NVC Movement and Dance
The way we move and dance together influences the way we connect, feel and communicate in our lives.
Authenticity comes when your body, mind, and soul are singing the same song.
Bring awareness to the way you dance with life
I include dances of connection – authentic movement and the dance of life into some NVC trainings and well-being events.
It is important to understand that dance isn’t the primary focus of my work; rather, it serves as a medium that aids us in reconnecting with ourselves and others.
Your body is an essential aspect of who you are and how you show up in the world.
In our busy lives, we can become cut off from feeling the fullness of life.
Movement and dance have the power to restore your natural instinct for care, contact, creativity and play. Scientifically, dancing is proven to boost happiness, it releases mood-lifting dopamine and endorphins and lowers stress hormones like cortisol – promoting relaxation.
Dance heightens emotional intelligence
While some people love to dance, others might feel embarrassed, saying things like “I can’t dance, I have no rhythm.” Interestingly, both groups often feel the benefits of Conscious Dance. There are no specific steps to learn or a right or wrong way to do it. We move to diverse world music, exploring various tempos and rhythms.
I utilize Laban efforts and Toro aspects to enrich our movement vocabulary. You will be invited to connect with qualities of empowerment and sensitivity through dialogue dances and generative postures and to explore, your relationship with space, balance, flow, strength, lightness, activity, contact and stillness. Centring and grounding yourself, for effective nervous system regulation.
Movement mediation
Through involvement in movement and conscious dance, you’ll nurture mindful presence with your inner witness and connection with others, developing a kinaesthetic language that intertwines movement with your life experience. This heightened awareness can open you up to more choice about how you respond to the present instead of reacting to past conditioning. It supports a life well lived through all senses, embodied experience and empathic presence.
Connecting with your body’s natural sensing system offers an opportunity for your mind, body, and soul to synch!
‘There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.’
Friedrich Nietzche
Embodiment
Embodiment is not something you think about, it needs to be experienced and practiced.
To be embodied, is to feel more connected to yourself, to nature and to others, to breathe, move, dance, express and sing; to be still and kind to yourself
It’s about feeling comfortable in your own skin.
Embodiment is about tuning into ourselves, with somatic awareness and a curiosity about the way the body moves and the language it speaks – becoming the witness, increasing presence and authentic relating.
My embodiment journey began decades ago, through deep engagement with a range of practices including Yoga, NLP, NVC, Reiki, Mindfulness, Laban Bartenieff, and Feldenkrais movement work.
Over the years, I worked with both children and adults, offering movement as a way to support meaningful engagement with HighScope learning experiences.
Personally, I dance Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms, Open Floor, and Chakra Dance, and I am a qualified facilitator of the therapeutic dance system Biodanza (also known as the dance of life)
In 2020, during the Covid-19 lockdown, I co-founded the Dance Connection system with Julia Hope Brightwell. Julia has continued to evolve the system and now leads the Wessex teacher training school and classes in Bridport, UK.
I also practice the Discipline of Authentic Movement, developed by Janet Adler and inspired by the pioneering work of Mary Starks Whitehouse and work under the supervision of Dr Helen Payne.
You can attend an Intermediate NVC training movement and Dance session.
Meet me at a residential event at a beautiful location, more details here.
Work with me in a one to one coaching relationship for greater mind body integration.
Join an online series of NVC movement and dance sessions here
Speak to me about 1 2 1 and group Authentic Movement sessions here
Every body is welcome.
Come home to the body!
‘It helped me to find a very powerful side and my very soft side. In the dance, you cannot hide. Everything is shown up. I liked it very much’
Vera, Austria
