Existential Movement Practices

The existential-phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, suggested that our bodies are our ‘general means of having a world’ and so we inhabit ‘the world by our body’ and it is ‘our anchorage in the world’. He proposed that we understand our world through our ‘embodied’ experience and so the ‘movement of existence’.

My core philosophical premise is that all existence is movement, and that our suffering, trauma, adversity and wonderment, awe and joy disclose the movements of our existence.

I see all existence as emergent, and humans as emerging through becoming. Emergence and becoming are better understood through our existential movements, and the ways in which we incorporate our movements into our modes of existing.

You can find out more about the philosophy here.

Existential movement practices draw on a wide range of influences from body and movement psychotherapies to somatic inquiry, breath work, systemic rituals, and conscious dance meditations.

Through these practices we explore the ways in which our experiences have shaped our embodiment, and our relationships with ourself, others and the world around us. By exploring the forms and shapes we hold, there is potential to understand our experiences in more depth, experiment with new movements and allowing more expansive, liberating and growth forms to emerge.

The practices focus primarily on somatic, sensorial and visceral inquiry, and so there is only limited space for speaking and words, though we do use other forms of non-verbal communication, including our use of the space and time, movements, signs, symbols, arrangement of objects, and creative drawing and expressions.

These practices are available as part of individual psychotherapy, or personal and community development in a one to one or collective basis.

If you, or your organisation, would like to find out more about Existential Movement Practices get in touch.