Hi! I’m Paula. I’m obsessed with the interconnections between movement poetry, philosophy and the way in which our bodies tell the stories of ancient cosmologies.

My work is inspired by the human capacity to perceive ecological continuity, to know ourselves as part of nature as opposed to above it or separate from it, and the practices I offer hold the foundational hope of being contexts that welcome humans back into their felt recognition of interdependence and belonging to life.

I draw from the weaving threads of embryology, developmental movement, somatics and philosophy. Practices are designed to hone interoception as a pathway to broaden perception. I work within somatic frameworks where questions are more interesting than answers, and process is more interesting than destination. Practices are an invitation to befriend awareness and cultivate curiosity, playfulness, agency, responsiveness and joy.

I cherish the relationships I have with my long time teachers; Jean Hall, Aki Omori, Giovanni Felicioni, and my first teachers - Nicole Aarons, Stephanie Snyder, Tiffany Cruikshank. My practice and teaching is hugely inspired by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and her body of work: Body Mind Centering.

I deeply feel that the world needs us to come back to sensing our interdependent and collaborative relationship with life, with the land, with the human and beyond-human world. For me, these practices are a pathway for cultivating that. Thank you for being here.