Kate Finlayson

About Me

Kate Finlayson is the creator of “Dancing the Enneagram” Playshops, UnDance classes, and co- author of the Dancing the Enneagram PlayBook. She has been a professional actor and acting teacher, an environmental educator and bird guide, and a Nia Movement teacher /trainer. She has recently completed the facilitators training in the Embodied Present Process with Philip Shepherd and brings this innovative work into every class experience. During the 18 years she taught Nia she led numerous classes, dance jams, playshops, and dancing trips to Nicaragua, Greece and Brazil. She also trained and mentored many Nia teachers for many years at the Joy of Movement Studio at this location. During the pandemic, she created “UnDance”. It integrates all of her experience with dance, Embodied Present breath work, the Enneagram, Nia, acting and the natural world into a joyful class where participants can heal, release and unwind from the struggles of our modern world. Kate studied 6 years at the Enneagram Institute with Russ Hudson and trained in Andrea Isaac’s Enneamotion. Since 2017, she has joyfully shared her Dancing the Enneagram playshops all over the US and South Africa. She was featured in the 2020 Enneagram Global Summit, was an online presenter for the IEA Global Conference in 2021, and keynote presenter for the Institute for Conscious Being in Anniston, Alabama in 2022. She now has a new passion: she and her husband Chris are enjoying ballroom lessons taught by Lindsey and she loves bringing those new moves to her class as well!