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Gabrielle Rivero

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Founder & Chief Movement Officer
Express & Release Therapeutic Dance
Country or state 
United States (North Carolina)
Available to 
Global
City 
Durham
Fee 
Languages 
English,
Spanish
Volunteer
Yes
Timezone 
America/New_York

Personal Details

Bio

Gabrielle Rivero is an expert in helping kids, adults, and seniors learn how to use movement for self-expression, stress relief, and emotional regulation.

She is a dancer with over 20 years of experience learning the benefits of engaging with the body to release, emote, and heal from traumatic and stressful events. She holds a MA in Theology, where she focused on the rejection of dance throughout Early Christian History to better understand how we can currently embrace and embody movement within our American culture.

She is the Founder and Chief Movement Officer of Express & Release Therapeutic Dance which is a company that helps youth, adults, and seniors learn how to recognize and release emotions in their bodies through movement.

She is the founder of the Lenae Release Method, which is a research-informed movement method that she utilizes to help kids, adults, and seniors learn how to accept the emotions that they feel, express these emotions through movements that are safe to themselves, others, and their environment, and when able, release these emotions from the self, to help individuals reduce stress and anxiety and improve their emotional well-being.

Current position (2)

Founder & Chief Movement Officer

Express & Release Therapeutic Dance

Founder

Lenae Release Method

Degrees (2)
Theology
Fuller Theological Studies
2015 to 2018
Recreation & Event Management
University of Florida
2010 to 2014

Presentations

Presentations (3)
Finding Healing in the Body Through Movement

Recent literature from Bessel Van Der Kolk conveyed that the body holds sensations, traumas, and emotions within the body whether we realize it or not, thus reinforcing the common saying ‘the brain forgets but the body remembers’. But often, we address emotional dysregulation, stress, and anxiety through medication or ancient therapeutic practices. But what if we could address our stress and emotional dysregulation not just with Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), but also with therapeutic movement? During this interactive session, we will explore how to identify what emotions, sensations, and trauma live within the body and address the importance of utilizing movement to process and release sensations and emotions in the body. We will discuss our research-based method and how it created significant statistical changes in Phq9 (Depression) scores in a small sample of African American Women.

Releasing Emotions in the Body Through Movement

We will teach facilitators the Lenae Release Method Kids (LRM) movement practice that helps pre-k-12th grade students learn how to recognize and release emotions in their bodies through movement. Our movement workshop will be comprised of a body recognition warm-up, leading into a group discussion on anger, following a group-led choreographed dance on anger, that ends with adding in music to help elicit our emotional release of anger. After our dance, we will discuss how we can utilize the LRM Kids practice for any of the emotions we feel to learn how to accept the emotions we feel, express them through movement, to release them from the self. This practice helps kids learn how to utilize movement to improve their emotional health and wellness, as we teach kids how to listen to their bodies and respond to them in safe ways that do not cause harm to the self, others, or their environment.

Lenae Release Method Curriculum for Healing Stored Trauma in the Body Through Movement

This interactive workshop presents novel research on utilizing movement to help with the recognition and release of stored emotions within the body through movement. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) reveals its limitations as it focuses solely on the mind but lacks engagement with the body. The Lenae Release Method (LRM), bridges the gap between the mind and the body, utilizing movement to reconnect the mind- back to the body often contributing to better results with CBT therapy and helping individuals process and heal. Participants will learn the 8 movement practices that have been associated with significantly

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Clients

Cisco
DPS Foundation
Black SEL
National Dance Education Organization
Mental Health America Youth Summit
YWOT Summit
Earth Day Gala for Sustainability
Mental Health Symposium
DPS Schools
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I offer a somatic-based speaking experience for my audience where they leave feeling rejuvenated.

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