DEVON NEAR-HILL
Move with more choice, confidence, and connection.
Through expressive arts coaching, dance education, and embodied practice, I help people notice their patterns, explore new possibilities, and find their next move.
How I Work
We start by noticing what is already happening in your body, your habits, and your choices. Then we get curious about what else is possible, depending on your goals. Then you try it, with plenty of play and specific feedback, until a new option feels like yours.
There is rarely one correct way to move through a dance, a transition, or a conversation. There is usually a wider range of options than we first notice.
Workshops
Group experiences for exploring body awareness, play, creativity, and connection in community. Designed to welcome a range of bodies, backgrounds, and experience levels.
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Wedding Dances
A first dance, a family dance, or a few steps to enjoy on the day. Lessons are shaped around you and your partner, so the dance feels comfortable, connected, and like you.
Plan Your Wedding Dance
Online Courses
Study Brazilian Zouk technique at your own pace, with clear breakdowns you can return to as often as you like.
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Expressive Arts Coaching
Movement, creative exercises, and conversation help you see your situation from new angles. A good fit for transitions, boundaries, burnout, creative blocks, relationships, and professional growth, including for educators, teaching artists, and arts facilitators.
Explore Coaching
Brazilian Zouk & Lambada
Classes and private lessons with detailed, playful instruction. We focus on safer, more expressive movement, clear connection with your partner, and understanding why a technique works.
Explore Zouk & Lambada
Expressive Arts Coaching
Movement, creative exercises, and conversation help you see your situation from new angles. A good fit for transitions, boundaries, burnout, creative blocks, relationships, and professional growth, including for educators, teaching artists, and arts facilitators.
Explore Coaching
A Session With Me Might Be a Good Fit If You...
1. Want to understand why you move, decide, or react the way you do, with curiosity rather than criticism.
2. Are navigating a transition, burnout, boundaries, or a creative stall and want to think with your whole body, not only your head.
3. Want creative, embodied support alongside or beyond traditional talk therapy.
4. Teach, facilitate, or lead and want fresh ways to work with your own patterns and support the people you serve.
5. Want to bring more joy, play, communication, and connection into your relationship through movement and shared creative exploration.
6. Love dance and want to understand how it works, move more safely and expressively, or build connection with a partner.
7. Are preparing for a wedding, performance, or another meaningful event and want the movement to feel comfortable and like you.
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REVIEWS
Efosa Uwa-Omede
Zouk Dancer
(About Head Movement Fundamentals)
I truly recommend anything that Devon does especially this class in particular. The amount of info provided in this class for one's needs and development when it comes to Zouk is truly invaluable. Definitely one of the best classes out there.