Merve Purde
Merve Purde
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
I am a movement facilitator, guide, body therapist and energy initiator.
I have facilitated in many retreats and workshops over the years in Turkey and across the world. Traveled to Europe, Peru, India and Asia to expand her knowledge and has integrated new inspirations to her own practice called Move Beyond. I am currently traveling and creating spiritual journeys, workshops and retreats around the world.
Whenever I feel like I'm going through a process where I can't stay centered and I'm burdening myself, the winds of change and transformation of life touch the side of my face. It takes time to realize that I am enveloped in a flow. As my connection with myself weakens, my body starts to give signals and this can sometimes manifest itself as a pain, sometimes as an injury, sometimes as a bump.
To move and bring my focus to my body,
reminds me again of the flow and lets my inner voice whisper.
My movement and body-oriented adventure, which started with my ballet and conservatory education and has been going on for almost 20 years, now continues in different areas of the body, sometimes by dancing, sometimes by turning into a workshop or creating together with people from other disciplines, and sometimes by touching a body for healing.
Although my work in the business world has taken me to completely different fields, initiatives and countries, the inexhaustible urge to move, dance and research about the body has always remained with me. This drive continues to be my greatest motivation, meditation, passion and teacher in life and keeps the fire alive in me.
The curiosity triggered by my passion was the beginning of my realization of my body, my capacity for movement and my inward journey; it was the source of my focus on the body-mind relationship and my awareness path.
On the experience of learning through the body, I hold space for moving awareness workshops that include movement, dance, and ritual that I blend with somatic and meditation practices. I offer individual body therapy sessions that I blend with deep tissue technique, reiki, and munay-ki work that I have been initiated in Peru.
I continue my journey by participating in various retreats, meditation practices and new trainings in nature; sharing individual body therapy sessions and body-oriented workshops designed with my own knowledge with individuals and institutions.
FESTIVALS, INTENSIVES
2023 Bali Spirit Festival - Bali, Indonesia
Yoga, Movement, Dance & Music
2023 Svaram Sonic Experience Curated Programs, Auroville, India
Sound Work, Music Harmony and Voice Facilitation
2023 Kalakeli Movement Arts - One Month Movement Intensive, Goa, India
Yoga, Contemporary Dance, Partnering, Improvisation
Yamuna Devi, Kevin Edward Turner, Navala Chaudhari, Prashant More
2022 Nomadic Dance Collective - One Month Performance Intensive, Sirince Mountain, Turkey
Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Butoh
Kiori Kawai, Maria Concetta Cariello, Adam Koan
2019 Contact Improvisation Camp – CI Turkey
Alexander Technique into CI - Suspending in Action with Matthieu Gaudeau
Tact-Teach by Romain Bigé, Dorte Bjerre Jensen, Defne Erdur, Corinne Skaff
2018 Contact Improvisation Camp – CI Turkey
Skinner Releasing Technique into CI with Eszter Gal
Tact-Teach by Katja Mustonen, Jurij Konjar, Laura Doehler, Defne Erdur
2018 IMPULSTANZ Vienna
Deep Movement Consciousness - Peter Jasko
Release Technique-Enjoying the Laws of Motion - Marta Coronado
Dance Fusion – Dance Yourself to Consciousness - Hagit Yakira
MEDITATION
2023 - 10 Days Vipassana Meditation, Dhamma Kancana, Kancanaburi, Thailand
2023 - Introduction to Buddhism - Tushita Meditation Center, Dharamsala, India
2023 - Amma's I'm Meditation Tecnique, Kerala, India
INITIATIONS
2022 - Munay-Ki Initiation, Peru
2021 - Usui Reiki I - II Initiation, Turkey
CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING
2023 - Tantra Embodiment Teachers Training
Heart of Tantra with Sebastian Valensi - Samyama Retreat Center, Bali (Yoga Alliance RYS 100)
2021 - Tantra Awaken
Introduction to Tantra
Serdar Prem, Intense Online Course
