What is The Moving Cycle?
The Moving Cycle is more than a therapeutic approach- it’s a journey into the wisdom of the body. Rooted in dance therapy, neuroscience, and contemplative practices, this body-centered psychotherapy assists individuals in reconnecting with themselves, mending past wounds, and crafting new, empowering narratives.
“Everyone deserves to truly feel at home in their bodies.”
Originally developed as a form of body-based psychotherapy, the Moving Cycle has expanded into educational, creative, and personal growth contexts. It’s a powerful tool for therapists, educators, artists, and changemakers seeking to integrate movement into their work and lives.
The Moving Cycle works with conscious movement as a change agent.
It begins with direct experience.
What do you sense?
Where does your attention move?
What happens in your breathing?
What movement wants to follow?
Rather than immediately searching for an explanation, you learn to pay descriptive, non judgmental attention to what is happening in the present moment and to follow associations as they arise.
This way of working can open information that thinking alone cannot reach.
During these four days you become familiar with the foundations of The Moving Cycle largely through your own experience within the group.
What you will explore:
You will explore how to track sensations and connect them with movement.
You will practice noticing your body, emotions and thoughts with descriptive attention.
You will experience how attention naturally moves back and forth and learn to recognise these rhythms in yourself.
You will explore the relationship between breathing, moving, sensing and attention.
You will work with associations that arise from bodily experience rather than immediately searching for explanations.
You will begin using self initiated movement as a way of exploring psychological experience.
You will notice relationships between verbal and non verbal information.
And you will begin applying these principles while observing and working with others.
A central part of Phase One is developing what The Moving Cycle calls bodily authority.
The capacity to know more precisely how you feel.
To recognise what you want.
To notice what your body is communicating.
And to organise yourself from that information.
This develops through repeated attention to what is actually happening in your body rather than what you think should be happening.
You learn through your own body first
Because your ability to notice another person becomes much more precise when you have practiced noticing yourself.
The Moving Cycle asks you to become increasingly precise about what you can actually observe and experience.
From there, working with another person begins to change too.
About Rachelle
My Story
I am Rachelle Janssen, a dance and movement therapist and teacher of The Moving Cycle.
What continues to fascinate me after years of working with bodies is how much can happen in a fraction of a second.
A hand tightens.
A breath changes.
A body becomes smaller.
Something shifts before there are words for it.
The Moving Cycle gave me a way to become much more precise in how I notice these moments and how I stay with them.
Instead of rushing to decide what something means, I can remain curious about what the body is actually showing.
That has changed the way I work with people and the way I listen to my own body.
After teaching The Moving Cycle internationally, bringing Phase One to Amsterdam feels incredibly special.
I would love to welcome you into the room.
What Participants Say
I recently spent 4 days learning The Moving Cycle - Phase 3 with Rachelle and I am still touched by the experience. She is a skillful facilitator who is able to read the room, adapt to the group‘s needs and create a feeling of safety within the group. Rachelle has a special way of telling stories which serve as examples and a knowledgeable explanation of the topic. She has a fun character (and fun socks), she is supportive and authentic and it was truly an honor to learn, move and create with her!
Kayleigh Cook
Participating in Moving Cycle Phase 3 in Berlin in May 2026 was a profound experience and a privilege to study with Rachelle. Her teaching is both deeply embodied and beautifully clear. With warmth, presence, and quiet precision, she created an environment in which the principles of the Moving Cycle became a lived experience rather than something to be understood intellectually.
It invited a deeper relationship with my own body, with gravity, and with the intelligence that emerges through movement.
I am deeply grateful for this experience and wholeheartedly recommend studying with Rachelle.
Barbara Birner
I had the chance to meet Rachelle during the Moving Cycle training, and her presence was very supportive. During the process of deepening our therapeutic practice through the body, we all need someone who holds space with clarity, care, and compassion. I could easily sense the clinical experience of Rachelle reflects in her teaching with such richness and honesty.
