creating a sacred space where there can be flow
Practice with Tzara
Touch a wholesome body-mind practice with Tzara who offers her care and guidance
for you to expand in all directions.
Join a safe, permissive, easygoing environment to be guided through explorations, allowing your body to be your teacher. Centre, rest and balance your whole self, to create more choices for yourself in the moment, and allow this learning to permeate into your everyday life.
Subscribe for invitations to online classes and workshops and enquire for a consultation for private lessons.
Somatic Movement
What to expect from a session
Each somatic movement session usually has a theme, such as to embody a specific system, structure, developmental pattern or process in our human anatomy from a Body-Mind Centering® perspective.
Led by a trustworthy, skilled and sensitive Somatic Movement Educator, you are guided and supported through a series of invitations to encounter your own experience of your body and mind in movement, breathing, voicing, supported by images, music, sounding, and the giving and receiving touch.
These are safe, sacred spaces to encounter and embody your unique self, to sense your interconnection with other human and non-human persons, and notice how you relate to, and move through place, space and time.
Participants choose how to respond to each invitation, finding their own way to connecting with the material, sometimes working solo, in partners or small groups.
An important aspect of this work includes taking time for integration, rest and processing through movement, mark-making, writing, walking, drawing, and reflective dialogue with others and sometimes being witnessed in a circle.
All participants are encouraged to feel free to be where they are, and to honour our own pace, rhythm and personal experience as we go, and as it unfolds.
We learn from each experience and explore how we may articulate and share aspects of our experience from first person perception through gesture, spoken or written words, vocalic sounding, mark making, and our simple presence in touch and movement consciousness - always guided by feeling what is coming about, from the inside.
Labs & Study Groups
Sound Site Somatics hosts collaborative trans-disciplinary research groups, which are joined by fellow researchers, artists, practitioners and curious people interested in practice-led enquiry, guided by somatic awareness and a trauma-informed approach.
These groups can support us to to discover new ways of engaging with and cultivating a living arts practice and an artful living practice.
Themes and areas of research:
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Eco somatics in the context of Sound Art and Broadcast Media - to apply somatics and site-specific encounter with more than human ecologies in the practice of field recording, sound walking, deep listening, touch, automatic making, and group dialogue.
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Fat as a Fluid - a programme to radically reconsider the role of fat in the human body and examine our personal and cultural relationships to fat as a concept and substance. This includes considerations around nutrition, energy use, and how we can step-change any stagnation in our lives to embrace action, acceptance and pleasure.
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Play - experimental creches for adults~! Come and play with us and embrace your inner child through toys, repeating our earliest movement patterns, exploring, resting and vocalising! We support each other in a group to be free to flow between rest and activity, to learn more about our personal style, qualities and preferences for external stimulation, being with others, being alone, and the possibilities for non-verbal interactions and exchanges.
Embodied Yoga
Inspired by yoga teachers following the approach of Vanda Scaravelli - Tzara has been learning and working with Helen Noakes, Rupert Johnson, Bill Wood, Sandra Sabatini and Elizabeth Pauncz, and anatomist Gary Carter.
Tzara is actively researching and applying BMC® to her Scaravelli-inspired Hatha Yoga practice and offers classes and workshops informed by somatic movement and underpinned by holistic anatomy.
BMC® can be applied to yoga asana and pranayama practices as a way to enter postures and breathing enquiries differently, appreciating the mind of body systems, tissues and organs.
“What I learned from yoga is that
it’s not about the form and posture.
It’s how you engage in the posture.
When you engage in the posture rather than trying to create a form,
you are free to be where you are”
Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen - founder of BMC®
#Scaravelli
Come with
a beginner's mind
My yoga approach offers a safe container to explore yoga informed by BMC® and inspired by yoga teacher Vanda Scaravelli.
To familiarise yourself with Vanda Scaravelli, her teaching and philosophy -
I highly recommend her book!
But for direct experience &
to get a feel for the work,
please join me at an event soon.
"There is a way of doing yoga poses that we call "asanas" without the slightest effort.
Movement is the song of the body.
Yes, the body has its own song from which the movement of dancing arises spontaneously.
In other words, the liberation of the upper part of the body (the head, neck, arms, shoulders and trunk) produced by the acceptance of gravity in the lower part of the body (legs, feet, knees, and hips) is the origin of lightness, and dancing is the expression.
This song, if you care to listen to it, is beauty. We could say that it is part of nature. We sing when we are happy and the body goes with it like waves in the sea."
- Scaravelli, V. (1991) p. 28.