About Renate Markle

Renate Markle is a somatic facilitator specializing in breathwork, Belly Dance as a Moving Meditation™, and somatic embodiment — practices she weaves together to help people find presence, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect with their bodies. She is the founder of Mystic Movement LLC, where these three pillars form the heart of her work, alongside Reiki, Sound Healing Meditations, and other vibrational offerings.

Breathwork is central to Renate's practice. She is a Certified Functional Breathwork Practitioner and Conscious Connected Somatic Breathwork Practitioner, trained through Jamie Janko of Rewild Breathwork, and guides breathwork journeys that use the breath as a direct path into the nervous system — releasing what's stored in the body and opening space for presence, clarity, and emotional release.

Dance has been part of Renate's life since she could walk, and she has taught and performed throughout the United States for over 30 years. Her practice transformed when a back injury led her to dance as a moving meditation — a healing path that strengthened her body, mind, and spirit, and became the foundation of her Belly Dance as a Moving Meditation™ program. Blending modern tribal elemental fusion with a meditative approach, the practice turns dance into a somatic tool: a way to process, release, and return home to the body rather than a performance to master.

Underlying both is Renate's broader commitment to somatic embodiment — the belief that lasting transformation happens through the body, not just the mind. Breath, movement, and voice each become doorways into the nervous system, and Renate guides students and clients through all three to deepen their sense of safety, presence, and connection to themselves.

Renate is also a Certified Sound Healer through Jonathan Goldman's Sound Healing Association and is Reiki II certified, and draws on aromatherapy, color therapy, and music as additional forms of vibrational connection, weaving them into her sound healing and moving meditation offerings. She studied sitar in a Kali Durga temple in Varanasi, India, and classical opera in New York, and continues to deepen her craft through ongoing dance studies with Tiare Valouria. She is currently completing yoga teacher training and meditation teacher training.

Death doula work has also been part of Renate's path — being present with others at the end of life. This closeness to life's transitions has deepened her reverence for life and shapes the presence she brings to her practice: a capacity to hold both profound joy and profound grief with steadiness and care, and a reverence that fuels an ongoing zest for life and an insatiable yearning to keep learning, growing, and embracing every experience life has to offer.

Beyond her facilitation work, Renate is a performance artist, musician, and fire spinner, performing with Rensa Fire and teaching fire performance and fire safety for over 20 years. She has performed with Rensa Fire, Beyond Fire Tribe, Mystic Melange, Dragons Fire Theater, Illumination Fire Troupe, Trancendance, Om Bolo, and My Tea Kind, among many others, at festivals and gatherings across the country, including Hot Summer Nights in Nevada City, CA; the Burning Man conclave in Black Rock City, NV; the Heartland Pagan Gathering in Kansas, MO; PSG and the Wisteria Summer Solstice Festival in Pomeroy, OH; Earth House Festival in Blue River, WI; Moonspirit in Minnesota; the Ann Arbor Art Fair in Ann Arbor, MI; and a long run of Harmony Park and Twin Cities gatherings — Project Earth Festival, Harvest Fest, ShangriLa Festival, CampFire Flow Arts Festival, May Day Festival, Sacred Harvest Festival, Earth Day Festival, Brigid Festival, Barebones, The Arrival, the International Film Festival, and the Sisters Camelot Halloween Bash — along with the Dr. Masaru Emoto International Water Conference in Hopkins, MN, to name a few.