This Is Somatic

Workshops and Classes in Somatic Education, Movement and Dance
based in Bristol. Sustainability education starts with ourselves, our own bodies.

Eeva-Maria
is a Finnish performer and community dance leader currently based in Bristol after about 20 years in Wales. She trained initially in theatre at LAMDA, in London, 1989-92, and has since continued her professional development in dance and somatic movement work gaining qualifications to teach ‘Body and Earth’ workshops, to deliver the Touch Trust programme and to lead Japanese ‘Space Danc

e’ movement for all ages. Since the 1990’s she has been performing internationally in dance theatre & film, site specific works, cross art form improvisations, cinema and TV in the UK and Finland. She has also been teaching people of all ages, including projects with young children, children with their parents, young people with disabilities, adults with learning disabilities, and the elderly in care home settings, sometimes independently, sometimes through community dance organisations like Arts Care Gofal Celf. She’s a qualified Touch Trust trainer, delivering Communication Through Touch day courses at present. Currently she is also working in Age Cymru’s Cartrefu project, bringing participatory arts into care homes across Wales. In recent years Eeva has performed in Miranda Tufnell’s major collaborative piece Pneuma, and Gaby Agis’s Close Streams for Turner Gallery, Margate amongst other performance projects. Since arriving in Carmarthenshire in 2002, through till 2021, Eeva worked with her husband Andy Paget to provide a unique rural creative retreat at p e n p y n f a r c h. For 8 years she designed and co-ordinated an annual training programme Body, Movement, Environment, including residentials for families, and Penpynfarch continued to offer studio and accommodation to artists from all over the world. Eeva feels passionately about the importance of sensory experiences and creative opportunities for all, for learning, health and happiness. Andy Paget
has a broad interest in movement, mindfulness, embodiment and how these relate to our relationship with our environment and each other. He initially trained in movement and theatre at the Ecole Jaques Lecoq and with Monika Pagneux and Philippe Gaulier and subsequently worked at LAMDA for 9 years teaching movement and Improvisation as well as directing theatre productions. In 1999 he completed a training in The Feldenkrais Method. During his 20 years as a practitioner Andy has worked individually with clients and has taught group classes at his own studio but also for the Core Trust in London, the WEA and Arts Plus Adult Education centre in Nottingham. With his partner Eeva-Maria Mutka Andy co-directed the Penpynfarch centre for body, movement and environment 2003-2021. Andy has given workshops in the This Is Somatic and Touch Base series at Penpynfarch. He has worked extensively as a Storyteller in Artists In Schools programmes in London and held a post as Arts In Education Officer for the Kingston Music and Arts Trust. Andy is also a percussionist and has considerable experience playing for dance and movement classes. In 2021 Andy qualified in Hakomi body-centered psychotherapy with the Applied Mindfulness Centre.

20/02/2025

Body. Movement. Imagination. - Sunday Apr 6th in Bristol. Book now with Eeva-Maria, [email protected]

14/04/2024

Thank you Fred Purse for extraordinarily beautiful music and the group for all the somatic work & witty as well as tender dances in dialogue!
Next session of Movement & Live Music In Conversation will be Sat May 11th, with Harry Furniss (cornet) & Henry Terrett (drums) of Bristol band Bingo Fury as guest musicians - pop it in your diary, Event page to follow soon!
And,
‘Summer special’, to celebrate all of the Jan-June sessions, with pot luck picnic after planned for Sat June 22nd, with Meriel Paget on Fiddle as musician. All at Waterlilies BS11.
- Photo of Fred Purse, …and the inviting empty space just before.

