I am really proud to be a faculty member of Essential Somatics! This is a beautifully made small film about Essential Somatics, with my northern American colleagues, students and practitioners. I love watching ever single person I work with become more spacious, less guarding, more bubbly and more knowledgeable about themselves, their reactions to things,… Continue reading Learn more about Essential Somatics
Category: Workshops
Class updates for 2020
After a lot of discussions with clients, I decided to start up weekly morning classes again - for everyone who wants to join a group class but has experienced... having to sit out exercises in Pilates or Yoga, feeling like wasting time and money more frequent flare ups of pain and discomfort after a general,… Continue reading Class updates for 2020
Learning, learning, learning
I'm super excited about my upcoming Continued Education course I signed up for with the Noi group called Mobilisation of the Neuroimmune System. The course is for manual therapists (while I am not a therapist, I work hands on with clients in a similar manner) and explores, together with the underlying latest refined research about… Continue reading Learning, learning, learning
Weekly Wellness classes at Dance Ireland
Somatics for Pilates in September
Are you practicing Pilates for a while without getting the benefits you think you should be able to feel already? Were you told to start Pilates to avoid back pain, to ease your shoulder tension or improve your flexibility? While Pilates is an excellent way of strengthening, the instructor in a group class often can't… Continue reading Somatics for Pilates in September
Regular schedule is back in September!
After a long summer break, I am back with my regular and updated schedule from the second week of September. You can book Somatics as well as Mobile&Strong lessons at SOMAdublin on Monday, Thursday and Friday morning, as well as Saturdays. Besides hands-on lessons, which last about 75min, I also have mat-based timeslots for you… Continue reading Regular schedule is back in September!
Contemporary Dance for Children
I have finalised a brand new class - Contemporary Dance for Children, starting September 12th. The class will be held in the beautiful hall of St Kevin's Community Centre on Thursdays at 3pm. Having taught contemporary and creative dance for years, I am excited to have found a space that is big enough but not… Continue reading Contemporary Dance for Children
Thomas Hanna in conversation with Helmut Milz
This is an article published in Somatics Magazine/Journal for the Bodily Arts and Sciences, Vol VIII, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1991, pp.50-56 Thomas Hanna talks about Somatic Education, philosophy, communication and technology in a way that is still highly relevant to today's world. https://somatics.org/print/node/8921
Improve your Breathing Workshop in September
We have one month of summer holidays left, parents! How is your stress management going? Do you get some time off for yourself between work, family holidays, summer camps and keeping kids entertained? Are you worried about a change of school or your child starting school or creche? We all would like to be the… Continue reading Improve your Breathing Workshop in September