About this event
THE WAY OF THE DANCER
A Dance Weekend Immersion with Christian de Sousa
📍 Lisbon
📅 2–4 October 2026
+ Friday Night Open Drop-In Session
After an incredible workshop last year, we are super excited to welcome Christian back to Lisbon for another deep dance immersion.
> The Way of the Dancer is an invitation to dance deep and explore ecstatic movement as a meditation practice for our times. We will learn core practices from 5Rhythms and Movement Medicine, exploring how they help and inspire us to connect – with ourselves, each other and the wider fields of community and world. We will move through a dancing ceremony to give thanks for life.
📍Our dance space will be Liceu Pedro Nunes, near Jardim da Estrela, Lisbon. It is big, has wooden floor and has gorgeous windows, surrounded by a beautiful garden, right in the center of Lisbon.
All bodies welcome. No previous experience needed.
This session will be taught in English. Translation to Portuguese can be given if needed.
👉🏼BOOK YOUR SPOT BELOW!!
https://bookwhen.com/movementmedwithshivani
✦ About the FACILITATOR ✦
Christian de Sousa has held space for thousands of people to go on transformative journeys through dance. Creator of the legendary Sweaty Thursdays in a south London church, he trained in 5Rhythms with Gabrielle Roth in 2005 and was invited by Ya’Acov & Susannah Darling Khan to become one of the first Pathfinder teachers of Movement Medicine in 2011.
As a DJ, he uses music to weave deep and subtle spaces for dancers to journey, connect, heal and create. He believes passionately in movement being a universally-accessible resource for our times and welcomes all peoples to the dancefloor, whatever ability, age, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, size, shape and style.
Also influenced by Taoist and animist/shamanic teachings, he has studied in-depth with Malidoma Somé (Dagara medicine), Jean-Claude Audergon (Processwork) and Suprapto Suryodarmo (Amerta movement)
Born in Switzerland of mixed European ancestry, he grew up in England and developed his practice in London and other big cities. He lives in the south Devon hills with his family, and learns about enlightenment from the cats.
For more info: https://glimpsesoflight.art https://www.patreon.com/c/xian_glimpsesoflight/home
✦ Organized by SHIVANI ✦
Shivani brings presence, warmth, full heart, wilderness and softness, depth and authenticity, freedom and lots of dance to all her offerings, from group sessions to 1-1 coaching. Trained in Dance/ Movement Psychotherapy and Movement Medicine in UK, she has been teaching Movement Medicine for the past 10 years in Lisbon and Aljezur, in UK and also online. She loves to dance; her dance and embodied presence is one of her main assets and inspirations to others, as much as her depth of feeling, and her quest for truth, freedom and authenticity in the way she lives her life. Her approach draws from other conscious dance and embodiment practices, tantra and conscious sexuality, psychotherapy, meditation and satsang.
Find out more about Shivani's work here: Insta: #movementmedicinewithshivani
