It's a practice space - a dedicated time and space for you to turn up and practice coming into the body and connecting to yourself in movement. It's unfacilitated, or rather, the music and the safety and strength of the container are what facilitates you to drop in and follow your own inner guidance. You can bring whatever existing movement and meditation practice you have or simply let yourself be led by the music and by what happens once you start to move your body.

Come, listen to fabulous music and dance to your heart's content! You might find that this leads you to engage in the simplest yet most advanced practice there is: becoming present. This is the practice, right? To show up for and with ourselves, with our wise bodies, our beating hearts and with our minds open. To keep showing up for life as it presents itself, on any given day, with all that it lays at our door. To keep on showing up with curiosity and compassion. To keep on showing up for all that we are connected to, for all that matters to us, for our dreams, for our pleasure, for our healing, for the next step on our unique life journey.

Movement is one of the most direct and powerful ways to nourish the nervous system. When we move with awareness, we create opportunities for the body to release stored tension, complete stress cycles, and signal safety. Movement supports regulation by activating the vagus nerve, grounding us in the present moment, and re-establishing a sense of agency. It’s not about doing it “right”—it’s about reconnecting with the body’s natural rhythms and allowing them to guide us back to balance, ease, and aliveness.

And, of course, to help us to show up, good company is an important ingredient- knowing that there are others who will be there at this specific time and place can help us with our motivation and momentum, particularly on those days when there is resistance, little energy or lots of other things vying for our attention.

Over time, repetition deepens our connection to our practice, to ourselves and to each other. Over time, this showing up creates a strong rhythm into which we can lean and which carries us through the weeks, months, years, with a little more ground under our feet, a little more feet in our shoes, a little more trust in our capacity to meet life as it unfolds, with its ups and downs, walls and open doors and different weathers in our inner and outer landscapes. Quite apart from this being about moving, dancing and embodying, this is also a little oasis where you can refuel and reset your compass in these uncertain and intense times. It's a safe and sacred sanctuary for your soul.

Wake up and Move! originally started in the lockdown days of the pandemic in March 2020. And we have continued to connect and move together in this way for some years now. The groups are smaller but we still meet on Wednesdays and Fridays every week to ground our days in movement, to find our feet, our hearts and our resources. Over this time we have woven some beautiful connections across countries and continents and this is the strong container we can all relax and lean into, however we feel on the day, whatever we bring. Wake up and Move has been a thread of continuity through the many uncertainties of the times we are living in. Amidst the choppy seas of change, these sessions are a practical way to keep anchoring again and again in the resource of movement and connection.