Taster Class & Personal Embodiment L1 Training informational session

"Level 1 Personal Embodiment training has been a life changing experience for me: it reconnected me with my body and showed me how I can tap into my body intelligence and creativity to heal past wounds and navigate current life challenges. By the end of the course I felt much more confident and resourceful in my life especially when confronted with difficult situations."

The Tamalpa UK information event is an opportunity to experience the Tamalpa Life Art Process® for your self and discover how the embodied practice translates ONLINE for the Level 1 Personal Embodiment Training, week day format. Scheduled to start on Friday 1st May 2026.

The open event acts as an introduction to the Tamalpa Life Art Process® Founded by Anna and Daria Halprin. A body of work spanning over 50 years.

Find out in more detail what is involved in the Level 1 Personal Embodiment Training for 2026 and the pathway to becoming a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist or Registered Somatic Movement Educator.

Participants will gain insight into specific tools to discover how creativity, movement and dance can be a platform for navigating the compelling issues and themes in their lives.

A mixture of Somatic Movement, Mark making/Drawing and Creative Writing. The event allows time to pause, to breathe & to move with creative curiosity.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Have the invitation to take time to slow down and rediscover what feels nourishing
• Be guided to reconnect with the rhythm of one's own breath
• To experience the Tamalpa Life Art Process® in their own home/work environment
• To discover clear insights from the wisdom of their own body
• To be seen and witnessed in a safe and non-judgemental environment
• To find out more about the Tamalpa UK Level 1 Personal Embodiment Online training 2026 and how the week day format online differs from the weekend formats.

Lian Wilson Creative Director at Tamalpa UK will be hosting and facilitating the Tamalpa UK Introductory event, accompanied by a number of recent graduates.

The open day will include a presentation on the Level 1 Personal Embodiment training, Level 2 Leadership training towards applied practice.

It is an opportunity to discover how the Tamalpa Life Art Process® is being applied in various fields.

There will be time for a Q&A session at the end of the event.

No art or dance experience is necessary to attend.

FAQs

What do I need for this event?

• A high speed internet connection
• Laptop or computer with video camera, camera's will be required to be turned on for safe facilitation
• Please ensure you have enough space to move and dance in your room safely
• Please wear comfortable clothes to move in
• You will need some A2/A3 paper and either oil pastels, coloured pencils, crayons or preferred art materials
• Note book and pen
• Bottle of Water

If you require any further details, please contact us directly

Main Image credit: Tamalpa UK

Photo credit: Isaac Ojo, Gentle Studios

I really treasured the opportunity to experience the Tamalpa Life/Art Process® in the safety of the group and I learned a lot about myself through working with my peers and witnessing their journeys. The group and teachers were a great inspiration and I felt very supported while exploring difficult life themes.

In our current world where more than ever we socialise, work and study remotely, I felt very grateful that I had the opportunity to learn more deeply about the ways in which we express ourselves, create and communicate online." Level 1 Graduate

About Lian Wilson

Lian Wilson is the Creative Director of Tamalpa UK and established Tamalpa

Practitioner. She has spent over 25 years working in the field of somatic movement,

arts and health. Lian is a Master Somatic Movement Therapist MSMT and Master

Somatic Movement Educator MSME with ISMETA (International Somatic Movement

Education and Therapy Association).

One of her core interests is in the development of health and wellbeing in individuals

and diverse communities through the participation and education of the benefits of

dance and movement based expressive arts, notably through the Tamalpa Life Art

Process®. She has worked with the Kensington & Chelsea’s Mental Health Carers

Support Network and with Folkestone Mind’s mental health wellbeing programme,

facilitating Tamalpa Life Art classes.

Alongside Tamalpa UK Lian also worked with the Sidney De Haan Research Centre

for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University as a Research Assistant

from 2012 – 2019. Notable projects were a 2-year collaboration with Green Candle

Dance Company researching the benefits of dance for people with dementia and

more recently researching ‘Dance to Health’, a falls prevention dance project

commissioned by Aesop. She had a key role in assisting Professors Stephen Clift

and Paul M Camic in their role as editors of the Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts,

Health and Wellbeing published in 2016. Lian sat on the Royal Society for Public

Health’s Arts, Health and Wellbeing Special Interest Group steering committee from

2015-2018.

In her personal & professional life Lian draws upon her love of movement, dance,

creativity, nature and ongoing daily practice of living and sustaining a healthy life.

Holding safe spaces for participants to have permission to express their true nature through creativity and somatic movement is a key interest in Lian's work.