people holistically continues as she is currently in her 3rd year studying psychotherapy and she is now seeing clients for counselling.

Rebecca is one of Australias first Chakradance teachers. She conducts regular classes and retreats and she loves being part of this growing community.

Contact Rebecca on 0411 417 337 or email: rebecca@chakradance.com



Eleanor Rattray MANLY AND NORTHERN BEACHES, NSW

With a love and interest in the healing arts, Eleanor is passionate about CHAKRADANCE™ and the wonderful benefits it offers participants.

After following her dreams to pursue yoga studies in India and exploring the connection of the yoga dance within; Eleanor’s desire to understand more about the un iqueness of every individual drew her to Sydney’s Nature Care College where she has enjoyed learning from the ancient wisdoms, the healing science of Ayurveda.

Discovering CHAKRADANCE™ brought the elements to life. Eleanor believes that the nature and foundation of this dance practice provides a safe place for each individuals unique experience. “For me CHAKRADANCE™ is a gentle way of reminding me to be kind to myself, others and the world around us, it also reminds me to live this life with love and laughter and be the CHAKRADANCE™ joy”.

Eleanor looks forward to facilitating your CHAKRADANCE™ experience.

Contact Eleanor on 0402 135 296 or email: elrattray@chakradance.com




Judy Cairns NEWCASTLE AND HUNTER VALLEY, NSW

Judy is a Novocastrian, living in the beautiful garden suburb of Lorn in the Hunter Valley. She has an Advanced Diploma of Psychotherapy; Diploma of Esoteric Studies and Holistic Healing; Diploma of Dream Therapy, Interpretation & Analysis; is a Reiki Master Teacher; Hawaiian LomiLomi massage therapist including pregnancy massage , Heartworks Lomi and Polynesian floorwork. She is now studying for her Diploma in Remedial Massage.

Judy has always loved dance and movement and was fortunate to learn from the master himself, Mr Les Griffith. She has explored most forms of dance and since discovering Chakradance now realises what a huge impact dance and music have made on her life.

Judy has a love of learning and has studied many different modalities including NLP, hypnotherapy, Bach flower essences, crystals, the ancient wisdoms, the healing power of music to name a few.

Judy was fortunate to be one of the first Chakradance teachers and had many powerful realisations while completing the training. She believes Chakradance is not only one of the most powerful healing modalities available, but is also fun to do. Judy recognises the importance of the body/mind/spirit connection and the necessity to bring balance to your life. She invites you to join her in one of her workshops or courses.

She is a member of AHHA, IICT and is a Qualified member of ACA.

Contact Judy on 0438 348 166 or email: judy@chakradance.com



Vina von S NSW

Vina is currently completing a Masters in Analytical Psychology, and has always had strong esoteric inclinations, including holistic and alternative forms of healing. Music and dance have always been her main passions and found the last 3 years of doing CHAKRADANCE™ enlightening, not to mention both liberating and fun. She welcomes you to come and experience this unique dance form with her.




Kirsten Westerkamp CENTRAL COAST, NSW

Kirsten holds a Bachelor Degree in Social Work and has attended courses in Drama Therapy and Dance Therapy. She is very interested in the symbolic language of our psyche (found in dreams and fairy tales) and resonates well with Carl Jung's perspective on the psychology of mankind. Kirsten has traveled extensively and feels excited when exploring different cultures with their unique dances, music and rituals. Kirsten is a fully qualified Crystal Therapist and Hawaiian Lomi Lomi masseuse and offers these therapeutic services to help people on their path of self-development and self-love. CHAKRADANCE™ is her ultimate passion as it combines all her interests into the one modality. Kirsten is keen to run CHAKRADANCE™ classes in Australia and in Europe, spreading healing light all over the world!

Contact Kirsten on 0401 372 715 or email: kirsten@chakradance.com

Laura Dennis

Laura approaches life with a great sense of fun and enthusiasm. Laura is a committed volunteer for the Multiple Sclerosis Society and truly believes that music and movement is for everyone to share and enjoy. Laura has worked in the corporate sector for over 13 years and fully understands the stresses of modern day life. Balancing home and work life can be challenging as well as finding that special time just for you. Since attending Chakradance in 2001 Laura has found this to be a positive way to redress the balance between all aspects of life.
Contact Laura on 0412 325 293 or email: laura@chakradance.com

Rebecca Tapp, SYDNEY INNER CITY, NSW

Rebecca has always been passionate about dance spending 10 years gaining numerous certificates with FATD in Jazz, Tap and Ballet.Initially pursuing a degree in Journalism Rebecca completed a Diploma of Communication with the Sydney Institute of Business Technology going on to work in Radio as a producer and on air assistant. It was during this time at only 19 Rebecca discovered her passion for spirituality and attended the very first Sydney CHAKRADANCE™ course ever held by Natalie Southgate at the Rozelle Community Centre.

