Somatic Movement Practice

09/03/2026

🌟 A few spaces remain for this upcoming Somatic Movement Exploration of Body & Mind🌟

Hi, I’m Sandra — a trainee psychoanalytic psychotherapist with over twenty years of experience teaching and studying yoga and somatic movement.

Beginning March 29, I’ll be offering a series of six monthly Sunday immersions exploring the relationship between body and mind @ Fours Swans Therapy and Wellness.

The work draws on the Body–Mind Centering® lineage, somatic movement, yoga, and psychoanalytic curiosity.

This first immersion, The White, Silent Forest, explores the skeletal body as living support — and how, when support becomes available, sensation, feelings, and thought can begin to come into relationship.

No prior yoga or somatic experience is needed.
Just a playful curiosity.

⭐ Sunday March 29 · 10.30–12.30
⭐ FourSwans, Duleek
⭐ €45

A small group is already gathering and a few spaces remain.

DM to reserve 🤍
or WhatsApp: 085 716 2831

25/01/2026

Sharing something that’s been quietly taking shape…

Re-emergence

It has been a while.

Before COVID, I taught yoga and somatic movement.
Then life interrupted.
I turned towards study, towards psychology, towards psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I kept learning, thinking, feeling, questioning. I stayed close to the body, even when I wasn’t teaching it.

Now I feel the pull to bring these strands back together.

As a somatic movement educator, yoga teacher, and trainee psychoanalytic psychotherapist, my work has always been rooted in one question:

How do we live in our bodies, in relationship to ourselves and others, with more honesty and care?

Somatic work, for me, is not about fixing, stretching, or perfecting the body.
It is about listening. Witnessing. Being with what is.

“Somatic” speaks to the living body — the biological, psychological, and social self, inseparable and constantly in dialogue. In movement, stillness, and shared space, we begin to notice how we carry our histories, expectations, and relationships within us.

I am interested in how we become who we are through relationship — how we show up differently in different spaces, how our bodies remember, adapt, protect, and reveal.

These practices are not about self-improvement or body beautification. They are about awareness, tolerance of self, and gently expanding what feels possible.

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing reflections and details about a new series of workshops weaving together somatic movement, psychoanalytic thinking, and embodied inquiry.

My first workshop will take place in March.
If this speaks to you, stay close.

More soon.
Sandra 🤍

Image from my training as a Somatic Movement Educator.

30/09/2023

It has been awhile! But my quest to understand the human mind and behaviour has continued.

I am looking for help!

Do you know any expectant Mums due babies around November, December or January?

I am currently a postgraduate student on the MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Trinity College Dublin.

As part of the curriculum, I must undertake to observe an infant (close to birth) for one hour per week in the family home until the end of the MSc training, which is April 2025.

This experience will afford me the opportunity to learn about an infants early communication, emotional development and relationships in an everyday ordinary way.

The participating family will be helping me by providing learning opportunities that will enrich my future work as a psychotherapist working therapeutically with adults.

I am vetted through Trinity and the Garda National Vetting Bureau. This check involves national and international vetting.

If you are interested or want to know more about Infant Observation please get in touch with me at 0868741475. Or email [email protected] (or via messenger)

Please share this information with anyone you feel might be interested!

30/12/2019

Hold Your own...

A new year, a new decade awaits us. As I reflect on 2019 I hear the voice of my teacher, Amy Matthews (https://embodiedasana.com/) saying, "what are you taking with you, what are you leaving behind, and, what do you need to transition?"

I am also reminded of the many, many wise words spoken by my dear friend Aileen (https://www.aileenorryoga.co.uk/). Whom, this past few years has been a beacon of light, and a safe supportive anchor for me. Her wise words often sooth my troubled mind. "Let yourself be seen, we never get it all figured out, once and for all, all nice and neat and we don't have to understand it all. We can get better at accepting and loving. That has to be enough."

So, for now I leave you with this, the words of Kate Tempest as we step together into a New Year.

https://youtu.be/ZnrBcQeH9fI

Amazing. Genuine Glastonbury moment as Kate mesmerises every single person in the crowd with her brilliant closing poem. When time pulls lives apart Hold you...

27/12/2019

Nisha & Beau 💞

"Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?" Mary Oliver

08/12/2019

Over the Christmas season when it all gets too much, your attention is divided and you feel like you are going crazy; stop what you are doing focus your attention on your breath. Take 10 mindful breaths, and then step back on the treadmill of life. Repeat often!!

26/11/2019

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Credit: Beth Evans

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