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Welcome
Welcome to 'The Centre for Embodiment and Somatic Movement Dance Education & Therapy'. We provide Somatic Movement Education & Therapy for individuals and community groups; specialised retreats for dancers and non-dancers; professional training programmes in Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Naturopathy & Therapy; and international conferences and health symposiums. Somatic Movement Education & Therapy is rooted in experiential anatomy and physiology, free-movement, self-awareness, self-regulation and neuroplasticity. This approach to embodied therapy supports those experiencing work related stress, anxiety, depression, neuro-muscular tension, back pain and fatigue.
We also offer our professionial training programme, ‘Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Naturopathy & Therapy ©: Registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist’, throughout the UK, bringing education to people on low budgets, with family and work commitments.
The centre is dedicated to facilitating processes of bodily agency within institutional pressures and dominant cultural values that create anxiety and disembodiment. I presently offer work within the age range of 23 to 78. All abilities and ages are therefore welcome; each person is invited to explore at their own pace and within their own expressive movement range. Most processes involve closing the eyes; this work is private, rather than exposing, and without external pressures of being judged through normative cultural values. This approach to movement and embodied health can be particularly efficacious for those new to self-regulatory agency, somatic movement and reflection, sensed and lived anatomy, and the parasympathetic.
International Scope of Practice
The purpose of Somatic Movement Education & Therapy is to enhance human function and body-mind integration through movement awareness. Professional practice combines experiential anatomy, sound, breath, touch and imagery to bring awareness to the self-regulatory intelligence of the body. Somatic movement practitioners work sensitively and gently with the human body, acknowledging that movement affects dimensions of psyche and spirit as well. As a result, practice facilitates improved vitality, creativity, easeful movement functioning, and a restful embodied experience. The profession, as represented by ‘International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA)’ helps students and clients in some way to:
Welcome to 'The Centre for Embodiment and Somatic Movement Dance Education & Therapy'. We provide Somatic Movement Education & Therapy for individuals and community groups; specialised retreats for dancers and non-dancers; professional training programmes in Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Naturopathy & Therapy; and international conferences and health symposiums. Somatic Movement Education & Therapy is rooted in experiential anatomy and physiology, free-movement, self-awareness, self-regulation and neuroplasticity. This approach to embodied therapy supports those experiencing work related stress, anxiety, depression, neuro-muscular tension, back pain and fatigue.
We also offer our professionial training programme, ‘Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Naturopathy & Therapy ©: Registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist’, throughout the UK, bringing education to people on low budgets, with family and work commitments.
The centre is dedicated to facilitating processes of bodily agency within institutional pressures and dominant cultural values that create anxiety and disembodiment. I presently offer work within the age range of 23 to 78. All abilities and ages are therefore welcome; each person is invited to explore at their own pace and within their own expressive movement range. Most processes involve closing the eyes; this work is private, rather than exposing, and without external pressures of being judged through normative cultural values. This approach to movement and embodied health can be particularly efficacious for those new to self-regulatory agency, somatic movement and reflection, sensed and lived anatomy, and the parasympathetic.
International Scope of Practice
The purpose of Somatic Movement Education & Therapy is to enhance human function and body-mind integration through movement awareness. Professional practice combines experiential anatomy, sound, breath, touch and imagery to bring awareness to the self-regulatory intelligence of the body. Somatic movement practitioners work sensitively and gently with the human body, acknowledging that movement affects dimensions of psyche and spirit as well. As a result, practice facilitates improved vitality, creativity, easeful movement functioning, and a restful embodied experience. The profession, as represented by ‘International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA)’ helps students and clients in some way to:
- 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
- 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
Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Naturotherapy ©: Registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist Prospectus 2019/2021
Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Naturopathy & Therapy
Individual & Group Sessions for Clients
Conferences, Health symposiums
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International Courses
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Rachel Anderson
★★★★★
I visit Amanda at Moving Soma every Saturday for a private one to one session. Over the weeks we have tried all different forms of movement, therapy and meditation together, all of which are proving invaluable to my recovery/rehabilitation.
Last weekend we tried some cranial sacral movement therapy - I have been blown away by the results as not only have I been pain free in my back - which is unheard of! I set about a project to replace my turf in my garden which involved a lot of strenuous activity and I have suffered no aches or pains whatsoever in my back as a result.. I am absolutely amazed by how I have felt this week thanks to this treatment. Would highly recommend.
★★★★★
I visit Amanda at Moving Soma every Saturday for a private one to one session. Over the weeks we have tried all different forms of movement, therapy and meditation together, all of which are proving invaluable to my recovery/rehabilitation.
Last weekend we tried some cranial sacral movement therapy - I have been blown away by the results as not only have I been pain free in my back - which is unheard of! I set about a project to replace my turf in my garden which involved a lot of strenuous activity and I have suffered no aches or pains whatsoever in my back as a result.. I am absolutely amazed by how I have felt this week thanks to this treatment. Would highly recommend.
Arran Stibbe
★★★★★
2 months ago-
Dr Amanda Williamson is one of the top international scholars and practitioners of somatic movement education. It’s fantastic that she has opened a studio here in Cheltenham. The studio itself is an oasis of tranquillity, a perfect environment for a harmonious blend of relaxation and movement that is surprisingly rejuvenating and healing. As well as individual and group sessions, the Centre offers a superb professional accreditation course in bio-somatic education. I highly recommend everything about Moving Soma.
★★★★★
2 months ago-
Dr Amanda Williamson is one of the top international scholars and practitioners of somatic movement education. It’s fantastic that she has opened a studio here in Cheltenham. The studio itself is an oasis of tranquillity, a perfect environment for a harmonious blend of relaxation and movement that is surprisingly rejuvenating and healing. As well as individual and group sessions, the Centre offers a superb professional accreditation course in bio-somatic education. I highly recommend everything about Moving Soma.
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GROWING THE FIELD OF SOMATIC MOVEMENT EDUCATION AND THERAPY
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Contact InformationPhone: 01242 700010 / 07957458219
Email: amanda@movingsoma.co.uk Address: 307 - 309 Normandy House, High Street Cheltenham, GL50 3HW Hours of Operationopen 7 days a week
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