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Every Tuesday evening indoors in London Fields, E8. 

    • Move in conscious dialogue with the environment
    • Develop mindfulness, spontaneity and creativity in movement
    • Release your body from limiting habits
    • Rediscover your child’s innate ability to move 
    • Trust your  instinct more, let the mind take a step back
    • Develop movement vocabulary and expression that fits your physicality and ability
Claire is making a star shape with her right leg standing on the ground and the left at a perpendicular position off the ground. Her mouth is wide open and one of her harm carries dried cow parsley all other. She's standing in the middle of Hackney Marshes at the end of the summer when the grass has turned yellow and dry.
Finding play with dried cow parsleys, September 2019

Movement is awareness

Explore everything that a body can do and how each body has a unique lens they move from. The focus is on ‘movement’ here and not just on dancing which means that the whole range of movement that we use every day is also included.

Unlike other practices combining mindfulness and movement like yoga, tai chi or qigong, there are no set steps or form to follow. The practice is to develop awareness of how you move in adaptation to different environments. We’re always in dialogue with the environment when we move but we’re mostly unaware of this. In this practice, we bring this to awareness. We also bring to awareness the patterns of movement we’re stuck in so that we can make different choices and find new ways of moving.

Eco-conscious embodiment

These classes are taking place indoors so we will interact with objects and the surrounding physical environment to develop ecological awareness and to find new ways to move in the body. (If you’d like to move outdoors with me, sign up to my mailing list or my WhatsApp group to find out when the next outdoor movement sessions is)

Purposefully, music is not used for this class so that we can learn to focus on how we moved without extra stimuli. You will be taught instead to develop your sensory awareness and to move with the environment and the things that are within the environment as if they were your dancing partners. Instead of music, you will discover that sounds, colours, shapes, light, movements, and many others things can guide your movement.

Benefits

Moving meditation classes offer similar benefits to sitting meditation in a much more accessible and fun way! People generally feel more relaxed and connected to their bodies afterwards. It is a great way to develop mindfulness for those who find it hard to do sitting meditation.

What people find the most powerful about this practice is how much it fosters permissiveness within a non-judgmental, safe and supportive environment. It allows them to move in ways that they’ve never experienced before. As there is no right or wrong way to move, everybody can find what suits them.

Who is it for?

The classes are open to all ages and abilities and no previous experience is required. The only thing that is needed for these classes is an open and curious mind and a willingness to explore the unknown.

Please note the venue is on the second floor, accessed by a staircase only and regrettably it is not wheelchair accessible.

What to expect:

    • Explore new and unexpected ways to move your body
    • Respond in movement to simple movement invitations and scores
    • Develop a heightened sense of awareness and presence when moving
    • Move with objects in a creative and mindful way
    • Become more aware of how the environment influences your movement and how you impact the environment
    • Be witnessed and witness others when moving
    • Self-reflect and share in pairs and in groups about your experience
    • Be held in a supportive non-judgemental learning spac