Moving with the land mentorship

This six-month mentorship offers a steady, unhurried arc for anyone wishing to cultivate a movement practice rooted in relationship with the land where they live — whether in a lush, natural setting or a highly urban environment. You’ll be invited to choose a piece of land that you can access on a regular basis — a marsh, a beach, city woods, a park, or corner of a shared garden. Even if you have limited access to green spaces, you’re welcome to join: we’ll explore creative ways to bring the mentorship into your context.

We meet online every two weeks, and the work unfolds as much on your chosen ground as it does on screen.

This mentorship is an apprenticeship in listening, where you gradually allow yourself to be shaped by the spot of land you move in and let the boundary between mover and landscape soften. You will explore, document, map, and move with your chosen spot across the six months. The mentorship is co-held and co-created with the group. You support each other in your practices. I offer frameworks, guidance, and practices in response to what you bring. The lands you choose and their different textures and flavours will be our teachers.

The 11th session culminates in a moment of crystallisation with your land-partner, co-shaped by the group under my guidance. The 12th session is dedicated to digestion, integration, and transition into the next phase of your practice.

What to expect

• • 12 online sessions (2 hours each)

We begin by preparing the body for regular outdoor practice, and the themes evolve naturally from what emerges in your practice. Later in the programme, participants offer inquiries of their own that we explore collectively.

• • Ongoing practice between sessions

Expect to spend at least one hour practising between sessions — indoors or outdoors — and to document your process through writing, drawing, sound, or video.

• • A dedicated outdoor spot

You will choose one place to return to repeatedly, observing how your relationship with it changes through weather, time of day, mood, and season. You will learn to map that place with your movement to deepen your perception of it: noticing affordances, constraints, invitations, patterns, and resistances.

• • Documentation

Create a record of your practice in whatever form feels most alive: stream-of-consciousness writing, sketches, small videos, voice notes, or maps of how your body met the ground.

• • One free 1:1 session

You may book this at any point. Further sessions are available at £20 until the end of the mentorship.

What you’ll need

• • An outdoor place you can return to twice a month for six months.
  • Time between sessions for movement and documentation.
  • Willingness to explore unfamiliar forms of moving.

Who is it for?

• • Anyone curious to deepen their connection with the land they inhabit.
  • Those who wish to develop a regular movement practice.
  • People who want to explore the ecological nature of movement in relation to the environment.
  • Individuals willing to engage in self-reflection, experimentation, and documentation of their practice.
  • Those who want a guided but non-prescriptive container, where their experience, questions, and presence shape the course.

Potential benefits

• • Deepened awareness of your body, movement patterns, and habitual ways of being.
  • A more intimate and responsive relationship with the land where you live.
  • Expanded movement vocabulary shaped by the environment you move in.
  • Increased attentiveness to environmental cues, constraints, and affordances.
  • Skills in documenting and reflecting on your practice through writing, drawing, sound, or video.
  • A sense of belonging in a group co-creating a shared learning container.
  • Support in developing a long-term, sustainable outdoor movement practice.
  • Greater ease in translating indoor practice into outdoor environments.

Accessibility 

If you have any access needs—physical, sensory, or otherwise—please check with me beforehand to see if we can accommodate them within the mentorship. The work is flexible, and practices can be adapted to suit different abilities, but it’s best to discuss your needs in advance so we can find practical solutions.