Bernadette comes from a long line of natural healers who use touch and movement to help others find peace, empowerment, and wellness. She’s an intoxicating, energetic, and fiery teacher, and the creator of the popular mind-body wellness program, Femme!
Her dance classes welcome participants without judgment and offer loving support in finding comfort in your own skin.
Honoring and safely expressing all our emotions allows us to live a more authentic, vital, and healthy life.
During uncertain and turbulent times, we’re all bound to be holding strong feelings... perhaps some we’re not even aware of. And if you’re like many, you may even be feeling shame about feeling joy — in the midst of all the suffering across the globe.
When you join Bernadette for this special hour, you’ll discover how to use simple dance movements to unlock stuck emotions, express difficult feelings, open to joy, and start to feel the liberating abandon of being who you truly are.
You’ll experience how drumming can help you lose yourself to dance. Bernadette will be accompanied by accomplished percussionist Baba Don Eaton Babatunde, who’s performed at Lincoln Center, City Center, and Carnegie Hall, as well as numerous jazz venues in the U.S. and abroad.
You’ll also learn about Bernadette's upcoming 7-module online course, in which you’ll have the opportunity to go much deeper into her liberating approach to somatic healing — and have a lot of fun in the process!
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About Bernadette Pleasant
Spirited and energetic, Bernadette Pleasant is a fiery and sensual speaker, somatic healer, founder of The Emotional Institute and creator of Femme!, a mind-body wellness program, and 400 Years, a somatic-based anti-racism program. She is known for channeling her personal journeys and radical empathy into transformative, immersive experiences that support and celebrate people of all genders, colors, ages, and sizes.
Certified in emotions-centered coaching, somatic healing, integrated energy therapy and studies in African, tribal, and free dance, Bernadette promotes emotional freedom through movement and empowerment. She also facilitates deep and refreshingly real dialogues on emotional healing, grief rituals, and unlearning racism.
A woman of color, Bernadette comes from a long line of natural healers who have used touch and movement to help others find peace and wellness. Her classrooms, online and in person, welcome participants without judgment, supporting all to experience comfort and pleasure in their own skin.
About Baba Don Eaton Babatunde
For almost a quarter-century, , a percussionist very much in demand, has performed with major American dance companies such as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Limon Dance Company, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem in some of the world’s greatest performing arts venues. His recording career is as equally varied as it is vast in jazz idioms, rhythm and blues, and most African-derived music. He is the founder of JAAMBO, an Afro Caribbean ensemble, and the founder of Percussion ARTS Projects, LLC. A featured member of the esteemed Last Poets, he’s long been acknowledged as one of New York City’s master teachers of African Drumming and the rhythms of the Diaspora in the Americas. For over 25 years, Baba Don Eaton Babatunde has been on faculty at the Harlem School of the Arts teaching all ages, from four years of age to adults.
