
rivka
I am a somatic, shamanic and sonic entrepreneur.
I have devoted the past thirty years to facilitating dance and embodiment with a diversity of people.
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My childhood was spent talking to trees and rocks, flowers and sky. I always had a lizard or ant on my body and spent most of my time outdoors. I was in training, one of my wise mentors pointed out to me. An Earth Ambassador learning the language of nature to prepare for the day needed to translate to others the profound messages of Earth. Nature and Dance was where I turned my prayers and my attention as my own creative way to manage and survive childhood trauma and isolation. Talking with spirit was a perfectly natural conversation for me, that took place through my connections with the natural world. Here my ‘play’ training strengthened my capacity to self-resource and to listen to the mystery. I honed nature as my ally, guardian and mother through feeling my skin on grass, my feet moving in dirt and my hands touching plants. It is within my wound of the Outsider, where I learnt how to lead through listening. I am grateful to be able to share these teachings with you.
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My movement practices have literally moved thousands of different people in all sorts of community, health, justice, education, arts and environmental settings. My dance floors range from inner city church halls, sandy lined shores, leafy green forest beds and red desert earth. The majority of my work is done without words, relying on intuition, frequency, imagination and masterful embodied space holding. My job titles have included Choreographer, Artistic Director, Teacher, Film Maker, Community Cultural Development Officer, Writer, Mother, Futurist, Healer, Visionary, Soul Guide, Embodiment Coach and Boss Lady.
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I am a Manifestor-Generator who has spent my entire life creating. I thrive on bringing humans together in ceremonial dance, where freedom, connection and transformation are individually and collectively embodied in the dance. I am dedicated to connecting us back to nature through our own embodiment.
I am a certified 5Rhythms teacher, Futuring Trainer of Trainers, Yoni Bodywork Therapist, Author and Somatic Coach. Currently, I am in training as a Somatic Movement Educator- Body-Mind Centering (R), Somatic Experiencing Practioner (R) and 360 Emergence Facilitator. I am the proud founder of Eco Soma, a new body of work, sharing eco somatic practices that guide you home to grounding in your body on planet earth. I believe our body is the gateway to the divine and when we know ourselves enough to trust ourselves, we enter through the portal to peace, power, presence and love.
Rivka has an innate ability to guide people who have wandered from their essential selves into restoration with their full beingness. She shares practices of nature-based wisdom that support you into an aligned reality where self-love is a by-product of reflection, where belonging is who you already are and your purpose is where your internal and external landscapes resonate.
Eco-Soma is where your body and the greater body of Earth meet in relationship.
Eco: environmentally friendly or sustainable
Soma: the body
In Eco Somatic practice, we can invest in an even more harmonious and sustainable relationship with our body intrinsic to earth. From here, we can then truly be of service in an integrated way.

Through physical and somatic connection with nature, we can meet ourselves in a whole new way. As we attune to the sound of leaves, the energy of trees, the flow of water and the strength of stone, we notice and appreciate our own internal landscapes. Our personal and organic harmonizing with the natural world, creates a bigger attunement that can extend to all people, beings and plants. This is personal and collective work that is critical for the evolution and revolution of humankind on earth.
Embodiment can feel like…
presence and weight
ease of breath
listening and sensing with your skin
knowing, trusting and making decisions from your bones
relating and attuning through your kinesphere
feeling safe and at home in the skin you are in
regulation and balanced activity of your nervous system
awareness of all your edges, where your membrane meets the world
being a human Being in the cellular consciousness of the HERE & NOW
offerings
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Eco soma
Ignite your curiosity to explore the relationship between your body and the greater body of earth
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Futuring Technologies
Change the way your past is generating your future and elevate your dreams into reality
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5Rhythms®
Move, liberate and restore yourself with this acclaimed conscious dance medicine
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Mentorship
Work with me 1-1 or in specialised groups
land of the rock people
“The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.”
― Joanna Macy