we’re obsessed with making the world’s best dance floors

Not the biggest. Or the trendiest.

We’re obsessed with the dance floors people remember for the rest of their lives — the ones where everyone stops pretending, starts participating, trusts the music enough to let it change them, and leaves more alive than when they arrived.

Everything we teach — from beat matching and phrasing to storytelling, nervous system literacy, leadership and facilitation — serves that mission.

Great dance floors don't happen by accident.

They're crafted. Practiced. And led by DJs who understand the real power of what they do.

Hi, i’m tasha blank.

I'm a DJ, educator, founder and lead teacher of PhDJ.

By 2020, I'd spent nearly a decade creating some of New York City's most beloved dance floors. Every other week, hundreds of people gathered to sweat, celebrate, fall apart, fall in love and remember what it feels like to be fully alive.

I knew something special was happening.

Week after week, strangers dropped their inhibitions, became more themselves - and somehow, at the same time, became something bigger than themselves together.

But I couldn't explain why, and that question stayed with me for years.

Then the pandemic happened. We lost our dance floors, and I found myself leading hundreds of virtual dances from my laptop. Without a crowd I could feel - just hundreds of little zoom squares! - I had to become conscious of the instincts I'd been relying on for years.

I started taking notes on my music, facilitation, transitions, timing and every decision that shaped the dancer’s experience.

What emerged wasn't just a handful of techniques.

It was a method, a map, and a cohesive set of principles hiding under years of intuition.

I realized the choices I'd been making instinctively for years could be named, practiced, and taught.

That's how PhDJ was born.

Today, these ideas continue to evolve every time I step behind the decks. PhDJ isn't just theory—it's a living practice that's tested, refined and taught on dance floors every week.

Because great DJs aren't just playing good tunes.

They’re shifting human physiology.

how we teach

The PhDJ leadership team brings you a full-spectrum, multi-disciplinary training that transforms how you show up in the world and on the decks.

We teach technical mastery and artistic intuition side by side. You'll learn beat matching, phrasing, library management and transitions alongside storytelling, nervous system literacy, leadership, and the psychology of the dance floor.

Our goal isn't to create DJs who sound like us.

It's to help each student become unmistakably themselves.

  • Tasha Blank

    Tasha Blank is a celebrated international DJ, somatic practitioner, teacher, innovator and founder of The Get Down, The Drop, Body Language and PhDJ.

    A student of somatic healing, shadow work, story and ceremony, her nervous system-based approach to transformation through movement is a wild invitation into your most powerful expression. Her method, Body Language, is the foundation for all herclasses, parties, workshops, retreats and training programs.

    She’s known for liberating hips in New York City’s most legendary clubs, the world’s wildest festivals, as well as museums, churches, helipads, boats, roving desert ships, forests and mountaintops.

    Listen to hundreds of hours of her music here.

  • Shoshana Kuttner

    Shoshana Kuttner (DJ Shoshi) is founder of the non-profit Young Actors Project, and has been training students and teachers in all aspects of the performing arts for over twenty years. As DJ Shoshi, she sparks sound systems of transformation with boogie down bass, hypnotic rhythms and heart-opening melodies.

    Shoshi is a dance floor mama, inviting your most human parts out to play. Since 2022, she has been guiding DJs through PhDJ, while leading workshops in Movement, Voice & Improv, all around the globe.

    She’s played Le Klub (Paris), Ecstatic Dance LA (Venice Beach), Boom Festival (Portugal), and SoulShine at Sea w/ Michael Franti.

    Groove to her mixes here.

  • Nico Allen

    Nico Allen is a 5Rhythms teacher, trained actor, vocal artist, and somatic explorer who helps people unleash the power hidden in their cells. 

    Nico teaches us that through play, curiosity, and discovery, we can ask the body to show us where to go to access our most radical, fully expressed aliveness and wake up to the full spectrum brilliance inside us.

    Based in Brooklyn, Nico offers one-on-one somatic work and leads the epic 5Rhythms series BODYWERK, redefining just how liberating and healing a dance floor can be. 

    He will be co-facilitating our 2026 PhDJ Immersion to bring a new level of embodiment to our work.

  • Jess here

    Jess Here is a dancing DJ based in New York City by way of Kampala and Aotearoa. Raised across three continents and trained at The Ailey School, her work is rooted in diasporic rhythm and the commitment to return movement to the people.

    Dancing in the lineages of Alvin Ailey and Germaine Acogny, Jess is a braider of culture and pirate of genres featuring Afro, House & Vogue. 

    As a DJ and event producer she serves a supermarket of embodied experiences and ritual gatherings including The Get Together, Triple D’s and Our Bodies Dance — where we rodeo in the undercurrent, traverse somatic and brain-tal crevices, and return to sensation together.

