You can’t solve it all with your mind alone
You can’t solve it all with your mind alone
You can’t solve it all with your mind alone
Sweat Body Dance Aerobics + Graceful Movement practices for Embodied Living
3-month Embodied Learning Program
IMMERSED is a devoted pathway to embodied living. It’s for you if you are ready to commit to applying the embodied principles you learn on your mat to your every day life. Rather than simply having a nice experience in a yoga class, or calming down on your meditation cushion, this is a way of life. It’s a pathway to reclaiming agency over your mind and body, to learning how to be in true and honest connection and authentic relationships with your life and every one and every thing in it. Immersed is in service to empowered sensitivity and radical self mastery.
Every single living being has a purpose in life and the power to materialise it, but we get lost underneath layers of inherited ideas and habits that distract or block or obscure the truth. It takes great courage and devotion to see through all the limits and constructions and systematic manipulation, to get back to something that feels fully alive and expressed. This is what we do in Immersed. This work is slow, much slower than 3 months, and full of mystery that defies the neat boxes and straight lines most people have come to depend up. This container is intended to support you on your way, there is no end goal, no certificate to prove anything, nothing you can tick off your list of achievements, but if you are willing to drop into the depths of embodied learning, you will slowly see the fruits of it in the way you relate to every part of yourself and how you show up for others. You can join for 3, 6 or 9 months.
Doors open Spring 2025
Graceful Movement
Dance Aerobics + Embodiment
about the work
befriend your body & understand your mind.
That’s what embodiment teaches you do to, whilst remembering that your essential nature is creative and beautifully interconnected to all forms of life and existence. Aligning all 3 elements (mind, body, spirit) is what expands your ability to live in truth and power, beyond all the limited fears and ideas that you’ve inherited from the environment you exist in.
All the things that humans need (beyond the basics of food and security), like nourishing relationships, a sense of purpose, the resilience to navigate inevitable challenges, the courage to express truthfully and the potential to transcend and repair, are facilitated through embodied living.
The body has the potential to feel and inform, far beyond the realms of what the mind can perceive and this information is priceless when it comes to properly understanding yourself and your place in the world. The conditioning of the mind has such a tight grip, that often we spend a lot of time getting in our own way.
Acknowledging the wisdom of the material and subtle bodies and the responsibility you have towards yourself, can support you in reprogramming the patterns and habits that limit your ability to connect, create, receive, give, love, grieve, feel, enjoy, insert whatever the thing is that you are seeking - the path towards it, is embodied.
mind. body. mystery.
My work is for people who have been tentatively treading the line between normalised and radical and are ready to cross over to radical. The radical act of non-negotiable love for yourself, in action. None of the this transformative work can happen inside the mind alone and none of it can be done from a place of judgement or rejection. When you work with me, you’ll put into practice all the brilliant concepts, ideas and theories that you most likely already know, at least on a rational level, but haven’t yet managed to integrate into actual living. Most importantly, you’ll receive guidance to apply it to your own life and practice it.
I do this work for myself and for anyone who doesn’t want to pretend any more. I’m here for the perfectionists, the ‘everything’s fine thanks’ addicts, control freaks and the avoiders. And I’m especially here for the sensitive feelers, who need to learn how to harness that gift. As long as you’re ready to see yourself clearly, we can work together. You’ll learn to develop a dependable relationship to your body and nervous system, to recognise the programming and conditioning that you’ve accumulated so that you can be more responsible with yourself and you life. This work is not always about sunshine and roses or a sweet and easy awakening. It is a long, devoted path that slowly disrupts many of the ideas and beliefs that do not serve you, but that you’ve come to rely on. At times it can be gritty, confusing and feel alienating, but in it’s fullest range it also expansive, connective and fully alive.
"by virtue of your existence, you are deserving of receiving the gifts that life bestows upon you”
There is a reason that statements like that can make us feel uncomfortable.
Most of the time, we’re conditioned into genuinely believing that we need to earn the fruits of our life, instead of trusting in the inherently good nature that is a part of us all. This conditioning feeds into competition, perfectionism, a sense of never being good enough ever. It’s led us to a deep mistrust of anything feminine and outside of the hyper-masculine patriarchy that feeds on a currency of never ending productivity and attention. Very few people do well in these conditions, because we subtly learn that a fully expressed version of ourselves cannot be safe. So we start performing, compartmentalising, extracting and attempting to control every tiny thing around us until we’re stuck. Reclaiming the essence of your worth severs the connection to the truth of who you are, not what you do or how you present yourself. Stop looking for proof that you are deserving of your life, you are living it.
So we work to remember. I teach you how to recognise sub-conscious limiting beliefs, to develop body awareness and sensitivity, instead of disassociating or getting pulled into stories, so that forgotten sensations become rich sources of information, that effect the way you perceive your mind and the world around you.
An essential part of my work is inviting in mystery and uncertainty. Developing trust in the forces that hold you, in the parts of you that serve your highest interests - even, especially - when that disrupts, challenges and demands that you stop abandoning yourself.
We do it slowly and work with interdisciplinary mind body practices such as post-lineage yoga, dance, somatic bodywork, mindfulness, bodyfulness and breath work.
about me
weekly group classes
work with me 1-1
immersions
+ residencies
word of mouth
Grace is a wonderful human being. She opened up the world of dragon dance for me and teaches how to balance community and the ego with movement, repetition and diving into one’s self. Her yoga sessions are just lovely, too. It’s always worth participating. I am very grateful for her classes being a part of my life. Highly recommended.
- Nina Gilch
“Dragon dance has been an essential part of our week and health regime. Grace has made it fun and challenging and I also really appreciate her weekly philosophical and spiritual musings and inspirations”
- Taro Franke
“How much routine, grounding, awarenss and conscious slowing down you bless us with. It’s not ‘just yoga’ but therapy for mind, body and soul. Keeping us sane in insane times”
- Elisabeth Schroeder
“Yoga with Grace improved my body image and back pain significantly”
- Maria
“Grace, you incredible woman, I am so happy I joined foreplay last night. I'm usually not a big fan of evening workouts, but it felt so good to let go, move, shake it all off, sweat, and be in such great company. I loved the different sections, the music was simply dope, and you are the most magical being. Thank you for keeping the good energy swirling around, for the empowering, nurturing words, and your courage.”
- Claudia Mandelli
“I took some barre classes before but it was not comparable with yesterdays experience. I felt so light and relaxed after the class and I loved the music. It felt like true body positive workout”
- Ola, Spain
zero tolerance policy
All my offerings are intended to be welcoming and as safe as is possible, to all bodies. Therefore an absolute zero tolerance policy towards racism, ableism, ageism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and any identity based discrimination is in place. Anyone who does not comply with this policy will be asked to leave.
If you attend any class or event where you experience or witness discrimination or feel in anyway excluded or insecure, please notify me in person, by mail or phone (contact page of this website) so that I can support you. Any conflict resolution or counter action will only be enacted upon with the permission of the person/s who experience the offending behaviour. I will always prioritise listening to the voice of the person/s who feel offended or vulnerable.