Learn how to use Movement | Expressive Arts to Settle Your Nervous System

When we experience ongoing stress, uncertainty, or change, our nervous system can become overactivated, leaving us feeling anxious, depleted, disconnected, or stuck.

This online two-and-a-half-hour workshop draws on insights from psychotherapy, neuroscience, movement, and expressive arts to explore how creative and embodied practices can support nervous system regulation and resilience.

Through guided movement, creative exploration, and reflective inquiry, participants will learn practical ways to increase self-awareness, strengthen internal resources, and foster a greater sense of balance, connection, and wellbeing.

The workshop offers a supportive environment in which to deepen understanding of the mind-body relationship and develop skills for navigating life’s challenges with greater flexibility and ease.

This open event offers a gentle introduction to the Tamalpa Life Art Process®, founded by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, a pioneering body of work developed over more than 50 years that integrates movement, creativity and personal inquiry.

No previous experience is needed—just a willingness to be curious and explore.

FAQs

What do I need for this event?

• A high speed internet connection
• Laptop or computer with video camera, camera’s will be required to be turned on for safe facilitation
• Please ensure you have enough space to move and dance in your room safely
• Please wear comfortable clothes to move in
• You will need some A2/A3 paper and either oil pastels, coloured pencils, crayons or preferred art materials
• Note book and pen
• Bottle of Water

If you require any further details, please contact us directly

Main Image credit: Tamalpa UK | Helen-Jane Rideway leading a Tamalpa class at Siobhan Davies Studios, London

Photo credit: Helen-Jane Ridgeway – Mountain Home Studio, California

About Helen-Jane Ridgeway UKCP

Helen-Jane Ridgeway is a UKCP registered Integrative Psychotherapist, a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist (specialising in working with trauma), Coach, Consultant and Supervisor, a body worker, movement innovator, choreographer and Breath~Body~Mind Trainer.

She is a Tamalpa Movement-based Expressive Arts Therapy Practitioner and Clinical & Ethics Director at Tamalpa UK.

Since 1997 Helen-Jane has been employed as a lecturer, trainer, supervisor & workshop facilitator for counselling, psychotherapy & coaching students at various institutes – such as Metanoia, Regents College, Holloway University & Matrix College. She is the director of ‘Phoenix Lifeskills Ltd’ an organisation providing consultancy & in-house trainings for organisations, companies & training organisations. She is also the co-founder of ‘Coaching with the Body in Mind’ offering trainings in a body–focused & mindfulness based approach to coaching.

Helen-Jane’s previous professional career in dance, performing arts, choreography and dance education, (teaching in the UK and Europe) has afforded her a special interest and unique understanding of the mind/body relationship.

Throughout the UK, Europe and USA she offers embodied movement workshops and trainings and Breath~Body~Mind trainings. Helen-Jane has a particular interest in a relational & body focused orientation to coaching & the co-created dynamics of the coaching relationship.

Helen-Jane facilitates Tamalpa Life/Art Process Workshops & offers both group & one to one sessions in Tamalpa Movement based Expressive Arts Therapy.

Her particular passion is the wider integration of Somatic Movement & Expressive Arts therapy into all areas of wellbeing, healthcare & training for Psychotherapists & health care practitioners, with a particular interest in the field of trauma.