"It is my heartfelt passion and prayer to facilitate a safe space where healing, creativity and
magic can happen. As a Buqi energy healer with 23 years experience, I see movement is vital
for our sanity, health and wellbeing. It is our birth right to move and I invite you to take
back the agency of your bodily knowing through your unique free movement impulses and
kinaesthetic awareness."
– Poh-Eng San
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Somatic Movement Improvisation
Intuitive Body Movement. Class details to follow... 
Photo by Denys Gromov
Swansea Term Dates
Tuesday 9th April - Tuesday 30th April 2024 4 classes every Tuesday evening 7pm - 8.30pm Location Uniting Church Sketty, Dillwyn Road, Sketty, Swansea SA2 9AH Price Drop in per class: £15 / £13 concession Block booking: 4 classes for £40 |
Somatic Dance and Movement Improvisation, accompanied by live musician, in Cardiff May 2024
Hosted by Groundwork Collective. We will explore pathways of chi in the body, for example; lung, liver, guts… Wuxi dance will be introduced in the first session as a 'no-mind' meditation where spontaneous movement may arise to support release of unwanted stuck qi, and arriving into a freer space where the rhythm of the drum will support creative spontaneity. In the following weeks there will also be ‘somatic prompts’ towards a deeper embodied practice. It aims to be playful, sometimes working with objects from Nature. Please bring an A3 drawing pad and crayons to make marks, or for embodied writing. Cardiff Term Dates
Friday 3rd May - Friday 31st May 2024 5 classes every Friday morning 10am - 11.30am Location Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road Canton Cardiff CF5 1QE Price Drop in per class: £10 (please bring cash on the day) |
About Your Teacher
Poh-Eng is a freelance dancer/performer and facilitator of environmental movement in wild places. She has taught 5 day retreats in West Wales and Ireland, and currently teaches regular somatic intuitive dance in studios, on the Gower and other site-specific locations. Her main influences are Helen Poynor and the late Dr. Shen Hongxun, Taiji Grandmaster and Lama from whom she studied Taijiwuxigong, Taiji 37 and Buqi energy healing.
Her synthesis of somatic dance and understanding of how chi moves through the body and Earth, incorporates biography and the non-human world as sources of inspiration for her work, writings, sound improvosations and teachings.
For several years Poh-Eng has studied with Linda Hartley in ‘The Discipline of Authentic Movement’.
Amy Voris and lecturers on the Dance and Somatic Well-being team MA course at the University of Central Lancashire have inspired an experiential anatomy approach to Poh-Eng's teaching.
Poh-Eng was one of the dancers in “Traces of Tissues”, a somatic costume piece commissioned for The Prague Quadrennial in 2019, choreographed by Sally Deane and Charlotte Ostergaard.
Current Exhibition
Poh-Eng was invited as a dancer to take part in “Monumentalise”, a series of eight videos commissioned by 20/20 Project from the Decolonising Arts Institute UAL. This is part of the year long 2024 exhibition “We Are The Monument” at Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
Open Tue–Sat 11am–4pm (Weds 1–5pm)
Closed Sun–Mon and Bank Holidays
Poh-Eng is a freelance dancer/performer and facilitator of environmental movement in wild places. She has taught 5 day retreats in West Wales and Ireland, and currently teaches regular somatic intuitive dance in studios, on the Gower and other site-specific locations. Her main influences are Helen Poynor and the late Dr. Shen Hongxun, Taiji Grandmaster and Lama from whom she studied Taijiwuxigong, Taiji 37 and Buqi energy healing.
Her synthesis of somatic dance and understanding of how chi moves through the body and Earth, incorporates biography and the non-human world as sources of inspiration for her work, writings, sound improvosations and teachings.
For several years Poh-Eng has studied with Linda Hartley in ‘The Discipline of Authentic Movement’.
Amy Voris and lecturers on the Dance and Somatic Well-being team MA course at the University of Central Lancashire have inspired an experiential anatomy approach to Poh-Eng's teaching.
Poh-Eng was one of the dancers in “Traces of Tissues”, a somatic costume piece commissioned for The Prague Quadrennial in 2019, choreographed by Sally Deane and Charlotte Ostergaard.
Current Exhibition
Poh-Eng was invited as a dancer to take part in “Monumentalise”, a series of eight videos commissioned by 20/20 Project from the Decolonising Arts Institute UAL. This is part of the year long 2024 exhibition “We Are The Monument” at Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.
Open Tue–Sat 11am–4pm (Weds 1–5pm)
Closed Sun–Mon and Bank Holidays
