Who is Welcome?
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Who is welcome?
This approach to movement is open to everyone – all ages, abilities, sizes and shapes are welcome (come as you are); it is an inclusive practice that encourages human beings to slow-down, release tension and relax; ease out stiffness; sense and feel in more fullness; re-connect to bodyself and others; and imagine and enact new life possibilities.
While this practice certainly enhances health, it is not based on the reductive idea that health is about physiological fitness alone, or rooted in exterior beauty. Practitioners raise awareness about many aspects of health, including physiological, creative, imaginative and 'communal-connective' health, and the importance of bringing consciousness to kinesthesia and proprioception.
While sharing a little philosophical similarity to yoga, this practice is not based on a series of fixed postures or set exercises, but rather gentle experiential processes that support bodily freedom and improvisational creativity, in turn reducing stress and releasing neuro-muscular tension.
Somatic Movement Dance Education and Therapy is ideal for people who are feeling disengaged from their body and life-energy; are experiencing a loss of creativity and connection to their deeper-self; feel unhappy and uncomfortable in their body; are suffering neuro-muscular tension; have lost confidence; feel stressed at work and lacking life-energy.
This approach to movement is open to everyone – all ages, abilities, sizes and shapes are welcome (come as you are); it is an inclusive practice that encourages human beings to slow-down, release tension and relax; ease out stiffness; sense and feel in more fullness; re-connect to bodyself and others; and imagine and enact new life possibilities.
While this practice certainly enhances health, it is not based on the reductive idea that health is about physiological fitness alone, or rooted in exterior beauty. Practitioners raise awareness about many aspects of health, including physiological, creative, imaginative and 'communal-connective' health, and the importance of bringing consciousness to kinesthesia and proprioception.
While sharing a little philosophical similarity to yoga, this practice is not based on a series of fixed postures or set exercises, but rather gentle experiential processes that support bodily freedom and improvisational creativity, in turn reducing stress and releasing neuro-muscular tension.
Somatic Movement Dance Education and Therapy is ideal for people who are feeling disengaged from their body and life-energy; are experiencing a loss of creativity and connection to their deeper-self; feel unhappy and uncomfortable in their body; are suffering neuro-muscular tension; have lost confidence; feel stressed at work and lacking life-energy.
While sharing a little philosophical similarity to yoga, this practice is not based on a series of fixed postures or set exercises, but rather gentle experiential processes (sometimes structured) that support bodily freedom and improvisational creativity, in turn reducing stress and releasing neuro-muscular tension. This type of movement therapy is ideal for those who want to explore mindful, embodied and easeful approaches to their body-mind health. This sensitive approach to the moving body brings awareness to habituated movement, neuro-muscular tension and patterns of holding, in turn supporting skeletal-muscular release. Somatic approaches to movement are particularly supportive of those experiencing headaches, migraines, work-related stress, neuro-muscular tension, menopause, back and joint pain, and a general feeling of disembodiment and disengagement from their body. The work improves vitality and supports easeful states of being, develops embodied confidence and creative engagement with life journey. Practitioners support clients in cultivating conscious awareness of their moving body; they facilitate gentle, mindful and easeful sensory-perceptual processes, and an imaginative range of empirical investigations rooted in experiential anatomy. This approach enhances self-reflection and thus invites the possibility of change.
