I am a movement artist, embodied researcher, somatic educator and body orientated trauma therapist. I am currently developing and expanding my artistic practice to include performance and short film with an emphasis on Screendance

I work with foundations in Yoga, Buddhist contemplative practice and Somatic Experiencing expanding into Butoh Dance and Amerta Movement.

My work is rooted in a simple proposition: that the body is not separate from the world it inhabits — ecologically, socially, culturally or ancestrally — and that moving with this understanding can open something profound and liberating.

The Practice

My movement practice and teaching draws on a vertical excavation of body memory that is somatic, slow, and imaginal, heavily influenced by Butoh dance, and Amerta Movement developed by the late Javanese movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo, opening the body laterally into ecological relationship, and moving in such a way that attunes, listens to, and becomes part of the relational field of the living world. Together they form the heart of my contemplative movement arts methodology.

Training and Lineage

I continue study with Butoh masters including Atsushi Takenouchi, Yumiko Yoshioka, and Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, and Amerta Movement with teachers in the lineage of Suryodarmo, including Dr. Sandra Reeve and Dr. Diane Butler. I am a trained Somatic Experiencing Practitioner founded by Dr. Peter Levine, and I bring over 25 years of practice and teaching in Yoga and Buddhist meditation to my work..

 I am currently completing a Research Master's in Dance at the University of Plymouth, investigating Butoh and Amerta Movement as embodied ecological methodologies for engaging with trauma, postmemory, and ancestral repair.

This research culminates in a site specific Screendance filmed in Ibiza - my paternal ancestral land.

Who I work with

I work with body based practitioners, artists, therapists, dancers, musicians and curious people drawn to the body as a site of enquiry, expression, repair, and transformation.

A note where I come from

I come from mixed Spanish, English and German-Jewish heritage, a single mother, and a survivor of the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka. These experiences are not separate from my work — they have shaped it into a practice that takes seriously the body's capacity to hold memory, to grieve, to experience joy, and to transform traumatic experience into a fabric of empathy and understanding. A process of finding a way back into relationship with the living world: both human and non-human.