The Centre for Embodiment and Somatic Movement Dance Education & Therapy |
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Dr Amanda Williamson
Welcome
Welcome to 'The Centre for Embodiment and Somatic Movement Dance Education & Therapy'. We provide 'Somatic Movement Education & Therapy' for individuals and community groups, professional training programmes in somatic movement dance therapy, and international conferences and health symposiums. Somatic Movement Education & Therapy is rooted in experiential anatomy and physiology, free-movement, self-awareness and self-regulation. This approach to embodied therapy supports those experiencing work related stress, anxiety, depression, neuro-muscular tension, back pain and fatigue.
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.
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, professional training programmes in somatic movement dance therapy, and international conferences and health symposiums. Somatic Movement Education & Therapy is rooted in experiential anatomy and physiology, free-movement, self-awareness and self-regulation. This approach to embodied therapy supports those experiencing work related stress, anxiety, depression, neuro-muscular tension, back pain and fatigue.
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.
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
Somatic Movement Education
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Therapy Sessions
with
Amanda Williamson
Conferences, Health symposiums
&
International Courses
Total Surround Sound Meditation with
Sarah Bolton-Locke
Sarah Bolton-Locke
Rent Our Space
Bio-somatic Dance Therapy©: Registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist
Prospectus 2019/2021
Rachel Anderson
★★★★★ a day ago
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.
★★★★★ a day ago
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.
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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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