Meet The Facilitators

If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves. My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time.
- Gabrielle Roth
Meet the Facilitator

Brian Bergman

Brian has been practicing yoga, meditation and mindfulness for 21 years and has been practicing conscious dance for the last 11. He is a veterinarian, a Dancing Freedom facilitator, and holds a PG Diploma in Yogic Studies, from the Bihar Yoga Bharati, in India. 

He is the founder of Dance Awake. He teaches conscious dance and other practices under Awake Human Being. He offers training in Dance Awake both as practice and training as facilitators.
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Jolene Cartmill

Jolene is a Dance Awake practitioner and facilitator (training completed in 2018). She has been practicing conscious dance in various forms since 2008. Before that she trained and taught martial arts for 10 years. Additional practices include: yoga, non-compartmentalised reality awareness, conscious movement practice, dreaming and parenting. In her free time she runs a small production company and is involved in various creative projects.

She regularly teaches Dance Awake at various locations around Cape Town. 
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CLaire Bossard

Claire is a conscious dance facilitator with a deep love for movement and music. Conscious dance came into her life as a space where she could explore freely, move through her emotions, and reconnect with herself beyond the thinking mind. Over time, it became her unmissable rendezvous with herself, a place she knew she could always come back to, to recharge, connect, feel, release, and simply be. This is what she now loves to offer others. Her journeys are an invitation to get out of our heads and let the body take the lead, to explore whatever needs to be explored, in a space where there is nothing to achieve and no right way to move. For Claire, conscious dance is a powerful medicine. A space to come back to ourselves, feel more connected, and sometimes simply remember how good it feels to be alive.

Claire facilitates Dance Awake at the Claremont Civic Hall on some Tuesday Evenings as well as holding various pop up Dance Awake Classes in various places.
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Valerie Von Bourscheidt

Valérie’s passion for conscious dance started in 2022 when she discovered Dance Awake on one of her visits to South Africa. Being a musician and DJ from an early age, she had always been passionate about music and dance, but conscious dance brought another layer of depth to it - finding a safe space to express emotions, reconnect with the body and experience the freedom of moving without judgement.  What started as a personal discovery soon grew into a desire to create and hold these spaces for others. As a facilitator, Valérie combines her love for music with her belief in the transformative power of movement. She invites people to step out of their heads, listen to their bodies, explore what is present and move in whatever way feels true to them.

Valerie facilitates Dance Awake at the Claremont Civic Hall on some Tuesday Evenings as well as holding various pop up Dance Awake Classes in various places. 
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Nurvitria

Nurvitria is an impact strategist and somatic guide dedicated to the belief that personal reconnection is a radical act of global transformation. With over 15 years of experience supporting sustainable projects across Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific, her journey has led her to one essential truth: to navigate the complexities of our modern world, we must first return to the wisdom of the body. Nurvitria views our current global challenges as symptoms of a long-standing disconnection from ourselves and the Earth—a rift she seeks to heal through the art of embodied leadership.Drawing from her deep roots in Ontological Coaching, Dance Awake,  Contact Improvisation, and Body-Mind Centering, Nurvitria creates immersive spaces where mind, body, and emotional intelligence converge. Based in the lush landscape of Ubud, she curates transformative sonic journeys through Dissolve and lush.movements, weaving together eclectic musical landscapes that range from ancestral rhythms to ambient dub and jazz. Her work invites participants to listen to their "essential Self," using movement and sound as an alchemical bridge to connection. For Nurvitria, every ripple of somatic awareness found on the dance floor is a seed for a more conscious and compassionate world.

Scholarship

We believe that financial constraints should never stand in the way of your practice or your path to leadership. Whether you are seeking a foundation in conscious dance or stepping up to become a certified facilitator, partial and full scholarships are available for all of our paid courses and passes.
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