Helen Whitehead

Movement Medicine, along with many other healing modalities, has supported Helen's journey toward becoming a more whole and integrated person—someone able to be, move, and dance with all that life brings.
In her teenage years, she was an avid raver, traveling across the North West of England to attend raves and nightclubs.
During her time at university, she helped organise a rave each term to raise funds for a South African scholarship.
In her early twenties, after a rather rude awakening, she found she could no longer dance in nightclubs. This shift opened the door to shamanism and conscious dance, and in 1996 she discovered 5Rhythms.
As Ya’Acov and Susannah Darling Khan developed Movement Medicine, she immersed herself in their work, attending many intensives across the UK. She also danced weekly with the 5Rhythms community peer group in Newcastle-upon-Tyne a group she still joins often to dance and occasionally DJ. From this community emerged the Newcastle Dance Collective, where she now holds Sunday dance sessions alongside four other teachers and a live rhythms band.
Professionally, she has had the privilege of working with individuals on their paths to mental health recovery, both as a Mental Health Professional and as a counsellor in the field of addictions.
She holds a deep connection with plant spirits (energetically, not psychedelically) and loves to work with flower remedies.
Helen loves to blend dancing in nature with medicine walks, sauna sessions, and shared meals.
Her shamanic training spans many years with Simone Silverpath, from whom she holds a certification in Holding the Space—a simple yet profound practice of gathering in circle.
In her teaching, she brings her most authentic self, creating spaces that welcome the full spectrum of life’s experiences, its beauty, its difficulty, and everything in between onto the dance floor.
Though she is deeply committed to her work, she doesn’t take herself too seriously and always finds joy in laughter