About
Hi, I’m Nico. I’m a dancer, therapist, and somatic movement educator.
For about twenty years, I’ve practiced and studied somatic movement particularly through Body-Mind Centering, Continuum, Contact Improvisation, and Butoh.
Alongside these movement practices, I’ve explored contemplative traditions, depth psychology, and integral philosophies.
Liminal Body
Liminal Body integrates nervous system regulation, somatic movement, shadow integration, and ecological spirituality to cultivate a more receptive, responsive, and intimate relationship with the body.
Through nervous system regulation, we develop the capacity to move more fluidly between states of activation and rest, creating the conditions for safety, calm, and receptivity.
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With release-based and developmental movement, we explore how early movement patterns continue to shape perception, behavior and embodiment. By revisiting these foundational patterns, we discover new experiences of grounding, fluidity, and more efficient, easeful movement.
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As unnecessary tension softens, the body becomes more supported, relaxed, and available — open to subtler layers of sensation, impulse, and imagination.
Butoh
dance of darkness
Butoh is a movement meditation practice that emerged in Japan in the late 1950’s as a form of avant-garde dance theatre.
It is a dance of opposites. A dance between tension and relaxation, light and dark, conscious and unconscious.
Butoh works through slowing down, receptivity, and heightened attention.
It interrupts habitual ways of moving and being, and invites a more attuned relationship with the body and the forces of nature. Through surrender and receptivity, we learn to move with life rather than against it.
Through this process, we encounter deeper layers of embodied experience, including archaic and evolutionary patterns that often remain outside conscious awareness.
As these layers become available to attention, they can become integrated through our embodied experience rather than unconsciously enacted.
Areas of stuckness, fragmentation, and internal conflict can gradually reorganize. What was once held as tension or dissonance begins to reveal itself as a source of creativity, vitality, beauty, and meaning.
Butoh is not only a practice of healing or self-expression. It is primarily a practice of emptying.
As layers of habitual holding and limited identity soften, the body becomes like a tuning fork, capable of receiving and responding to subtle resonances and larger patterns within life and the natural world.
Identity becomes malleable. Mammalian, amphibian. Reptilian, amoebian. Mycelial, mineral.
Movement becomes a way of participating more fully in life.
Not only moving, but being moved.
