As a founding member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Nora Heiber danced for the company for twelve years after which she served as a Board Trustee for ten years. She was a part of the teaching staff for the LINES BFA Program at Dominican University of California and Training Program, offering a workshop entitled “Creating a Life of Dance,” in which she strived to bestow students with tools such as proactive problem-solving, confidence-building, and energy management for the purpose of enjoying a thriving professional career. Heiber also joined the faculty of Nevada City’s Holt Ballet Conservatory. Heiber is also one of the founding members of San Francisco GYROTONIC® where she has taught GYROTONIC® methodology since 1988. As a Master Trainer, Heiber has provided training to many GYROTONIC® trainers who currently teach all over the world.
Nora Heiber is also a Certified Mediator in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). She and her husband Cliff hold an ongoing partnership with CNVC Certified Trainer, Facilitator, and Mediator Aya Caspi that includes several collaborative online and in-person workshops. In addition to NVC, Heiber and Cliff have hosted a variety of workshops and personal retreats on their twenty acre property, including Permaculture Design, Nutrition, Dance, GYROTONIC®, and Yoga. They are dedicated to creating a peaceful environment that is in accordance with nature for the support of life-affirming trainings and activities.
For the past 35 years, Heiber has intuitively searched for a way to combine compassion and kindness with power and influence as a way of creating a non-adversarial approach to negotiating collective bargaining agreements on behalf of dancers, choristers, solo singers, and production staff of the opera and ballet in her work as the Western Executive for the American Guild of Musical Artists. In addition, Heiber integrated her growing knowledge of NVC while counseling pre-professional dancers and working with clients as a Master Trainer of the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM®®. Currently, Heiber is offering her mediation services as part of a court program through the Conflict Resolution Center of Nevada County.
To learn more about Heiber’s work in Nonviolent Communication, visit reclaiminglifenvc.com.