Holiday Facilitators: Jo Hardy
skill, experience, warmth
Biography
Jo is a conscious dance teacher and facilitator accredited in Movement Medicine, 5 Rhythms and Open Floor. She is passionate about dance as a natural, deep and playful pathway to deeper embodiment, self awareness and self empowerment. Having trained in 3 forms of psychotherapy, she practiced as a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer from 1992 - 2007 in an embodied, mindfulness based approach and was a faculty teacher and staff member of the School of Movement Medicine for many years.
Since 2005 she has focused on integrating conscious dance and psychotherapy work and has worked with numerous people through 1:1 Transformational Life Coaching, conscious dance classes, and in-depth intensive workshops for those who wish to take a deep dive. Pre-pandemic she taught intensively in China and Taiwan and many countries in Europe.
Jo is known to teach with a grounded gentle clarity, good down to earth humour, heart inspiring music and an ability to invite a fine balance of safety and permissive freedom.
What people say about Jo and her courses:
Dance - I discovered my body can express emotions without getting tangled up by words.
5 Rhythms dance - utterly wonderful.
Highlight of the fortnight.
I found rhythms wonderful, the music and facilitating were excellent. Fabulous, held the space beautiful, made me feel safe.
I didn’t have any expectations or idea of what was involved but I really got a lot out of the course and fully intend to pursue when home.
I really appreciated the sensitivity of Jo's 5-Rhythms when the whole group was overcome by emotion at a particular session. It felt safe.
Jo Hardy is one of my favourite 5R teachers (having danced for 15 years) amazing.
Jo Hardy's disco evening activity offering and general ‘hold’ of things were exemplary.
Jo was an incredible teacher for the five rhythms and made every session amazing.
Jo - 5R - beautiful space.
Jo in particular, was incredibly skilled and I learnt so much more than I imagined I would.
5-Rhythms with Jo was a new experience for me was very rewarding.
5-Rhythms excellent, beautifully held by Jo Hardy.