Biography

Arie Schockaert is an interdisciplinary artist and holistic health practitioner. He started a path of self healing after experiencing health difficulties and decided to explore body oriented therapies and psycho-spiritual practices. During his journey he discovered and learned different self development practices from various traditions. Practices from ancient traditions such as taoism, yoga, tantra, and shamanism, but also from modern body oriented psychotherapeutic practices such as bioenergetics and Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System. His motivation is to make these psycho-spiritual practices more accessible for people who are interested in self development. In his practice he uses sound and interactive technology to make these psycho-spiritual practices more effective and accessible. He is creator of Reconnective Dance, an active dance meditation practice which combines psycho spiritual practices with expressive dance and electronic music.