Dan Leven, RSMT, MPC, is founding director of LIFE Movement, Leven Institute for Expressive Movement. Drawing from 40 years of experience, Leven created integrative approaches to body-mind healing and wellness: Shake Your Soul® and SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy.

As a former professional dancer and program director at the Kripalu Center, where he cofounded Kripalu Danskinetics™ (now Kripalu YogaDance), Dan Leven has led numerous workshops and professional certification trainings. He holds a Master's Degree in Pastoral Counseling and is a faculty member of Hartford Family Institute’s Body-Centered Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Program, which trains psychotherapists and healers in this work.