Hello, I'm Iris

When teaching dance or offering counselling and therapy, I bring warmth and humour, along with the practice of being present, listening inward and outward for impulse and insight to take us as fellow travellers through our movement or counselling experience.

My Story

I became a Creative Dance teacher with the Institute for ITP (Integrative Tanz Paedagogik) in Frankfurt, Germany in 1995. I studied New Dance and Contact Improvisation at BewegungsArt in Freiburg and The Life/Art Process and Expressive Arts Therapy with Anna and Daria Halprin at the Tamalpa Institute in San Fransisco, USA. In 1996, completing the Life/Art Practitioner in 2022. In 1995 I joined the improvisation-performance group “Blauer Montag” and took classes throughout Europe with Nancy Stark Smith, Soto Hofman, Scott Wells, Andrew Harwood, Clover Catskill, Jamie McHugh, and many more throughout the following decade.

Since 2016, I deepened my counselling skills with a Diploma of Holistic Counselling and Family Constellation with the Awakening Group in Brisbane Australia

I have been teaching dance and the Life/Art Process since 1995, and offer my counselling services in private practice since 2018