The Moving Artist: Discover Your Creative Body

Whether you’re an existing artist or creative who wants to overcome the barriers to your fullest expression, or someone whose creativity and artistry is hiding in the shadows and needs nurturing into the light, this class is designed to tease out your CREATIVE ESSENCE by working with the CREATIVE MATTER that is your BODY.

We’ll absorb ourselves in the wonder and magic of our bodies - a magnificent, intelligent feat of nature.

By moving in playful, non linear and investigative ways, you get a chance to feel and express what’s there, without judgement or going into ‘fix it’ mode.

By releasing tension and stagnant energy, this is a space where ideas may bubble and flow.

By becoming grounded in such a way that you feel it physically and energetically, your nervous system can regulate (de-stress), which in turn opens up the creative thinking part of your brain,

We all at times feel creatively stagnant. Ideas run dry, or the next piece of the puzzle is missing. Sometimes our artistry feels stifled, scary or elusive. Mentally trying to muscle our way through can be exhausting, and is often to no avail.

Artists are feelers, and our bodies are the home of our feelings!

As both a writer and performing artist, I have found embodied practices to be a profound tool for awakening my ability to sense and feel my subtle inner world, which in turn informs how I respond to the outer world. I view embodiment as a pathway to taste the rich and diverse nature of being alive, to embrace our myriad of experiences and to express ourselves more fully.

In this class there will be a little bit of chat, a lot of moving, some stillness, and space to jot creative musings down if they come.

No experience of any kind of movement practice is required.

The class is 90 mins, but I recommend leaving a window of at least 30 minutes after the class to explore any creativity that wants to come through. The idea is to make this an experiment. Take it for a test run, and with gentle curiosity you might ask “What happens when I come to artistic exploration and expression in an embodied way?”

Any questions, please feel free to get in touch.

There are a few ticket prices available for this class,  to suit different budgets, including a donation based option.

“Creativity is what happens when we don’t follow the rules but allow for the novel, the intriguing, the exciting and the vibrant to emerge within us. When this happens we start to think, behave and feel differently. We feel freer, more choices become available to us and life takes on more colour and possibility.” - Alana Fairchild