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Tuesday evenings, 6.30 – 8pm

Indoor venue in London Fields

    • Move in conscious dialogue with the environment
    • Develop spontaneous awareness 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

Spontaneous awareness

There are no steps, form, style or technique to learn. The focus is on unlocking our innate ability to be present, spontaneous, and curious by bringing attention to our movement.

By ‘movement,’ it is meant everything your body already does such as habits and every day gestures (so more than just dancing) as well as everything your body has the potential of doing, that is to say what has not yet been explored and is waiting to be discovered. 

We bring awareness to our patterns in movement to find new ways of moving.

Ecological movement

We’re always in dialogue with the environment when we move but we’re mostly unaware of this. In this practice, we bring the ecological dimension of movement into awareness.

The classes are taking place indoors so we will interact with objects and the surrounding physical environment to develop ecological awareness.

I also offer outdoor movement sessions, which focus on how we move in adaptation to different landscapes and throughout the seasons. 

No music

Purposefully, music is not used so that you can learn to move with the environment and what inhabits it as if they were your dancing partners.

You will be invited to develop sensory awareness and discover that sounds, colours, shapes, light, movements among others things can guide your movement.

Benefits

It offers similar benefits to sitting meditation in a much more accessible and fun way. People generally feel more relaxed and connected to their bodies afterwards.

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 is an open 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
    • 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 space