SUMMER 5RHYTHMS RETREAT🌺
Dear Dancers,
We gather at the peak of the summer season to explore this theme together through movement, creative exploration and relational enquiry; the fullness, the everything that I am together with the everything that you are, and the field this creates.
To me, it feels like the practice of a lifetime to continue to shed layers of survival creative adjustments that have built up over lineages. I’d like to emphasise that I carry much respect for the masks I carry and have carried and acknowledge their, at times, necessity. It’s just that often, in my experience, they have hindered my ability to see things clearly and to meet myself, others, and the world, wholeheartedly, as I am.
We will be an intimate number of up to 12 participants (including the team), and we will be paying particular attention to meeting the truth and fullness of who we are and how we be, moment to moment, personally, relationally, collectively.
The retreat will be held on beautiful community land in Cumbria, Kin Hill, where there is old growth forest, a lake and extensive views of the Lake District and Pennines. Wholesome, hearty food included. There will be space around the dance for evening outdoor fire, sauna, lake swims, and a sound bath on the Saturday evening.
For more info on the event check out the Events section on my website ✨🌞✨ link in bio ✌🏼
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Ineffable .
I’m recently reminded of this word; ineffable.
Beyond words .
Sometimes I come into contact with ineffable sensations, feelings , thoughts , states of being ..
I often practice resisting the urge to formulate words to this before I’ve become more intimate with the ineffable.
I use this medium to support a bearing witness to the ineffable in the hope to ripple something out there that may tickle some inspiration to come into intimacy with your own flavour of ineffable.
Many of you know I facilitate a holding space for you , for us , to come into intimacy with the voice that lies just under the surface of things , from deep within the well of our soma supporting a becoming of sorts, an unraveling journey.
And so this is also a note I sprinkle into the wider web in letting those of you who feel called know that I’m here should you wish to work, to practice together.
In person or online
(Website contact details on bio link)🙏🏼
I’m grateful and enjoying this process of sharing more of what enlivens my being with and in the world .
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#somatics #remembering #voice #holisticvoice #bastsoundtherapy
A note of Gratitude and Love.
It’ll soon be my 33rd year round the sun.
And for about most of my life in fact I’ve taken to this primal most innate pull to dance, to move.
I’m thinking of Gabrielle Roth speaking of the elders saying, “When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing ? When did you stop being enchanted by stories ? When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence ?”
It often feels to me like something else is possible in this space.
The spirit of my dear mum whispers in the wind, the chuckle of the fairies flits through the rustle of the tree leaves , the wailing of the women in my lineage swirls oceans in my womb and carries my hips in circular motion , the grandfathers and grandmothers leave their imprints in the palms of my hands , the waters leave their mark on my cheeks, and all the fires of all who gathered round through the ages runs deep in the soles of my feet touching earth pounding heart beat rhythm carving out my destiny , carrying me forward .
And so I say
A note of Gratitude , a note of Love for this precious life
And the dance that never ends .
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The in between of a new cycle .
I find myself , often, in contemplation with the ‘being seen’ on these platforms.
What is it I stand for? What is the voice I wish to water, to seed, to birth ? What is it I’m offering? How do I step a little closer to that which feels more true , more wholesome , more real, more ‘me’?
Having recently been diagnosed with autism - neurodivergence as one of the pieces of the complex whole of what makes my unfolding being who she is - the practice of bridging my inner reality with the world ‘outside’ is an ongoing field of enquiry , of exploration, of devotion actually …
I am also an artist who weaves the exquisite and often messy inner landscape into expression.
It’s often the space of the pre verbal , the non verbal where the homecoming truth of my body , of my heart, lie.
So here I find myself, in the in between of a new cycle.
Endings have never been an easy place in my world.
And I wanted to take a moment to honour the space between an ending and something else …
New life can be slow. And things take time to grow.
A lesson I am humbly continuously learning.
I am learning to walk again. Literally.
And the process of trusting that I can stand on my own two feet has a much vaster container when I remember that that which I am held by is beyond what my words can fathom.
And perhaps somewhere in that meeting place between this moment ‘me’ and what lies just beyond ‘me’ lies my salvation.
Do I dare risking myself to meet ?
To allow the in between to mould my destiny into being.
And in honour of the space beyond the words , I’d like to share an album I created some years ago at the time of a ,then , new cycle , having been on the brink of following a call to move to Scotland.
Sometimes I listen and am reminded that it speaks to me of this Mysterious meeting place I attempt to speak of.
/album/i-dreamt-i-knew-myself
(Or follow the link in my bio)
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I’m not a hang player
But I like to play with sound
I’m not always in key
But I like to see where the vibration carries me
I don’t tilt the camera at just the right angle
But sometimes I like to be seen
I don’t always have the words for what I feel
But I like to give it expression
I don’t always like the things I meet inside and outside
And I’m here to give it space
I don’t always like to fit in
And I ache for belonging
I don’t know how to fill the emptiness
And I trust it’s hollow beckoning welcome
I don’t always know how to be in the being
That everyone has a thousand names for
And this here is as good a place as any
To stop what I’m writing as I write it.
