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.

10/21/2026

Mark your calendars! I am deeply looking forward to holding the next Authentic Movement Immersion at WildHeart coming up in November, this time with a slight variation….

The immersion offers space to explore the self and relational connection, awaken deeper layers of the psyche, and cultivate awareness through the body. Together, we will practice seeing and being seen, moving and witnessing, speaking and holding silence.

If you’ve attended a prior Authentic Movement Immersion with me at WildHeart, you can expect this one to be slightly different, as we’ll be centering our practice around a period of silence. On Friday evening, we’ll establish the container and guidelines for entering into silence, and then move into Saturday in silent practice. At the end of the day on Saturday, we’ll gently break our silence through drawing, sounding, and speaking.

During this immersion, you will:
* Engage in self-directed movement with a witness, and witness others in turn
* Be guided into movement through somatic prompts and exploration
* Cultivate relational attunement and nonjudgmental attention
* Explore new ways of knowing through the body
* Engage in collective art-making as a way to integrate your experience
* Practice silence and intentional dialogue with others

Let me know if you are interested in joining and have any questions! Link is in bio for more info and to register.

10/07/2026

🍑Let’s get juicy.
🐆Undomesticate your hips.
🐺Feel your feral body.

C L A S S A N N O U N C E M E N T :

During this class we will enter into the micro and maco cosom of our hips 💫 We will descend into the fertile landscape of our feral nature through embodied movement and dance. There will be space for free form movement and guided exercises, ramping up to low-pressure-high-vibe choreo 🪩 The intention is to allow for more pleasure, power, and playfulness in our embodied experience.

*Important note : this space is for women and womb holders*

What to expect :
~ opening circle
~ gentle warmup focusing on subtle hip articulation and isolation, hip openers, and subtle body awareness
~ full bodied movement focusing on shaking, traveling through space, playful exploration
~ ending with low-pressure-high-vibe choreography to get you feelin’ yo self

Let’s dance!

Led by Emily Shaw Emily Shaw & Lillian Kemanis lillian kemanis | embodiment educator

Oct 14 & Oct 28, 5-7pm
At the Kiva, Stone Ridge NY MaMA, Marbletown Multi Arts

09/30/2026

Photo descriptions In order:
1. Throwback to when I lived in Costa Rica and met my soul sister Glo who gifted me this beautiful necklace G L 🔆 Bolaños
2. Blossom sitting on my comforter that I’ve been intending to duvet for about 2 weeks now
3. That’s a turtle
4. Niki took a photo of me when we went to the diner in Kingston and ate chicken fingers and milkshakes, she was like hey there’s a rainbow on your face! Nikita Patel
5. I liked those shadows. Also this building made me feel like I was in Europe.
6. I thought this was kinda a vibe. Also made me feel like I was in Europe.
7. Oh, those are just egg tacos.
8. That’s my mom. We went to the beach in Jersey and I couldn’t get over how cute her outfit was.
9. A selfie in a fancy yoga studio that I’m trying to get to hire me.
10. A sweet caterpillar that I saw when I was on the phone with Diana. Diana Cirullo

09/23/2026

Labbing with Jacob 🤩 Jacob Combe

Come play wildheart_center_art ~ Contact Improv happens every 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. All levels welcome! 🤸‍♀️

📸 mai kfir sabag

09/19/2026

Live sessions are held weekly on Mondays, 6pm EST.

Hope to see you there ✌️

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
🌈

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

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http://www.lilliankemanis.com/

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