Verity Maud Verified listing

I am Verity Maud. I am an artist, a passionate seeker of truth, lover of movement, sensual pleasure, open-hearted connection, and creative expression. Dance has long been my most potent medicine, and I have been using it both in my own life and facilitating it for others to bring about transformation, connection, healing and joy. I love nothing more than to be a catalyst for beauty and change, creating magical experiences for people.

I have danced all over the world, enjoying many different conscious dance modalities that inspire much of my work. The most powerful modality I have encountered, and the one I facilitate the most, is Biodanza—a profound system of human development designed to bring us back to our original instincts, creating systemic wellness. I run the Johannesburg Central School of Biodanza with my colleague Christos Daskalakos. The school offers a two-year intensive personal development course for all seekers of a more meaningful, integrated life, followed by an optional third year for those wanting to do the facilitator training.

I have facilitated and run workshops and retreats in Bali, Mozambique, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Norway, Brazil, and throughout South Africa. I have also crafted workshops in the corporate space, mostly centered around creativity.

My  passions are music, dance, creativity and sacred sensuality. I LOVE being a catalyst for people to access their own innate creative potential, enabling them to create lives they love, available for the full pleasure of living.

I love creating meaningful ceremonies for people, having officiated many weddings, baby blessings, coming of age for young women and more.

My offerings include, but are not limited to:

BIODANZA

Open classes - Every Monday at JATA in Linden, Johannesburg.
Biodanza two-year Personal Development course, Johannesburg.
Biodanza Facilitator Training, Johannesburg.
Various retreats and workshops.

SACRED SENSUALITY

I have a series of  offerings that fall under the Ecstatic Touch banner, designed to liberate your sensual self  using movement, connection, the healing power of touch and a whole lot of heart .

-->Inner Sight - Inner Sight is a sensual movement journey exploring intuitive connection and deep pleasure through contact dance. We begin with a facilitated session to create a safe, heart-centered space. As blindfolds are introduced, music becomes your guide, allowing you to flow intuitively and connect with the group’s collective sensual energy. The experience is enhanced by a carefully curated musical journey. No dance experience is needed, and you can attend alone or with a partner. Blindfolds dissolve perceptions and inhibitions, allowing an uncommon freedom.

“Verity, you bring an invaluable space of possibility through conscious touch. With each caress of blindfolded bliss, minds dissolve, hearts open, and senses awaken. Lingering interludes and momentary nuances melted away lines of where I ended and others began; the paradox of losing one’s self and finding one’s self all at once.”

-->Ecstatic Touch Aqua - A movement experience in water that is heated to body temperature to facilitate a truly transcendent experience that will allow you to dissolve into your sensuous bliss body as you float into deep states of relaxation, pleasure, and eros. The water is an incredible medium that allows us to move and support one another’s bodies with ease. I work carefully to create a safe and loving container that allows people to connect from the heart. It’s only when we allow a de-armoring that we can feel the beauty of intimate human connection. This is a clothing-optional offering.

"Carried by the water into weightless wonder, the mind surrendered and I melted into bliss. I find the water utterly nurturing, holding a unique essence of safety, and a gentle nudge to let flow." Tracy

-->Ecstatic Touch Workshop - We are created to touch, to hold, and to be held. We are neurologically wired for pleasure, connection, and intimacy. We explore a landscape of touch as I guide you through a delicious, transcendent journey using music, movement, heart connection, and a safe container to experience heightened states of sensual bliss. The first session is playful, sensual, creative, and deeply connecting, meeting one another in the dance and establishing a safe and respectful container to go deeper. In the afternoon session, we explore a more transcendent and deeply sensual space, working with oil, wearing bikini bottoms/costumes. This allows us to drop deeply into the beauty of shared sensuality, where the interplay between bodies blurs the lines of distinction. This is only for people who have done personal growth work and are very comfortable with touch and open-hearted connection. Experience with practices like in-depth Biodanza or Blissdance is a plus, though not required at all—just a wide-open heart and a willingness to delve into the possibilities of exquisite pleasure in relationship with others. Suitable for both couples and singles.

-->Ecstatic Touch Retreat, Bali - A six-day immersion into deep states of blissful connection, loving touch, and sensual expression. We stay in luxurious private villas right on the ocean’s edge, enjoy daily massages, exquisite food, kayaking, movement, meditation, ceremony, waterfalls, etc. A life-altering experience!

OTHER CONSCIOUS DANCE

I LOVE opening dance floors with a facilitated session that brings people in connection to themselves, one another, creative liberation and play, priming them for the next DJ.

Various lightly facilitated Ecstatic Dance style offerings.

WOMEN’S RETREATS

-->Inviting Aphrodite - A journey through the feminine archetypes, with a focus on Aphrodite. I gently guide women into liberating their sensuality and feminine expression. We do this in Mozambique at Ponta Malongane, where we swim with wild dolphins, feast on the delicious local food, meditate, dance, journal, experience a shamanic sound journey, share, laugh, and release.

-->Nurture - A luxury experience in Bali for women who want to nurture body, mind, and soul. For women who have worked hard to get where they are and want to mindfully design their next steps. Daily massages, movement sessions, Balinese water cleansing ritual, ecstatic dance at the world-renowned Yoga Barn, process work designed to bring you into alignment with your soul’s purpose and your YES.

CREATIVITY - THE ARTERY, CONNECTING TO YOUR CREATIVE LIFE FORCE

-->The Artery Online A seven-week deep dive into self, designed to bring clarity and solutions for the common challenges that keep us from expressing our full creative expression. We delve into how to manage the Inner Critic, managing fear—of failure, success, criticism, inadequacy, etc. I provide people with tools to empower them to create the lives and art they dream of.

-->Body Mapping & Movement A combination of using dance and process work to create a life-size painting, in which we explore what is moving through us—an inquiry into self