Author Archives: ksw

movingTHROUGH is a 3-day mini-series on pathways of perception & expression. Tuesday 19 April – the ears: hearing & orienting Wednesday 20 April – skin, touch & proprioceptionThursday 21 April – vision & integration10-11am Melbourne time (AEST)8am Perth / 9:30am Adelaide / 12n AucklandUSA: 5pm San Francisco / 7pm Austin / 8pm New York(the previousContinue reading “movingTHROUGH”

BodyMind Writing: moving, sensing, expressing This 5-week online course is a chance to move and write – to write from and with the voice of your alive, sensing body. Guided somatic meditations and movement practices will support you in listening to the unique voices within your body’s cells and systems. Timed writing scores offer pathwaysContinue reading “BodyMind Writing”

Middle Ground: 6 week series This online course offers embodied explorations of the middle of the body, sometimes called the ‘center’ or ‘core’ – a central organizing place for movement development and integration. Explore the dynamic anatomy and embryological beginnings of the ‘middle ground’ through guided somatic movement practice based in a Body-Mind Centering® approach.Continue reading “Middle Ground”

Refresh. Time to connect with your breath, the rhythms of your fluids, your body’s thinking. With gravity and space. Eyes and ears, arms, legs, and spine. Organs, weight, pathways. Sensation. Kindness and curiosity. Being a human, being. Classes will feature guided movement explorations that you can do in your own way – restful or active,Continue reading “Refresh: drop-in BMC classes to move into a fresh new year”

Please join me for a special benefit class celebrating the heart and in support of a dear friend. Two time options: Thursday 11 November 10-11:30am ORMonday 15 November 7-8:30pm Melbourne time(check your local time here) This special benefit workshop is a chance to connect with your heart through experiential anatomy and embryology, movement, meditation andContinue reading “heart to heART benefit classes”

The Art of Embodiment, published by the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Australasia (DTAA) with the Body-Mind Centering® Association in 2021. Edited by Jane Guthrie, Kim Sargent-Wishart, Heather Hill and Angela Clarke. Brimming with the voices of experienced embodiment practitioners, this heart-led publication celebrates embodied intelligence and shares multiple body-oriented practices that deepen connection andContinue reading “The Art of Embodiment”

These sessions offer scaffolded space and time to nurture your creative practice and cultivate the things that matter to you. Somatic, contemplative arts and writing practices help us reside in the places where curiosity meets intention. Honoring inklings and nonlinear logic, treating ourselves with compassion, respect and humour in the not knowing. I offer structuresContinue reading “Space & Time”

Our movement, like everything in nature, is based in patterns. Explore foundational patterns of movement from a Body-Mind Centering® perspective – from underlying fluid patterns of vibration and cellular activity through to full-body coordination through the spine and limbs. Meet some of the early reflexive responses that underlie how we relate with gravity, spatial orientationContinue reading “Patterns: 10 week online series”

Mindful Embodiment New times for October: Tuesdays 12:30-1:15pm and Fridays 7:30-8:15am. Begins Tuesday October 5th. Join me, along with Angela Clarke and Kate Barnett, Tuesday lunchtimes and Friday mornings in October for some mindful embodiment practices that are a tonic for keyboard hands, desk-hunched shoulders, and screen-tired eyes. We invite you to turn away fromContinue reading “Mindful Embodiment lunchtime & morning sessions”

Somatic Meditation & Photography8-week online course 8 October – 10 December 2021 (8 classes- no class 5 November or 3 December)Zoom classes Fridays 1-2:30pm Melbourne (AEDT) 10am Perth/12noon Brisbane/12:30pm Adelaide/3pm AucklandUSA: Thursdays 10pm EDT/7pm PDT; then 9pm EST/6pm PST after Nov 7thOr watch the recordings at a time that suits you. Sharing of photos, commentsContinue reading “Somatic Meditation & Photography”