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Alex Svoboda 博士是一位意识舞蹈教师、引导师，也是“freedomDANCE”的创始人。“freedomDANCE”是一所舞蹈冥想和意识运动学校及方法，成立于 2009 年。他以开发一种易于理解且注重深度的基于运动的冥想方法而闻名，该方法融合了身体感知、情绪觉察和个人探索。
Alex Svoboda 居住在伦敦，并通过课程、研讨会、静修营和教师培训项目在国际上进行教学。
背景
Alex Svoboda 曾在俄罗斯、美国和英国生活和工作。他曾在多所大学和学院学习，并获得了博士学位。在全身心投入意识运动研究之前，他曾在包括全球管理咨询公司麦肯锡公司在内的多家大型国际组织担任分析师和经理。
Alongside his corporate career, Svoboda worked as a university instructor and as a corporate training facilitator, experience that later informed his structured yet experiential teaching style in conscious dance.
Dance and movement training
Alex Svoboda trained directly with several pioneers of modern conscious dance, including:
- Anna Halprin
- Gabrielle Roth (founder of 5Rhythms)
He has also trained with other prominent teachers in the conscious dance and movement field. His work is influenced by somatic practice, movement improvisation, meditation, and experiential learning.
Svoboda is also listed as an Open Floor teacher and is associated with the wider international conscious movement community.
freedomDANCE
Alex Svoboda is the founder and principal developer of freedomDANCE, a method of dance meditation built around a repeating structure known as the freedomDANCE Cycle:
- Opening
- Transformation
- Freedom
The method emphasises spontaneity, absence of choreography, and movement as a direct pathway to awareness beyond habitual thinking. freedomDANCE is designed to be accessible to people without prior dance or meditation experience, while still supporting deep personal and emotional exploration.
Through the freedomDANCE School, Svoboda trains teachers and supports an international network of practitioners. As of the mid-2020s, the school includes approximately 25 core teachers and trainees and offers programmes in multiple countries as well as online.
Teaching philosophy
Svoboda frequently describes freedomDANCE as an opportunity to experience different dimensions of freedom, including physical, psychological, and relational freedom. In his own words, each class offers:
- “Freedom for the body to take over.
- Freedom for the mind to notice and accept what is happening inside ourselves and around us.
- Freedom to open to something bigger, something that transcends everyday ideas and calculations.
- Freedom to be yourself and share yourself with others.”
His teaching style is characterised by guided improvisation, carefully structured movement journeys, use of music and soundscapes, and an emphasis on presence rather than performance.
Teacher training and professional affiliations
Alex Svoboda has led freedomDANCE teacher training programmes since 2014. These programmes are fully accredited by the International Conscious Movement Teachers Association (ICMTA). He is an individual member of ICMTA, and freedomDANCE teachers and trainees adhere to the ICMTA Code of Ethics.
Reception
Participants frequently describe Svoboda’s teaching as grounded, present, and transformative. Publicly shared feedback highlights his clarity of guidance, musicality, emotional sensitivity, and ability to support both individual and collective processes.
Selected participant statements include:
- “You have real, soft, palpable presence… When you speak, I listen. It’s always worth it.”
- “I felt stretched in a really beautiful way — dancing outside my usual patterns.”
- “Your workshop was a marathon of the heart and soul.”
- “I left feeling more fully human.”
