Femme!
Femme! is a movement experience that fuses primal movement, sensual dance, meditation, creative visualization, and celebration of the human form. Femme! is inspired by African, Tribal, and Free Dance, interwoven with the somatic and primal healing arts. Femme! creates sacred, safe spaces and invites everyone to reclaim and boldly display their power.
Join together in our celebratory community to explore and express your emotions in a safe, inclusive, non-judgmental space.
Come home to your Primal and Higher Self!
Due to Covid-19, we’re currently holding many Femme! events online. Together, let’s breathe and unleash our personal and collective emotions, so that we may live a passionate, authentic and healthy life.
We are experiencing quite a time.
Things are potent. Intensified. Femme! is a safe space where the live drum beats move you and help you release your emotions, through breath, sound and movement.
Our emotions are meant to be expressed. Whether we deem them good or bad, it’s their nature to “move” us, and, for our own well-being, they should move through and out of us as well.
Which is why, during class, you’ll be guided through an Emotional Tour™ : a somatic experience that releases constricted emotions and calms your nervous system, inviting you to step more confidently into your authentic, fully expressed self.
You’ll be empowered to embrace, embody and express your emotions. Joy, Sorrow, Anger, Ecstasy -- all the emotions and all of you! -- are welcome at Femme!.
As Bernadette says, “It’s your body, you can do whatever you want with it, including love it unapologetically!”
The Femme! Experience Is For You If:
You’re dealing with a lot of anxiety or grief.
You’re looking for constructive ways to express your anger.
You’re struggling with self-doubt and self-loathing.
You’re looking to release tension and stress.
You’d like to learn how to express your emotions without fear or judgment.
You want to feel safe expressing buried emotions.
You’d like to release rigidity in your body-mind-spirit.
You want to get more in touch with your body and intuition.
You’d like to feel like you’re part of something bigger.
You want to feel more connected to your power and your soul’s truth.
You’d like to experience more peace, calm and acceptance.
What People Are Saying
“The Femme! Experience for me was a release and live drums a vibration that is not felt in the waking life often. There is always an element of spirituality and truth to the core when Bernadette is leading. At that time I was in a transformation of healing and the Femme! experience was a safe and yet new territory to explore inner change by facing the emotions and the body at work.”
~ Niomi
“I was blown away by the experience.”
~ Victoria Uwumarogie, Senior Editor of MadameNoire
“You will explore and feel every square inch of your divine, sensual temple, and never think of leaving it again.”
~ Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD, Award-Winning Psychologist, Author, Shamanic Practitioner, and Founder of the Sacred Healing Well
“Femme! is a class geared towards people who want to explore expressive movement. These classes are one way of tasting the power in consciously moving emotions through your body and allowing them fuller expression than what is typically available to us in our day-to-day lives.”
~ Alicia Munoz, LPC, Author of No More Fighting: The Relationship Book for Couples: 20 Minutes a Week to a Stronger Relationship
FAQ
Q. What is Femme!? +
Femme! is a movement experience that fuses primal movement, sensual dance, meditation, creative visualization, and celebration of the human form. Femme! is inspired by African, Tribal, and Free Dance, interwoven with the somatic and primal healing arts. Femme! creates sacred, safe spaces and invites everyone to reclaim and boldly display their power.
Q. Who created Femme!? +
Femme! was founded by healer, thought leader, and entrepreneur, Bernadette Pleasant. Femme! now has more than 100+ certified instructors across the United States, Canada, China, and the United Kingdom.
Q. I don’t have any dance experience. Can I still participate in Femme!? +
Absolutely! No dance experience of any kind is required to fully participate in Femme!. You will be guided, both by our instructor and your own body, on the movements that invite your body and emotions into greater expression and harmony. In each Femme! class, Bernadette creates a safe space for all ages, backgrounds, body types, and dance skills.
Q. How does it work to join a class online? +
Once you sign up to join us on a specific date, you will receive information for how to join us via Zoom. If you aren’t already familiar with this video technology, no worries. It’s free to start an account and easy to use. Zoom allows us to see each other through video and hear the audio of the drumming as the instructor guides you through an Emotional Tour. You can join us from anywhere around the world, from the comfort of your own home.