movement lab taster: movement as insight

Step into a space where movement is not performance, but inquiry. This 90-minute taster session invites you to explore how your body can become a compass for creativity, intuition, and embodied knowing.

You’ll experiment with improvisation, sensory awareness, and simple movement exercises that open new pathways for insight. No prior experience, project, or goal is needed — just curiosity and a willingness to move into the unknown.

This session is a taste of the full 8-week movement lab course, where we explore movement as a way of listening, researching, and making sense of the world, supporting your own creative project or inquiry. The course starts the following Wednesday 1st October and will run every Wednesday evening for 8 weeks. For more information on the full course, visit movement lab.

What to expect

• Gentle guidance to support your exploration of movement as a source of insight.
• Practices to notice, respond, and follow impulses without forcing outcomes.
• Opportunities to reflect on what emerges and translate it into creative forms if you wish.
• A small, supportive environment where your process is witnessed and held.

Who it’s for

Artists, writers, movers, thinkers, seekers — anyone curious about how movement can reveal what we don’t yet know.

Bring

Comfortable clothes and an openness to explore your body in dialogue with your own intuition.

Testimonials

“I really enjoyed working with Claire’s practice. I found intuitive movement to be a really great way to release tension, to land in my body and become aware of what’s going on there. Claire’s guidance was gentle and listening, it made me feel safe and able to explore. I really appreciated Claire’s emphasis on arriving as we are. On days where we felt light and playful, we could move with those feelings, and when tired or heavy, we were equally encouraged to sit with those feelings. This generally led to much more relaxed and connective sessions. As someone looking to better understand my own body’s needs, patterns and tendencies, these workshops proved a great support. I would certainly like to work with her again!”

Aaron, collective arts practitioner

“Claire’s Movement Lab was a deeply insightful process for me. My initial intention was to explore and develop creative projects in relation to my work offerings. Through the sessions — and by truly staying with what was most alive and present — the process revealed so much more. It opened up core themes and tensions within my personal, relational, and professional life in a gentle, explorative, and creative way. Claire’s attuned, embodied, and sensitive approach allowed me to stay curious, listen deeply, and meet each moment with presence. Her facilitation held space for the unknown, for play, and for honest inquiry — which in turn helped me access deeper layers of knowing and expression that I hadn’t anticipated. I left the process feeling excited and with a renewed sense of trust in the unfolding of my creative path and my bodily wisdom. Sharing this process with the group and witnessing others in their process was also deeply touching and invaluable. I would recommend to anyone that enjoys working experientially and creatively.”

Sophia, Somatic Practitioner, Embodied Arts & Research

Facilitator bio

Claire is a movement artist and guide, specialising in improvisation, unstylised movement, and eco-somatics — a practice of listening and responding to the world around us through the body. Her work is rooted in curiosity and play, exploring relationships with non-human beings: plants, fungi, and the living ecology of landscapes.

She is the author of How to be feral: movement practices to re-wild your body, a philosophical guide that encourages readers to think, feel, and move with the body, challenging the human-centred perspective and inviting a more connected way of being.

Claire is also an insight herbalist, trained at the School of Intuitive Herbalism, where learning comes directly from the plants themselves. In her teaching, she combines movement, ecological awareness, and creative inquiry to guide students in discovering their own intuition, insight, and embodied intelligence — making space for curiosity, experimentation, and personal exploration.

To find out about Claire's movement and teaching style watch this video of her moving and inviting to move your own way

You can also watch more videos of her moving @howtobeferal

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