Fusing her passion for dance with the chakras Rebecca had found her destiny and left the world of media to study energy healing with the intention of returning to Sydney to work for CHAKRADANCE™. Settling down in London Rebecca attained accreditation with The College of Psychic Studies as a spiritual healer. Now settled back in Sydney she also holds a certificate in full body massage with the All Regions Massage School and in time would like to fuse both practices developing Chakramassage.

Along with these interests Rebecca is also a keen writer submitting editorial for the CHAKRADANCE™ newsletter. Her writing also extends to her passion for electronic dance music working with her partner and producer Steven Flynn of Music Beyond Thought writing lyrics and doing vocals with the hope of one-day releasing an album. She also has a flair for fashion and one of her dreams is also to develop a fashion label expressing “Urban Spirituality”.

With all these hopes and aspirations Rebecca’s personal motto is “DANCE YOUR DREAM” because anything is possible.

Contact Rebecca on 0405 910 397 or email: rtapp@chakradance.com


Lisa Hollands, BLUE MOUNTAINS, NSW

Lisa has always been drawn towards a need to help heal the environment. She attained a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Biology Animals & Environmental Geography. These studies included a field trip to SE Asia. Whilst staying in many small villages, she was able to experience the greater environmental issues from a grass roots perspective. She has also received teachings from Australian Aboringinal Elders, and other respected teachers, including her son Jasper.
Lisa has learnt that life can be lived with a more innate connection to the Natural World, & that healing begins from within.

Practicing Iyengar Yoga, taught to her by her sister has emphasized this body, mind & soul connection.Since Practicing CHAKRADANCE™, and introducing a regular meditation regime into her life, Lisa has found that she is more able to integrate and maintain balance and connectivity into her daily life.

Contact Lisa on 0422 157 251 or email: lhollands@chakradance.com


Halyna Denysenko, LOWER BLUE MOUNTAINS/PENRITH, HILLS / HAWKESBURY, NSW

Halyna was initially drawn to CHAKRADANCE™ as it encompasses her passion for music, dance and natural therapies. CHAKRADANCE™ is an integral part of Halyna’s journey of personal growth and her sense of wellbeing. “When I take part in a class, I always walk out feeling different to when I walked in. After a class, I feel balanced, light and together” says Halyna.
 
Halyna believes that in order to bring peace and harmony to our outer lives and those around us, we need to first discover the peace and harmony within. CHAKRADANCE ™ is a great modality for journeying within, whilst having fun through spontaneous dance. Having two small children, Halyna can appreciate how important it is to take time out and recharge the inner self on a regular basis. Halyna’s calm and compassionate nature allows her class participants to feel comfortable and safe in their experience of CHAKRADANCE ™.
 
Halyna has been involved with dance for most of her life and is also a certified Reiki practitioner. She has been practicing yoga and meditation for many years. In the near future, Halyna plans on studying bodywork to incorporate this with her Reiki work to offer a truly wholistic form of massage.
 
Halyna enjoys sharing the CHAKRADANCE ™ experience with others and noticing the positive impact on their lives. “I have had participants come back to me with truly amazing experiences”. Halyna has been running classes for a few years in her local area of the Lower Blue Mountains, and has recently been drawn to share with the people of the Hills and Hawkesbury areas of Sydney.

Contact Halyna on 0411 460 822 or email: hdenysenko@chakradance.com


Victoria Parsons BYRON BAY, NSW

Victoria’s personal growth journey began 15 years ago. This led her to the practice of meditation and yoga and then to the study of holistic counselling, relationship counselling and body-focused counselling. She has been working for over 5 years as a relationship and body-focused counsellor. She more recently completed CHAKRADANCE™ teacher training.

Victoria encourages a space of grace, openness, groundedness and body awareness, working towards a deeper relationship with one’s self. She believes it is necessary to make friends with our minds, bodies and souls. Her journey has encompassed travel, broad life experience and spiritual direction. She has a deep love of music, dance, yoga, meditation, a capella singing, nature, family, community and animals. Her three adult children are her greatest friends and teachers. She is now a passionate grandmother.

