About Us
Living Rhythms Healing Arts (LRHA) is a professional wellness practice offering a variety of healing and expressive arts, community classes, and individual sessions ~ as well as specialized programs and workshops for organizations and businesses.
Our practice is dedicated to healing, mind-body awareness, and creative self-expression. Through movement, dance, mindfulness practice, meditation, fitness, and various creative techniques, we help our clients experience a new sense of fulfillment, freedom, renewal, and wholeness. We provide a respite in this busy, stressful, and challenging world … a “soul sanctuary” for everyone seeking greater joy, balance, health, and well-being.
All of our classes and programs are designed around the positive principles of compassion, empathy, respect, gratitude, and emotional intelligence. We are passionate about helping people and organizations flourish.
Founder & Director
Warm welcomes! Thank you for visiting today. I’m Dr. Debra Davenport, Sr. Practitioner and founder of Living Rhythms Healing Arts (LRHA). I’m a wellness practitioner, dance instructor, ordained pastor, and university professor.
In my own life, I’ve experienced the deep, transformative power of movement, wellness, and holistic healing, both personally and professionally. These practices have been life-changing, prompting me to discover important aspects of my own physicality, life purpose, creative expression, faith, and well-being. I have a clear calling to help others experience these same powerful and positive benefits.
Through LRHA, I specialize in creating evidence-based wellness practices that support healing, health, empowerment, personal leadership, and well-being. I’ve earned multiple certifications in movement, dance, and restorative / healing modalities, and I’ve developed a range of original programs, workshops, and classes designed to help people and workplaces thrive. Whether it’s through somatic dance, expressive movement, or various holistic wellness therapies, my goal is to help individuals and teams move with purpose, presence, and renewed energy.
In my private practice, I support clients on their wellness journeys through The Emergence Process®, B.E.S.T.® (Bioenergetic Synchronization Technique), holistic nutrition education, pastoral counseling, and wellness coaching. I’m very passionate about supporting clients with gut issues and histamine intolerance.
I also partner with forward-thinking businesses and organizations to integrate healing and resilience into the workplace – fostering healthier environments where people feel supported, nurtured, and inspired.
My approach is warm, caring, and compassionate. I listen deeply and strive to help every client experience optimum well-being.
I look forward to the pleasure and privilege of working with you!
In kindness,
~Dr. Debra
“Every human being needs healing on some level. Day-to-day stressors, microtraumas, and significant life events can all get stuck in the body, creating pain, illness, anxiety, and disease. Somatic dance and movement enable us to move any negative energy up and out of the body in enjoyable, freeing, and healthy ways.” ~Debra Davenport
Hello, Debra!
Ahhhh … what pain? Any discomfort I had before is next to zero. Slept through most of the night and will try for one more hour. Thank you!!! It is quite evident that systems are blocked in my body. I have known this for so long. Your class is amazing!
∼ B. Cristiano, Phoenix
I had a deep, emotionally healing experience with Debra last week during her Somatic Rhythms dance and movement session. I had a lot of sadness, depression, and guilt associated with my husband’s passing. [The] class relieved me of those bad feelings. If you have emotional stuff to get rid of, I highly recommend Debra’s Somatic Rhythms class. I look forward to seeing you there.
∼ Linda C., Phoenix
Debra’s professional and academic background encompasses human behavior, dance and movement, holistic nutrition, communication, organization development, I/O psychology, coaching, and wellness consulting. She has worked in hospital and medical practice settings, as well as the corporate sector and higher education. She serves on the graduate and doctoral faculties of several US universities.