Gabrielle Roth is a musician, author, music director, dancer, philosopher and recording artist in the world music and trance dance genre's, with a special interest in shamanism. Known as the "urban shaman," she is music director of the theatre company The Mirrors, and has been a member of the Actor's Studio. She is the founder of the recording label Raven Recordings. She has been a faculty member of both Kripalu[LINK: http://www.kripalu.org/program/view//RGBP81/] [1] and the Esalen Institute, and offers classes at the Omega Institute, often joined by her son, Jonathan Horan. Her international institute, The Moving Center, oversees the teaching of her work through schools in New York, California, and Europe, and has certified over 250 teachers worldwide. She is currently teaching experimental theater in New York based on The Roth 5Rhythms? and training others to use shamanic methods within artistic, education, and healing contexts.