CHAKRADANCE™ has provided Victoria with the opportunity to fulfill a dream of organising a dance space for people to connect with themselves on a deeper level and to express and process emotions in. She has just moved to the Northern Rivers and is beginning to work with CHAKRADANCE™ as a one on one counselling experience, bringing together all her professional passions.

Contact Victoria on email: vparsons@chakradance.com


Jacki Wrublewski, SOUTH COAST, NSW

Jacki's love for music, dance and the healing arts have been her inspiration for joining the CHAKRADANCE™ family. Jacki studied Spiritual Healing and Naturopathy at Nature College which inlcuded subjects such as massage, nutrition, herbal medicine, counselling and flower essences. She has since furthered her training in massage by becoming an Aryuvedic Stone Massage therapist as well as completing a Diploma in Advanced Flower Essence Therapy. She also gives treatments in crystal healing and chakra balancing. She is very excited to have the opportunity to bring CHAKRADANCE™ to the South Coast and feels blessed to be a facilitator in peoples' healing process and to be there to support and allow them to discover their inner truths.

Contact Jacki on 0427 802 757 or email: jwrublewski@chakradance.com



Kirsten Spry, BALMAIN / ROZELLE, NSW

Play is it’s own good reason and it’s own reward. Kirsten has enjoyed CHAKRADANCE™ since first attending classes in London in 1999. She sees CHAKRADANCE™ as a way to cultivate spontaneity and imagination in daily life, and believes it offers a unique and potent combination of physical and spiritual healing. Returning to Australia after eight years of living in Europe has signalled a return to her roots in many ways for Kirsten. Interested in drama and dance from a young age, but opting for a career in communications, she’s now committed to living a more physical and creative life, and to making a more meaningful contribution to other people’s lives.

Contact Kirsten on 0411 386 083 or email: kspry@chakradance.com


Craig Oliver TAMWORTH, ARMIDALE, & RURAL, NSW

Craig's deep interest in the mind, body and spirit connections has lead him down the path of teaching others about the art of self-healing. Interwoven in his own mix of spirituality, psychology, and body balance, CHAKRADANCE™ healing modality fits into his model of a higher level of self therapy.

Craig has had many years combining his interests in the movements of the body with the mind and soul. Having experience in EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), Ki Shiatsu, spiritual healing, massage, Reiki, Merlin Trinity, Nutritional Health and Lifestyle Coaching, Sword Therapy, Agnihotra, and running movement meditation classes.

Craig's personal goal is to 'Demystify' the natural healing arts which have been in existence from the beginning of time. Through CHAKRADANCE™ Craig will show you how to be the person you always knew you were.

Contact Craig on 0412 013 523 or email: coliver@chakradance.com


  Kirsty Fromholtz WAGGA WAGGA & ALBURY, NSW

Having danced from a young age, Kirsty was always drawn to movement and dance as a outlet for creativity and expression. Whilst completing a psychology degree, Kirsty began moving away from stricter dance disciplines into improvisation and creative dance forms. These elements combined led Kirsty to pursue a career in dance movement therapy, completing a certificate course through the International Dance Therapy Institute of Australia..

She now facilitates dance therapy for deafblind adults and runs workshops focusing on body image and self-esteem for girls with eating disorders. She also works with young people from indigenous and refugee backgrounds, running hip hop dance workshops.


Kirsty has found that CHAKRADANCE™ compliments and shapes her work as a dance therapist. She is committed to and passionate about raising the profile of therapeutic dance in Australia and providing opportunities for people living in rural areas.

Contact Kirsty on 0402 644 510 or email: kfromholtz@chakradance.com


Nerise Howes, QLD

Nerise was born in South Africa. She attended an Art-Ballet-Music-Drama school where she majored in music with piano as her first instrument. At college she studied jazz and contemporary music, taking a job as a cocktail pianist in various hotels. She grew up in an artistic, esoterically minded family, her mother a ballerina, choreographer and spiritual healer, her father an eccentric, creative inventor and author. She started reading and studying esoteric and metaphysical literature as a child and became an active member of the Theosophical society. She has studied various forms of energy healing and has a diploma in Nutritional Science, Reflexology, Psychotherapy and Life Coaching.

