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Inalu Ruth Antoli
Inalu Ruth Antoli
Somatic Movement Teacher
Founder of SomaticSoul®, a conscious movement practice to listen deeply to the present moment and experience the poetic through the moving body.
Teaching Somatic Yoga, Creative Dance Movement & Authentic Movement Practice.
I support people to use their body in a connected, coordinated and efficient way, what I call ´ecology of movement´. I place special attention to cultivating awareness and to use the body as an anchor into the present moment, into the now, to connect with our creativity, joy and aliveness. I use yoga to develop flexibility, strength and release tensions, to reconnect with the ground, gravity and the breath. I use Dance Movement to allow the expression of feelings, dreams, stories and the unknown that are contained in our body, and to invite the poetic through movement.
I am especially interested in our capacity to resonate with nature and life through the moving body and our dance to be a vehicle of expression of all that we are and can be. Dancing and moving to find meaning, connection and to invite deep aliveness.
I am on a dancing journey, of sharing our joy and embracing our deepest being. For me dancing is a way of entering the body and connecting with the wisdom, knowledge and awareness that can enable us to grow as human beings. As we uncover our original body, we are free to be moved and danced by life itself, by the mystery, the beauty and the vitality that we are.
My Journey
Yoga, dancing and movement are an essential part of my life. I have been teaching yoga and creative movement for the last 20 years. I started dancing at 17 and it was a true body-life revolution. I was amazed at how much could be expressed through dance and movement and how empowering that was. I moved to London when I was 23 and trained at the London Contemporary Dance School. Soon after arriving to London I started to experience health issues. It was then that I turned to Yoga and Ayurveda for help.
To recover balance between the outer and the inner worlds, between doing and being, I practiced Yoga, inviting quietness, deep awareness and a turning inwards. Dance allowed expression, spontaneity, creativity and the poetic in movement. In my search for balance I was drawn to Buddhism and meditation with the Triratna Community in the UK, which I continue to follow. The Buddhist teachings have offered me simple yet profound roots for my life.
Over the last 30 years my movement practice has taken me to train in Contemporary Dance, Yoga and a variety of dance forms. Always with love and passion for discovering new ways of expressing and enquiring the body I have practised Contact Improvisation, Butoh Dance, Sensitive Dance & Aquatic Bodywork.
I have formally trained in Yoga Therapy and Shiatsu. I have studied and practiced Authentic Movement for a number of years.
I have de I have develop a deep understanding of the body and its needs, of how powerful is to attend to & connect with the body & allow it to tell its stories and reveal us its longing and soul.
- Training in Butoh Dance with Minako Seki , Imre Thormann, Atsushi Takenouchi, Yumiko Yoshioka, Sarah Nassar, Kea Tonetti (2012-present)
- Sensitive Dance Training with Claude Coldy, Italy
- Authentic Movement with Betina Waissman (2021-22) & Fran Lavendel (2005-06)
- Yoga Therapy at Yoga Therapy Institute in Amsterdam, 2018
- Shiatsu Certification at Glasgow School of Shiatsu in Scotland (2007-2010)
- Advanced Yoga at Acquaviva School of Yoga, Brighton, UK (2009)
- Iyengar Yoga Institute, Pune, India. Advanced Teacher Program (2007)
- Yoga Teacher Training Certification, Iyengar Yoga, Edinburgh, Scotland (2002-04)
- Contemporary Dance at London Contemporary Dance School, England (1997-2000)
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