Hello, I'm Anne Gehman
a dance artist, movement educator & embodiment coach
drawing from two decades of experience as a professional dancer and movement educator to support people in accessing joy, ease, pleasure and a sense of safety in their bodies.
a life-time as a dancer and movement educator has taught me that we ALL can access greater states of awareness, healing and even liberation through movement. it doesn't matter if you identify as a dancer or not, with somatic movement, our bodies can become sanctuaries for restoring wholeness.
you can be moved by something greater than your limited self perception. in our sessions together, you will learn to trust the movement itself as the medicine and alchemy you've been seeking.
Over the past 6 years, i've been gathering the secrets of what dancing knows & sharing them through a somatic healing lens...
About Anne,
a multi-disciplinary dance artist, movement educator & embodiment coach.
anne’s work finds grounding in the belief that “dancing” carries its own wisdom and dancing can be a direct learning path for building our collective embodied liberation.
anne has served as dance faculty for university of california san diego and san diego state university, as well as san diego dance theater. her largest community project and ongoing research, giving way was presented in the mingei museum in balboa park and in the potiker theater in la jolla, california.
anne is currently studying indigenous teachings with her mentor, maria yraceburu (13th generational holy one, tlish diiyin, snake clan, apache). in this work, anne is repairing her relationship with the land and deepening her understanding of ancestral webs; through prophecy, mythos, ritual enactments, performing ceremonial life rites, dream/ vision-keeping and stone-walking the medicine wheel.
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Anne holds an M.F.A in Dance Theater; University of California San Diego. B.F.A in Dance; Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida.
200 hour Interconnected Yoga Teacher Certification.
Founder of BodySpaceGnosis, Embodiment Coaching
values & practices
creativity
this is our birthright! many lineages of wisdom keepers who have fought and continue to fight for collective liberation and wholeness, teach that we must learn to move in mysterious ways to overcome that which seeks to oppress us. this requires a fierce love and guardianship of imagination, creativity & play.
spaciousness
listening, checking my assumptions, letting people be who they be, attending to what's mine & giving others the space to do the same. presence. dropping agendas, dropping hustle culture, beginners mind, opening to not-knowing, unraveling hierarchies,
loving fiercely
prayers for life, co-creationship, reciprocity, boundaries, naming injustices, embracing our differences and upholding uniqueness with reverence. we are all our relations, what we do to one impacts the whole of creation. speaking up for those who can't. breaking spells, breaking trauma cycles. soul sovereignty. communing.
honesty
there are times when its unsafe to be honest, like inside of abusive relationships or within certain institutional frameworks...
but we must find a way to be honest with ourselves.
then empower ourselves to weave that into as many aspects of our lives as is possible... because our conscience matters. it matters to our health physically and spiritually. it matters to the health of our community eco-systems.
