Taster Class & Personal Embodiment L1 Training informational session

“Level 1 Personal Embodiment training has been a life changing experience for me: it reconnected me with my body and showed me how I can tap into my body intelligence and creativity to heal past wounds and navigate current life challenges. By the end of the course I felt much more confident and resourceful in my life especially when confronted with difficult situations.“

Tamalpa UK Information Event

Join us for a welcoming introductory event where you can experience the Tamalpa Life Art Process® for yourself and discover how this embodied creative practice is shared online through the Level 1 Personal Embodiment Training (weekday format), beginning Friday 1 May 2026.

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.

During the session, you will learn more about the Level 1 Personal Embodiment Training for 2026 and the wider pathway towards becoming a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist or Registered Somatic Movement Educator.

You will also have the opportunity to experience some of the core tools of the practice and explore how movement, creativity and dance can support us in navigating meaningful themes and questions in our lives.

The session will include a blend of:

• Somatic movement
• Mark-making and drawing
• Creative writing

Together, these practices create space to pause, breathe and move with curiosity and creativity.

During the event you will be invited to:

• Slow down and reconnect with what feels nourishing for you
• Explore the rhythm of your own breath and movement
• Experience the Tamalpa Life Art Process® from the comfort of your home or workspace
• Listen to and gain insight from the wisdom of your body
• Be seen and witnessed within a supportive, non-judgemental environment
• Learn more about the Tamalpa UK Level 1 Personal Embodiment Online Training 2026 and how the weekday online format differs from the weekend programmes

The event will be hosted and facilitated by Lian Wilson, Creative Director of Tamalpa UK, alongside several recent graduates who will share their experiences of the training.

The session will also include an overview of:

• Level 1 Personal Embodiment Training
• Level 2 Leadership Training and the pathway toward applied professional practice

You’ll hear how the Tamalpa Life Art Process® is currently being applied across a variety of fields, followed by time for questions and conversation.

No previous experience in art, movement or dance is needed — just bring your curiosity.

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

Photo credit: Isaac Ojo, Gentle Studios

I really treasured the opportunity to experience the Tamalpa Life/Art Process® in the safety of the group and I learned a lot about myself through working with my peers and witnessing their journeys. The group and teachers were a great inspiration and I felt very supported while exploring difficult life themes.

In our current world where more than ever we socialise, work and study remotely, I felt very grateful that I had the opportunity to learn more deeply about the ways in which we express ourselves, create and communicate online.” Level 1 Graduate

About Lian Wilson

Lian Wilson is the Creative Director of Tamalpa UK and established Tamalpa

Practitioner. She has spent over 25 years working in the field of somatic movement,

arts and health. Lian is a Master Somatic Movement Therapist MSMT and Master

Somatic Movement Educator MSME with ISMETA (International Somatic Movement

Education and Therapy Association).

One of her core interests is in the development of health and wellbeing in individuals

and diverse communities through the participation and education of the benefits of

dance and movement based expressive arts, notably through the Tamalpa Life Art

Process®. She has worked with the Kensington & Chelsea’s Mental Health Carers

Support Network and with Folkestone Mind’s mental health wellbeing programme,

facilitating Tamalpa Life Art classes.

Alongside Tamalpa UK Lian also worked with the Sidney De Haan Research Centre

for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University as a Research Assistant

from 2012 – 2019. Notable projects were a 2-year collaboration with Green Candle

Dance Company researching the benefits of dance for people with dementia and

more recently researching ‘Dance to Health’, a falls prevention dance project

commissioned by Aesop. She had a key role in assisting Professors Stephen Clift

and Paul M Camic in their role as editors of the Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts,

Health and Wellbeing published in 2016. Lian sat on the Royal Society for Public

Health’s Arts, Health and Wellbeing Special Interest Group steering committee from

2015-2018.

In her personal & professional life Lian draws upon her love of movement, dance,

creativity, nature and ongoing daily practice of living and sustaining a healthy life.

Holding safe spaces for participants to have permission to express their true nature through creativity and somatic movement is a key interest in Lian’s work.