2020 - Yoga Teachers Training Certification
Mindfulness based Movement, Breath, Meditation Training
Advayta Yoga (Zeynep Aksoy 200hrs)
2018 - Deep Tissue Body Therapy and Massage Anatomy Certification
Githa Yoga, İstanbul (Yoga Alliance RYS 300)
WORKSHOPS
2020 Body Attention Workshop with Grindberg Method - Ekin Yaşa
2020 Gaga/dancers Online - Gaga Movement
2020 Shiatsu Practice - Ayşe Meral Cankara
2020 Axis Syllabus – Barış Mıhçı
2020 Contemporary Improvisation – Francisco Camacho
2019 Intensive Contact Improvisation Workshop – Alessandro Ambrosio
2018 Contact Improvisation Workshop – Sasha Dodo & Dolores Dewhurst
2018 Alexander Technique - Ann Rodiger
2018 RAU Workshop (Contemporary Dance) - Korhan Başaran
2018 5 Rhythms Movement Meditation - Alexa Rani Schmid
2017 Skinner Releasing - Olcay Karahan
2017 Experimental Anatomy for Contact Improvisation - Defne Erdur
LONG-TERM CLASSES
2019 - 2021: Funflows Contemporary Improvisation with İdil Kemer
2017 – 2019: Contact Jam Sessions at Çatı
2017 – 2018: Aerial Acrobatics at Çadır with Zeynep Kuyumcu
2014 – 2016: Modern Dance at Aksanat with Alper Marangoz
2012 – 2013: Contact Dance at Milano Il Faro Teatrale
2012 – 2013: Contemporary Dance at Milano CIMD Danza
2010 – 2011: Introduction to Dance at Koç University with Aydın Teker
2008 – 2010: Modern Dance and Contemporary Dance with Aslı Öztürk
2007 – 2008: Modern Dance with Sernaz Demirel
2005 – 2006: Ballet Streching with Ömer İnanç
2003 – 2005: Contemporary Ballet with Murat Kurtulmuş
EDUCATION
2020: Research Program - Dance, Politics and Organized Communities, University of the Underground, AMS
2011 – 2012: MA, Strategic Design, Politecnico di Milano, IT
2005 – 2010: BA, Economics, Koç University, Istanbul, TR
2008 – 2009: Erasmus, Bordeaux Management School, Bordeaux, FR
1998 – 2003: Ballet, Istanbul University State Conservatory, TR Read More
I have facilitated in many retreats and workshops over the years in Turkey and across the world. Traveled to Europe, Peru, India and Asia to expand her knowledge and has integrated new inspirations to her own practice called Move Beyond. I am currently traveling and creating spiritual journeys, workshops and retreats around the world.
Whenever I feel like I'm going through a process where I can't stay centered and I'm burdening myself, the winds of change and transformation of life touch the side of my face. It takes time to realize that I am enveloped in a flow. As my connection with myself weakens, my body starts to give signals and this can sometimes manifest itself as a pain, sometimes as an injury, sometimes as a bump.
To move and bring my focus to my body,
reminds me again of the flow and lets my inner voice whisper.
My movement and body-oriented adventure, which started with my ballet and conservatory education and has been going on for almost 20 years, now continues in different areas of the body, sometimes by dancing, sometimes by turning into a workshop or creating together with people from other disciplines, and sometimes by touching a body for healing.
Although my work in the business world has taken me to completely different fields, initiatives and countries, the inexhaustible urge to move, dance and research about the body has always remained with me. This drive continues to be my greatest motivation, meditation, passion and teacher in life and keeps the fire alive in me.
The curiosity triggered by my passion was the beginning of my realization of my body, my capacity for movement and my inward journey; it was the source of my focus on the body-mind relationship and my awareness path.
On the experience of learning through the body, I hold space for moving awareness workshops that include movement, dance, and ritual that I blend with somatic and meditation practices. I offer individual body therapy sessions that I blend with deep tissue technique, reiki, and munay-ki work that I have been initiated in Peru.
I continue my journey by participating in various retreats, meditation practices and new trainings in nature; sharing individual body therapy sessions and body-oriented workshops designed with my own knowledge with individuals and institutions.
