We are Aotearoa Embodiment Collective
Embodiment Collective has grown out of a beautiful collaboration + the friendship
of Jooske Honig & Miriam Marler.
We reside in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
and both have an intense passion for movement exploration, body wisdom, and connection.
With these similarities yet we hold distinct voices, qualities and interests.
We contrast and compliment one another.
Embodiment Collective has grown out of a beautiful collaboration + the friendship
of Jooske Honig & Miriam Marler.
We reside in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
and both have an intense passion for movement exploration, body wisdom, and connection.
With these similarities yet we hold distinct voices, qualities and interests.
We contrast and compliment one another.
Together Miriam and Jooske have been exploring the realms of CI and Acro for the past couple of years, resulting in their Acro Flow course for beginners, and their ContactAcro Fusion course (open level) in which they have explored @ Studio Tula, at festivals & community workshops.
They have co-taught taster classes or workshops at 2018 Circulantion Festival, Motueka's New Year’s Mix Festival, the NZ Contact Retreat 2019, Luminate 2019, the Aotearoa Conscious Dance Festival in April 2019, and Autumn Arena 2019.
The fascination between softness and connection in contrast with the strength needed for stacked poses, and the potential for fluidity between the two movement practices continues to attract their attention and fuels motivation for working together further.
They have co-taught taster classes or workshops at 2018 Circulantion Festival, Motueka's New Year’s Mix Festival, the NZ Contact Retreat 2019, Luminate 2019, the Aotearoa Conscious Dance Festival in April 2019, and Autumn Arena 2019.
The fascination between softness and connection in contrast with the strength needed for stacked poses, and the potential for fluidity between the two movement practices continues to attract their attention and fuels motivation for working together further.
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Jooske Honig is a passionate Acroyogi who started her Acro journey in 2011 in Te Anau NZ. Taught by International Acroyoga instructors Jason and Chelsey Magness, co-founders of Yoga Slackers, Jooske ‘s love was awakened. Since then she has attended further training with them as well as other Acro teachers in Aotearoa, the US and in her native country of the Netherlands. In the US she attended Acroversity and Divine Play (2017) and recently travelled in combination with visiting family to the Dutch Acrobatic Convention 2018.
In January 2018 Jooske received her certificate in Acromastermind Teacher Training. Based in Dunedin, she teaches Acroyoga foundations and Intermediate acroyoga training sessions along with private acro coaching. She has offered workshops at festivals such as Circulation, Autumn Arena, Dunedin Fringe, Waitati music fest, Vogel st street party and The Mix New Year’s festivals over the last 4 years.
Her teaching is a combination of different practices and styles of movement that Jooske has worked with over the years. Jooske has been part of creating and performing at events such as 2017 Fragments of a Dream, 2018 Dunedin Fringe Festival The Hands That Bind Us, 2018 The Mullet Festival, 2019 Strork/DANZ at the Dunedin Fringe Festival. Jooske runs a therapeutic clinic from home, In-Spiral, and is part of the Embodiment Collective - a holistic collective where she offers massage and energy work to support people reconnecting with their body, mind and spirit.
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Miriam Marler (she/her, Pākehā) is a Movement Facilitator/Educator, Somatic Therapy Practitioner and Bodyworker based in Ōtepoti, Dunedin. Her personal and professional journey through dance and somatic practices have taken her to wonderful & wild creative places and led to profound understandings of mind-body. She has learnt that our bodies hold many of the keys that support deep healing towards wholeness, expansion & creative expression - and this is what she is passionate about sharing with the world.
Key Skills:
The thread that runs through Miriam's offerings is around the innate wisdom of our bodies: the somatic, embodied experience of our human organism as a part of the wider world & our social environment. Turning towards this wisdom through mindful & body-based practices affects how we show up in our lives & in the world. When we are empowered and connected to our senses, feelings & needs, we can see how we can respond, choose, create & interrelate.
Miriam is currently working on making her work accessible to those with ACC sensitive claims and working out how she can be more aware & actively counter social injustice through her mahi.
Selected Education & Qualifications:
For current offerings or bookings, contact:
[email protected] / 020 41 663 447
FB: Movement with Miriam / Massage with Miriam
Insta: embodied_m
Key Skills:
- Mindful, Somatic Trauma Therapy (Hakomi based)
- Trauma-Aware Touch, Massage & Bodywork
- Group Facilitation
- Planning, Conducting & Evaluating Educational Programs
- Ecological, Conscious, Somatic Movement & Dance Practices
- Academic Writing Skills & Qualitative Research Assistance
The thread that runs through Miriam's offerings is around the innate wisdom of our bodies: the somatic, embodied experience of our human organism as a part of the wider world & our social environment. Turning towards this wisdom through mindful & body-based practices affects how we show up in our lives & in the world. When we are empowered and connected to our senses, feelings & needs, we can see how we can respond, choose, create & interrelate.
Miriam is currently working on making her work accessible to those with ACC sensitive claims and working out how she can be more aware & actively counter social injustice through her mahi.
Selected Education & Qualifications:
- Masters in Dance Studies (Re) Conceptualising Dance: Moving towards embodying environment from Japan to Aotearoa (w distinction; The University of Otago)
- NeuroAffective Touch®: A Somatic Toolkit for Healing Emotional & Relational Trauma (Dr. Aline LaPierre)
- Mindful Somatic Approaches to Trauma Therapy: Advanced Training- Working with Parts (Dr. Paris Williams)
- Certificate in Mindful Somatic Approaches to Trauma Therapy (Dr. Paris Williams)
- Open Floor Training- Ground Floor Lab & Embodied Sexuality (Open Floor International)
- Non-Violent Communication (Peace Talks), Working with Children (Yoram Mosenzon)
- Body Wisdom – Open Floor therapeutic dance (Dr. Geordie Jahner)
- Ecological Movement (Sandra Reeve, Scotland)
- Certificate in Traditional Thai Massage- Intermediate Level II (Thai Massage School, Chiang Mai, Thailand)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Creative Industries (The University of Auckland)
- BodyWeather Camp (eco-somatic movement training & organic farming; Min Tanaka, Japan)
- Mujinjuku Butoh - image-based movement training (Dairakudakhan Butoh Company, Tokyo, Japan)
- Skinner Releasing Technique™ (SRT) Introductory & Ongoing Series (Raewyn Thorburn, Wilhemeena Munroe)
- Bachelor of Performing & Screen Arts (Contemp. Dance; Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland)
For current offerings or bookings, contact:
[email protected] / 020 41 663 447
FB: Movement with Miriam / Massage with Miriam
Insta: embodied_m
For all enquiries please contact us: [email protected]