Just here.
Welcoming the unfinished .
✨A 5Rhythms Extended Class in Edinburgh ✨
Dear dancers,
An invitation to join me in a movement exploration around the art of loving within the map of the 5Rhythms®.
To those who are new to this practice, the 5Rhythms® is a dynamic movement meditation practice rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself.
We move through an arc of energy, or a wave, through varying states of being we call Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness. We move with what is here.
You can learn more online through
I will guide us, during this extended class, through a number of waves supported by music and there will be space for enquiry and checking in together.
Throughout all epochs of time, it seems that we never tire of talking about and exploring what is almost impossible to condense into the space of four letters; Love.
My invitation during our time together will be around ways that we make Love tangible and embodied through movement.
Loving through the practice of listening and leaning into what we find. Loving through the practice of courageously meeting ourselves as we really are, and from this place, courageously meeting another.
There is nourishment to be gained from the inside out as well as the outside in.
In the words of David Whyte,
‘Love is a close secret we keep, even from ourselves... Love is the destination for which we are unconsciously packed and ready to go, but love we find, is always the place that is disguised as somewhere else. Love takes us deeper while subverting what we imagined deeper meant.’
~EVENT INFO~
Entry into the dance space will be from 2pm but there will be access to changing rooms and lockers from 1:45pm.
You may wish to bring a journal with you.
Contribution: £35 / Concession rate available. Cash on door or pre-book at:
[email protected]
No previous experience is necessary and these hours contribute to pre-requisite hours towards the 5Rhythms® teacher training.
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More info about me in the comments 👇
Into the Unknown ~ Stockholm Jan 26
Thank you to all the dancers who showed up and to all your dances ✨
Together we were held in support with gravity and bone as anchors through our movement , journeying into the unfolding unknown … deepening in our listening and following ..
Listening and following …
Until we dance again ✨🖤✨
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A New Year offering for those in and around Stockholm ✨🖤✨
Dear dancers,
We gather to initiate this new year with a theme that feels very close to home at the moment… moving through and in the field of the unknown.
To those who are new to this practice, the 5Rhythms is a dynamic movement meditation practice rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself.
We move through an arc of energy, or a wave, through varying states of being we call Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, and Stillness. We move with what is here.
You can learn more online through
I will guide us, during this extended class, through a number of waves supported by music and there will be space to check in, and mark-make together.
We will be paying particular attention to the array of ways that we practice finding the anchors or foundations unique to us that support us in exploring the unknown territories we are asked to navigate in life.
Exploring anchoring , listening and following through the map of the 5Rhythms as a container.
There is a gift in letting ourselves rest into the seeds of what wishes to emerge rather than push a top-down emphasis on resolutions and intentions that the start of a new year often has us doing.
Join me in letting it all move , express itself, and allowing for the still, full clarity of our next best step to emerge.
Welcoming you and your dancing feet
Just as you are.
🖤
To book or if you have any queries please email me at:
[email protected]
Contribution: 350 SEK
4th January
Time: 4pm- 7pm
(Doors close at 4:20pm)
Swish details will be sent via email when you book or available at the door.
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Moving it through.
Holding space this morning for the 5Rhythms, our focus was on the rhythm of Chaos.
All great art feels to me to be born through the chaos.
We were speaking into how we anchor through physical form , through this body , through the feet, the heart, the breath to support our release into the chaos that is everything…that is beyond conceptual thought.
Chaos is a beautiful teacher.
And for me right now it teaches me to centre.
And my centre had a song to tell.
#5rhythms #songtelling
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The trees , the land , the water, the wind, the sky, the sun
They love to be sung to.
And when we grieve
When we rejoice
When we rage
When we celebrate
When we mourn
When we long
When we ache
When we love
When we grasp
When we let go
When we simply be…
This all has a voice too.
Our bodies love to be sung to and through as well.
I continue to rediscover mine as it twists and turns and is shaped by the spaces I find myself in and the beings I find myself with and the heart in me that has many a different story to tell.
Thank you Thomas Wahlund love for this capture 🙏💙
Hello wonderful dancers,
I’m happy to let you all know of my offering for the autumn season.
I’ll be holding 5 5Rhythms classes every other Saturday starting the 11th of October.
“Journey Through the Wave” will have a focus on each of the rhythms on each of the Saturdays.
✨DATES:
- 11th October ~ Flowing
- 25th October ~ Staccato
- 8th November ~ Chaos
- 22nd November ~ Lyrical
- 6th December ~ Stillness
✨ TIME: 10am - 12pm
✨ Location: Sahara Studio, Dalry, Edinburgh
✨ Contribution: £12 (concession) / £15 (regular)/ £20 (abundance)
To book or for more info please visit
Drop in welcome ✨
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