29/12/2021
Welcome to flow with me. Welcome to flow in your body. Welcome to flow in life !
My name is Katri Siipola Cohen. I come from Finland and I live in Israel. Dance (professional ballet and later on contemporaray dance) is the reason I left beautiful Finland and my Northern roots about 20 years ago. I have lived in Germany, Denmark and Israel and toured performing all over the world.
Fulfilling my dream, dancing and performing ( which for me always was and still is great meditation and conscious elevating experience of being most present ) on big stages, I loved it fully and also experienced great pain in it all. As a young dancer 19 years old in Germany, I was ambitious and passionate, yet not really owning the knowledge and tools for spiritual and physical well-being and for coping with the demands and the reality of the dance world. Injuries, self worth issues, loneliness and pain were the other side of the coin.
My first contact with Israel was in 2009, performing a Middle-Eastern tour with a Danish dance company. In 2010 i came back to Israel to deepen and widen my dance "toolbox". Something changed in me. I felt at home from the first moment. I fell in love. With the dance, with the people, with the food, with the weather... and with a man. Long story short, 10 years later I am still in Israel, I have a beautiful family and I received the biggest gift of all, of being a mother.
Life in Israel guided me on a spiritual path and on the path of healing and therapy.
Within it brought deep questions. For years dance had guided me and defined me, and suddenly I became a human being, without a title. Definitely not an easy journey, and definitely a journey worth going through.
I discovered the treatments of the Ilan Lev Method. I loved it. This movement therapy helped my body to heal and opened for me a new way. I decided to become a therapist, and during studies I discovered very fast that it is very natural for me to be in that side of the treatment, to listen and talk with the body, being most present with a patient and connect to a higher guidance. Through the endless work with the body and movement, using the tools and knowledge that Ilan Lev has taught and is teaching me I also discovered my own body in a new way. From within, I learned to "un-learn" and release years of repetitions and tensions. I learned to tune all that training of the body into sensing and hearing the body.
I became an Ayurveda seed -deep tissue massage therapist and worked in a beautiful Ayurveda spa. There I gained a huge amount of experience on working with professionality and treating a lot of people of all ranges. I witnessed strong healing that occurs when all the layers are peeled and only a true meeting with full attention remains.
I have worked as a therapist for about 9 years now. Even though working with physical healing, it is and was always clear to me that energetic healing is a big and inseparable part of healing process. To deepen my knowledge on energetic healing I have studied and returned to the lineage of reiki healers ( level 1 and 2 at this point). Reiki brings my abilities as a therapist into a new level, and gives me the tools to channel and direct universal healing energy in a more powerful way.
All that said, dance is making its' way back to my life (not that it really ever went anywhere..). I teach dance and movement (from ballet, through ecstatic dance to Contakids), I dance with a contact/research/performance group and take part and create ( dance and my own music) in different projects and ceremonial healing spaces.
I am excited about the continuation and I invite you to be part of the flow, to experience healing and grow.
