Movement is my life, and I regularly run workshops, both indoors and outdoors, for groups and individuals of all ages and backgrounds, as much as I offer individual support and guidance during one-on-one sessions. I live in Aberdeenshire where I offer a whole range of opportunities to take movement outdoors, and guide Walks to Wellbeing Series in spring and autumn seasons. Of lately, I also offer individual sessions in Edinburgh and East London area. I have studied with many wonderful teachers in theatre, cultural and bodymind theory, including Mieke Bal and Maaike Bleeker, and many inspiring practitioners in somatic work, including Penny Collinson, Andrea Olsen, Caryn McHose, Sondra Fraleigh and Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen. My collaborations also include some amazing scholars like Erin Manning, Bracha Ettinger and Vicky Karkou.  As a trained movement and creative arts therapist, I have been offering work grounded in connecting creative expression with its benefits for healthy processes of development and/or recovery. And over the last two decades I have been practising and developing versatile ways of working with movement in lived, somatic experience of body systems that builds on most natural ways for relating to the world around us in fully embodied and more conscious ways, and which constructs my ongoing work on embodied consciousness and its reflexive methodologies. In international collaboration with many both established and emerging artists and choreographers, I have also self-produced over 30 short dance films inspired primarily by environmental themes, and merged my artistic work across multiple media formats, that I constantly love exploring. I have also supported many choreographers in their artistic processes of growth and shared their creative endeavours in dance research and performance.  Within Higher Education settings, I have run a number of both indoor and outdoor workshops at the Universities of Aberdeen, Oxford, Dundee, Edinburgh and Edge Hill, delivered with different focus on: Caring in Movement, Self Care in Somatic Education, Ecological Citizenship - Embodied Presence and Connectivity, Mindful Movement for Wellbeing and Ecological Relatedness and the Sense of Belonging.  As a writer, I specialise in practice-based research, eco-psychology and environmental philosophy perspectives. During my doctoral work on Art Research in Therapeutic Education, I have been developing movement-based approaches toward more embodied ways for being well with the natural environment guided by processes of somatic Felt Thinking. And I believe that, as a grounding methodology of reflexive and expressive self-inquiry, Felt Thinking in Movement opens up a whole new realm of philosophical contemplation on what it means to be human and on experiential movement as the basic ontology of relating to the living world within and around ourselves.  As a somatic facilitator, my ongoing aim is to create conditions for creative journeys of self-discovery steered by the expansion in sensory system, more fluid integration within the nervous system and by gaining new depths of awareness and emotional resilience. I cherish a very individual approach to working with movement, intuition and sensorial awareness and always try to activate most natural methods for connecting with somatic experience, reflective expression, inner awareness and the potential for creative growth.   In my somatic therapy practice, I specialise in concerns including eating disorders, stress, personal and emotional problems, addictions, burn-out, depression but work with a wide variety of people with a broader range of concerns. More importantly though, I offer working with contemplative movement simply as a daily practice of self-care, personal development and overall psycho-somatic wellbeing open to all levels of movement capacities. After all, breathing alone is our lives' primal movement. My all-round education in philosophy, cultural theory, dance and somatic psychology speaks to the core of any practical work I undertake. And it is my hope to keep working towards a well-inclusive practice and its applicable pedagogies that grow out of an intrinsic, in my understanding, connection between movement arts, natural environment, intercultural dialogue and wellbeing, as well as to keep sharing the benefits of psycho-somatic awareness within my practice to the best of my ability. Anna Dako