Dancers' Stories

My Dancing Journey In 2011, I moved to Hamburg while pregnant, joining my husband there. That December, our first daughter was born. I was new to the city and, although I deeply cherished the time...

We are super proud to have Belén Páez with us once again this year for the 2025 Summer Long Dance. Belén is an extraordinary champion of indigenous rights, the rights of nature, sustainability, biodiversity and...

It has been a real joy of joys for me to offer this soul enquiry space that is the Movement Medicine Apprenticeship program. The Movement Medicine Apprenticeship program is a training to embody and deepen...

I was in my early sixties and the team leader was doubtful that I should be shinning up ladders, though I was sure-footed and it was perfectly normal for me. I was at once startled...

'I always had the wish to be a 'house-tree-animal' as we say in Dutch, which symbolises leading a nice and quiet conventional family life (although I wasn't that conventional otherwise)'. That wish completely exploded in and around me,...

It’s hard to believe it’s been 18 years since the launch of the School of Movement Medicine. Time flies, and the depth of what has been created and nurtured over those years is inspiring. I’ve...

As 2025 turned, I was running my New Year workshop. It is a fairly rugged event, in a yurt in the woods, in Scotland in the middle of winter.  It’s a bit out of my...

Carolyn shares her relatable story of what happened when she found the safe space to allow out her inner longing to dance and to experience the healing that this brought. She now teaches Movement Medicine...

A LIFE WITH BOREDOM I was 7 years old when I met it for the first time. I remember the physical sensation in my body to this day. My skin crawled with an invisible plague,...

I’ve come to accept that life is about surrendering to what I cannot control, learning to let go, and finding gratitude and forgiveness amid the constant flux. In 2023, I suffered a herniated disc that...

This month we have a fantastic video from our dancers in Japan- we hope you enjoy!

This story starts with the deterioration of a romantic relationship, that led me to thoughts of suicide. I felt so disempowered, so unwell of body and mind, so weak of soul, so broke, and so...