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The SDP Team, Board, & Volunteers​

THE SYZYGY DANCE PROJECT TEAM



To make all this dancing happen, Syzygy Dance Project relies on the generous support of a diverse and global community of people. The team is comprised of dancers who are also therapists, MFT interns, IT consultants, business people, 5Rhythms teachers and more.

​What brings us together is our passion for the transformative power of dance and the vision of Syzygy Dance Project. We currently have ongoing volunteers who dedicate their minds, skills, time, heart, energy, and financial resources. We create experiences where everyone contributes to making this world a better place through dance.

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Sylvie Minot Syzygy Dance Project Executive Director

​Sylvie Minot


Co-Founder, Executive Director, Trainer, Teacher
​Sylvie Minot received her BA in Dance from San Jose State University and a Master's Degree in Theology in Spirituality and Holistic Health. She is a certified 5Rhythms® Teacher trained by 5Rhythms founder Gabrielle Roth and a Heartbeat teacher. 

Sylvie has studied psychology, indigenous healing rituals, energy medicine, and sound healing. The teachings of cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien, author Caroline Myss, and Peruvian sound healer Tito La Rosa inspire her.

​Since 2000, Sylvie has taught weekly dance classes and workshops for various populations. Sylvie is often described as a catalytic shape-shifter because of her ability to meet people right where they are and move with them into new possibilities. You can read more about Sylvie on her personal website SylvieMinot.com.
Wendy Heffner Syzygy Dance Project Co-founder

​Wendy Heffner
Co-Founder, Trainer, Teacher

Wendy Heffner is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over 25 years of experience in private practice. She has completed an extensive training in integrating the 5Rhythms with psychotherapy.

​Wendy has been using dance as a practice for over 20 years and believes deeply in the power of dance to create positive change. She also serves on the board for SDP.​

"​When we cultivate a clear seeing, kind presence with ourselves and our vulnerability, along with the ability to connect with and listen to our embodied wisdom new possibilities emerge, intimacy deepens."
Kamala Tully Syzygy Dance Project Program Coordinator

​Kamala Tully
Teacher

Kamala Tully has over 20 years experience in nonprofits, program development, communications, and events. She was responsible for managing SDP's outreach programs, fundraising and marketing from 2015-2020.  

She previously worked in diverse fields from integrative medicine at the Institute for Health & Healing/Sutter Health, to dotcoms including women.com and thrive, to book publishing at Nolo Press.

Kamala’s BA degree from UCLA was in English Literature with a Minor in Business. She has also studied psychology at the graduate level. Kamala has been dancing with Sylvie Minot for 10 years. She’s studied 5Rhythms® Movement and trained as an Outreach Facilitator with Syzygy Dance Project in 2015.
Tamara Reimer Syzygy Dance Project Teacher

​Tamara Reimer
​​Teacher

Tamara Reimer works as a psychotherapist, offering somatic psychotherapy, private sessions, and dance and movement therapy classes in the Bay Area. She received her Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from the CIIS and a Bachelors Degree from Wesleyan University.

Through clients work with Tamara, they report feeling an increased sense of self confidence, compassion for oneself and others, the ability to clearly communicate, and the capacity to meet life’s challenges as they arise. 

Tamara also trains and practices in the work of Stanley Keleman in Formative Psychology, Mary Starks Whitehouse in Authentic Movement, and Rosangela Silvestre in the Silvestre Technique. 
Janet Bernet Syzygy Dance Project Teacher

​Janet Bernet 
Teacher

​Janet Bernet has participated as a teacher for SDP’s Incarcerated People Project and she is profoundly inspired and moved by the transformative power of dance that she witnessed and experienced at the jails.

​Janet has also had strategic, project management and financial roles in corporate, consulting, and nonprofit settings. She has an MBA from the Wharton School and a MA in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Somatic Psychology from CIIS.

She is currently the Senior Project Manager for Northeast Valley Health Corporation.
Sandi Esquivel Syzygy Dance Project. Teacher

​Sandi Esquivel
​​Teacher

Sandi Esquivel is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Berkeley, California, Sandi has experienced deep transformation and healing from the embodiment practices of  Yoga and Dance.

In addition to psychotherapeutic work, Sandi values work that expands awareness around the needs of diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

​Sandi completed the SDP facilitator training in 2017 and facilitates the classes offered for female inmates at San Francisco County Jail. ​
Charlie Korda Syzygy Dance Project Teacher

​Charlie Korda
​​​Teacher

Charlie Korda has always been fascinated by the healing power of the Arts and has worked therapeutically with dance and theatre throughout her life, serving diverse populations. Charlie has worked with SDP since 2012, both at the Women’s Jail and at Options Recovery Services.

