Amerta movement, creative practice
and art therapy in nature

Classes and workshops based in the landscape, in my home garden and in the wilds of West Cork.
Private one-to-one or group sessions can be arranged for individuals who wish to explore this work.

Get in touch: to enquire about private sessions, or find out about the next event.
Embodied Nature offers experiential enquiry through embodiment practices, to develop a more intimate and immediate relationship with the natural world. Through guided and self-led experiences you willy waken our senses, connect intimately with life, re-member on a deep soul level that we are part of the community of all beings: that the rocks, rivers and tress, two-legged, many-legged, finned and winged ones are all our family. 

By being intimately and consciously with the natural world, receiving all the beings around us, we can once again connect with beauty, and through that enter a state of compassionate presence whereby we fall in love with the world.

This is an exploratory approach based on Amerta Movement: a free-movement practice with a grounding in meditative presence, relaxation and connection.
Upcoming events

September 26-27th:
Moving with Nature. Land-based movement weekend, An Sanctoir, West Cork.

October 2026: 4th / 8th / 20th / 29th
'Roots of Resilience'. Nature-based creativity and well-being workshops in association with Cork Mental Health and Bridge Street Community Cafe, Bantry.

Spring 2027:
Embodied Nature. 7 weeks moving in different sites around Ballydehob, West Cork. 
Moving with Nature
September 26th-27th
An Sanctoir, Ballydehob
Amerta movement workshop to connect you with the more-than-human world

A 2 day immersion within a 28 acre nature reserve to attune to your body and senses, connect with your inner landscape, strengthen your relationship and communication with the natural world, and re-member yourself as part of the family of all things.


We will:
- Explore the senses of listening and touch
- Develop our ability to consciously receive, relax, respond to our environment
- Move with the river, rocks, woodland, meadows to experience how different environments, elements, textures and shapes inform, affect and enhance our movement.
- Take time both indoors and outdoors.
- Have time for movement, stillness and rest together, as well as time on your own in the land.
- Share our experiences with each other through dialogue and movement.

Practicalities:
- We will be working on different sites on the land, including areas that may be difficult to access and uneven ground.
- You will need appropriate clothing and footwear for the Irish weather (warm layers, waterproofs, extra socks!).
- Work will be a mixture of indoor and outdoor work. Each day will begin indoors to help us arrive into our bodies and the group before working with the land.

Cost
200 euros for the weekend.
Accommodation is not included but there are plenty of options nearby, including a B&B onsite and camping. Contact me for details.

Booking
- To pay for your place using Eventbrite click the booking box below. (booking fee will be added). To pay through Paypal, bank transfer or Revolut, contact me personally.
- Once I receive your payment your place is booked and I will contact you by email with more details.
- venue and transport info will be provided after booking

Embodied Nature
7 week course of outdoor movement and creativity in the landscape of West Cork

Next course Spring 2027
Contact me to express your interest
This course is an opportunity to explore our relationship with our bodies and the land - remembering ourselves to be part of the natural world and how we and nature are connecting and communicating together all the time. We are not separate.
We will work in a different location each week, so we can experience how to attune to different places, and experience how we are affected by each place.

Sample practices and explorations:
- noticing how different texture, shapes and surfaces in the landscape affect our physicality and offer new possibilities for movement.
- being conscious of our senses, and how these can be felt, shared, communicated.
- movement as communication. exploring gesture and expression as a way of assimilating, sharing and recognising our experience.
- moving individually, in pairs and in groups
- witnessing each other in movement, witnessing the land's movement, being witnessed by the land
- honouring the land, recognising what she is offering us, and what we can offer in return
- assimilating and sharing our experience through writing, simple art-making and talking together
- reflecting on how this approach might support you in your work, creative practice, or personal experience of life

Personal commitment
- One morning a week - 2.5 hours on each site, plus travel time.
- Weekly tasks to complete in your own time at home e.g. photo project, writing, movement tasks.

Sites:
We will work in different settings each week, to experience what different places have to share with us, how are we moved, changed and affected by them? Some sites are human created, some are more untouched.
  • My home garden
  • Roaring Water Bay's shoreline
  • Dunmanus stone circle
  • Lough Hyne holy well
  • A local forestry plantation
  • Mount Corrin's bogs and rocks
  • Horse Island 

Practicalities:
  • We will lift share as much as possible so we can travel mindfully and have as little impact as possible.
  • We follow the code of leave only footprints, take only memories
  • Since places that we visit will require walking to get to, and will be on uneven ground, you will need to be physically able for that.
  • You'll need to wear the appropriate clothing and footwear to stay warm and dry within the fluctuating Irish weather. Check the forecast before you leave home!
  • Bring snacks, drink and a flask of something warm on chilly days.

Cost
240 euros