World Dance™,
Body Awareness
& De-aging
​Move with freedom, vitality, and joy.
Whether leading World Dance™ Workshops, sharing natural movement and body awareness information or de-aging tools and tips, Roberta’s teaching style inspires, empowers and encourages a loving relationship with your body. With infectious enthusiasm and delight as well as proven, practical body wisdom, she offers what she knows about the joy inherent in moving freely. She does so because when your body’s movement delights you, you’re on track to respecting it, loving it, partnering with it and expressing joy with it. And then there’s more joy in the world!
World Dance™â€‹
World Dance™ is joyful, natural movement to world beat rhythms. It benefits body, mind and soul making it an effective tool for personal growth. It’s as easy as rhythmic walking or as complex as ecstatic dancing and so is adaptable to any age or ability. World Dance provides: alignment, flexibility, balance, strength, control, therapeutic release, self-esteem, body awareness, grounding, healing, fitness and fun!
​Roberta Meilleur founded World Dance™ in 1987 from her background in African, Middle Eastern, Caribbean and Latin movements. Born as a way of inspiring people to access the joy in rhythmic dance, World Dance is also the dream of the people of the world dancing in joy and unity. In 1995 Roberta took World Dance to the International Women’s Forum in Beijing China and experienced that dream by dancing with women from around the world.
World Dance™ is currently available through an instructional book and videos. Online video clips at JoyFreeMove offer World Dance™ and natural movement information in bite-sized bits.
Instructional Offerings
Movement & Dance
Whether a personal session, a gathered group or a public event, Roberta’s movement wisdom, skillful guidance and enthusiastic support lead people to freer movement in life and thus to more joy. And where groups are concerned you can be sure fun flows freely.
De-Aging Workshops
A guaranteed de-aging info kit if used as recommended. Think fun, body wisdom, body honouring, tips for perpetual pain-free movement and life-long flexibility, with the added joy and brain rejuvenation of natural dance. Beneficial for ages 40+.
In Person (Within the Comox Valley)
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Private groups for friends, events or team building
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Scheduled Workshops
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Out-of-town bookings considered individually
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Online / Virtually
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Substack Videos on JoyFreeMove Site (link)
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Small group instruction on Zoom being considered. If interested, please Contact Roberta
World Dance: A Joyful Path to Free Movement and Personal Growth
A Book by Roberta Meilleur
​© 2001, Free & Footloose publications​
Awaken your bones and being with this one-of-a-kind, transform-your-life book. It’s a free-movement manual, a rhythmical-play workbook, a natural dance recipe book and a body awareness guidebook.
Over 200 pages and illustrations guide participants towards movement joy. Chapters on body safety, stretching, loosening and control set the stage for basic as well as expandable dance information. A chapter on problem-solving, music lists, comments from participants and a summary dance chart add everything else but the sound system.
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Movement hasn’t been this delightful, free, or easy since childhood!
Note: Every cover is uniquely printed from a woodblock so variations exist in colour and tone.
$30.00 + shipping
(limited supplies available)
“Roberta Meilleur’s expertise from years of teaching natural movement and dance is evident in her easily accessible and highly readable book. A must for anyone interested in learning to know their body and celebrate it joyfully.”
- Tanis Helliwell, Founder of the International Institute of Transformation, Author of “Take Your Soul to Work”
World Dance™
Instructional Videos
World Dance videos safely and thoroughly guide participants through the key ingredients for natural, joyful movement and dance. They are beneficial as individual programs as well as a series, and are designed as companions to the World Dance book. Each video is approximately 45 minutes long.
Flashdrive - $40 individually or $100 for the series of three​
*Prices do not include shipping.
World Dance Stretches
World Dance Stretches open the body fully in preparation for free, joyous movement. They are also excellent for maintaining flexibility, healing back pain, establishing body awareness, correcting alignment, unblocking energy and contributing to an overall sense of well-being.
Isolation Movements
World Dance Isolation Movements establish the necessary muscle control to enhance natural movement and to inspire joyful dance. From head to toe, each body part learns to move independently and rhythmically, increasing range of motion, body vocabulary, creative choices and dancing pleasure.
Dance Basics
World Dance Basics are the building blocks of natural dance. When learned and combined, these simple movements and rhythms lead to greater dancing joy and feelings of upliftment. Includes tips for undoing foot tangles (a.k.a. the ‘two-left-feet’ syndrome).
