Somatic Educator, Dancer & Facilitator

About Tal Shibi

Tal Shibi is appreciated for his ability to share complex layers of movement, dance, and meditation with humor and clarity.

His work pours forth from a deep desire to share practices and ideas that enliven, connect, and support more content, connected, and fulfilling ways of living.

Born in Jerusalem, Tal is a choreographer, improviser, performer, and teacher of dance, contact improvisation, and somatic awareness. He is a certified Shiatsu and Watsu practitioner, and is deeply interested in the ways healing modalities and art intersect, inform one another, and naturally blend.

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Movement Studies, with an emphasis on choreographic praxis, from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and holds an MFA in Dance from Bennington College.

Tal has been sharing movement, dance, contact improvisation, Shiatsu, and somatic education since 2010, and is known for creating spaces that balance clarity, curiosity, and ease.

A personal note

I love witnessing what unfolds when people come together with the intention to explore, listen, and share their creative impulses.

I’m especially drawn to the way being in movement with others can act like water to a thirsty plant. Reviving life within us that just needs some space to move, to grow, to be raw, to allow vulnerability to breathe, and to be seen in our deeper dance.

My own path into movement, dance, and the healing arts grew out of a strong instinct to heal myself, while carving a life rooted in creativity and meaningful connection. I wanted to live more and more from the expansive state I experienced when practicing presence through dance. My simple logic was that if more moments were lived in presence and joyful creativity, more of life itself could feel that way.

Societal expectations — along with experiences I underwent as a young man in the military — convinced me early on that there must be more creative, connective ways to inhabit the body. That conviction has only deepened over time. In the beginning, I wasn’t seeking artistry or even a profession; I was simply driven by a need for personal sanity balance, and inner connectivity. I needed practices that root me into life, and take me out of heady loops.

Today, I’m grateful to share tools, movement poetics, imagery, insights, and practices that invite people to be deeply in touch and in tune with themselves and others, while accessing their own spacious and endless creativity.

I look forward to our work together!