SOMAdublin Somatic Education with Katrin Neue

29/10/2025

Back in Ireland and ready for the rest of 2025.
Samhain is upon us, time to hibernate afterwards until the sun pulls the plants back out of the earth!
I have some space on Saturday for one to ones, between 11 and 1pm - enjoy learning strategies to slow down and settle.
Some of the workshop participants this weekend reported that their recorded sleep phases while we practiced Somatic Movement.
Wouldn't it be great to be able to give yourself this kind of rest before the end of the year madness starts?

25/10/2025

I love working with my parent's generation and up. My clients progress in strength and mobility, and feeling capable and ready to garden, walk into town instead of taking the bus, and get up and down on and off the floor with ease.
If you have a friend who might need some structure in regaining strength and movement abilities, send them my way! I offer Somatic Movement Education, breathing re-education, Pilates - both supported by a reformer as well as mat work, modified to specific requirements.

I love what my client told me last week, her progress from being unsure of how to move, having difficulties getting up and down due to knee replacement - now she can easily get up without using her arms to push or pull herself into standing AND she can put on her trousers in standing! Fantastic!

18/10/2025

Looking for the ease and spring in your step again, walking, hiking and cycling confidently?
I specialise in working with clients who are 'new to movement' - not being particularly active, with aches and pains and not enough knowledge to simply start a Youtube workout at home. Or you might just recover from an illness, have a long-term treatment or just cleared for movement again.
For about 10 years, I work with clients over 70, clients with fibromyalgia, clients in cancer treatment, with past trauma and anxiety.

05/10/2025

Save the date and join us!
Link in linktree..

My signature workshop, refined over the last years of teaching. Find ease by noticing, connecting and releasing tension patterns developed in your face (eyes and jaw), neck and pelvic floor.

We take a bird's eye perspective, zoom in lightly, amd join the dots. What is connecting tension that holds our centre rigid? Enjoy learning small, gentle and surprising movements to unravel these fullbody tension patterns.

November 2nd 4pm Irish time. 2 hours of slow, soft movement just for you. Can't come? I also teach this material as one to one sessions. Or join and receive a recording!

21/09/2025

13/09/2025

Recovering from whatever we all had this week with a nice Norwegian slipper/thick sock by called designed for Järbo
I love traditional colourwork that has good readability (you know easily when you made a mistake) and a nice rhythm. The yarn is a teal amd oatmeal Novita 7 Veljestä I bought in Finland - inexpensive, lovely to knit with and really keeps your feet warm!
I hope to make some more of these before Christmas, it's relatively quick to knit and engaging so my brain has something to focus on.

I'll be properly back working next week, so if you need to get some energy or restful movement, have a look at Saturday!

08/09/2025

Hello September!
I'm back with my full availability on my schedule 🥳

So availability for private sessions on Monday from 2-5.30pm as well as Thursday from 4-5.45pm at D8
And Tuesday 11-1, Thursday 11-2 and Friday 10-1, as well as Saturday 10-2.30 at SOMAdublin D2

Group classes
Monday 5.45-8.45 Reformer at Live&Breathe
Tuesday 6pm Somatics online
Wednesday 10-2 mat, Fit for Life, reformer at Live&Breathe
Thursday 5.45-8.45 Strength and Tone, Reformer at Live&Breathe

06/09/2025

Bus diverted, surprise walk through Merrion Square

04/09/2025

Didn't take pictures inside (there are great pictureson the website bordal.pt ), but I had an absolutely wonderful private workshop at learning how to create some of the stitches of traditional Madeirean embroidery.
Taught by the woman who overlooks and checks the quality of the pieces brought in by the artisans 👀 it is a very different way of working without a hoop - I think I actually prefer this as I find hoops cumbersome without a stand. Everyone was so kind and encouraging!
I printed the stencil on my hankerchief with indigo, then sat down in the middle of the workshop to learn and chat. Absolute bliss and I have something to show to my little sewing friends at Rathgar Junior School!
If you're ever in Madeira, book the workshop! Thursdays 10.30-12, or buy a kit and video on the website. You will appreciate the time and effort that goes into every piece you see in the shop! This is a state protected and quality checked traditional art and it's beautifully preserved and developed further at Bordal.
See the meticulous work on the handkerchief I bought vs my own learning piece..

03/09/2025

25/08/2025

Lovely feedback from all sides after our movement explorations at the This is Knit retreat in Wicklow!
The participants learned through experimenting how tension in one area of our body will affect tension overall. Especially when knitting and learning a new technique, our habits of holding ourselves take over the 'background colour'. We get a sore neck, because we keep our stomach tight, we get migraines from sliding the head forward and squinting at the pattern.
I shared my go to movements with this fun international group of knitters hailing from the USA, Canada, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, UK and Ireland. Lots of laughter and lots of aha-moments too! And knitting sprinkled in. Just how I like it.

25/08/2025

Off to Macreddin Wicklow to teach Somatics at the This is Knit retreat in the afternoon! A beautiful day for it (and kind of nice that using public transport makes me arrive way too early, so I might be able to wander around a bit)
I started teaching a knitter focused Somatics workshop with before the first Woollin yarn festival, was it 2018? Since then I taught at both festivals that were held in Dublin, as well as at the Teaknit retreat in Cardiff, Wales.
I love combining my passions and create movement opportunities for crafters who work more stationary.