Movement with Miriam

13/09/2025

✨ Gather & Ground is a monthly intentional space curated to welcome all of the self, into wholeness. Through Meditative Movement and Breath we anchor into coherence, journeying within to honour every part of self while attuning to the collective field. From integration we return, opening space after for connection.

This month we are so lucky to have Miriam Marler from joining us. Miriam brings her expertise as a Trauma-Informed Movement Facilitator, Somatic Therapist & Bodyworker, deepening the way we ground, move, and reconnect.

This co-creation brings a new richness to the field we hold — blending breath, movement, and somatic presence in service of remembrance and wholeness.

💛 All of you is welcome here.

24/07/2025

CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT class one 🌱

My mini-alter for the opening of Conscious Movement term three (space-saving yet super potent). I’m left feeling so very grateful for the ropu that has come together for this new round & the potential for diving deep & getting wild! For honesty & authenticity, aliveness, seeing & being seen. I love what each one of us brings to the circle & how each moves and creates so wonderfully. “When you can’t see the beauty of your own soul, know it’s seen, loved, cherished.”

Tonight we arrived.
Tonight we set intent.
Tonight we called in what was needed.
We sunk into ground, we lolled about, we became other substance.
We pressed and pushed and played and found our feet.
Tonight we began the process of forming as a group… the unfolding of connectivity. The weaving of becoming.

I’m so grateful that people come for this mahi, that I am able to share and trust. That we create this together, that there is space and time for listening in, listening out, feeling, sensing, becoming & being.

Rest well people xx

23/07/2025

Stoked to be sharing some previous participant feedback with you all. So delicious! Glean an insight into the world of Conscious Movement through this previous participant’s experience 💎

19/07/2025

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that, energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.”
―Gabrielle Roth, Sweat Your Pray

Greetings from Ōtautahi/Christchurch where I’m dancing with around 40 others for two days of tending to our inner flames through movement, ritual and art-making with Sacha Paddy. It’s wonderful to be here and to connect with the wider Conscious Dance community once again.

Tonight I’m sitting here on my friend’s couch with eyes barely staying open as I write to you. My tummy is full of delicious mushroom dumplings, my body is full from all the movements that formed and dissolved over the hours dancing (I’ll sleep so well tonight), and my heart is full from the wonderful experiences of connection and discovery.

My wish is for everyone to experience the deep intimacy, connection, embodied power, wonder, care and listening that are the gifts of this work. Join the next dance you can, to enrich your soul! I don’t think you’ll regret it.

UPCOMING OFFERINGS: Term Three

🎪 Parent & Child Acroyoga term three begins THIS Friday 25th July (second week of school), 9-weeks or drop in.

🌊 Conscious Movement 8 weeks begins THIS Thursday July 24th- a few spaces left.

🤲🏼 July Underscore some spots left (pay what you like) July 25th (THIS Friday- still spots left!)

📷 Jeremy Horton

10/06/2025

I’m so honoured to be a part of this collaboration of five amazing wahine toa. 🌊🙏🏼✨
Please join us this Sunday for Cacao, Movement, Breathwork, Integration & kai 🍲

Upcoming event Te Hikoitanga ki te Hauora: Meet Miriam — Somatic Therapist & Movement Alchemist

Weaver of Wind | Channel of Body Wisdom | Embodied Storyteller

Miriam carries decades of dance, creativity, and embodied wisdom in her bones. Her work moves beyond performance — it is an invitation into presence, sensation, and deep listening. With a Masters in Dance Studies and an evolving practice rooted in Somatic Therapy and Trauma-Informed Bodywork, Miriam brings a rare blend of artistry and therapeutic depth to her facilitation.

Aligned with the twin stars Waitī and Waitā, Miriam’s movement practices honour the inner rivers of feeling — rage, grief, joy, longing — and create a sacred space for them to be expressed, witnessed, and released. She knows that healing isn’t linear. It’s tidal. And she guides with the grace of someone who has danced those edges herself.

Through the breath of Ururaki, her work becomes wind-stirred medicine — shifting stagnant energy, awakening the spirit, and softening the body’s armour. Her presence calls us inward with care and curiosity, reminding us that our bodies are not problems to be solved, but portals to be listened to.

In her facilitation, expect to move, to feel, to remember — and most of all, to come home to the rhythm of your own wairua.

Join us this Sunday 15th June.
Bookings via Humanitix.
https://events.humanitix.com/te-hikoitanga-ki-te-hauora

23/05/2025

JUNE UNDERSCORE ✨ We all had so much fun at the last one, we thought we’d do them more regularly. These jams nourish us as human beings that need play, spontaneity, physical connection, creatively.

📅 27th June 5.30-7.30pm

📍Embodiment Collective

💵 Pay What You Like

Full details plus ticketing in link below 👇🏼
Registration Essential

14/05/2025

“Miriam’s offerings of Conscious Movement, Somatic Movement and her Somatic 1:1 therapy really help people learn how to listen to their own bodies and make friends with them.

