MOVING INTO CONNECTION, AUTHENTICITY AND CREATIVITY

Contemplative Movement arts WITH NATURE

Work with Gemma

  • tRAININGS & rETREATS

    Trauma informed somatic explorations into movement, contemplative arts, yoga & inner dance in the UK (Devon) and Ibiza

  • Somatic eXPERIENCING thERAPY

    I offer 1:1 Trauma Healing Sessions

    Somatic Experiencing is body orientated trauma therapy, a system created by

    Dr. Peter Levine PhD

  • RESEARCH MASTER'S IN DANCE

    Research Master’s in Dance (Somatics & Butoh)


“Without changing the somatic system- the underlying neurochemical platform - any change in behaviour is simply overriding through force of will”.

KATHY KAIN

Somatics brings awareness to our living body in movement and how this moving body relates to self, others, and the world beyond

“Primordial Feelings provide a direct experience of one’s own living body, wordless, unadorned, and connected to nothing but sheer existence. These primordial feelings reflect the current state of the body along varied dimensions… along the scale that ranges from pleasure to pain, and they originate at the level of the brain stem rather than the cerebral cortex. All feelings of emotion are complex musical variations on primordial feelings”

ANTONIO DAMASIO, THE FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS

“The study of movement is not about words. It is a direct transmission of life. However when words arise out of the subterranean field of aware movement, another knowing is realised”.

BONNIE BAINBRIDGE COHEN

FOUNDER OF BODY MIND CENTERING

Doorways through unknown, vast landscapes that reach back through swathes of time

My body is here now, my body is millions of years old, my body is not my body

My body is a fish, my body is my grandmother, my body is the sea, my body is the rock, my body is a fragrant flower

My body is the history of my ancestors moving, my body is their music, my body is our grief, my body is my child’s survival, my body is our joy, my body is an unknown tiny baby, floating, unborn….