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About Kimberly
Kimberly Beroset, MA, MBA, RYT, founder of EveryBody Is A Dancer and Full Figure Flow!, is dedicated to helping individuals find joy, overall wellness, self awareness and self acceptance through movement and expressive arts.
To understand the relationship between movement and wellness, Kimberly engaged in autoethnographical research for three and half years while enrolled at Goddard College in the Health Arts and Sciences program from 2005 to 2008. Her concentration and thesis focused on Therapeutic Movement Arts.
Certified in several yoga and dance-related modalities including Kripalu YogaDance, YogaEd, Ananda Yoga and Zumba Gold, Kimberly loves to share the gifts of movement with others. She is continuing her movement education at the Leven Institute for Movement Therapy where she studies somatic expressive therapy, a highly innovative program with a foundation in body centered Gestalt therapy, somatic psychology and the expressive arts. She is also enrolled in an intensive yoga therapy program at Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy.
The Philosophy Underlying EveryBody Is A Dancer - Kimberly’s teaching combines somatic movement practices such as yoga, various forms of dance, and creative movement, in addition to journaling and expressive arts. She also offers individual classes in just one modality. Her philosophy of teaching embodies movement as a pathway to personal transformation, overall wellness and compassionate self awareness in addition to celebration of the body, mind and spirit in the present moment.
Kimberly believes that deep levels of compassionate self-awareness can evolve in the practitioner with an intentional inquiry into current mind-body state while practicing somatic movement. This compassionate self awareness becomes a vehicle to understanding deeply rooted behavioral patterns and personal constructed knowing patterns (how we know ourselves in relation to the world around us). We come to know and understand the restrictive and destructive thoughts, actions and feelings that prevent us from living joyfully and fully in the present moment. Only through a conscious understanding of our thoughts, feelings and their related actions are we able to transform our lives to a place where we are more free in our bodies and lives. Through this knowing and awareness created on the yoga mat and on the dance floor, we are given the tools to change our patterns and live a more balanced and healthy lifestyle off the mat and off the dance floor.
Kimberly’s philosophy, discoveries through her master’s study and celebration of self is the force behind the creation of EveryBody Is A Dancer and Full Figure Flow!
Before EveryBody Is A Dancer - Kimberly graduated with an MBA from the University of Buffalo with a concentration in Human Resources in 2004. Exhausted and stressed from working full time while going to school full time she became discouraged about working in a highly competitive Fortune 500 company. Feeling a call to a more spiritual and balanced life she moved to the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in 2004. Through the daily practice of yoga and dance while living at the Institute in 2004 and 2005, her life was transformed to one of more peace, joy, self acceptance and self awareness. Enrolled in the Institute’s Herbal Apprenticeship Program, she studied the therapeutic properties of ayurvedic and Chinese herbs, in addition to organic and biodynamic farming methods. She also assisted as the Marketing Director for several Institute initiatives.
Non Profit Work and Working with Cancer Survivors - For 15 years prior to developing EveryBody Is A Dancer she was employed with, volunteered at and served as a board member for several non-profit organizations dedicated to improving the physical, mental or community health of seniors, children and the developmentally disabled. Kimberly is also experienced in designing and leading holistic health retreats for adults affected by cancer through her work with Bluebird Cancer Retreats in West Michigan.
She is a reiki practitioner (level 2 Usui) and Healing Touch (level 1) practitioner. Kimberly lives in Grovetown, Georgia with her husband Mike and three dogs.
Professional Memberships
Trainings/Certifications
- Master’s of Health Arts and Sciences-Therapeutic Movement Arts - Goddard College (2008)
- Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, Levels 1 and 2 - (June 2008 - present)
- SomaSoul: Somatic Expressive Therapist Training- (Oct 2007 - present)
- Zumba Gold Teacher Certification - (October 2007)
- YogaEd Teacher Training - (August 2007)
- MegaYoga: Yoga for Plus Size Practitioners and Teachers - (August 2007)
- Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association Annual Yoga Teachers Conference -(August 2007)
- Ananda Yoga 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training - (July 2007)
- Healing Touch Level 1 - Healing Touch International (November 2006)
- Kripalu DansKinetics (aka Kripalu YogaDance)Teacher Training - (August 2006)
- Varcho Veda Herbal Apprenticeship - Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy - (May-September 2004)
- Residential Internship Program - Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy - (2004-2005)
- Usui Method Reiki Level 2 - (June 2004)
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