1Who and where are you?
I'm Susan and I hold an open space in Glasgow every Monday evening where you can learn the practices of Movement Medicine in a safe environment. It's become a beautiful community of dancers who are dancing to become conscious of what they are dreaming into their own lives.
2Are you a Movement Medicine teacher and/or facilitator?
I am a teacher. I trained in 2021 and graduated in 2025.
3Who do you serve with your Movement Medicine work?
My class is for all humans who want to practice. We find ways to become more integrated and at peace with ourselves, enjoying being in our own skin, we dance to find the spark to fuel life and make inspired choices.
4What is the meaning of this work for you?
This work for me is to help people feel alive in their body without shame. To know what we are feeling, how to acknowledge that, move with it and navigate the terrain of these emotions, while freeing the part of us that is stuck holding that shame.
I dance to decolonise my mind, open my heart and let love through.
5Please tell us about two recent precious moments you’ve experienced in your professional Movement Medicine work.
After teaching a series on boundaries a dancer shared about a situation where she felt quite threatened, because of the practice we had done in class, she could exercise her boundary and find to a more empowered ground for herself.
Another dancer who struggled to be herself in company shared that she went to a concert with her partner and danced and it felt good. She said this was a huge step forward in life.
6Please tell us something about when you recognised that Movement Medicine was going to play an important role in your life.
It was in Germany at the lake when Ya'Acov was teaching Phoenix. He guided us down our energetic roots deep into the earth. I discovered a place of deep surrender and radiant light. I knew then that this was my essence and this was the seed that I wanted to tend through this as an ongoing practice.
7The thing you find yourself saying most often to your participants
As you arrive here in the room. Breathe. Feel your feet on the floor. Relax your face, mouth, jaw. Good. Breathing. Staying in movement, Mmmm, Beautiful.
8If you had 9 words to say anything you wanted to the world, what would it be?
Compassion. Faith. Hope. Love. The truth sets us free.
