Somatic Dance Movement Therapy - Group Course

Value-Led Radical Self Care - Group Therapy Class

A fast-paced life leads to burn out. Give yourself permission to heal. Body consciousness along with interoceptive skills, will give you greater resources to foster resilience in the face of practical challenges and uncertainty.

This is a 5 week course to enhance skills in body awareness through Somatic Dance Movement Therapy (SDMT) practices. The course will guide you to build foundations for your personal values, increased resilience and wellness, clearer boundaries, body trust and cues, harmony and tools for nourishment and adaptation.

** It is recommended to get the best out of this somatic practice, you attend the full five week course.

Here is what the group will experience:

Week One: Meeting Your Limits - an intimate self-portrait.

Week Two: Making Friends With Suffering - exploring the myths of homeostasis.

Week Three: External Collisions - values, ethics and moral decision making.

Week Four: Moral Injury - softening into struggles.

Week Five: Bring Your Values to Life - mapping your radical self care practices.

This course was translated into a Somatic Dance Movement class, based off the work and writing "An Invitation to Act on the Value of Self-Care: Being a Whole Person in All That You Do" in 2020 by Julia H. Fiebig of Dept of Applied Behavior Analysis, Ball State University, Muncie, IN USA. 

What you need to know:

- This space is being created with the adult community in mind. 

- It promotes inclusive practices for all bodies and identities. 

- There is a flight of approx 20 stairs to access the studio.

- It is recommended to get the best out of this somatic practice, you attend the full five week course.  

- Please bring a water bottle, a warm jumper or blanket, a note pad and pen.

- if you send a message to enquire about this event please include a mobile to text on. My return email may go to junk mail box.

About the Facilitator:

In private sessions or through group therapy, Jess incorporates somatic dance movement, psycho-social therapy, bio-energetics, touch and sense therapy, sound healing, spiritual guidance and holistic health mentorship. She specialises in adaptive Bodywork practices and Dance Movement Therapy for women's health, chronic pain, trauma, change behaviour, psychosocial/mental health therapies - neuro-affirmation, silent disability, queer and transgender communities.

Jess is an active member of the queer community and identifies as Genderfluid (she/they). She practices polyamory as a relationship structure and uses relationship anarchy (RA) to navigate new and old connections. Over the years she has built solid communication skills and ethical practices, using radical self care strategies to embody authentic living as a way of life. 

Jess is a self starter and has built successful businesses she maintains today. She has experienced mental illnesses, been a victim of abuse, overcame years of silent disability and life threatening diseases. She offers a wealth of lived experience and knowledge around body awareness practices. Jess is a lover of nature and finds earthing and solitude a grounding practice. She will often be seen in far off destinations camping solo around Australia. Their philanthropy work as a foster carer with RSPCA is important part of life for them.

Jess’s childhood was enveloped by an immediate family that shared love through the joys of music, dance and theatre. Receiving formal training at the Western Australian Academy in Performance Art in primary school years, she continued during adolescence to attend various institutes and schools to gain training in music, vocal, dance and theatre aspects of performance art.

They have come full circle with post graduate studies in Somatics and Dance Movement Therapy which is expected to complete in 2025.

Jess is currently leading Somatics Dance Movement Therapy and Psychotherapy sessions under remote supervision.