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
Living Rhythms Healing Arts (LRHA) was founded by Debra Brittain Davenport, PhD, a wellness practitioner, dancer, pastor, and university professor. Debra’s passion for healing arts, somatic dance, and expressive movement was ignited when she began experienced firsthand the healing, transformative power of somatic movement and various therapeutic healing techniques. Debra felt called to help others experience the same rejuvenating and restorative benefits of these evidence-based practices. Debra has completed multiple certifications in healing and restorative practices and developed a variety of original classes, programs, and workshops specifically designed to enhance the lives and well-being of others.
“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.