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My name is Samar Linn. My work as a DJ, coach + catalyst was born out of my personal journey to live life abundantly which led me down a track of personal and professional inquiry. I have a breadth of training and certifications including 5Rhythms® dance meditation, integrative coaching, spontaneous art expression, body work and decades of experience navigating the corporate world, too.
Individual Sessions
Based on your intentions for coaching, we use a mix of techniques that lead to tangible, practical evolution in your daily life. I draw from a range of cognitive (mind) and somatic (body) training to guide you. Together, we explore your most effective discovery tools such as talk-coaching, bodywork, art, visualization, movement.
5Rhythms Dance Meditation
5Rhythms is dynamic practice that fuses dance, expression and meditation in the same breath. This dance lab is full of juicy music and entices you into spontaneous and freeing movement. When we allow our bodies its full range of experience, our minds become still and we find inner peace, greater courage and joy to feel more at home in our beings.
The KIX Project
The KIX project is an open, real and safe space to investigate addictions. I have developed a special and specific combination of group sharing, exercises and dance based on my personal journey in conjunction with professional work. KIX is for anyone who has a suspicion that addiction is an issue, who knows their addiction(s) well, who is in recovery. KIX is also for anyone who want to understand their shadows that can lead into addiction, too. Although there are various motivations, what we all have in common is curiosity on the topic of addiction, co-addiction or compulsions.
Collaborations
I adore collaborating with various conferences, festivals, corporate and private events. Often I’m invited to bring a collective, community close to big festivals or conferences. I also facilitate corporate workshops to enhance communication, team building and culture. And, it’s always an honor to play a set for private festivities, too.
I am touched by such beautiful words from you, around the world.
I live in Berlin and work with many people from around the world who are deeply affected by escalating wars, ongoing genocide and natural feelings of drain, overwhelm, rage, anxiety or numbness.
Being told to stop being informed or focus on the positive or how to change or regulate feelings are not usually helpful approaches).
What you might be experiencing is this -
Chronic misattunement - when your current state and the external environment are not in alignment.
In sessions with my clients, I offer guidance to sync, to attune and to expand the nervous system to hold the capacity for these emotions.
As humans, we are social creatures and having another being to support us to attune, feel and connect can be a vital step to our sanity, integrity and capacity to stay present.
╰┈➤ DM or email me @ samarlinn.com/contact to learn more about Integrative Coaching, my approach and feel into what it could be like to work together.
#collectivegrief #nervoussystemcare #bearingwitness #diasporamentalhealth #berlincoaching
Mar 23
One of the (most) powerful things I learned about myself on the dancefloor was the way I relegated my er0t*c energy. Like it belonged somewhere very constrained.
I uncovered and then discovered so much. (thank you courage)
All my offerings weave together a combination of the personal x professional x collective. And this coming workshop for the FLINTA+ community is no exception. It is thanks to you glorious beings that offerings for the FLINTA+ community begin so come and join us for this workshop, May 24.
Being able to courageously get curious about ourselves, finding ways to communicate and to hold the vulnerable of ourselves x each other is a skill for deepening our er0t*c lives - yes. Yet, I find it is a gift for daily life, living in integrity and allowing the life force energy (aka creativity and aliveness) to flow through us.
We will use tools of:
° 5Rhythms® Dance
° Sexological Bodywork®
° Authentic Relating
° Creative Expression
CLOSER (fundamentals)
An introduction to er0t*c needs × requests
❥ FLINTA+ Edition ❥
⟢ May 24 | 12:00–19:00
⟢ Center of Dance, Kulturbrauerei (Berlin)
⟢ €70 (Reduced) | €85 (Regular) | €110 (Supportive)
⟢ If cost is a barrier, reach out
☍ Link in Bio
#5rhythmsworkshop #5rhythms #sexualhealing #flinta #sexologicalbodywork
Mar 18
How much energy can be spent on trying to convince yourself your needs matter?
That internal courtroom where you`re both the prosecutor and the defense ....
Questions like:
⬥Is this a legitimate enough need?
⬥Am I being too much?
⬥Maybe I should just ...?
What I like to remind my clients is:
Your needs don’t require a compelling argument. They’re not on trial.
The fact that you HAVE a need? That makes them valid.
Once the internal battle can drop, a much richer, more intriguing an intimate dialogue with the self may arise. And that intimacy, it requires courage- because we just don`t know what we`ll discover. But, my goodness, it is so very worth it.
╰┈➤ Drop a 💙 if you know what I`m talking about. Or some words about your own experience.
╰┈➤ DM for inquiries on Integrative Coaching that I offer for individuals or couples.
