Embodied Awareness: A Movement-Based Body Connection Workshop
Movement and body awareness
This workshop offers a gentle, grounding exploration of movement and body-awareness to help you reconnect with yourself from the inside out. Through guided somatic exercises, mindful movement, and embodied reflection, participants learn to listen more deeply to their…
Attentive Work
Body Awareness / Interoception
Body Scan & Body Awareness
Mindfulness
Movement Activities
Nervous System Regulation Practice
Workshop
Description
This workshop offers a gentle, grounding exploration of movement and body-awareness to help you reconnect with yourself from the inside out. Through guided somatic exercises, mindful movement, and embodied reflection, participants learn to listen more deeply to their bodies, release tension, and cultivate a sense of presence and ease. The experience is accessible to all bodies and levels of movement—no prior experience needed.
It is really about becoming attune to your body (especially if you have an overactive mind and live mostly from the neck up). This brings our attention and focus to the whole self, learning to be present with our body, aware of different sensations and get curious about what the body needs, how it wishes to move and express.
A great one for play, expression, self-regulation and shaking up the working from desk day!
Benefits
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Improved body awareness by learning to sense and interpret internal cues with more clarity.
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Greater connection to the body fostering a deeper sense of grounding, presence, and self-trust.
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Reduced physical and emotional tension through gentle, mindful movement.
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Enhanced mind-body harmony supporting overall wellbeing and resilience.
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Practical embodied tools participants can use daily to regulate stress and stay connected to themselves.
Hosted by Cathy Williams
About the Host
I am a trail-blazer in the world of body based healing and creative arts therapy, known for my empowering compassionate approach. I have 17 years experience in Community Development, facilitating a variety of capacity-building and wellbeing, personal growth and development focused workshops and programs for communities, individuals, corporations – people who have experienced burn out, anxiety, stress and disconnection from their body. I am an award-winning author, trainer and facilitator – specialising in Movement & Expressive Arts Therapy. My work is about supporting people to rekindle their relationship with their bodies and re-learn how to listen to, trust in and follow their intuition. I am trauma-informed in my approach, encouraging people to have agency in their body autonomy and learn the language of their body and what it is communicating with them so they can learn to work in partnership with their body. As a Creative Arts Therapist I am skilled in creative innovation, tailoring sessions and workshops to themes and life-challenges, and coming up with creative avenues for exploration and discovery.
Certifications & Credentials
I have Public Liability Insurance and qualifications in – Masters of Social Science, Certifications in Somatic, Movement & Expressive Arts Therapy, Group Work facilitation and Trauma in the Body
Client Requirements
Depending if the session is body-based or creative focused, the clients might need space to move freely/comfortably, access to speaker for good sound, and access to creative materials - most commonly A3 paper and drawing pencils and pastels.
Focus Areas
Creative/CultureWell-being/Health
Location
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Languages
English
Corporate Experience
Significant
Session Types Offered
Interactive & Passive
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Interactive
Past Clients
Sydney Centre for Creative Change, Melbourne Centre for Women's Mental health, DB Results
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