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Dr.Zahira Mous
About
Zahira Mous (1984) is a Frisian-born choreographer, artistic director, creative coach, writer, performer, and activist whose life’s work bridges embodied healing, the arts, and social justice. With a background in dance theater, somatic facilitation, and feminist community organizing, her mission centers on liberating women through movement, creativity, and making a womb-voice connection. Zahira is the director of Project Zahira | Dance Theater. Her most recent work, The Rite, confronts the epidemic of intimate partner violence and femicide. She creates socially engaged dance theater works and after-talks to increase awareness and effect change. She is the co-founder/director of Rest / Resist (with Tania S. Shoukair) - initiatives rooted in decolonized therapeutic and artistic practices. She has facilitated healing workshops in Palestine, India, Brazil, the U.S., Greece, Spain, and the Netherlands. In 2020, Zahira served as a key consultant for the Brazilian docuseries Em Nome de Deus, which exposed the (sexual) violence by João Teixeira de Faria, known as “John of God” (on streaming platforms GloboPlay and AppleTV). In 2022, she collaborated with Ashira Darwish (founder Catharsis Holistic Healing) for the Trauma Healing Conference with Dr. Gabor Maté and Kath Temple on healing work in Jericho, Palestine. Zahira returned in 2024 to work with women from Gaza in Ramallah. Zahira holds an MFA in Dance, a Graduate Certificate in Women’s & Gender Studies, and a BA in Theatre in Education. She is certified in NLP, EFT, and trauma-informed inner work drawing from Jungian and Gestalt traditions. With training in meditation, tantra, bodywork, and art therapy modalities, she developed Embodied Alchemy; a healing practice of movement and creativity.
I enjoy working with people who work with people. So, if you are usually a space holder for others, it’s my honor to hold space for you - so you can continue doing the work you’re doing.