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Miaka pictured here with me back in 2021 - one of my beautiful animals who taught me a lot about permission to have needs. A self-appointed enlightenment consultant. (Miaka, 2006-2022)
#therapistlife #mentalhealthmatters #therapyinspiration #needsmatter #berlincoaching
Mar 17
B E R L I N - Very honored to have special guest Julia Mercurio tonight holding the space on our dance floor.
Julia will guide us into the wisdom our bodies carry far beyond our thinking mind to get in touch with that innate embodied intelligence.
Saturday ✦ March 7
Center of Dance, Kulturbrauerei, P`Berg 19.30 - 21.30
✦ About Julia ✦
JULIA MERCURIO is a certified 5Rhythms teacher with 15 years of dancing experience. She has trained with Gabriel Roth’s 5Rhythms Global in New York. Her work is infused with her love for soulful music, her experience of being a woman in this world, years of bodywork and somatic practice, as well as an animist worldview. A core theme of her teaching is how to fall in love with ourselves and the world through embodiment as a natural source of healing.
☍ Link in Bio / www.samarlinn.com/events
#5rhythmsberlin #5rhythmen #5rhythmenberlin #ecstaticdanceberlin #centerofdance
Mar 7
“Je est un autre”
“I is another”
— Rimbaud .
I love this sentence. I love the way that grammar is used to evoke a question to the belief in a single, determined “self”.
That the identity of self is fluid, undefined and mysterious.
I love that I can shape shift, discovering and uncovering new personas. I love that these personas get to play and create, and that the er0t-c energy is ripe for them to emerge.
╰┈➤ How does this quote feel to you?
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My Other Sides Retreat is a 4-day Retreat to develop (a better) awareness of your er0t-c personas, how to express them and how embracing the attributes of them in saf(er), experimental space brings freedom x fun x creativity to life. Together, we will drop away from daily surroundings, and gently land into ourselves to meet our eroticism through the body x dance x creativity.
Join us and approach your eroticism as the creative force it is, reaching far beyond a narrow understanding of eroticism as “s e x”.
| PRACTICALS |
Dates: July 16-19
Venue: Seminarhof Drawehn 2 hours from Berlin or Hamburg
⟢ Workshop CONTRIBUTION ⟣
⟢ Early Bird – ends April 30
Individual: Reduced: €240 | Regular: €280 | Supportive: €320
Couple: Reduced: €430 | Regular: €500 | Supportive: €570
⟢ Accommodation, including delicious meals:
Single Room €105.0 per person/night = €315 (3 nights)
Double Room €85.00 per person/night = €255 (3 nights)
☍ Link in Bio / www.samarlinn.com/links
#5rhythms #ritualperformance #ritualtheatre #5rhythmsworkshop #sexologicalbodywork
Mar 6
wave 019 | Beginnings
☍ www.soundcloud.com/samarlinn/wave-019
When does something begin?
How much awareness do you offer into a beginning?
Without holding onto it ... without expectations of it ... without pushing to any other moment.
How much curious space can you give beginnings, how much openness is available for you to be with others in a beginning?
Do you allow yourself to begin again, as if for the first time?
☍ www.soundcloud.com/samarlinn/wave-019
#5rhythmsdance #danceathome #5rhythmen #5rhythmsdance #beginnings
Mar 2
Bouncing into some sunny March days, we dance every single Saturday starting with a special guest, Julia Mercurio, on March 7.
Traveling dances and workshops are coming up (stay tuned) and the yearly summer retreat at Seminarhof Drawehn is taking place July 16 - 19. Early Bird tickets (individual / couples pricing) available until
❥ Save this post, pass it on, and most certainly come and dance with us.
☍ Link in Bio: www.samarlinn.com/links
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❖ March Offerings ❖
❖ 5Rhythms with special guest, Julia Mercurio | Inhabiting the body via a 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ March 7
Julia will guide us into the wisdom our bodies carry far beyond our thinking mind to get in touch with that innate embodied intelligence.
❖ x-dance | Creativity in Motion via a 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ March 14 + 21
Rooting us in the 5Rhythms practice, we`ll explore how we connect to ourselves, each other and the wider field via the 5 essential energies (rhythms).
❖ CLOSER x-dance | An Er-t-c 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ March 28
Bringing awe to what arises when there is permission for the erotic to have space to dance, this evening especially offers invitations to play with clothing, sensations and dropping our perceptions of eroticism = s-xuality. Rather, we make space for the energy to light our creativity, integrity and freedom of expression in its sacred aliveness.
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🜂 Workshops / Retreats 🜂
🜂 Earth Beat | A 5Rhythms Dance Journey in honor of Earth Day
Wednesday ✦ April 22
A potent way to connect with yourself, community and nature all around us.
