The world is in turmoil, deep precarity and pain and I find myself turning to the rootedness of my body as a way of being, belonging and as a haven of safety.
Making that connection and to the infinite possibilities that our movement holds – to be calm, to be soft, to be strong, to be fluid and pliant, to curl-up or open out, to be massive or small, to be gentle or fierce, to run like the wind or to rest and be still.
The body and its movement are not representations they are things, a direct and sensory felt experience of ways being and equally our movement can create new and needed place and spaces of the imagination where we can hope, hold, soothe and support ourselves and each other. We can also rage and find glimmers of much needed awe and joy.
The foundational principle and politic, of all my work over the past 45 or so years I have come to think of as “giving people back what is rightfully theirs” – a movement vocabulary, a way reconnect to deep innate physical intelligence, to grow in confidence and belief in that as a natural born right, where the body is home and we are at home in the body. From this place of expanded physical capacity, movement vocabulary and physical intelligence we can make art, imagine better worlds, resist, protest, take care of ourselves and be rooted in our bodies. This is movement that belongs to you
Do be in contact if you are interested in any classes or workshops, even a one off is of value. I always start where people are to build confidence and capacity. No previous experience is necessary and experienced bodies are always welcome. This is movement from the inside out, creative, expressive, sensory, innate, playful, profound and its all rightfully yours.
I was recently invited to be part of the Festival of Movement with Linlithgow Community Development Trust … here’s the link : Move for Good (what better title than that) https://trust-linlithgow.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Festival-of-Movement-2025-Programme.pdf
(note: not exercise, or fitness, or health or wellbeing but ‘simply’ movement and moving! How liberating!)
Enjoy Spring’s arrival, buds, bloom, flowers, green, light, rain, sun and wind. Move with it if you can, where you can, when you can, breathe, and find your roots for these times
Go well
Jx