The Matrescence Dance
MAKING SPACE FOR MOTHERS’ EMOTIONS THROUGH MOVEMENT
INDIVIDUAL ONLINE TRAINING FOR MOVEMENT, DANCE & PERINATAL PROFESSIONALS
Matrescence is a powerful portal for our becoming.
‘The Matrescence Dance’ is an individual training for movement, dance and perinatal professionals who want to bring a more creative and emotional dimension to the movement spaces they hold for women.
The training can complement a range of practices, including perinatal dance, somatic movement, dance or movement-based approaches, and work supporting women through pregnancy, postpartum and motherhood.
What if dance could make space for what is changing through motherhood?
Becoming a mother can transform our relationship with our body, time, space and other people.
These changes can bring many different emotions — sometimes contradictory ones, that do not always find words.
‘The Matrescence Dance’ invites you to explore how movement can become a space for welcoming this complexity.
Through observation, embodied exploration and different creative approaches, you will learn to design movement experiences that support women in what they are living through, while opening up new possibilities for movement, expression and feeling.
You love dancing with mothers, but you’d like to go further?
You want to bring a richer emotional dimension to your sessions.
You want to develop your creativity and move beyond predictable or overly simple sequences.
You want to honour the diversity of maternal experiences.
You sense that movement can communicate and evoke much more, but you are not always sure how to work with this.
You would like to step back from your practice and look at it from a different perspective.
Understanding movement to better support matrescence
Drawing on the principles of Rudolf Laban, you will learn to observe, feel and understand what is happening in movement.
You will develop a more sensitive and creative way of designing movement experiences for the women you accompany through matrescence.
This training is for you if…
You support, or would like to support, women during pregnancy or postpartum.
You believe movement can support women through their matrescence.
You want to develop your understanding of the non-verbal expression of emotions.
You are looking for creative tools to enrich your sessions.
You want to experience the tools in your own body before sharing them with others.
What this training can bring to your practice
Throughout the training, you will develop your ability to:
Observe and understand movement
You will learn to pay attention to the qualities of movement and what they may reveal about the way a mother inhabits her body and her experience.
Work with different emotional states through movement
You will explore how to welcome a state, give it a physical form, and play with movement qualities to open up new possibilities.
Create for the realities of matrescence
You will develop your ability to compose experiences that take into account the diversity of women’s experiences, needs and emotions.
Expand your creative palette
You will leave with practical tools for creating your own movement propositions.
Support with greater sensitivity
You will develop a more conscious approach and greater freedom in the way you design and facilitate your sessions.
A training to experience before you share it
I don't want to simply give you a method to follow.
You will first experience the work in your own body.
Each session combines embodied exploration, theoretical input, reflection and practical application.
We will start from your own experience: observing what happens in movement, finding words for what you discover, and then considering together how these tools could come alive within your own practice.
Completely individual support
Your practice is unique. Your journey will be too.
‘The Matrescence Dance’ is not a standardised training to apply step by step.
Throughout the programme, I will work with you individually to explore the tools through the lens of your own experience, practice and projects.
We can question your ideas, experiment together, explore new directions and consider how this approach could find its place within the movement spaces you already hold, or want to create.
By the end of the training, you will be able to…
Create movement propositions that invite women to explore and express different emotional states.
Use movement qualities as tools for exploration.
Observe movement with greater sensitivity and nuance.
Use imagery, words, imagination and different creative prompts to stimulate expression.
Design movement experiences that respond to the realities of matrescence.
Adapt these tools to your own educational, artistic or movement practice.
The Matrescence Dance Modules
module 1 -2h
Foundation
Live individual session: You will guide me through a dance or movement session as you currently offer it, or would like to offer it, to mothers.
We will then take time to reflect together and establish your intentions for these spaces. Your reflections and my feedback will form the foundations of your training journey.
module 2 -2h
How Movement Works
Live individual session: We will explore Rudolf Laban’s movement theories to develop a deeper understanding of how different movement qualities can influence feeling and expressivity.
You will experience these qualities in your own body and explore how they can be used as tools to bring different states into awareness or help transform them.
module 3 - 2h
Movement, Emotions & Matrescence
Live individual session: We will explore the relationship between movement and emotions, while questioning the idea that we all experience the same movement quality in the same way.
You will learn to welcome a state, give it physical form, and explore different ways of transforming it through movement.
module 4 - 2×1h30
Making Space for Emotions through Dance
Live individual sessions: You will discover different entry points for generating movement: texts, works of art, images, words, reflective questions and other creative prompts.
You will learn how to transform these inspirations into movement propositions and play with movement contrasts and polarities to create experiences that are rich, nuanced and open to different ways of feeling and expressing.
module 5 - 3h
Putting it into Practice
Live individual session: You will guide me through a session designed for mothers, integrating the tools explored throughout the training as well as your own ideas.
Through detailed feedback, I will support you in refining your approach and developing greater confidence in facilitating your future sessions.
‘The Matrescence Dance‘ Components
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Training Manual
You will receive a comprehensive training manual alongside educational resources throughout the programme.
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5 Modules
Across the five modules, you will deepen your understanding of the relationship between matrescence, movement and emotions.
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6 Individual Sessions
We will meet online throughout the training, alternating embodied exploration, theoretical input, pedagogical reflection and practical application.
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Personalised Support
You will receive individual guidance tailored to your practice, your experience and your projects, with detailed feedback to help you integrate the tools into your own movement spaces.
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Creative Toolbox
You will discover different entry points into expression: images, words, imagination, reflective questions, movement qualities and other creative prompts.
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Community Support
You will also have access to our WhatsApp group for everyone who has completed The Matrescence Dance training.
What this approach can open up
It is not about finding the right way to move.
It is about discovering that there are always different ways of moving, feeling, responding and relating.
The Matrescence Dance invites you to expand this palette for yourself and for the mothers you accompany.
An approach that can nourish your own embodied practice
‘The Matrescence Dance’ is not only a training in how to support others.
The tools we explore can also nourish your own way of moving, creating and relating — and, if you are a mother, accompany you in your own matrescence.
By experiencing movement qualities in your own body, you will develop a finer awareness of your habits, your possibilities and your own unique way of moving.
Practical Information
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Format
Individual online training via Zoom.
All live sessions are recorded and remain available to you without a time limit.
You can return to the embodied explorations, theoretical input and conversations whenever you wish, during the training and long afterwards, as your practice continues to evolve.
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Duration
12 hours of individual support
Across 6 individual sessions.
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When?
There are no fixed dates.
Because the training is individual, we will choose the dates and times that work best for both of us.
This flexibility allows you to progress at your own pace and adapt the training to your everyday life and your practice.
12 hours of individual training
470€
Training manual · 5 modules · 6 individual sessions · educational resources · recordings available without time limit
FAQ
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The training is for movement, dance and perinatal professionals who want to enrich their practice and use movement to support women through their matrescence.
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Yes.
You do not need to be a professional dancer or have formal dance training to take part.
The training is not about learning a dance technique. It is about exploring movement, its qualities and its potential for expression.
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Yes.
The tools can be adapted to different movement and dance contexts with women during pregnancy and after birth, with or without their babies.
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Of course!
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Yes.
The training is individual, and we will explore the content in dialogue with your own experience, practice and projects.
The tools provide a foundation that we will work together to translate into your own practice.
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Yes.
The alternation between embodied exploration, theoretical input, pedagogical reflection and practical application is at the heart of the training.
You will experience the tools in your own body, then we will consider together how you can transform them into concrete movement propositions for the women you support.