I work with all kinds of people of all ages and abilities who are exploring movement as fundamental and integral to health, as well as people suffering with back pain, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, menopause, addiction and stress. To Book a one-on-one or group session, please email: amanda@ movingsoma.co.uk

​'Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy supports clients to self-regulate through sensitive creative frameworks rooted in self-regulation and co-regulation.  Practice supports clients to:

•  Reconnect to their sensory-motor feedback loop, through interoception, proprioception, graviception - afferent sensing and efferent motor expression 
• Develop sensory-perceptual movement awareness 
• Sense-perceive their respiratory and cardio-vascular system 
• Sense-perceive  and integrate exteroception, graviception, interoception and proprioception
• Sense-perceive and self-regulate their joint system, integrating their synovial, cartilaginous and fibrous joint system  
• Develop awareness of gravity, ground, weight, mass and space
• Develop awareness of fascial fluidity and easeful movement through soft-tissue rolling and relational touch 
• Develop awareness of the cranio-sacral system and spinal mobility
• Reconnect to their spirit, imagination and the imagination-in-movement
• Sense-perceive afferent sensation and become consciously aware of efferent motor expression
• Learn how to move from sympathetic arousal to parasympathetic release
• Sense-perceive their heart and develop moment-by-moment breath awareness
• Repattern neuromuscular tension through movement and relational touch
• Become aware of  neuromuscular holding and learn how to ease pain through self-regulatory sensing - listening to the intelligence of living tissues 
• Learn how to reduce pain through vagus nerve innervation, fascial release, breath, sound, heart, gravity and soft-tissue rolling
• Develop awareness of the healing nature of gravity and how to self-regulate the nervous system through gravitational play and interoception 

International Scope of Practice: 
The purpose of Somatic Movement Education & Therapy is to enhance human function and body-mind integration through movement awareness. Somatic Movement Education & Therapy helps clients to:
·         Focus on the body both as an objective physical process and as a subjective
process of lived consciousness
·         Refine perceptual, kinesthetic, proprioceptive, and interoceptive sensitivity that supports homeostasis, co-regulation, and neuroplasticity
·         Recognize habitual patterns of perceptual, postural and movement interaction with the environment
·         Improve movement coordination that supports structural, functional and expressive integration
·         Experience an embodied sense of vitality and create both meaning for and enjoyment of life

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See our Making space for the body’s lived and sensed experience: holistic movement therapy
The human body’s life-journey, stories, narratives, life-energy, sensations, feelings, perceptions, suffering and transformational potential is one of the most undervalued sites of healing, agency and self-discovery in the Western World. The body and earth sustains our life (body-earth is the ground of our being – of our consciousness, feelings, perceptions, thoughts, imagination, language and actions), and yet, both bare the socio-economic and historic wound of being demoted to a machine and commodity. The profession of Somatic Movement Dance Education & Therapy grew in response to the dualistic and disembodied enculturation of our bodies and earth in Western societies. Rather than perceiving the body as a machine or commodity, therapists support clients in experiencing the body as a living adaptive organism – full of vitality, imagination, agency and self-regulatory intelligence. They recognise the living body as central to life-journey. 
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