12/03/2024

Jonah Brody will be playing for our Movement & Live Music In Conversation this Saturday! And he's planning to bring his Koto, how exciting. Event with all the details: https://www.facebook.com/events/312376955154356
Look up his music https://www.jonahbrody.com/new-page-1
Do book with me as we are gathering numbers to these monthly sessions. And share freely.
(photo by Swaledale festival from the Pneuma performances 2021 in Yorkshire & Cumbria, - project by Miranda Tufnell, Sylvia Hallett & David Ward, with Jonah Brody, Cai Tomos, Simon Whitehead and myself. )

25/01/2024

This Is Somatic... warmly invites you to
Embodying Change: Ordinary Movement
As Know-How For Life.

A series of 5 Classes in Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement®, with Andy Paget

Following simple slow movement sequences, dropping into
sensation, giving time and space for awareness of the body and reflective experience -
Awareness Through Movement lessons allow you to settle into physical states- and states of mind - that are softer and more responsive but at the same time more grounded and resilient.

Sundays 11.00am - 12.30pm
25th February,
3rd March,
10th March,
17th March,
24th March

Water Lilies Community Hub, Bristol BS11

More Info at
https://www.andypaget.net/general-8

02/01/2024

Movement & Live Music In Conversation

Proposing a monthly 2 hr IMPROVISATION Workshop with movers and live musician(s) in dialogue. Experimental, following your own body & open to all adults, any age and ability.
Meeting each & all with curiosity, we can rest into listening and be inspired to move creatively in connection, within scores (=a simple task/improvisation parameters) given by the workshop leader.
1st one: Saturday Jan 20th 2024, at the Waterlilies community hub BS11 0GJ, 11.30-1.30pm, & tea!
Led by Movement Artists Jessica Lerner (Wales) and Eeva-Maria Mutka, with Musican Al Swainger (Bristol) creating spontaneous soundscapes.
2nd date: Saturday Feb 17th includes Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement to start with, as a way of tuning into sensory flow, led by Andy Paget. And onwards with Eeva-Maria & musician(s) tbc
3rd session: Saturday March 16th - Feldenkrais and Movement with Live Music
More Apr onwards.
https://www.jessicalerner.uk/
https://pointlessbeauty.com/
https://www.eevamariamutka.com/
https://www.andypaget.net/awareness-through-movement-1
Booking necessary with Eeva-Maria, and any questions, including directions: [email protected] / 07837-569352
Arrive from 11am, to start 11.30pm. Bring a snack for tea time after if you want.
£15 per workshop.
Busses 3 & 4 - get off at Penpole Lane + 10 min walk
Train: Shirehampton + 20 min walk
Driving: Park on Goodring Hill (no parking on Alderdown Close), or Kingsweston House for free and walk over (allow 10 mins)

Water Lilies in Kingweston, Bristol, is a 33-home eco self build housing community enabled by Bright Green Futures.

Andy Paget Somatic Therapies | somatic therapy in Bristol UK | Bristol, UK

03/10/2023

Look out for a new programme of workshops and classes in Bristol starting early 2024. Meanwhile Andy is offering one to one somatic therapy sessions– Feldenkrais and Hakomi body-centred psychotherapy– in our new studio space in Water Lilies zero-carbon co-housing development. Please visit his new website for more info

Andy Paget Somatic Therapies | somatic therapy in Bristol UK | Bristol, UK Andy Paget Somatic Therapies. One to one sessions in Hakomi mindfulness-based psychotherapy and Feldenkrais Method. Awareness Through Movement group classes and workshops.

03/10/2023

It’s been a while since we posted here. A period of big changes. We have now relocated from our wild valley in Wales to Bristol, UK. Moving towards people, the urban and, perhaps, a different kind of wild. Where we live we can see the brown water of the Bristol Channel. Gradually orienting in this new place, we have been making little trips, working our way up the Severn estuary.

At Purton Ships Graveyard we explore among the skeletal remains of beached ships. Picking our way between the mud and reeds. Big skies, big water and shifting sands. Finding a horizon, the breath deepens.

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http://www.andypaget.net/, http://www.eevamariamutka.com/

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10 Water Lilies
Bristol
BS110GJ