What we’re about
Join our Fortnightly Wednesday Night Therapeutic Movement Practice for a unique experience focused on the Embodiment. The activities are designed to help you expand awareness, regulate your emotions, and practice self-care. Through a combination of music and movement, we explore various techniques that promote wellness and mindfulness. Whether you're new to mindfulness practices or looking to deepen your self-awareness, we offer a supportive and inspiring space for all levels of experience. Come join us for a journey of self-discovery.
Highlights:
- Warm-up
- Theme
- Closure
Who is the facilitator?
Chara is an intuitive dancer and former showgirl who has transformed her life’s challenges into a mission of helping others. As a survivor of domestic violence, she discovered the profound power of movement and emotional awareness as tools for recovery. This passion led her to complete 2 years of study in Dance Movement Therapy, and she is now a registered therapist with the DTAA.
Drawing from her lived experience and deep empathy, Chara works with children navigating ADHD, anxiety, or disabilities, as well as adults facing mental health challenges. Her practice is grounded in the principles of body language, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and self-expression, based on the Kestenberg Movement Profile and The Moving Cycle framework.
https://embodiedmovementcircle.com/
What is Dance Movement Therapy?
Movement Therapy is the psychotherapeutic use of movement to balance emotional, social, cognitive, cultural and physical well-being.
It is a holistic, evidence-based therapeutic approach that draws from the fields of psychology, anatomy, movement dynamics, improvisation, creative practice and psychotherapy.
What is the goal of this group?
The intention behind this one-hour therapeutic movement practice is to introduce dance movement therapy to the general public and provide support to those who need it but may not have access to funding. It serves as a meaningful way to give back to the community. With this in mind, everyone is warmly welcomed into the space to connect and move together, discovering new ways to enhance their well-being.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- Rooted & Radiant - Embodying the Emotional SelfCeres Community Environment Park, Learning Centre , Melbourne
Join our one-day workshop to embody your emotional self.
Jess of Somatic Experience Studio and Chara of Embodied Movement join energies, and invite you to a playful expansion of your authentic self.As psychotherapists, they will hold a safe space for you to explore your emotional body in this profound movement practice amongst the backdrop of nature and peaceful surroundings.
Chara will guide you on a journey of emotional expression and discovery, where the power of your feelings becomes a guiding compass toward healing, balance, and lasting wellness.
While Jess will help you build strong foundations of knowledge around your deeply held needs and values through developmental movement principles, authentic movement and felt sensing.
Date: Sat, Sep 13th 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Venue: CERES Community Environment Park - Dapur Hut
https://events.humanitix.com/rooted-and-radiant-emotions-------------------
Make a move toward this very unique offering with limited spaces. A one day somatic movement retreat nestled in the green spaces of CERES Community Centre. We have a gated section of the gardens at The Dapur village. A rustic wooden hut with cathedral ceilings opening onto a covered outdoor space.What are the goals of the day?
- Four sessions to progress throughout the day.
- Morning tea and afternoon tea provided.
- Collective and supportive experience in a group therapy setting.
- Increased body awareness through movement.
- Nurturing the felt sense of well-being.
- Languaging the non-verbal aspects to body wisdom.
- Release and relax by understanding where your body resists.
- Learning more about regulating our nervous system.
- Slow expansion of emotional tolerance.
- Exploring your deeply held value system.
- Shift energy blockages to change narratives.
