Meet the Team
Welcome to Embodied ‘‘a living expression’ Freedom ‘ the power to feel & speak’
Embodied Freedom is a movement of people reclaiming & remembering community.
Embodied Freedom is building a culture of playful, awake and responsible adults. Creating awareness emotionally, mentally, energetically, physically.
Adults that connect to their feelings and take care of themselves and others by feeling and upskilling their communication and authentic expression.
Sybille Biedert
I am Sybille, a passionate community weaver dedicated to holding space for personal and collective transformation, especially for women.
Founder of Embodied Freedom, with over 10 years of experience in workshops and training. I am an accredited Open Floor Movement teacher and the creator of the Embodied Freedom Movement practice. My workshops, such as Embodied Intimacy and SoulHum, focus on emotional literacy and embodiment, guiding participants toward deeper self-awareness.
My trauma-informed approach, rooted in Possibility Management, empowers individuals to connect with their feelings and take authentic action. In 2024, I launched the first Embodied Freedom Movement Spaceholder Training, growing a community of spaceholders committed to transformative work.
Through movement, soundscapes, and conscious exercises, I inspire clarity, authenticity, and empowerment, inviting participants to explore their inner flames and embrace their full potential.
I’m Jason Horton — a Creative Space Catalyst, Possibility Coach, and evolutionary artist devoted to authentic relating, embodied growth, and conscious community.
For over 30 years, I’ve been immersed in transformational work, conscious movement, rites of passage, and community life. My coaching supports people to develop emotional clarity, deepen connection, and make life choices that are aligned, grounded, and alive.
I am a multidisciplinary artist, working across sculpture, design, photography, music, and video. Creativity is not separate from my coaching or facilitation, it is central to how I sense, shape, and hold spaces. I use art and sound to create atmospheres that invite presence, openness, and deeper connection.
I design and hold spaces for real change. This includes one-on-one coaching, group processes, and embodied experiences that invite presence, truth-telling, and creative expression. My work is rooted in embodiment, emotional literacy, and practical pathways for living with greater awareness and choice.
I am deeply committed to my own ongoing evolution as a man in a hetero relationship while being fascinated with how gender and same sex relationships are evolving culture. I practice authentic relating as a living, creative process, one that grows alongside our evolving understanding of consciousness, intimacy, and partnership. This lived experience informs my work, supporting others to create relationships that are current, conscious, and life-giving.
I am a devoted father of four teenage sons, a filmmaker, musician, builder, and community maker. Family, creativity, and relationship are central to my path, and to the spaces I help bring into being.
Chai
Embodied Freedom for me is a sacred realm where participants get to practice being bigger versions of themselves. Time and again I’ve witnessed that the creation of community during an EF event has empowered personal expression to a degree that I’m yet to experience elsewhere. With the safety and support of a tight and intimate group, individuals deepen their roots in the physical body (dance), and find extraordinary freedom to use emotional tools to their potential (Possibility Management). This is high-level fun for me!
I’m fascinated with the ways in which we humans connect. I’m told that 93% of communication is non verbal and that makes sense to me. When I have a strong degree of inner connection then I find that my outward communication is more effective, has a more palpable affect, and that my exchanges are more rewarding. I’m passionate about supporting Embodied Freedom participants to tap more deeply into their own authenticity. It’s so exciting for me to witness people moving, feeling and saying what they really want to move, feel and say! Enough waiting already!
Monica Cross
I am Monica Cross, and I am a part of Embodied Freedom because I believe in the incredible creative potential that comes to life when we are connected with our feelings and our bodies.
For years I have felt that disconnection and how that blocks my connection with those around me. I have seen what unfolds when spaces are held for in that journey inward - the outward responds and we evolve together.
What I bring is spacious creativity, deep listening and a passion to see what we can do differently in this world when we connect with our aliveness.
Mina Smith
Kia Ora Koutou Katoa,
I care about these events because they create something different from this modern culture in which people wear a mask and numb their feelings. Most of us have learnt to do this unconsciously over many years to keep ourselves safe in a world that doesn’t welcome our feelings.
The events are about creating village, movement, connection to papatuanuku and learning how to feel again. I want to help people distinguish their internal compass of feelings. Feelings are an expression of what we want and what we care about. They are a tool for finding your own voice, clarity, what you long for and what you want to create.
My dad, Martin and I went to an Embodied Freedom event called Soulhum in 2023. I created some of my most treasured memories of my dad there and we continued to do these events together. My dad battled with his own mental health for a long time with bipolar, BPD and PTSD. In 2024 he chose to take his life. I lost one of my dearest friends and I decided I would dedicate more time towards helping other people, no matter if money came from it or not. I also gained a deep appreciation for these events because it completely transformed the relationship I had with my dad for the time I did have with him. Although he is gone now, I got to have a loving and present father for the last years of his life.
After some time grieving I pursued my pull towards introducing particularly young people towards this culture I have been living that is rooted in living in a higher responsibility for my own feelings and more sovereignty over my own life decisions.
I want to empower people to choose consciously rather than living their life with their feelings and boundaries slipping by unconsciously. I want people to find their voice and to not tolerate things that don’t serve them.
For young people their ability to take on feedback and expand their thought ware is significantly easier than older adults and elders.
I want people to have more options earlier on in life to navigate their inner world so they aren’t living their life half lived by wearing a mask.
Or so they don’t feel like they run out of options in life the way my dad did.
Aroha nui,
Mina
