Vibrance was founded in 2009
by co-creators Ellen Watson and Daphne Tse.

Ellen Watson

Daphne Tse
A world-renowned somatic arts educator, Ellen Watson has an extensive history in healing arts, developed from over 30 years at the historic Esalen® Institute in Big Sur, California.

After studying 5Rhythms™ with Gabrielle Roth, Ellen developed SpiritDance to incorporate her complementary practices in Esalen® Massage, Holotropic Breathwork™, Continuum Movement, yoga, Clinical Hypnosis, Gestalt Awareness Practice and sound healing.

In 1996, Ellen founded MovingVentures, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization to share healing arts around the world. This provides a channel for running programs in Touching Essence™, Esalen® Massage, SpiritDance SoulSong™ and programs for other teachers through Show Up & Teach.

A licensed minister and spiritual counselor, Ellen shines in her ability to teach and guide others through their own discovery of embodied presence.
Daphne Tse is a spirited, soulful musician and teacher. After falling in love with yoga more than 20 years ago, she has explored merging her spiritual practice with her music, combining mantras, folk and world music.  

She developed SoulSong to inspire everyone to sing the song that lies in their heart and awaken their true voice. She travels around the world, sharing her music and SoulSong teachings with performances and classes.

Daphne studied music at The University of Texas at Austin, Berklee College of Music and The Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. She learned from kirtan masters Jai Uttal and Daniel Paul, and sound healing from Jonathan Goldman.

Her music has been featured on yoga music compilations and DVDs with her friend and teacher Shiva Rea, with whom she has completed multiple teacher trainings. She has released three albums -- Mata, Finding Water and Samahita Live.

Since it's inception, many teachers have certified and joined our tribe offering Vibrance in the own communities and travelling to teach around the world!

Ashley Johnson

Our voices carry the vibrational imprint of our soul.  As we connect to and open our voices so too do we connect and open to our soul.  Soul Singing is the practice of uncovering, celebrating and strengthening your authentic voice.  Effective for singers and non-singers alike, you will learn to relax physical strain, move through fear and constriction, expand your range and capacity, and experience embodied vocal freedom.   The beauty of these techniques is that they are easy to learn, powerfully affect confidence and personal presence and greatly impact your ability to connect and engage in dynamic flow with yourself and the world around you.  These are foundational skills that will increase your effectiveness in life whether you are a teacher, facilitator, coach, mother, father, singer or musician

Klaus Schmitt

Klaus Schmitt, native German, has been living and working between Europe and China for more than half of his life.  He is fascinated by different cultures and how to connect to people he has worked with in various industries, marketing, PR and tourism. 

With almost eight years of teaching experience for communication, leadership and development, Klaus is now a licensed practitioner of NLP at The Society of NLP, an organizational coach by IECL as well as a ACC (Associate Certified Coach) at ICF.
By now he trains and coaches people from all over the world to uplift their skills or bridge their gap from imagination to realization along with helping them redesign their life with more self-confidence, meaning and fulfillment.

As being passionate on dancing, yoga and spiritual development, Klaus attended the  SpiritDance SoulSong™ training program in 2016. He became a SDSS trainer, now delivering sessions in China, in Germany and on Bali.  He conducts his workshops in English, Chinese, German and French.