I really wanted to thank you for these amazing classes Meryem. I’ve never done a “physical exercise/practice” where I felt so at peace with myself and my body and where I experienced as much connection with my body. Everything was smooth, had different angles, depths in the movement, and made us look into our experience as human beings, moving our body in the space around us, feeling the space around us, feeling the space inside us, and just relating to life.

What Are Somatic & Dance Explorations?

These classes focus on dancing, movement and voice explorations, and embodied anatomy for body-workers, dancers, yoga practitioners, and anyone interested in learning more about themselves and their relationship to others through their body in an experiential way.

These classes encourage curiosity, open-mindedness, creative learning and fun.

They are based on Meryem studies of dance/voice improvisation techniques and Body-Mind Centering®.

In these classes, we learn to sense our somatic experience from the body, directly from our tissues, so we can be more present in our body, slow down, give our brain a break, enjoy our animal body and connect to its innate intelligence and wisdom.

Born and raised in Morocco, Meryem Alaoui is a professional dancer, a somatic movement educator and an embodiment lover living in Toronto.

A graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and the Ahimsa Yoga Teacher Program, she’s been studying Body-Mind Centering® since 2016, an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness.

Meryem loves dance above all else because it allowed her to find joy being in her body, and she enjoys helping other people connect deeply to their own bodies in the present moment, by guiding them to trust their own experience and their curiosity, so they may also find joy in embodiment.

I really appreciated Meryem’s deep wisdom and understanding of our whole being – she opened new doors to connecting to myself that I hadn’t previously thought of.