Marianna Sfyridi is an XR and Ed Tech specialist, healthcare practitioner (Pharmacist), professional dancer, and choreographer. As an active Capoeira instructor, she integrates Capoeira and dance to empower vulnerable communities. Having spent several years studying various aspects of dance, somatic practices, and neuroscience, she embraces dance as a lifestyle energized through spatial, temporal, and emotional intelligence.

Her global travels inspire an exploration of the relationship between public space and the dancer, fostering connections with live musicians through improvisation, and expanding the reasons for our need for movement. Healing practices from various cultures, rooted in Greek tradition, are essential to this exploration. At the heart of her practice are percussion drumming and rhythms, painting, and creative writing, which have been her companions through the writing group Ringing Pockets.Through political dance, she captures contemporary expression, seeking new interactions with public spaces. Her practice Circadian Bodies explores spontaneous movement in diverse natural or urban settings, uniting artists across disciplines such as music, dance, architecture, and poetry. Central to her work is the belief that time is fluid and bodies convey powerful political narratives through movement.

On her free time, she likes to bake and share desserts with sweet people, explore nudist beaches in the south of Greece and get lost in mushroom forests anywhere in the world.

The driving force behind Circadian Bodies practice is Movement for all generations and fields. The class specializes in authentic movement borrowing elements from Capoeira, Dance and Grounding methods. The content and complexity of the exercises vary among kids, teenagers and adult movers so it is open to all levels and even families. They all get a chance to develop a technique along with their improvisational skills that are science based from various fields of work in healthcare and arts. In particular, the class routine combines conscious movement in connection to the earth, while it stays in close touch with the needs of each person’s body. In the curriculum, apart from the movement material, I have incorporated elements of music therapy and the use of clapping from Capoeira. It is Ideal for those who want to move more consciously and release stress and unnecessary tension.