“When people feel the sun at their back, they dance with more freedom and curiosity, moving fully and setting themselves free.”

Photo - Claude Hofer

I remember my granddad at the piano, playing a little tune that he had composed when we were children. We loved dancing to it when young, but there I was as an eight year old, standing at the edge of the living room. Self-consciousness had started to set in and there were many eyes on me - my grandma and my parents were all watching…but my body couldn’t resist! I was pulled in and tumbled into the middle of the room, twirling and swirling, completely immersed in the joy and freedom of the movement as every child knows!

Now, one of my favourite inner states to arrive in as I dance is through my own alignment, where images drop in effortlessly and movements flow one after the other with presence, ease and truth.

 
 

I love inviting people’s dances to tentatively creep or joyfully burst out of them!

About me:

  • Dancing since age 3; ballet training for 15 years, explored dance traditions including traditional Nigerian dance, Butoh, the Seki Method, Gaga and 5Rhythms

  • Mentored and inspired by many teachers, continually shaping my practice

  • Over 8 years of experience as a humanistic and integrative psychotherapist working with adults, supporting personal growth and working with themes such as inner child, creativity, trauma including child and sexual abuse, grief, sexuality, and suicide; these experiences inform my approach to movement and dance teaching

  • Since 2013, integrating these insights into movement and dance teaching, evolving my approach

    • BA (Hons.) in Modern Foreign Languages (French & German) - University of Bristol

    • Master’s Level Professional Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy (Humanistic and Integrative) - Dublin Counselling & Therapy Centre

    • SEKI Method Dance Teacher Training

      Professional Accreditation with the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (IAHIP)

    • Breathwork in Expanded States of Consciousness, 40 hours - Mersey Counselling & Therapy Centre. Facilitation of Breathwork Workshops.

    • Psychosynthesis Training, 30 hours - Institute of Psychosynthesis London

    • Thai Massage, 60 hours - Shivagakomarpaj, Chaingmai

    • Hakomi, 12 days - Hakomi Ireland

    • Process Work Introductory, Case supervision with Arnold Mindell, Dreambody Medicine Forums - Process Work Institute

    • ContaKids Facilitator with Itay Yatuv, Munich

    • Co-author of the book: The SEKI Method - Basics

    • Selected artist at Im_Flieger Schule 2024 mentored by Laura Vilar

    • ATLAS participant at ImpulsTanz Festival 2023 mentored by Marco Berrettini

    • Resident dancer at the Hybrid Butoh Vienna Art Festival 2022

  • Workshops

    • Tuning In, Being Moved: Exploring the Unconscious Through Movement: for IAHIP Psychotherapists, 2018 & 2019

    • The Call Home, for Hybrid Butoh Festival 2022

    • Training the Trainers: Trauma-Informed Facilitation, COPE 2024

    Regular Classes

    • Creative Relaxation, Threshold Training Network, 2020 - 2023

    • Innate Dance Dublin, 2022 - 2023

    • Innate Dance Vienna, 2023 - present

    • Kreativer Kindertanz, 2023 - present

    • Ballet, Tanzschule Dobner, 2025 - present

 
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