Buse Zoder
Practical information
Dates: 19, 20, 21 and 22 November 2026
Location: Amsterdam
De meditatietuin
Amstelpark 6, 1083 HZ Amsterdam
Training: 25 contact hours in total
Thursday: 10:00-17:30
Friday: 09:00-17:00
Saturday: 09:00-17:00
Sunday: 09:00-16:00
Lunch: There will be a 1.5 hour lunch break each day.
Group: Maximum 20 participants
Investment: Early Bird €495 until 30 September 2026
Regular price €595
Attendance policy
The complete Moving Cycle Practitioner training consists of four phases of 25 contact hours each.
Together these make up the required 100 training hours for Practitioner status.
Participants may miss a maximum of one hour during Phase One.
If more than one hour is missed, the complete day on which those hours occurred can be repeated when Phase One is offered again.
Practitioner status is received once all 100 required training hours have been completed.
Got a question?
Frequently asked questions
Who is this for?
Phase One is for people who are curious about the body as a source of information and want to deepen their capacity to notice, listen and respond.It can be especially valuable for therapists, coaches, movement professionals, educators, artists and other professionals who work closely with people.It is also for those who want to explore The Moving Cycle through their own body and experience before deciding whether they want to continue with the complete Practitioner training.You do not need to commit to all four phases to join Phase One.You can begin here.Experience the work. And discover what it opens for you personally and professionally.
What will I learn?
During Phase One you begin developing the ability to:
Track sensation and movement
Notice bodily sensation and connect it with movement behaviour within sensorimotor experience.
Attune without immediately rationalising
Notice bodily sensations, emotions and thoughts with descriptive attention.
Recognise attentional patterns
Become aware of the ways your attention moves and understand how these patterns influence your experience.
Connect verbal and non verbal information
Notice relationships between what is spoken and what is communicated through movement and the body.
Understand the foundations of The Moving Cycle
Learn the basic theory, practices and four phases of the model.
Experience the Moving Cycle directly
Explore its core components through your own moving, sensing and breathing body.
Work with associations
Begin using physical free association and allow bodily experience to lead toward associations rather than explanations.
Oscillate attention
Practice the oscillation of attention as a tool for observation, assessment and supervision.
Develop bodily authority
Allow direct bodily experience to contribute to knowing more precisely how you feel, what you want and how you want to respond.
Do I need to complete all four phases?
No. You can join Phase One as a stand alone experience. If you want to become a Moving Cycle Practitioner, Phase One is the first of four phases, each consisting of 25 contact hours.
How experiential is the training?
Very. Much of Phase One is learned through your own body first. Movement practices, observation, reflection, theory and working with others are woven throughout the four days.
Do I need dance or movement experience?
No. The Moving Cycle works with your own natural movement, sensation, breathing and attention. You do not need to be a dancer.
What if I miss part of the training?
Participants may miss a maximum of one hour if they want the full 25 hours to count toward Practitioner status. If you miss more than one hour, you can repeat the full day where those hours occurred when Phase One is offered again.
How many people will be in the group?
The group is limited to a maximum of 20 participants.
Where in Amsterdam will the training take place?
What do others say about their experience with The Moving Cycle?
You can watch participants share their experience here!
Will there be another Phase One in the Netherlands?
At the moment, this is the first and the only Phase One planned in the Netherlands. Future dates may follow, but nothing else is scheduled yet.
What should I wear or bring?
Wear clothes you can move comfortably in. You will receive more practical information before the training.
What is the cancellation policy?
Plans can change. If you need to cancel your place, please let me know by email as soon as possible.
Cancellations more than 8 weeks before the start of the training receive a full refund, minus a €35 administration fee.
For cancellations between 4 and 8 weeks before the training, 50% of the training fee will be refunded.
For cancellations within 4 weeks of the training, the training fee is non-refundable.
If you can no longer attend, you are welcome to transfer your place to someone else, provided they meet the requirements for joining Phase One. Please contact me first so we can arrange this.
If the training is cancelled by the organiser, your full training fee will be refunded.
FINAL INVITATION
What becomes possible
when you learn to notice
what the body is already showing you,
before you explain it?
The Moving Cycle teaches you
to stay close to these moments.
To notice. To describe. To follow.
To become curious about what unfolds
when the breathing, moving, sensing body
is given your attention..