About me

Your stagnation moves me

My professional qualifications

Nina Ridderbecks

Dance therapist (Master of Arts)

Speech therapist (Bachelor of Health)

Choreographer

Voice coach

Alternative practitioner in psychotherapy (i.A.)

SI-Mototherapist®

Moving Cycle Practitioner

Education

  • Two years of professional lessons in dance, singing and acting at the Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama in Hamburg
  • Bachelor's degree in speech therapy in Heerlen, Netherlands
  • 16 years of professional experience as a speech therapist in various practices in Hamburg and Cologne
  • Further training with a focus on SI mototherapist
  • 5 years of self-experience in the voice training method of Kristin Linklater
  • Master's degree in dance movement therapy in Heidelberg
  • Further training as a Moving Cycle Practitioner
  • Alternative practitioner for psychotherapy i.A.

Artistic experience

  • Dance lessons since the age of 4. One of her main focuses has always been free dancing.
  • 2 years training as a musical performer in Hamburg at the Stage School of Music, Dance and Drama
  • Freelance work in dance and theater projects with students of all ages with and without special needs
  • Training in contemporary dance, aerial silks, yoga, ballet
  • Stage experience as a dancer and actress in semi-professional productions

Professional activities

  • Freelance work in various social and psychiatric institutions, with a focus on both adults and children/adolescents
  • Guest lecturer at the SRH -Heidelberg, head of the self-awareness classes for students of dance movement therapy in the international study program (English-speaking)
  • Freelance offers for self-awareness, dance therapy, coaching in individual and group settings
  • SRH - Fachschule Düsseldorf as a guest lecturer specializing in voice therapy
  • Freelance speech therapist in the fields of voice therapy, neurology and children's speech
  • Many years of self-experience in dance therapy with body systems and with a view to archetypes, as well as in body therapy methods such as Somatic Experiencing

Our psyche is something very special. We often wait to practise dealing with the psyche when we are already deep in a crisis. Psychotherapy is one of the few opportunities in our society that offers space and know-how to get to know the psyche in its depth and beauty and to learn to deal with it lovingly.


Starting psychotherapy without a medical indication, but because you want to learn about yourself in depth, takes a lot of courage.


Anyone who has the courage to dare to look at and process their inner blind spots deserves appreciation and respect. Ultimately, I think that this courage and this path is the greatest gift we can give ourselves.


Because at the same time, “even if we work inwardly, we will remain imperfect. The question is how we can take responsibility for our imperfections instead of hiding them.” (J. Adler)


I believe our light comes from this work in the depths. That is what makes us shine.

my life motto:

“Use your time to grow and shine within.”

What interests me in therapy, coaching and art?

In therapy, coaching and art, I am interested in the nuances, the quiet aesthetics, everything that is not directly visible at first but has to be unearthed or requires a second look. The view that allows you to push aside the veil of the 'everyday view'. When I get to know people, I don't like to base my decisions on first impressions, but rather to give people the chance to change and slowly let their façade fall away, to put it back on again and then rediscover the, perhaps familiar, security of showing themselves freely.


For me, freedom means being able to make decisions in full awareness of the positive and negative aspects. Freedom is pure responsibility for yourself.


I am interested in feelings, emotions, moods in all their nuances and in my own process

I am currently exploring the question of whether a great, powerful feeling can have a childlike version and an adult version and how to get from one to the other without losing intensity.


I love aesthetics, the sensual and always try to see the beauty in things and in people. The therapeutic process, coaching or my art can't do without beauty either. Here, too, aesthetics are meant at second glance.


My aim is not to make “negative” feelings disappear, but to take away their heaviness, their frightening aspects and thus give them joy, pleasure and appreciation.


The ability for people to work on and influence their psyche, their soul, is the greatest miracle and the greatest gift of mankind.

E-Mail: mail@dance-meraki.de

Instagram: @moving_to_meraki

Telefon: 0152 58190356

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