Meredith Davies

At 4, I awakened to the magic of movement when I started improvising at a ballet class (delighting myself as I spun into the room while my rather stern ballet teacher tried to direct me back to the barre!).

As a teenager, I was a gymnast, a member of a local theatre company, choreographer and performer in the high school rock n roll eisteddfods. Such a fun time!  I later taught gymnastics, discovered the joy of creative dance and performed with Turnabouts (a mixed ability dance troupe) and Wild Moves dance theatre. (Dancing in wild - outdoor spaces)

When I trained as an Occupational Therapist, I deepened my understanding of the creative group process, worked many years with mixed abilities and deepened my understanding of movement as a healing, empowering modality.

Around this time, I was given Gabrielle Roth's book Maps to Ecstasy and my love affair with the 5Rhythms began…

Through travel and living overseas I was fortunate enough to train in the USA with Gabrielle Roth as a 5Rhythms Teacher in 2001, alongside many trailblazing teachers of Conscious Dance. Together with my husband we formed Moving Essence www.movingessence.com and have been committed to sharing the 5Rhythms Movement map around Australia, in a wide range of contexts: schools, retreat centres, for rites of passage and in regular weekly classes and workshops. 

I now live locally in Castlemaine with my partner and 2 teenagers.  I love any movement that ignites and celebrates the individual and creative group process, so it is an absolute delight to be teaching at the wonderfully inspiring OTM studio.