
Hester Phillips
"My deepest self speaks through movement, dance is my native tongue.”
Hester is dedicated to liberating the creative spirit in others and is passionate about how creativity and most especially dance can support and empower people and communities.
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Hester holds a Master of Arts in Art Therapy and is a professional Arts Therapist. Hester has a busy private practice where she specialises working with clients living with Trauma using a wide range of embodied practices evolving from the field of Somatic Psychology.
Alongside individual clients, Hester co-facilitates healing groups for trauma survivors each week where she draws from almost 20 years of experience facilitating groups in various mental health and well-being settings. Hester now supervises and offers training for those who facilitate trauma-informed groups.
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Hester is an accredited Open Floor movement meditation teacher and co-founder and director of Conscious Dance Aotearoa. Since 2005, she has facilitated regular conscious dance classes and workshops. Hester has an enduring interest in how collective spaces facilitate or not personal liberation. Hester holds a degree in Political Science and facilitates Conscious Dance spaces that embody the liberation she longs to see in the wider world. Hester is a mother and in her spare time she likes to DJ.
Belonging....lone wolf or pack mate
This somatic dance journey will take you into your body mapping the inner terrain to find your place of belonging, moving with your authentic natural self, using your resources to hunt out your place within the larger pack and your place of belonging in the outer world - exploring through your animalistic self how do you remain diverse AND come into unity
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