Wilhemeena Isabella Monroe is the founder and director of the SOUL CENTRE, she has been working in dance and holistic
health and wellbeing for over 10 years. She is an established choreographer, director, filmmaker and dancer and has performed all over the world. She
is also one of NZ’s top somatic practitioners and has a current practice at SOUL combining, massage, movement therapy, dance, yoga and
meditation. She is one of NZ’s 2 SRT certified facilitators and has taught somatics in many institutions, universities, training programs and communities. She is currently doing
further training (will she ever stop?) in Cranio-Sacral Therapy and the Land to Water Yoga series with Sondra Fraleigh – of the EastWest Somatics Institute and is creating a new
dance work and writing her first book. Willa teaches the open-heart meta-meditation on the last Sunday of the month.

Juliet Shelley is an experienced practitioner, teacher and exponent of Contact Improvisation, based in Wellington, NZ.
She has taught CI at the NZ School of Dance, UNITEC School of Performing and Screen Arts NZ, at the Australian Contact Improvisation Convergance, at SOUL in Auckland, at Prana festivals in the Coromandel and in contact dance communities in the UK and NZ since 1989. Juliet studied Contact with Julyen Hamilton, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Ray Chung, Kirstie Simson and Andrew Harwood. She studied dance professionally at the Laban Centre in London and the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Juliet has performed CI with Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Catherine Chappell, Sylvie Haisman and with Jointwork Dance Group in the UK.
She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.