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You’ve tried mindset work.
You’ve talked it out.
But something deeper hasn’t shifted.
What’s missing isn’t more analysis, concepts, or pathologies.
What’s missing is embodiment.
Welcome to Temple Dance
A somatic spiritual practice that uses movement as a direct path to liberation.
Hi, I’m Nathan Hirschaut, and dance has been my path for healing, personal growth, and self-realization for over twenty years.
I began dancing at seven, drawn to movement as a place where I could feel my feelings, express my inner world, and experience a sense of freedom beyond right and wrong.
That freedom eventually became discipline and achievement. I became a nationally recognized competitive dancer, studied dance and choreography at Juilliard, and founded a dance company exploring the intersection of movement, yoga, meditation, and Eastern philosophy.
Everything changed when chronic illness brought my life to a halt. Out of necessity, dance shifted from performance to a total inquiry into how movement could support my physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Temple Dance emerged from that turning point. It is a somatic spiritual practice that uses movement as a direct path to liberation.
THE METHOD
Somatics
Movement becomes a way to feel more, attention drops from mind into flesh, and what was numbed comes back online: sensation, emotion, memory, instinct, aliveness.
Through breath, sound, muscular engagement, and changing orientations, discomfort is used as a threshold, a doorway out of thinking and into the animal body.
The body warms and softens; strength and adaptability return, and health is felt as living vitality.
Trance
Through the repetition of simple tasks (falling, spinning, yielding weight, rhythmic movement), the dancer surrenders control. The body is no longer moved by the self, the self is moved by movement.
Identity loosens. Fixation dissolves. Commentary fades.
What remains is a timeless space of movement, awareness, and presence, where thinking and identity relax, the nervous system resets, suppressed emotion discharges, and healing happens through allowing life to move freely again.
Channeling
The body becomes a channel through which archetypal forces, mythic intelligence, and the powers of nature move. The practitioner is no longer dancing as a personal self, but as a whole being, beyond name, history, gender, or social identity. This is the deified self: not an imagined god, but the direct experience of wholeness and union moving through form.
This state is often marked by power, clarity, ecstasy, and profound presence. The body feels inhabited by something larger than the personal psyche, an intelligence that is ancient, natural, and alive.
What people are saying
Sah D’Simone
Nathan makes you feel safe enough to stay, honest enough to feel everything, and free enough to let your body tell the truth.
Sahara Rose
Nathan guides Temple Dance as a sacred remembering, where movement becomes ritual, the body becomes an altar, and you soften into the ancient wisdom that has always lived within you.
Adrianna Rizzolo
Nathan cuts through spiritual chasing and brings you back into your body, where safety, truth, and freedom stop being ideas and start being lived.
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About Nathan
I am a spiritual and somatic teacher guiding people back to their indigenous, unconditioned body. The body that remembers how to feel, create, and belong, and knows itself as part of the earth...Read More
