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Movement Medicine®, Internal Family Systems & Processwork. Dance Scapes is the umbrella for workshops, courses and individual sessions with Rosie Perks.

Somatic practice that weaves the intelligence of the moving body with the inclusivity and kindness of systemic understanding. Dance as a practice is a highly efficient tool for processing our experiences, traversing our emotions, and getting to know ourselves better. Dance Scapes with Rosie integrates the somatic practice of Movement Medicine® with Internal Family Systems, Processwork, trauma awa

reness and systemic understanding. Movement Medicine unites the liberation of free dance with the awareness of mindfulness, the depth of therapeutic understanding and intelligence of shamanic practice. This is supported by the kindness and inclusivity of IFS and Processwork practices that help us to listen to our internal system and how this relates to external systems. Creating a trauma informed, nervous system aware environment that supports
us to explore our humanity and emotional terrain with courage, compassion and curiosity. This is somatic practice for the times we live in, rooted in our connection to the natural world and the cycles of life. Returning us time and again to the home inside our hearts, the nourishment of our bodies in motion and the love of a dancing village.

08/08/2026

I’m very happy to introduce you to this latest workshop. This weekend offers an introduction to the Momentum Programme should you want one. CULTIVATE is also a great weekend to come to in its own right , I’m glad for it and for the team from momentum that will be supporting it.

GROWING AGENCY & UNDERSTANDING
CULTIVATE is an invitation to till the soil of your somatic intelligence and dancing self, to deepen your understanding of how your system communicates within and beyond you.

Weaving Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Movement Medicine, we grow a particular somatic and systemic wisdom that nurtures kindness and understanding alongside agency and freedom of expression. Dancing to surrender ourselves to the intelligence of our awake moving bodies, allowing the self energy of the spirit of the dance to expand and nourish us.
We will then move into embodied IFS practice, to support places in our systems to grow with choice, capacity and courage.

Drawing on the resource of our dancing village to collectively cultivate ease and connection over activation and separation. Through giving space and permission for the aliveness of our own nature while tending to the living landscape of life around and between us.

This is an opportunity to be genuinely nourished, by movement, by music, by the simple and profound experience of being in good company. So that when we return to our lives, we carry with us a little more resilience, a little more capacity, a little more of ourselves.

TOTNES, UK 13 - 15 November 2026 �
Friday 13 November 7pm - 9pm, Saturday 14 November 11am - 6.30pm, Sunday 15 November 10am - 4.30pm�
Studio 6, Lower Close Studios, Dartington Hall, Totnes, TQ9 6EN��

Tiered cost please pay responsibly according to your means: �£170 low cost (money is very tight), £190 regular (money is relatively comfortable), £210 supportive (money is relatively plentiful).�Number of places are limited to 30.�

BOOK ONLINE: https://dance-scapes.com/pages/workshops/cultivate/158�If you have any questions about booking or wish to pay by bank transfer please get in touch with Shiraya:�[email protected] | +44 (0)7597 099645

13/07/2026

SHOWING UP
Something I keep catching myself in: a quiet sense that people are doing me a favour by choosing to dance with me. That I owe them something extra. That my showing up somehow doesn't quite count as enough.

I'm with how much that costs. And how much it isn't true.

What beginning to learn is that me showing up is the relational offering. People don't need anything more from me than that. And I don't need anything more from them than their showing up, being themselves, sharing themselves with me and the other dancers.

Yes, there are transactions that make this function in the world we live in. And yet the fundamental thing that's happening is relational and vital.

I make myself available. In return, something alive happens between us.

I'm practising remembering that. Practising arriving as someone who knows they're good for the people they work with. Not because I've earned it in that particular moment, but because showing up, genuinely and fully, is already the thing. Already enough.

06/07/2026

SAM
Our beloved dog died very recently. Unexpectedly he went into kidney failure, and we had to make that hardest of choices to end his suffering. I'm sure anyone who has loved an animal companion and had to make this choice understands that particular heart-wrenching ask of us.

So I've been in my own dance of losing ground. His desolation of absence. His alongsidedness that kept me well in my everyday life, one that brought a sense of enoughness to me.

I've been giving myself time to really be with what it was like with Sam. What he brought me, what I brought him, what our companionship was like and why it was, and is, so precious to me.

His boisterous joy for life. His soft warm love. His clear edges. How he never held back from being himself with me. How available and alive it was between us.

What's strongest in me right now is how I always knew I was good for him. And he always knew he was good for me. That was just there, in all our rest and play together, no question, no performance, no transaction needed.

He held a kind of enoughness in me that I'm trying to learn how to hold for myself.
I'm still finding my ground. But I'm taking him with me into it.

29/06/2026

ENOUGH-NESS
I've been noticing lately, when I teach, how often I find myself encouraging dancers to be with their sense of already being enough, and to dance from there.

