innerdance UK
free yourself...
"an evolving, multi-sensory sound healing modality,
synthesising neuroscience and spirituality"
What is innerdance?
innerdance is a multi-sensory, sound-led inner journey that invites you into a state similar to dreaming — a threshold between wakefulness and sleep, where the body and mind can begin to reorganise and reconnect.
Lying down with your eyes closed, you are guided by carefully layered soundscapes that work through entrainment, supporting the brain and nervous system to shift into patterns commonly associated with REM sleep. In this state, awareness returns to the body, and deeper layers of experience can begin to emerge, process, and integrate.
Facilitated through energy, presence, and, where appropriate, skilful touch, the process invites a different kind of listening within the body. Sound, stillness, and movement become part of a living field where what has been held — physically, emotionally, or unconsciously — can begin to soften, reorganise, and come back into flow.
Each Innerdance journey is unique. For some, it is deeply restful and still. For others, it may include movement, sound, imagery, memory, or insight. The process is not directed or imposed, but guided by the body’s own intelligence and readiness, allowing what is ready to emerge to do so in its own way.
Originally remembered by Pi Villaraza in the Philippines, innerdance has evolved into a global, living practice that bridges science and spirituality. It weaves together neuroscience, sound, and the innate wisdom of the body to support expanded states of consciousness, self-healing, and transformation.
At its heart, innerdance is a process of remembrance — a return to what already lives within you.
To explore this work in more depth, read this article published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Innerdance uses sound, music and intuitive healing touch to help you remove energy blocks and become the person you were meant to be.
In a session you will listen to a skillfully curated playlist sometimes supplemented by other instruments. The music will move you through a journey of brainwave states - the experience is often likened to lucid dreaming. You may see visions, experience intense emotions and feel electrical impulses in the body. Many people feel a strong urge to move and should allow the body to move in the way that feels right at that time - others will sink deep into trance states and lie still for the whole session. Every session is different and the experience varies with the individual. After a session you may experience vivid dreams, a new sense of purpose or find that decisions are made easily.
Find a facilitator or event
All the facilitators here have either trained directly with Pi in the Phillipines or with Katie Holland who trained to teach with Pi. All facilitators have committed to a code of conduct that includes maintaining annual CPD, appropriate insurance and the provision of aftercare if needed.
Many of the facilitators are trained in multiple modalities and will bring their own blend of experience and knowledge to the Inner Dance facilitation.
In order to fully benefit from the process it is important that you trust the facilitator and a listing on this page ensures that they have ensured that you are right to trust them.
Katie Holland
Sacred dance therapist Katie Holland is the creator of Awakened Bellydance. A renowned professional dancer with a passion for self-empowerment and self-initiation through conscious movement. Katie is also an Inner Dance facilitator/trainer, Yoga teacher and energy worker; holding the first UK ID training in 2015. Her natural, intuitive ability to hold space is testament to her commitment and a wealth of experience facilitating dance and energy-based workshops globally. www.awbdance.com
London & South East
Iris Anna
Hello, my name is Iris Anna !
I am a Master Graduated Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist , a Certified Inner Dance Facilitator (proudly trained by Katie Holland), a Qualified Tantra Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. I have been practising and privately leading groups and individuals on the Path of Integrated Therapies and Sacred Sexuality since 2002.
Working both as a Mental Health Clinician and a Complementary Therapist, I am absolutely passionate about acknowledging the validity of both Traditional medicine and Holistic treatments in order to promote and achieve holistic wellbeing .
I specialise in the use of Movement , Conscious Touch, Energy Healing Techniques and Archetype Tree of Life Pathways as a way to unlock our Emotions and promote their Integration .
I hold a Level 8 Certificate in Counselling and I am also a Qualified Educator and Trainer ( currently member of SET)
You can find me at
Looking forward to meeting you
East Midlands
Nell Brooker
A Ceremonialist and Priestess of New Earth, Nell is passionate about reconnecting with the earth - and ourselves - through the heart.Nell established the Heart Centre East Midlands in 2010, facilitating workshops, holistic bodywork, meditation and ceremonial rites, specialising in funerals.
She weaves in somatic movement to support trauma processing, accessing the wisdom of the body and unlocking the gifts we carry. Her work is grounded in holding space for people to journey inwards, to come home to themselves and explore their own potential.Nell was fortunate to be part of the first innerdance training with Katie Holland in 2015 and offers group and private innerdance journeys in south Derbyshire.
North East
Lucy Padala
I'm an innerdance facilitator in North East England and completed my training with Katie Holland after participating in many innerdances prior to becoming a facilitator.
Following a spiritual awakening in 2019 I set about exploring different ways of healing and of all the healing modalities I practice Innerdance has been the one that has brought me such profound changes, physically, emotionally and spiritually and it's an honour and a privilege to create this space for others!
For info on upcoming events visit:
www.holistichealingwithlucy.com
Wales
Kerry Calle
Kerry is an experienced innerdance facilitator who trained in the first UK training with Katie. She has been a spiritual seeker for her whole life starting with a sacred dance training at Findhorn as a teenager, she is a yoga practitioner, meditator, reiki healer and sound therapist - she brings all this to create a profound innerdance session. She describes innerdance as having changed her life.
Contact her through her website
https://www.soundpracticewellbeing.co.uk/
Hayley Beasley-Wade
Meet Hayley, a dedicated innerdance facilitator with over two decades of experience in wellness, personal growth, and counselling. She discovered the transformative power of innerdance, which supercharged her own healing journey. Hayley's diverse background, including supporting individuals through addiction recovery, gives her a unique perspective.
Hayley's exceptional talent lies in creating a safe and sacred space for self-discovery and healing. Her deep understanding of the human experience, combined with her genuine humility, makes her a trustworthy guide. As an innerdance facilitator, her aim is to offer companionship and guidance on your journey of transformation and self-discovery.
Join Hayley on the path of self-discovery, healing, and transformation, where you can explore the depths of your inner world and unleash your personal power and wisdom.
Scotland
Caroline Georgiou
Caroline Georgiou is a person-centred counsellor, clinical supervisor, trauma specialist, Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist, writer, Innerdance facilitator and trainer, and founder of The Sound of Dreams and Sounds Good Scotland CIC.
With more than 27 years’ therapeutic experience, she has worked with adults, children and young people across counselling, education, community and custodial settings. Her writing on touch in therapeutic practice and innerdance have been published by BACP.
Caroline has trained extensively in Innerdance with pi Villaraza and other global facilitators, and has facilitated hundreds of individual and group journeys. She was among the first practitioners to bring Innerdance into schools and prisons, and her custodial work has taken her across the UK and the United States.
Her approach is shaped by her specialist experience in trauma and brings together innerdance, somatic practice, dreamwork, sound, voice, movement and original soundscape creation, with a strong emphasis on embodiment, self-awareness, regulation, agency and meaningful change.
She founded Sounds Good Scotland CIC to develop person-centred, trauma-specialised programmes for people and communities affected by the justice system, exploring sound as a doorway into connection, identity, wellbeing and possibility.
Through The Sound of Dreams, Caroline offers innerdance, sound and voice work, dreamwork, workshops and immersive experiences in Dundee and beyond.