Soma Arts & Expression
Golden Bay, Aotearoa (NZ)
With Noa Rotem and Juliette McConachy
2025 DATES TO BE CONFIRMED
Somatic Arts - Yoga, Body-mind Centering®, Physical Theatre, Dance Improvisation, Voice, Touch, Co-regulation.
9 day retreat
Noa guides us into sensitive, inspired laboratories of embodiment through Body-mind Centering®, physical theatre, movement improvisation, dance, voice, touch, co-regulation.
Juliette stitches our deepening sensitivity into the practice of yoga and eco-somatics
Come deepen your registry for the somatic and inspire your practice.
Noa Rotem is a theatre and dance performer, director, somatic movement educator (Body-Mind Centering®) and facilitator.
She has worked and trained extensively around the world as a freelance artist and with companies such as The Human Theatre (Israel), The Danger Ensemble, Little Dove Theatre Art and the SITI Company (NYC). She is a graduate of the Soma School of Body-Mind Centering ® (Paris), HaKvutzah School of Dance (Tel Aviv), the University of Sydney and of the Actor’s College.
Noa has taught widely at a range of international professional companies (eg. Metta Theatre, The Philippines, Queensland Ballet) tertiary institutions (eg. Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, QUT, University of Asia & The Pacific), secondary schools and youth companies. She offers regular workshops in Body-Mind Centering® , dance improvisation and physical theatre in the Northern Rivers of NSW (Australia), where she is now based.
Noa's training includes Dance Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering®, The Viewpoints, The Suzuki Method of Actor Training, Contemporary dance, Authentic Movement, The Morris Technique, Butoh, Gaga, Contact Improvisation, Practical Aesthetics, The Meisner Technique, and Yoga.
Founder and director of the School of Awakening Arts
Juliette is a Somatic movement therapist and educator, weaving into her somatic psychology work the wisdom of earth (re)connection.
Juliette is the creator of Terra Soma™ - Awakening Arts signature style of practice that moves meditation and āsana in confluence with free form somatic inquiry
Who is this for?
If you are an enthusiastic somanaut, a dancer, a meditator, a yogi, a bodyworker, longing for held spaces to reenter your depth.
If you are a performer, actor, writer or visual artist seeking to reconnect with your creative source and to find new pathways for your richness of expression
If you are an embodiment facilitator interested in enhancing your sensitivity and fluency.
If you are and Awakening Arts student, looking to deepen and develop your delivery of Terra Soma
“We don’t do movement, we are movement”
— Emily Conrad
Payment and room selection.
Payments will be made in three parts;
Course fees to Awakening Arts
Early bird $1,575
Standard $1,825
Food $405
Accomodation $320
Early bird pricing total: $2,300 booked by December 31st with deposit / paid in full by April 1st
Standard pricing total: $2,550 booked with deposit / paid in full by April 1st
6 x Payment plans available. $1000 to be paid by commencement, remaining $1550 to be paid in instalments by July 21st.