art + embodiment & pedagogy workshops

(2002–Ongoing) • Socially Engaged Art, Transdisciplinary Creative Facilitation, Trauma-Responsive Spacemaking, Community Archiving, Printmaking, Somatic Movement & Intercultural Spaceholding

The Inquiry

How do we reclaim pleasure, reframe standard models of productivity, and create true spaces of freedom within our lives? Over two decades, this independent and client-facing workshop ecosystem has used storytelling formats, reflection prompts, and accessible resources to build non-snooty, pleasure-centered social environments.

Practice-Based Research as a Site of Care

I’ve been running transdisciplinary creativity + wellbeing workshops irl + online, independently, in collaboration with, and for organisations for over 20 years.

I use my decades of experience to custom-design and curate joy-centered Spacemaking events to meet community needs, prioritizing pacing and emotional safety. This long-term pedagogical project has been hosted across high-level creative institutions and alternative spaces alike-including The Lick Yoga Project (years of community pay-what-you-can afford space), Bloom Virtual Day Retreats, Griegakademiet, Litteraturhuset Bergen, Brighton Museums, and the historic galleries of KODE Art Museums of Bergen (spanning the homes of Troldhaugen, Siljustøl, and Lysøen).

Selected clients include: Global Music, London Writers’ Salon, Boksalongen (Literature House, Bergen), Brighton Museums, KODE (the art museums of Bergen), Bergen Kunsthall, Oslo Yoga Festival and Island Girls Rock, as well as many independent project offerings.

a selection of some of my more recent art, movement, sound, embodiment workshop concepts i’ve been offering since 2010:

Spacemaking as Sanctuary: art + embodiment participatory workshops, London, uk
Earthing for Earthlings, an earthy practice experience, entwining embodiment, ecology, sound, yoga, movement, meditation, breathwork and creative explorations, (online + irl)
Online community classes + workshops 🌈
IRL + Online day retreats e.g. Bloom virtual day retreats
Holistic wellbeing workshops ✨, real talk (+ creative feel good tools) about reclaiming pleasure, reframing productivity and getting free. This clip is from an event on the relationship between wealth and wellness, for Rainchq + Libreria in London.
Self care workshops ✨, offerings for people to explore deep rest, tension release and somatic movement enquiry (online + irl)
women of colour wellness project, Brighton uk
Bloom workshops 🌸, spring yoga + movement + meditation explorations in Bergen + Oslo, Norway.
Art + yoga, a concept entwining of art, yoga, embodiment, music and movement in the city spaces of KODE (art museums of Bergen)
The Lick Yoga project, Brighton, uk
Seasonal workshops e.g. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter yoga & movement workshops ❄️, a mini-break designed to nourish, uplift and balance your body, mind and spirit (Oslo + Bergen, Norway)
More sync with the season concepts include: ForRest, Soft-Soft, Re-emergence from the Shell Grotto, Take care of You: Autumn, The Space in-between, Soak in Being, Burnout recovery for creatives, Strong Roots, Pleasure Principle, Infinite Possibilities, Power Flower, Get Free, Condition of the Heart, PAUSE, Space is the Place, BLOOM, Float, Emerging // Breaking the Waves, Moving from the Heart (a dance + yoga experience), Settle, All things must Pass, Open, All Change, The Forbidden City, Regulate, Leave the Light On, Teetering on the Cusp of Transition, The Truth will Out, yoga + writing
Potion making 🍵, create your own mini range of body care products.
Visionboarding workshops 🎨, creative self exploration process offering valuable techniques and strategies for personal development (online + irl)
Studio Space - a virtual shell grotto of projects holding space for community connection via internet experiments
Encyclopedia of Pleasure workshops creative activity exploring creativity, self care + mindfulness (online + irl)

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