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why dance - the importance of dancing

breathe, dance, rest, repeat

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, not poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that fleeting moment when you feel alive, It is not for unsteady souls. – Merce Cunningham

 
Events
 

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, 

the brain loses it’s controlling power,

and the heart takes up

the reins of the body.

– Paulo Coelho

Dancers testimonials

  Such an amazing landscape [last night] and as ever wonderful community. – Ken

 

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I enjoyed the dance enormously. I felt such sense of freedom, in large part thanks to your quiet way of delivering the session, encouraging and unjudgemental. Thank you ! – Lorna
 
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Love movement with Bernadeta. Best time of my week and clearly best 2hours of Tuesdays. It always surprises me how tired I could be before the session and how invigorated and relaxed I am after the session. The wonders of conscious dance. – Kamila 
 
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I am so grateful I could dance in Bernadeta’s space. I love how beautifully she holds the space for us at all times. It was gentle, soft and so powerful at the same time… what a free joy and unconditional acceptance shines through her in her dances. Healing from the roots to the sky. – Lydia
 
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I’ve experienced all kinds of dance over the past 6 months on my journey of mental health recovery, search for myself snd learning to connect, and I’ve found Bernadeta’s classes to be the most wonderful, through her incredible music and welcoming community,  and I’ve been reminded that true joy is not only possible, it’s always present. – Tim
 
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Your class was dance heaven. The Justin Johnstone track blew my socks into the stratosphere. I found a version on youtube – yours sounded more atmospheric. – Graham 

“To be alive in this beautiful, self- organizing universe - to participate in the dance of life with sense to perceive it, lungs to breathe it,
organs that draw nourishment from it - is a wonder beyond words ”

Joanna Macy

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Short Intro 

Bernadeta Zyla

I am an advocate for dance as  a creative, expressive practice and any practice which is liberating the body, heart and mind (cold water dipping, connection with nature, writing, painting, clowning etc) from the constant voice of not good enough, the inner critic etc

I trained with The school of Movement Medicine extensively (5 years +) which is preeminent in the field of conscious dance and attended many 5Rhythms, Soul Motion, Open Floor workshops.  I’ve been teaching in the beautiful city of Edinburgh (and online during covid) for the last six years and have been invited to teach in Dumfries and Gallway and in Lewis and Harris. 

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You do not have to be good.
(...)
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves,

– Mary Oliver