At the heart of what I teach and study is a love of creation; a remembering that our bodies are not separate from the Earth, but an integral, unique reflection of her creative cycles. Creative practice and movement have always been in the marrow of my own life, however as a former professional athlete, movement was not always something to enjoy but something to endure. For years as a young woman I put my body through rigorous training, with not a lot of concept of rest or safety, nor a felt sense of the accumulation of stress and the emotional fatigue of intense competition. Whilst I loved aspects of this,