​Charlie holds a Masters in Drama and Movement Therapy and is a 5Rhythms teacher.  She currently works at a treatment facility for clients recovering from addiction and mental health issues. She is also Adjunct Faculty on the Expressive Arts Counselling Psychology Masters program at CIIS in San Francisco.

Charlie offers Movement Therapy sessions at Bayside Marin Rehab and a Recovery in Motion community group for Women.

​More on SDP Founder Sylvie Minot



Sylvie Minot is the executive director and founder of Syzygy Dance Project. She embodies the transformative power of dance as a teacher, choreographer, and the creator of Medicine Circle.

Sylvie discovered dance at the age of 29, and has not stopped dancing since. After studying psychology and receiving her BA in Dance from San Jose State University, she became a professional dancer and teacher. She also has a Master's Degree in Theology in Spirituality and Holistic Health.

Sylvie is certified to teach Heartbeat, and was trained by Gabrielle Roth. She co-founded the Saturday Sweat Your Prayers in Marin in 2002, and is a rotating teacher substitute for Open Floor Dance.

​Her weekly 5Rhythms Waves Journey class in Sausalito began in 2004. Sylvie has taught movement classes and workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, throughout the United States and the world.

The elements, natural world, energy, spirit and sound healing are a few of her influences, especially in the Medicine Circle, which she created in 2008. Sylvie’s work is inspired by the teachings of Angeles Arrien in indigenous healing rituals and Carolyn Myss’ energy medicine. She has studied sound healing with Tito La Rosa in Peru.

Sylvie’s passion for dance also includes being a choreographer. Recent pieces she’s created were inspired from the outreach projects with women in the jail and in recovery, and veterans returning from war.

Outside of the dance world, Sylvie has worked as a drug and alcohol counselor within the jail system, and an activity director at an in-patient lockdown facility for geriatric patients.
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Sylvie is often described as a catalytic shape-shifter because of her ability to meet people right where they are and move with them into new possibilities. She takes you to the edge, and helps you fly. She has lived in Asia and Europe, and now resides in Marin County, California.

If you would like to contact Sylvie Minot, please email [email protected].

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Sylvie Minot 5Rhythms Dancing
Sylvie Minot 5 Rhythms Class

​Syzygy Dance Project Board of Directors

The SDP board is made up of dancers, teachers, choreographers, counselors, therapists, consultants, and business people. Board members believe in the transformative power of dance.

  • Ann Jackson
  • ​Emily Randall
  • Janet Bernet
  • Kamala Tully
  • Nadine Greenwood


  • ​Sylvie Minot
  • Tina Valentine
  • Wendy Heffner

SDP Volunteers

  • Ann Jackson
  • Catherine Hughes​
  • Cathren Rose
  • Chele Beers​
  • Dani Worth​
  • Emily Randall
  • Erica Fox​
  • Heather Smith​​​​
  • Jim Homa
  • Judith Rosenberg
  • Kamala Tully
  • Kathy Culver
  • Sandi Esquivel
  • Tim Brown
  • Tina Valentine
  • Vicky Mulligan ​​ ​​​ 

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“It just amazes and inspires me that strangers that seemingly would never meet do so through the simple but profound act of dance.”
- Janet, Teaching Assistant

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​​Syzygy Dance Project
P.O. Box 2532
Sausalito  CA 94966

PHONE: 415-272-1896


​EMAIL: [email protected]
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  • WHO WE ARE
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    • MEET THE TEAM
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    • OVERVIEW
    • FACILITIES SERVED
    • BODIES IN MOTION
    • PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS
    • VETERANS PROGRAMS
    • INMATES
    • SURJ MARIN
    • ISMETA
  • WORKPLACE
  • WORK WITH SYLVIE
    • CONSULTING
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  • EVENTS
    • 5RHYTHMS CLASSES
    • 5RHYTHMS PENINSULA
    • PARNERSHIP EVENTS
    • BIPOC FREEDOM CLASS
    • HEARTBEAT
    • FACILITATOR TRAINING
    • ​ANCESTORS SERIES
    • MEDICINE CIRCLE IN MEXICO
    • SHAMANIC JOURNEY
    • SHAPESHIFTING
    • SOUND WAVES BENEFIT
  • SUPPORT US
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