About Me
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My name is Dr. Bahar Subasi Celen. I am a medical doctor, a Holistic Psychiatrist and a Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner. I am a certified teacher of various Healing Dances and also a Yoga, Meditation and Yoga Nidra teacher. 

DANCEOFWHOLENESS is the product of my decades long study, practice and work in various fields of treatment, healing and self-healing such as Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Spirituality, Shamanic Energy Medicine, Healing Dances, Healing with Art, Meditation, Yoga, Yoga Nidra and Reiki.

All my life I danced between the worlds. I am a bridge between seeming dualities, integrating them all and embracing the fullness of the whole: Science and art, left brain and right brain, mystical and practical, East and West… As a natural healer, artist and mystic; a sensitive observer of the effects of energy, a lifelong dancer of all genres, a painter, singer and poet, and a lifelong student of Sufism; I had inherent awareness of and deep interest towards the healing effects of spirituality, creativity, artistic expression, intuitive movement, natural surroundings, ritual, ceremony and various complementary modalities. I had the blessed opportunity to acquire formal education and training in Medicine and Healing, giving me a solid foundation and profundity that I love. I am very grateful for these gifts of this lifetime.

I graduated from the internationally accredited Medical Faculty of Ankara University in my native Turkey. I trained as a specialist at the highly prestigious University Clinic of Psychiatry in AKH – Vienna in Austria. Psychiatric training, in this world stature clinic, is with six years the
longest and most extensive in the world. I trained in General and Social Psychiatry, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cross Cultural Psychiatry. I worked in inpatient and outpatient settings, as well as social psychiatric rehabilitation, with individuals with Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Psychosis, Schizophrenia/ Schizoaffective Disorder, Personality Disorders, Substance abuse and dependency; offering comprehensive treatments encompassing medication, psychotherapy, social and interpersonal approaches and lifestyle remedies. 

My interest in the role of dynamic (underlying emotional processes of inner life), interpersonal, social, cultural, lifestyle related, transpersonal / spiritual and energetic aspects of psychological wellbeing and disease, naturally shaped my holistic psychiatric approach from the beginning of my career on. Holistic Psychiatry became my expertise in the decades that followed. As a specialist I set up and led the Psychiatric departments of private hospitals in Ankara Turkey and later in Dubai United Arab Emirates. I offered treatments of all psychiatric conditions, as well as more niche services such as Couple’s Therapy, psychological support of patients with severe, chronic and specific conditions (Oncology, MS, Auto Immune Diseases, infertility, sexual dysfunctions.)

In 2002 I moved to Dubai, founded the Psychiatric Clinic in a private hospital and worked there for two decades. I became more and more involved with what I call “Healing Dances”. My personal journey started with 5 Rhythms, went on with QOYA, Chakradance, Shamanic Trance Dance and Journey Dance. I pursued the Healing Dances with fiery passion and trained as teacher of the latter four. Juggling my clinic work with my zestful trainings in Shamanic Energy Healing, Reiki, Yoga, Meditation, Yoga Nidra and Tantra; I integrated the riches of these traditions and modalities more and more into my therapeutic approach. Danceofwholeness emerged from the deep calling to offer dance as a healing modality, inspired by my own healing and growth through “Healing Dances”. 2015 on I offered Healing Dances, Healing Circles and Healing Art in my private studio to clients from all walks of life. I taught my clients a multifaceted approach to human body, health, disease and existence, emphasizing the creative, self-expressive, interpersonal, transpersonal, spiritual and energetic aspects of these and the importance of authentic and sustainable lifestyles. With the Covid pandemic I shifted my healing work to online and offered Transformative Courses, Healing Circles, Art and Dances through the internet. After thirty years of service in various psychiatric clinic settings, I left my post 2021 to dedicate myself primarily to my healing work. 

Currently I offer in person healing events in Dubai and Ankara, healing retreats in Turkey and various Transformative Courses, Healing Art and Healing Dances ONLINE. 

 

My own profound realizations about human energy body and its works, movement and its mysterious healing effect, creativity and its benefits, impacts of nature, ritual, ceremony, sound and color on our wellbeing, healing effect of authentic sharing and deep relating in group processes and spiritual connectedness and its mind blowing healing power, inspired me to start various “journeys” in forms of transformative courses and healing  groupwork with clients and students. My aim is to offer space, teachings and tools, which help individuals to awaken their own Inner Healer; embrace their own intrinsic wisdom and power of healing themselves.

Why dance? Dance is the most direct, organic and intimate way of getting in touch with oneself and finding one’s truth. And that leads to HEALING. I explain this more in the section on Healing Dances; please have a look at that. 

Why Dance of Wholeness? I feel that we are all dancers in this life, dancing to the rhythms ofchanges and vicissitudes in our own ways; sometimes clumsily, sometimes soulfully. We already are whole as spiritual beings, but going through our human experiences, we may feel very far from that. I feel this dance of our lifetimes is a gift given to us, to evolve into a realization and joyful embracing of that wholeness. In a way all dances, all learning, all experiences, all growth and evolution is part and parcel and stepping stones of this Dance of Wholeness; which ultimately is our realization of our Self.

 

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