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.
Miriam and Jooske are the heart and creator of Aotearoa Embodiment Collective. Founded in March 2019. The feeling you get when you enter Aotearoa Embodiment Collective is an expression of how we value a sense of beauty, flow and clarity.
"How you and your clients feel in a space matters.
You do what you do best and I'll provide a space that feels
calm, clear, grounded, nurturing and healing."
Jooske + Miriam - Founders
"How you and your clients feel in a space matters.
You do what you do best and I'll provide a space that feels
calm, clear, grounded, nurturing and healing."
Jooske + Miriam - Founders
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We both L O V E the power of sacred space. We feel the importance of making a space sacred and all the benefits that come with this.
Our intentional care and attention placed within it creates a felt energy field of clarity and alignment. One feels at home when they enter Aotearoa Embodiment Collective. |
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 explore these connections @ Studio Tula.
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 is an-Aotearoa-based dance artist and body worker who hails from the deep south of Ōtepoti/Dunedin where she facilitates Conscious Movement informed by Contact Improvisation, butoh, Body Weather, Contemporary, and Somatic Practice. With a background in Contemporary Dance (Unitec 2004), she is passionate about how movement improvisation can lead to greater self-awareness and self-knowledge.
Miriam has been inspired by movement-artists such as Louise Potiki Bryant (NZ), Frank Van de Ven (Netherlands), val smith (NZ), Min Tanaka (Japan), and Charles Koroneho (NZ) with whom she’s worked or trained with. She trained in Traditional Thai Massage at Chiang Mai's TMC School (2010).
In 2019 Miriam held the role of rehearsal director for Hiedi Latsky's On Display Dunedin under the direction of Touch Compass Dance at Dunedin Fringe Festival, and the work was nominated for Best Dance award. In 2018 she held the role of Teaching Fellow for Movement Education in the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Otago, teaching first year students theory and practical dance, performance & choreography skills. Miriam choreographed dance film for Tempo Dance Festival Auckland, and live works for the Dunedin Fringe Festival and The Body Festival in Christchurch from 2012-2015.
She holds a Bachellor of Performing and Screen Arts (BPSA) in Contemporary Dance, a Postgraduate Diploma in Creative Industries from Auckland University (Dance Studies), and a Masters of Dance Studies from the University of Otago with distinction.
To contact Miriam please email her at miriamoon<at>gmail.com, Movement with Miriam on Facebook, or embodied_m on Instagram.
For all enquiries please contact us: [email protected]