Somatics with Daphne

15/07/2025

“Tone brings us into gravity rather than bringing us up from gravity. It’s like learning to swim by not drowning and learning to swim by yielding to the water.” - Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

14/07/2025

10/07/2025

The Spaces in Between

I’m not lost
Just pausing
In the spaces between things.

Between roles
Between tides
Between the sound of cicadas and holiday chatter
Between the humid embrace of the mangrove forest
And something even quieter within.

I walk in a kind of restless stillness
Welcomed by beauty
Trading in presence.

It’s a fair exchange.

Amidst this lush wilderness
This paradise that my body has been yearning
All the kindness around me
And the warm sea breeze
My skin bathed in salt
Graced by butterflies.

Lean in now
To the spaces between cells
And the membrane between the fractal leaves.

There’s a quiet ache
For something to meet me
where words don’t quite reach.

Like the waxing moon
Now almost full
Her cool white light blazes through the night flowers
Bioluminescent ocean swells merging sea and land.

The crashing din of my restless heart
Softened through the whispers of the trees
And the piano notes
echoing from the lounge.

Here.
Then gone.

I don’t need to name it all
I don’t need to fix the ache
I don't need to run

I’m not ungrateful
I’m just made to feel
what moves beneath the surface
And tonight
Maybe I can rest a little more
In the spaces in between.

10/07/2025

04/07/2025

03/07/2025

"This isn't really about thinking. We're taught that that's education, thinking. And so our education is basically thinking. And I think it's important to think. Feel it's important to think. But there's something other than thinking - perceiving, pratyahara. For me, pratyahara isn't withdrawing from the senses, it's coming to the place from which all senses are born." - Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

30/06/2025

27/06/2025

What is ?
Are they the waking hours when I feel my breaking heart aches for love that I’ve lost, when my drifting soul yearns to be anchored, when the weight of my being longs to be held.
Are they the dark sleepless nights when my shadows come out to play, in my dreams when grief and fear and sorrow rip open my guts...

Embodiment involves contacting our messy, vulnerable states, resisting the urge to run away, but to stay and listen....

https://www.facebook.com/events/1349921831814365/

24/06/2025

Yielding Into Action
Join me this Sunday for a playful Contact Improvisation share

Before we do, we feel. Before we leap, we yield.

In this month’s CI share at Sigma before the Open Jam, we’ll yield, push, roll, reach, and pull our way through the early patterns of movement — the ones that helped us discover gravity, support, and connection long before we had words.

We’ll invite our bodies to remember:
✨ How yielding creates support
✨ How pushing builds power
✨ How reaching invites curiosity
✨ How pulling brings us home

Solo exploration, partner play, and time to jam in good company.

This is for movers, improvisors, and curious creatures of all kinds.
Come play with gravity. Come home to your body.

Venue: Sigma Collective Space, 10 Raeburn Park
Time: 6.30pm to 7.30pm (Open Jam after - FOC)
Fee: $15
Register here: https://clients.oclass.app/sigma/book/class

22/06/2025

Homeostasis is the innate ability of our nervous system to always come back to a state of balance and equilibrium. It is the natural propensity to heal, to thrive, to BE.

18/06/2025