FESTIVALS, INTENSIVES
2023 Bali Spirit Festival - Bali, Indonesia
Yoga, Movement, Dance & Music
2023 Svaram Sonic Experience Curated Programs, Auroville, India
Sound Work, Music Harmony and Voice Facilitation
2023 Kalakeli Movement Arts - One Month Movement Intensive, Goa, India
Yoga, Contemporary Dance, Partnering, Improvisation
Yamuna Devi, Kevin Edward Turner, Navala Chaudhari, Prashant More
2022 Nomadic Dance Collective - One Month Performance Intensive, Sirince Mountain, Turkey
Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Butoh
Kiori Kawai, Maria Concetta Cariello, Adam Koan
2019 Contact Improvisation Camp – CI Turkey
Alexander Technique into CI - Suspending in Action with Matthieu Gaudeau
Tact-Teach by Romain Bigé, Dorte Bjerre Jensen, Defne Erdur, Corinne Skaff
2018 Contact Improvisation Camp – CI Turkey
Skinner Releasing Technique into CI with Eszter Gal
Tact-Teach by Katja Mustonen, Jurij Konjar, Laura Doehler, Defne Erdur
2018 IMPULSTANZ Vienna
Deep Movement Consciousness - Peter Jasko
Release Technique-Enjoying the Laws of Motion - Marta Coronado
Dance Fusion – Dance Yourself to Consciousness - Hagit Yakira
MEDITATION
2023 - 10 Days Vipassana Meditation, Dhamma Kancana, Kancanaburi, Thailand
2023 - Introduction to Buddhism - Tushita Meditation Center, Dharamsala, India
2023 - Amma's I'm Meditation Tecnique, Kerala, India
INITIATIONS
2022 - Munay-Ki Initiation, Peru
2021 - Usui Reiki I - II Initiation, Turkey
CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING
2023 - Tantra Embodiment Teachers Training
Heart of Tantra with Sebastian Valensi - Samyama Retreat Center, Bali (Yoga Alliance RYS 100)
2021 - Tantra Awaken
Introduction to Tantra
Serdar Prem, Intense Online Course
2020 - Yoga Teachers Training Certification
Mindfulness based Movement, Breath, Meditation Training
Advayta Yoga (Zeynep Aksoy 200hrs)
2018 - Deep Tissue Body Therapy and Massage Anatomy Certification
Githa Yoga, İstanbul (Yoga Alliance RYS 300)
WORKSHOPS
2020 Body Attention Workshop with Grindberg Method - Ekin Yaşa
2020 Gaga/dancers Online - Gaga Movement
2020 Shiatsu Practice - Ayşe Meral Cankara
2020 Axis Syllabus – Barış Mıhçı
2020 Contemporary Improvisation – Francisco Camacho
2019 Intensive Contact Improvisation Workshop – Alessandro Ambrosio
2018 Contact Improvisation Workshop – Sasha Dodo & Dolores Dewhurst
2018 Alexander Technique - Ann Rodiger
2018 RAU Workshop (Contemporary Dance) - Korhan Başaran
2018 5 Rhythms Movement Meditation - Alexa Rani Schmid
2017 Skinner Releasing - Olcay Karahan
2017 Experimental Anatomy for Contact Improvisation - Defne Erdur
LONG-TERM CLASSES
2019 - 2021: Funflows Contemporary Improvisation with İdil Kemer
2017 – 2019: Contact Jam Sessions at Çatı
2017 – 2018: Aerial Acrobatics at Çadır with Zeynep Kuyumcu
2014 – 2016: Modern Dance at Aksanat with Alper Marangoz
2012 – 2013: Contact Dance at Milano Il Faro Teatrale
2012 – 2013: Contemporary Dance at Milano CIMD Danza
2010 – 2011: Introduction to Dance at Koç University with Aydın Teker
2008 – 2010: Modern Dance and Contemporary Dance with Aslı Öztürk
2007 – 2008: Modern Dance with Sernaz Demirel
2005 – 2006: Ballet Streching with Ömer İnanç
2003 – 2005: Contemporary Ballet with Murat Kurtulmuş
EDUCATION
2020: Research Program - Dance, Politics and Organized Communities, University of the Underground, AMS
2011 – 2012: MA, Strategic Design, Politecnico di Milano, IT
2005 – 2010: BA, Economics, Koç University, Istanbul, TR
2008 – 2009: Erasmus, Bordeaux Management School, Bordeaux, FR
1998 – 2003: Ballet, Istanbul University State Conservatory, TR Read More