Somatic Movement and Expressive Arts
At the heart of Somatic Movement and Dance Education is the concept that our body is core to our lived experience. Somatic Movement sessions support you in developing an awareness where you can create new pathways through and within your living body and connective tissue to move through life with awareness, presence and choice.
Our bodies, as our lives, are shaped by movement - from the changing pulse of our hearts, tides of our breath, to the movement of thoughts, feelings, sensations and dreams. In each moment of life we are touched and moved by a myriad of impulses and stimuli, which the body registers and responds to whether we notice or not.
(Tufnell 2009)
One2One sessions in Blackheath.
One 2 one sessions are 1.5 hours long and draw from these key philosophies and methods within Somatic Movement Education.
The intention of a session is to support you in developing presence and awareness so that you can develop connection and self-care.
Operating from an open framework
• Heart centered and non judgmental communication
• Developing an inner witness
• Developing an ability to come from heart presence
• Bringing attention (body self) and intention (care for body self)
• Cultivating presence and lived now moment
Exploring through movement
• Recognising habitual patterns of perceptual, postural and interaction with ourselves and our environment
• Refining perceptual, kinesthetic, proprioceptive and interoceptive sensitivity and listening
• Methods - Guided somatic meditations, body scans, experiential anatomy and active imagination, Authentic Movement, Continuum
Re-patterning of movement - transformation
• Discovering new ways of moving - for example, core periphery, spatial awareness, micro movements
• Finding new relationships to our body - our structure, form, fluidity, heart, breath - through sensory explorations
• Creating new meaning for ourselves - through our movement, image making, writing and dialogue
• Discovering new ways to engage with other and environment
Connectivity and support
• Deeply sensed connection with body (self, other and earth)
• Belonging as opposed to isolation and fragmentation
• Breath - as source of movement, expression, connection to earth
• Heart and fluid systems - connection to own rhythm and flow
• Muscular and skeletal system - structure, definition, space
• Gravity, weight and space - support, resting into
• Coming into biological temporality - slowing down
Silent level of being
• Dropping out of realm of language
• Allowing deep rest and potency
• Living connection with the sacred
• Present within the continuum of cellular and cosmic awareness - non-local awareness
Internalizing authority - a foundation of self-care
• Finding balance between subjective and objective. No longer operating from imposed ideas and ideas of health and well being.
• Creating a foundation for self-care
• Reclaiming self-education
• Self-reflection and self-realisation