🜂 in here x out there | A 5Rhythms Workshop on Relating
Friday - Sunday ✦ April 22-26
Freedom is when we can choose (vs react) to when and how we want to be in these different constellations of relating: Alone. With another. In a triad. In a Group.
🜂 My Other Sides | A 5Rhythms x Erotic Retreat
Thursday - Sunday ✦ July 16 - 19
Together, we will drop away from daily surroundings, and gently land into ourselves to meet our er-t-c personas through the body x dance x creativity.
#5rhythms #5rhythmsworkshops #consciousdancefestival #selfdevelopmentworkshop #conscioushealing
Mar 1
My Other Sides: a 5Rhythms x Sensual Retreat
My Other Sides is an invitation to explore our inner x outer selves with curiosity and a sense of play (openness).
Using a variety of creative, body-based methods, we will get to know ourselves and each other as explore the erotic pulse x creativity:
✧ In what ways may I sense different sides of myself, may I meet them in myself and others?
✧ How may I give them expression within an experimental and safe(r) space?
✧ What if (another) side of me could offer me a new way of relating to myself? To others?
✧ What forms of expression emerge when “identify” is allowed to bend – to play and create?
This Retreat takes place in the gorgeous Seminarhof Drawehn, a historically protected retreat centre, that serves home-grown and regional vegetarian and vegan meals. We will dance in their signature Mandala room, that will infuse our exploration with nature, light and love.
☍ link in bio with (many) more details, FAQs, contribution amounts .....
#5rhthyms #sensualretreat #5rhythmsworkshop #sexologicalbodywork #berlinworkshops
Feb 19
words are really not my thing .... I`m so grateful for the abundance of music and sounds to nourish our native tongue - dance.
How fascinating that our very first language of communication is movement and how often we forget that.
The 5Rhythms Wave offers a holding for our exploratory dances, freedom of expression and curious discovery about ourselves and others.
Come and dance with us tonight, practice your native tongue.
x-dance: Creativity in Motion via 5Rhythms
| PRACTICALS |
Date x Time: Saturday, Feb 14 @ 19.30
Venue: Center of Dance, Kulturbrauerei
⟢ CONTRIBUTION ⟣
⟢ €15 - €20 Sliding Scale
⟢ Buy online or cash at the door
🔗Link in Bio
#5rhythms #nativetongue #dancelanguage #5rhythmsberlin #5rhythmen
Feb 14
Oh I love the snow. Curling up some days, long sleeps, slow conversations. This is delicious.
Yet some days, some days, the grey of winter seeps deep into my bones.
And so, there are these moments where I sweat and move and connect in my body, with others to music that seduces me, holds me. To the creative expression that lights my fire and enlivens me. This is so nourishing too.
❥ Come x-dance with us this February
☍ Link in Bio: www.samarlinn.com/links
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❖ February Offerings ❖
𖣘 x-dance | Creativity in Motion via a 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ Feb 7 + 14
Rooting us in the 5Rhythms practice, we`ll explore how we connect to ourselves, each other and the wider field via the 5 essential energies (rhythms).
ৡ CLOSER x-dance | An Er-t-c 5Rhythms Dance Journey
Saturday ✦ Feb 28
Bringing wonder to what arises when there is permission for the erotic to have space to dance, this evening especially offers invitations to play with clothing, sensations and dropping our perceptions of
s-xuality. Rather, we make space for the energy to light our creativity, integrity and freedom of expression in its sacred aliveness.
❍ Integrative Coaching. For focused individual support with a holistic approach. These are one to one sessions, or open for couples, looking for ways to deepen awareness and transformation.
Feb 6
Here`s a little taste of x-dance: Creativity in Motion via a 5Rhythms® Dance Journey.
5Rhythms dance is the art of surrender and creative self-expression, of letting go and allowing your unique movement to arise moment by moment. Without restriction or constraint.
Using the 5Rhythms framework, we will explore 5 fundamental life energies (rhythms) through the dance. The music is played like a “wave” where it goes up and comes back down again.
There are 3 essential ingredients to each event:
✺ Freedom to be: You’re invited to let go of the thinking mind, explore physical and emotional landscapes without any pressure of performance or “getting it right”
✺ Invitations, not instructions: You’ll receive impulses and ideas to explore different aspects of movement and self-expression. Most importantly, you’ll be encouraged to follow what feels true for you.
✺ Presence: Dance becomes a meditation in motion, inviting presence directly through the body in each movement. As you feel the music and let the dance move you, your thoughts will be allowed to quiet down.
❥ These experiences are best experienced so come dance with us and check it out for yourself.
☍ Link in Bio
☍ www.samarlinn.com/events
Feb 6
funk me with some givin` + takin`
☍ soundcloud.com/samarlinn/dance-006
#funk #soulmusic #souldance #soundclouddj #soulfuel #danceit
Jan 23