She left South Africa in 1995,travelled around Europe and lived in London for the next nine years of her life. During this time she taught piano professionally and signed a publishing deal with North Star music for an album, featuring eleven tracks of vocal/dance music. At present her passion for composing is directed at completing the writing and orchestration of her first piano concerto. She is also looking towards participating with the composing of future CHAKRADANCE™ tracks. In London, Nerise studied at the Lee Strassberg Institute for Method Acting and became very involved with the Gabrielle Roth Five Rhythm’s dance method. She also helped run a space called "Expressions”, an alternative nightclub, for free spontaneous trance/tribal dance in London. She has a background in ballet and has always felt an incredible sense of freedom through dance. Nerise has been an Aura reader (from aura cameras) for the last six years. Through doing this work she became involved and deeply interested in working with the chakra system. Nerise now lives in Sydney after immigrating to Australia in August 2004.

Being a CHAKRADANCE™ teacher, she hopes to share her journey and dance together, re-connecting physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually... while living with greater awareness, joy and understanding. She believes that within every one of us there is a longing to express ourselves fully...without being judged...freely, spontaneously... CHAKRADANCE™ is a way of doing just that. And more.

Contact Nerise on 0425 240 285 / 07 4057 8629 or email: nerise@chakradance.com



Christina Sanchez PRAHRAN, ST KILDA, VIC

Christina has been dancing most of her life in various disciplines, but found Middle Eastern dance 8 years ago and then began to teach it. She is passionate about music and dance, and their healing nature and has always approached teaching, as well as her own personal practice, with this in mind. She strongly believes that through dance, one can experience a heightened sense of body/mind/spirit in harmony as well as facilitate change and growth in one's life. Christina is also a qualified massage therapist with additional training in Pranic Healing.

Contact Christina on 0416 028 533 or email: christina@chakradance.com



Shari Nye MELBOURNE, VIC

Shari Nye has been a practicing Artist for most of her life. She has trained in classical ballet wit the Solimossy ballet company Melbourne and studied Yoga with masters in India, Nepal and Australia. Shari practices vibrational medicine, shamanism and energetic healing; with this knowledge she brings her potent blend of wisdom to the physical and spiritual in us all. She believes that self expression through music, dance and art to be transformational when allowed to flow freely. “Great healing can take place when one is connected to the divine with in. It is then we can truly feel gratitude for our lives”. Shari currently teaches Art and Chakradance in Melbourne and is passionate about helping people bring balance into their lives.

Contact Shari on 0414 840 378 or email: shari@chakradance.com

Lynn Price MORNINGTON PENINSULA, VIC

Contact Lee- Anne on 0402 013 992 or mail: leeanne@chakradance.com



Shirley Tonkin ALBANY, WA

Shirley has a vision to take CHAKRADANCE™ to country towns in Western Australia. After working in many places across Australia in Administration she discovered Colour Therapy when she was living in Albany WA. A couple of years later and many trips to Perth she completed her diploma in Colour Therapy which she has had a practice in for a number of years. Then she read article in a magazine about CHAKRADANCE™ and it touched something within her very being. It was then she decided that one day she would become a CHAKRADANCE™ Teacher. Due to the isolation of living in a country town and indeed living in WA, it took Shirley a couple of years to finally juggle everything to fulfil her dream of becoming a CHAKRADANCE™ Teacher.

Shirley realises, through her own experiences, how hard it is for many country people to participate in truly inspiring and exciting courses, so she is very keen to bring CHAKRADANCE™ to country towns in her region.

CHAKRADANCE™ for Shirley has re-ignited the passion she once had, and upon reflection never really lost, for dance and music which she experienced when she did ballet and jazz. The most beautiful thing for Shirley is that CHAKRADANCE™ combines the many things she is truly fervent about - colour, imagery, dance and music - she definitely feels blessed to have discovered CHAKRADANCE™. Shirley’s other passion is her family, who have been a wonderful support and an unending source of joy to her.

She genuinely believes that CHAKRADANCE™ is such a wonderful way for people to heal themselves and it has the ability to reach across to all people on this wonderful Planet.

Contact Shirley on 0409 688 434 or email: stonkin@chakradance.com



Michelle Chant CANBERRA, ACT

Michelle is committed to bringing balance and depth to people's lives. She believes everyone deserves to live deeply satisfying lives that are fun, enriching, creative and full of abundance.

Her specialty is helping you to rediscover the sacredness of life. She believes it's what she was born to do and she loves every minute of it.

A Goddess Playshop facilitator and CHAKRADANCE™ instructor, Michelle is committed to her ever unfolding evolution. Michelle is grateful for the opportunity to find her own way in the world and shares her passion with others whose intent is to reach similar goals.

Contact Michelle on email: mchant@chakradance.com

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