Lillian Kemanis

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Lillian Kemanis

Registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist I am a somatic movement educator/therapist dedicated to the pursuit of inner learning and discovery.

I offer space and guidance for listening and self-exploration through bodily experience. My practice invites all aspects of the self to participate in physical presence, inner body awareness, and attention to sensation, feeling, and image. With practice we can move more fully into our experience of well-being.

09/17/2026

Understanding is not enough —> We must have direct access to our feeling body for true knowing, for true change.

“Feeling” is the unabstracted material of our living bodies — raw, tangible, visceral. It is “what is happening” in real time, in the present moment. It is what happens before we have an interpretation of our experience, or language for it. It moves in light, tone, quality, vibration, shape, direction, temperature. It is elemental.

What happens when we suspend our habitual judgements, interpretations, and conclusions? About ourselves, one another, or the world around us? What becomes possible when we are able to stay longer in the direct material of the present moment without reacting to it?

So much of what keeps us stuck as individuals and collectively, is our inability to be perceptually flexible. We remain fixed in our experiences of the past that create our interpretation of the present, and keep us in looping behavior patterns. This isn’t our “fault”…it is our nature! But we also have an expanded nature available to us : our ability to refine our consciousness.

It’s so common to approach “change work” from an intellectual place — learning “about” ourselves through psychology or philosophy; or attempting to “self develop” ourselves out of our problems — but we are missing the key : Change is alchemical. It happens at an elemental level. We must bring our awareness to the elemental nature of our living bodies, to felt sensation, to ignite change.

🌙 just a few more days to register for Awakening Body, a 5-week somatic practice container where we discover the nature of our living bodies and refine our awareness 🌙

DM me if you’d like to join us.

09/14/2026

Open for enrollment 🌈 Awakening Body is a 5-week live practice container for becoming more deeply attuned to your body, your senses, and the world around you—and discovering what becomes possible when you shift the way you perceive and engage with your experience.

Through guided somatic practices, conversation, reflection, and playful experimentation, we’ll explore sensation, connection, attention, meaning, and co-creation. Together, we’ll practice listening for what’s alive beneath the surface and cultivating a more fluid, responsive relationship with ourselves and one another.

This is an invitation to slow down, become curious, and discover your own capacity for new ways of sensing, moving, relating, and being.

09/10/2026

It’s been a long road. You’ve been giving it your all, showing up, keeping up. And yet, somehow along the way, you’ve lost signal. To that inner knowing deep inside. To the essence of yourself. Your body has been trying to reach you. Not to hold you back or get in your way, but to guide you home. What if your sensitivity isn’t the problem — it’s the portal?

My books are now open for new clients ✨

Head to my website to schedule a free initial call.

With love,
Lillian
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08/28/2026

Diving into another season of practice! If you’re in the Hudson Valley please join me for my Fall series of Authentic Movement wildheart_center_art 🍃

Tuesdays at 6pm

About :
Authentic Movement is a contemplative dance practice rooted in expressive movement therapy, where participants explore the unconscious mind through the moving body. The practice brings focus to the relationship between a mover and a witness, fostering states of compassion, curiosity, and non-judgment. With eyes closed, the mover listens inwardly to impulses, sensations, feelings, and images, allowing their inner experience to guide self-directed movement. The witness cultivates open receptivity, non-judgment, and inner awareness as they hold space for the mover’s expression. In this exploration of “seeing and being seen,” participants deepen their sense of trust and self-awareness through the practice of Authentic Movement.

08/24/2026

Starting Sept 3 | Join me for an hour of giving our undivided attention to the body — listening to sensation, following intuitive movement, and offering ourselves the care we deserve. Each week, we’ll begin with a guided somatic practice that invites us to slow down and listen inwardly, before heading into unstructured movement time, a space to follow your impulses, explore, rest, play, and follow what the body needs. No experience is necessary.

📸 Lady Deryn

08/11/2026

this summer has offered so many surprises in the comings and goings of things. Almost too much flow to handle, even for my aquarian | cancer | gemini nature, i’ve been holding onto the handle bars with a tight grip all while delightfully squealing!

some ancient stuff has been in review for me : my sense of self worth and the sneaky ways i still play small. I’m learning that true service is in the giving our authenticity. Not in what we do for others, or how useful we are, but in being ourselves. Honesty is the real generosity.

though the land here is still lushfully green, I can feel the beginnings of the leaves turning. The quiet descent of Fall is here. Some upcoming, and ongoing offerings I have for you are :

⎯ Awakening Body (this September); a 5-week virtual somatic/arts-based container

⎯ Authentic Movement (this September) wildheart_center_art

⎯ Integrative Somatic Therapy sessions; virtual or in-person

See you there 🌈

08/03/2026

A little bit about me and how I become to orient to my somatic healing work. Visit my website for more information about my sessions and other offerings ✨

📸 Lady Deryn

07/16/2026

🎵i want to break free 🎵

07/14/2026

Returning : I am a celestial body in retrograde. I slide back along my ellipses and return to parts of myself dismembered and discarded along the way. I retrieve and re-member. I realign, and when I’m ready, go direct.

How do you know what parts are missing when you’ve lost touch? What is your way back to something whole and integral? How do you commune with what is beneath your memory?

A practice :
Turn everything off
Go inside and find that quiet place
(you know the one…)
Stay there
Listen for an echo
A song, a tone, a poem, a hymn…
Follow it’s beckoning
Be filled by what memory returns

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07/05/2026

💚Love to this body that keeps dancing. Love to these bodies that keep dancing together. Love to the bodies who keep organizing dance happenings. Love to the bodies that keep coming out to experience dance.

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Brooklyn, NY
11218

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http://www.lilliankemanis.com/

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