Bernice Raabis

Bernice Raabis is the founder of Dance the Medicine, an international collective of Conscious/Ecstatic Dance professionals who come together online and in-person to teach dancers the skills they need to create dance communities of their own.

She got her start by running dance events in British Columbia’s Kootenay region before moving into her global career. Dance Church, her hugely popular weekly event, saw a multi-generational community come alive in dance each Sunday morning for over a decade! Bernice is on a mission to infect the world with dance, in the hope that everyone, everywhere, will one day have a place to dance in community. She believes when we dance together, we find a common language of respect without words getting in the way.

“When we dance together we have a much more difficult time going to war with one another.”

The facilitation principles taught by Dance The Medicine are used to create retreats such as this one, which are created by weaving Soul Motion, movement-based expressive art therapy, relational somatic therapy and years of experience facilitating dance events.