Somatics & Creativity
I offer somatically informed creative workshops, mentoring and research (inter)nationally.
The term Somatics, was first coined in 1970 by educator Thomas Hanna to describe a number of techniques that share an interest in the combination of movement, relaxation and reflective awareness
I emphasise a sensory approach, providing opportunities to attend to the experience of motion, enhancing bodymind connectivity. Exploring improvationally, I combine Skinner Releasing Techniques, somatically informed yoga and Thai yoga massage, Focusing and Contact.
These practices also inform my co-devised Creative Articulations Process (CAP), as developed with my longstanding collaborator Prof Jane Bacon. CAP offers a 'tool-kit' for embodied practitioners, informing and deepening their awareness in/of creative processes.
Workshops are devised in relation to specific themes or purposes to suit the needs of individuals/groups and the context in which we are working. I emphasis the intersection of the personal, critical and kinaesthetic to enhance participants movement and articulation practice whilst fostering artistic sensibility and creative unfoldment.
The term Somatics, was first coined in 1970 by educator Thomas Hanna to describe a number of techniques that share an interest in the combination of movement, relaxation and reflective awareness
I emphasise a sensory approach, providing opportunities to attend to the experience of motion, enhancing bodymind connectivity. Exploring improvationally, I combine Skinner Releasing Techniques, somatically informed yoga and Thai yoga massage, Focusing and Contact.
These practices also inform my co-devised Creative Articulations Process (CAP), as developed with my longstanding collaborator Prof Jane Bacon. CAP offers a 'tool-kit' for embodied practitioners, informing and deepening their awareness in/of creative processes.
Workshops are devised in relation to specific themes or purposes to suit the needs of individuals/groups and the context in which we are working. I emphasis the intersection of the personal, critical and kinaesthetic to enhance participants movement and articulation practice whilst fostering artistic sensibility and creative unfoldment.
