Geordie Jahner, Ph.D.
Geordie Jahner, Ph.D. (Psychology), Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT), is a dance artist, educator and facilitator of conscious dance practices. Formerly a professional modern dancer and dance teacher, Geordie currently leads workshops and trainings internationally teaching Open Floor Movement Practice.
She has been teaching embodied movement meditation practice for many years and is known for providing a safe and creative field for personal inquiry, exploration, and transformative process.
Her certifications covering 40 years of study include many healing modalities, including 5Rhythms® dance teacher, Movement-based Expressive Arts therapist, Tamalpa Life/Art Process practitioner, Hellerworker, massage therapist, bodyworker, and dancer.
She is proud to have been involved with Limbs Dance Company in New Zealand (1980-1989), Founder & Director of The Studio Maui in Hawai’i (2003-2010), and Founding Member of Open Floor International (2014).
Geordie is passionate about the exploration of dance as a healing art and as spiritual practice. Her classes support creativity & growth, and nurture a deeper sense of presence & embodiment through conscious movement.
Geordie is grateful to have had the opportunity to study with some of the most brilliant pioneers of conscious dance, and is excited about “teaching it forward” to a new generation of movement leaders.
Geordie teaches public classes in Auckland and Coromandel, as well as retreats and workshops internationally.
After two decades spent teaching 5Rhythms®, and studying with many masters of movement, meditation and healing, Geordie is thrilled to now be part of the Open Floor School which embraces all our experience, making room for growth and creativity.
I honor my teachers: Gabrielle Roth, Anna Halprin, Daria Halprin, Andrea Juhan, Kathy Altman, Lori Saltzman, Tina Stromsted, Neala Haze, Richard Strozzi Heckler, Vinn Arjuna Marti, Joseph Heller, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Mooji, all my teaching colleagues, my students, my family, my son Laurence, and life itself.