Jessica Cottee

“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.”

- Gitanjali LXIX, Rabindranath Tagore

 
 
 
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Let’s dance!

Through movement, imagination, attention, intention and sensation, I support exploratory processes that invite deeper connection—to oneself, others, Nature, memory and the parts of experience that may have been forgotten, disowned or remain frozen in the body or field.

How can we create the conditions for the body to move with integrity so consciousness can express itself fluently?

Photo: Claude Hofer

Remaining curious about our inner world asks for both openness and courage. Dance and movement invite us to receive ourselves — to access knowing that lives as something the body and mind continually reconstruct together. In motion, the body isn't excavated, it's consulted: we listen, take on the qualities alive in the moment and let ourselves be moved. Each movement offers the nervous system new evidence, new variability, and a different way of predicting and responding to what is. And, we can enter flow states, which restores the flexibility that trauma erodes.

In my experience, we can tune in to anything we choose, embody it, and allow it to move us. In doing so, we grow bigger in our own being, expand in relation and through relation, and continually encounter life as one interconnected whole.

I am a fully qualified humanistic and integrative psychotherapist and a lifelong dancer. While this work is offered in the context of movement and dance teaching, it is informed by my psychotherapeutic training and embodied practice. My intention is to create spaces of presence, discovery, joy and authentic embodied self-connection.

 
 
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My background as an IAHIP accredited psychotherapist informs my approach, and I bring a focus on respect, safety and acceptance to every class.

Through movement, we can explore self expression in a way that words sometimes cannot, allowing your individuality to emerge, your body to move more freely and your enjoyment of dance to deepen.

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Offerings

Innate Dance Class: Pause, ground, and let your dance unfold from within

1:1: online individualised sessions

Dance Classes for Children: Creative dance and ballet

ContaKids: A playful movement class for a child and caregiver, moving together

Please contact me about facilitating workshops at your organisation or business. 

All offerings take place exclusively within the framework of dance and movement education and do not replace or constitute psychotherapy or medical treatment.

 
 

Artistic work - Feb 2026 - directed by Will Lopes