Naftali
NAFTALI is a hypnotherapist, space holder, multi-instrumentalist and DJ whose passion for creating communal states of connection bridges the worlds of music, movement and healing.
In addition to hosting Conscious Dance events, Sacred Sound Journeys, and Tribal Gatherings, Naftali offers Grief Ceremonies and workshops in Compassionate Communication. He is the founder of 'MediTANZion: Dance Journey' - a weekly community gathering in Berlin that has been running regularly for the past 9 years.
After abandoning a career in Theology in his hometown of Jerusalem, Naftali moved to the U.S. and attended Columbia University, where he gained degrees in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. While living in New York, he went on to study Method Acting as well as Movement and Somatic practices. Inspired by the deep potential for change and healing that he experienced there, Naftali continued to explore alternative modalities for increasing awareness and psycho-spiritual insight --including Core Shamanism, Tibetan Buddhism, Hypnotherapy, Non-Violent Communication, Generative Coaching and Grief Work.
He is passionate about opening safe and sacred spaces in which people can reconnect with their bodies, emotions and authentic presence.
MediTANZion (Dance Journey) // Ecstatic Dance
A free-style, barefoot dance journey where you are invited to explore your own authentic expression of movement and reconnect - to music, to presence, to community. The formula is simple: Move and be moved.
The dance is free of alcohol, smoking and talking, to encourage maximum bodily focus and presence.
Sink into the body, Sink into the music, and Let your inner dance out!
Children Welcome.
For all genders and ages!
Through various connection and movement exercises as well as practices inspired by the Haka, we will open a safe and mindful space to step into our primal power. The Haka is the ritual power dance of the Maori, the native people of New Zealand. It consists of a sequence of physical movements and spoken words that are chanted and performed together. During this dance primal energies and our deep inner strength is called upon and released
Children Welcome.
For all genders and ages!
No experience necessary, just a courageous heart.