    Listen to her mixes on SoundCloud here.

  • Elizabeth Nolan

    Math teacher turned DJ, Elizabeth has spent over a decade nurturing students to find their genius and get intimate with the light they bring to the world.

    As a DJ, she produces wildly delicious parties around the San Francisco Bay Area and internationally, including leading the local chapter of Support Women DJs, where she coaches new DJs and platforms upcoming femme artists.

    Infused with lyrical feminine energy, electrifying melodies and dirty basslines, her sets call dancers to unravel the knots in their spirit, get down with their power and unlock the freedom their bodies were born for.

    Listen to her mixes on soundcloud here.

  • ZIAD saab

    Ziad is the tech support lead for our wider PhDJ and DJ Essentials Communities. A graduate of PhDJ who’s been working in tech for 20 years, he’s here to help you feel at ease — even when things get tricky.

    He’s available for tech support in French, English, and Spanish, and here to make sure the start of your DJ journey is smooth and fun.

  • Yuri Chu Su

    Yuri comes from Chinese decent, was born in Peru, raised in Canada and now travels the world as a digital nomad. A former CPA (Chartered Professional Accountant), PhDJ magically entered her life once she acknowledged music had always been her first love.

    Now she serves entrepreneurs as an Online Business Manager where she turns chaos into organization, inefficiencies into kick ass systems, and loves to bring visions to life. As a PhDJ graduate and PhDJ’s BTS whiz, Yuri mixes her supercomputer genius with her deep love of music to support all the magic, medicine, and transformation created.

    You can catch her travel and music adventures on IG @yurichusu.

guest teachers

  • Jessica Blank

    Writer, director, actor, speaker, master storyteller, Juliard professor and changemaker.

    Her work as a playwright, screenwriter, director, filmmaker, actor, author, documentarian, and TV writer has taken her from the mountains of Appalachia to refugee neighborhoods in Amman; studio lots in Los Angeles to military hospitals in San Antonio; Off-Broadway rehearsal rooms to policymakers’ marble offices. She’s worked with TV producers, NGO founders, movie stars, thought leaders and filmmakers; in the New York theater, in Hollywood, at Juilliard, and in universities across the country.

  • Orpheus Black

    Author, coach, martial arts guru and afro-buddhist teacher of Zen & the Art of BDSM

    Orpheus is a Los Angeles-based somatic visionary who specializes in the application of ancient wisdom in modern day settings. With a helpful practice steeped in spirituality and intimacy, Orpheus is a living bridge between healthy sex and spiritual awareness. Through a balanced integration of Afro-Buddhism, psycho-sensuality, and Taoist teachings popularized by the martial arts, his light-hearted lessons in self, shadow, kink, dominance and submission are sought after internationally.

  • Lexx

    LEXX whips the finest cross-genre tracks into sets that sweat and reset. Their dance floor is a sexy space where gender gets bent and all beings are held in love. A space where you can dance freely to meet your struggle and release it all.

    You can find LEXX on the decks in the UK and beyond, in clubs, festivals, cafés, bars, and conscious dance spaces. Expect the finest house of all flavours, afrobeat and amapiano, reggaeton and latinx tracks, drum n bass, and more.

    LEXX is the creator and master DJ of sell-out event Soft Butch, a night celebrating all butchness, for women, Non Binary and Trans people to dance freely together that gathers crowds of over 400 people on the regular.

    Listen to their soundcloud here.

  • Michael V

    DJ Michael V is the creator, producer and headlining DJ for Primal Disco and Medicine Disco, PHAT House, No Place Like House, and is the co-creator of The Audacity!

    Since his debut at House of Yes in Brooklyn, he’s been serving New York City and the greater New York area regularly in addition to Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Miami, UK and Paris.

    Michael’s events have been called the most diverse and safest dance floors with a fresh culture of authenticity and irreverence.

    His sets blend house, disco, funk and organic music to create environments that get people screaming, sweating, laughing, shaking, and breaking (the rules that keep you from going wild).

    Listen to his soundcloud here.

  • Mackenzie Amara

    Mackenzie is a writer, researcher, consultant, & 5Rhythms® teacher. By vocation she is a Jungian analyst-in-training & Clinical Psychology doctoral student. By design she is a collection of fractal, holographic cells dancing around some strange attractor for the sake of who knows what to live an insignificant, mythic life reflective of the mysterious vital spark within her.

    Her life’s work is to heal psychic wounds—her’s & other’s—that she & others become strong enough to contend with the unconscious quicksands & transpersonal abysses which lap at the periphery of developing consciousness. She is an emergent property of Being playing at becoming sovereign.

  • More tba

    We’re making the final tweaks on our upcoming program. Stay tuned!

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