Your Movement, Your Journey: Discover Movement at Soul Dance Space
Jennifer’s Story
As a child; Jennifer was a natural mover, performer, and teacher. She found pure joy in sharing her singing and dancing for family and friends, and everyone. As an aside, Jennifer had always enjoyed teaching her peers from a young age too.
As she grew into a teenager, with the stresses of school and life, Jennifer soon found that movement was the best outlet to release all that energy. She had considered taking dance classes, but back in the 90s, dance options in her area were limited to classical Ballet or hip-hop, which was not quite what she was looking for. Her love for action movies led her to explore martial arts like Taekwondo, and she taught herself gymnastics. While she gained some skills along the way, her training also led to some injuries, including chronic lower back pain and torn hamstrings. By university, her body felt tired, and she took a break from intense physical training.
The Inner Calling to Dance & Wellness
True to her nature, she could not be still for long. Soon after starting her first job, Jennifer felt a powerful calling to dance. This led her to search for a teacher, and a style that works for her love of variety and creative expression. and she eventually found a contemporary dance class that hit the right spot – a class that offers technique and improvisation under Ms Mew Chang Tsing at Rivergrass Dance Academy.
With the skills and experience of her teacher, Jennifer discovered approaches to dance that would change her life. She would find that Incorporating healing principles and bodily wisdoms into her practice is the most profound way of improving her techniques and breaking through in her improvisations. These movements didn’t just rebuild her body from old injuries; they gave her a new sense of freedom in movement and healing to her heart and mind. She saw the huge potential for people of all ages and abilities to express themselves and optimise their physical wellness through dance. This insight proved invaluable when Jennifer started teaching Creative Dance in International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program (MYP) and Primary Years Program (PYP) syllabus full time as an international school teacher from 2009-2012, tailoring the teaching methods to suit various skill levels and styles.
In 2016, her journey brought her to into getting certified as a teacher in Yin Yoga and Hatha Yoga.
Through her journey, Jennifer had applied various somatic practices, healing modalities and mindfulness meditation to heal emotionally and find release in her body and mind.
The Soul Dance Space Approach: Technique, Artistry, Self-Awareness
This personal healing journey became the very heart of Jennifer’s teaching philosophy. She believes learning dance can be a powerful gateway both for children’s mental and physical development, and for adults, a profound tool for self-reflection and self-healing.
Ultimately, Soul Dance Space was created to fill a gap: to blend the art and technique of contemporary dance with a strong focus on mindful self-awareness. Here, the practice – Soul Dance – aims to help you:
- Balance technical skill with genuine self-expression.
- Go deeper into your consciousness to better understand yourself.
- Uncover what holds back your self-expression.
- Learn to move naturally, letting go of old habits that may be less than optimal or even harmful to your body.
- Find a path to becoming a better version of yourself through self-compassion and grounded ambition.
At Soul Dance Space, Jennifer’s method isn’t about “learning to dance” as a mere activity. It’s about simply being, unlearning rigid ideas of what dance or a body “should” look like, and instead, discovering how to move in ways that keep your body healthy, vital, and mobile for as long as possible.
Come join us at Soul Dance Space and rediscover the freedom and healing that authentic movement can bring.
Yoga and dance – We offer a unique selection of yoga and dance classes, open for various age groups, abilities and needs, so that you can develop a regular weekly practice, and at the same time explore different discipline and modalities.
Workshops and retreats – We also host workshops, events and retreats, to promote various forms of self expressions and therapeutic practices to add variety to your journey of exploration.
Performance – Our venue is also designed to be a casual performing arts space where we can host mini showcases, and private events.
Contact us for more details.