She gives people a wide range of tools to come into their own embodied experience. This creates the capacity for self-regulation and a new relationship with the body: one of self-expression, creativity, spontaneity, playfulness, fun and joy. All that rich stuff that give life meaning.”

- Previous Course Participant

🍂🤲🏼🍂

14/05/2025

“Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your perceptions need you, your feeling needs you. The wounded child in you needs you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it.”
―Thich Nhat Hanh, Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

I love this quote…

It reminds me of what I need to do- when I find myself moving thorugh life but just in the cut-out shape - going through the motions but with underlying unhappiness that I don’t want to admit to. Life is not always full of laughter and joy, but it should be lived fully. The pain and saddness, the frustration, the challenges life brings should be embraced, then our life becomes fulfilling and satisfying, no matter how simple or humble it is. And that’s how Consicous Movement can help. This course is based on practices I’ve gathered from years of study and facilitation experience. The many teachers who have guided me exquisitely are such a big influence on my own embodied alchemy practices that get woven into this eight weeks together. It’s not something you can learn from a book or an online course (although these are also great), but being in our beings- in person- together- brings so much shared wisdom to the room.
Below I’ve shared a list of some of the practices we draw from. This term you also get a get a tailored guidebook included in the price, worth around $25

We didn’t start last week, I postponed. So you still have the chance to join us!! We begin tomorrow. Reach out to join >>>

Practices the course draws on:

🍂 Somatic Movement & Conscious Dance

🪶Mindfullness, breathwork, imagery

🤲🏼 Therapeutic frameworks & Trauma awareness

✍🏼 Creative Practices such as writing & drawing

💬 NonViolent Communication for self-connection & connection with others

🧠 Nervous System Education (Polyvagal Theory) for understanding our survival responses & regulation

When:
8 Thursdays: NOW beginning May 15th
6.30-8pm 90mins
* the 8-week journey will run as a closed, committed group to support the deepening of trust & sense of community within the group *

11/04/2025

SALTLINES FOR SEALION WOMEN • Tomorrow we perform. Come join us? 10.45am for an 11am start ~ Saint Clair esplanade ~ koha/free ~ New Zealand Festival of Nature with 2025 Caroline Plummer Fellow Carol Brown & an eclectic group of local women. 🌊🦭

facing the abyss

Sealion women preparing for Saturday’s performance for Wild Dunedin - New Zealand Festival of Nature

Saturday 12th April - 10.45am for 11am start - St Clair Esplanade (in front of Surf Club).

Photographer: Bronwyn Kidd.
Performers pictured: Movement with Miriam Marler, Hahna Briggs, Teresa Nel, Caitlin Lester, Annie Sutherland, Nicole Rogers, Anna Noonan, Melinda Geary, Julie Cuthill, Jenny Munro, Suzy Fox, Emily Campbell, Ali East, Carol Brown

University of Otago Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance 2025 - Carol Brown

03/02/2025

Another beautiful glimpse into past participants’ experiences with my Conscious Movement 8-week closed group. It’s honestly such a beautiful thing to be in the role of guiding folk through these processes. I aim for safely first, discussing and exploring what this means to you as an individual and as part of the collective, and then once this is established we can move into some more gritty territory ~ at your own pace.

There’s a typo here- we begin Thursday 6th! In two days from now. I still have some spaces left so get in touch if one spots for you! I’d love to have you onboard ⛵️

This is the first time I’m solely focussing on Embodied Nervous System work, and Im super amped for it! 🤗

03/02/2025

Polyvagal Theory can help us to understand what’s happening on a nervous system level when we perceive safety or threat from our environment or relationships.

We’ll be delving into how state creates story, and how context (information about why, what and how), choice and connection are vital for a sense of safely and regulation.

We’ll also talk about how the autonomic nervous system is organised into the three response states of dorsal vagal, sympathetic and ventral vagal.

Thanks to Stephen Porges the creator of the theory & Deb Dana for all her mahi translating and sharing the application of these principles 👐🏼🌺

Swipe for slides of my micro resources at home: my cat, sunlight and clean floors, and indoor plants all help me to feel regulated, calm, joyful.

Two days till Conscious Movement: Embodied Nervous System Education begins!! 👐🏼🌿

Still spaces if you feel curious to learn more ✨

Link in bio or DM for details.
X Miriam

30/01/2025

Shared anonymously with permission >>>

At the end of last year after my last Conscious Movement Course I asked for feedback and some replied. I absolutely love hearing insights into the world of the people that join my courses, and I’m luck to be able to share these anonymously with you ♥️👐🏼🌿

Which one do you resonate most with???

I’ll try to share more over the coming days. Reminder that early bird ends Saturday midnight 🕛

Blessings on your Friday ✨

~ Miriam