I'm aware it comes from my own places where I believe I need to be more than I am. Better than I am. Deliver something cleverer.

I'm getting more curious about how hard it is to allow myself to move in the world from a sense of my goodness, my vitality, my wellness - rather than the well-trodden path of not enough, reaching for, filling the gaps.

What would life be like if I could really interact from a place of my goodness? If I was to believe that what I bring is already enough, who I am is already enough. Then all I have to do is be generous and share that with the people I work with and meet in my daily life.

That makes me widen my wondering. What would our world be like if we all interacted with each other from a sense of our goodness? Kindly, generously sharing that - rather than communicating from our lack, our fear of being wrong, of not being enough, of not being received.

For me, coming from the place of not enough instantly disables me. Limits me. Gives me less space to be curious, to offer, to notice and respond to what shows up in return.

The other place opens a door to real reciprocity. I offer, it's received, I receive back, I offer back, the infinity loop. Rather than the linear, transactional understanding of a one-way interaction.

That's the world I want to live in, and the dance I want to be part of.

10/06/2026

SPECIAL EDITION THURSDAY EVENING DROP IN SESSION
Studio 6, Lower Close Studios, Dartington Hall, Totnes, TQ9 6EN
PLACES LIMITED TO 24
BOOK ONLINE AT: dance-scapes.com/calendar
LOW COST: £8 (to reflect special circumstances)

This evening is to:
• Provide an opportunity for those that want to dance with us but can’t join an ongoing group
• Enjoy a mid-summer dance together and give back a little
• Continue the Thursday dance rhythm when David and Christian are both committed elsewhere
• Gather much needed photography and video footage to help communicate what we do here
The video/photography will be done by Emilio Mula and Jae Spencer Keyse, both committed dancers(full information on the care that will be taken and how the images will be used is on the booking page).

Any income after covering the costs of the evening (venue & ticketing) will be put towards supporting dancers through the MOMENTUM PROGRAMME 2027 Bursary fund.

If cost is an issue and you want to join us please get in touch.

21/05/2026

What becomes possible
When we bring our full humanity into relationship with the Dance — all the beautiful and difficult parts — something shifts.

Understandings arrive. A little more space opens up. Space to be human with ourselves, with each other, and in the world.

And when we step back out into our lives, we often find a little more capacity to meet both the goodness that's available to us and the places where we can't quite feel it yet - with more resilience, more grace.

That's what we come together for. 💛

Momentum Somatic Programme April - October 2027
Find out more on dance-scapes.com

17/05/2026

The place we dance from
There's a place we can dance from that holds us with kindness, compassion, openness, and a lightness of touch — gentle enough to meet even the strongest, most tender places inside us.

In IFS it's called Self energy. In some practices, Presence. In Movement Medicine, the Wise Elder within.

Whatever name we give it, when we dance from this place, we open the door to the parts of us that are struggling, hurting, or trying to bring something important into the world — and we meet them with care.

The moving body becomes a safe vessel for the heart. 🙏
Momentum Somatic Programme April - October 2027
Find out more on dance-scapes.com

14/05/2026

THE INVITATION
Being human in these times asks a lot of us - stretch, kindness, and as much curiosity and willingness to show up with and for each other as we can.

In Momentum, we get to explore this together. How to be with ourselves, with our own inner systems - all the complexity that lives inside us. The places that agree with other places in us, and the places that don't. We also explore this with others .

We get to dance with those conversations. 🌀
Momentum Somatic Programme April - October 2027
Find out more on dance-scapes.com

01/05/2026

The Momentum programme can bring huge benefits, whether you are an experienced dancer, have worked with IFS or are simply drawn here. Those harvested by past participants include:

• Increased trust in yourself: all parts of you are welcomed, whether you are moving, resting, speaking, creating or simply being - the power of kindness and inclusion.

• Support for your nervous system: allowing movement and systemic understanding to increase regulation, resilience and aliveness.

• Growing your personal agency: bringing understanding and movement to over-burdened places in you so they can act from choice rather than compulsion.

• Enriching your relationships and community capacity: giving attention and care to the roles we have, so we can make choices and stand up for what we believe in.

• Knowing that you have a place: through trustworthy connection in a group setting where you can show up as you are, be genuinely seen and supported.

• Reclaiming your wholeness: receiving skilled, compassionate facilitation and mentoring as you navigate deeper terrains and realign with your goodness and dignity.

• Resource in demanding work and life roles: gathering support, sustenance and inspiration for working with, and caring for others in these stretching times.

This pioneering 6-month programme offers ground and growth on a personal level.

Although it is not a training, it will also be useful for professional development; cultivating your own somatic, systemic practice to support and influence your work with others.

To find out more, visit dance-scapes.com and click on the ‘momentum’ banner.

29/04/2026

Momentum.

For bookings, visit dance-scapes.com and click on the ‘momentum’ banner.

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