Jane Woolley - Movement Artist & Consultant

Jane has over 15 years experience teaching creative dance in schools, hospitals and universities. She works as a consultant for leading professional dance companies developing education programmes and resources. Following her MA research in Somatic Practices and Creativity she has developed specialist knowledge in dance and health, exploring the facilitation of people's well being through movement and yoga.

Movement and Breath

This workshop will creatively explore movement stretches, mobilisations and yoga postures alongside breathing exercises and relaxation. By using the breath to connect the physical body with the thinking mind, the workshop will aim to energise and calm, providing a perfect restorative break in the middle of the working day.

Read more about Jane’s work here: http://www.rambert.org.uk/about-us/people/animateurs/

If you have a yoga mat, please bring it with you to the workshop.

Creative Breaks: making time for creativity in the working day has been developed by Sue Woodward, Angela Maddock and Jenny Oates. It is a well being project supported by King’s Cultural Institute. The project involves weekly hour-long arts-based lunchtime creative breaks over twelve weeks in 2018 for nursing and midwifery faculty staff and students Faculty members are invited to take part in a creative break based on the themes of ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’: Keep moving, Invest in Relationships, Never stop Learning, Give to others, Savour the moment. The project will finish on 10 December with three separate extended workshops.

Please note: we are evaluating this project. If you take part you will be invited to complete a weekly online survey and some final evaluation. You are under no obligation to take part in the evaluation if you take part in the events.

These workshops are only for the staff and students of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King’s College London.

Creative Break 4: Breath and Movement