I’m born Finnish, and a lot of my life I have been travelling and living in different places. Last 4 years I was in Finland studying Osteopathy and right now I am living in Leipzig.
I have studied social work, concentrating on youth work and got my first university degree from it, but quite soon after I was drawn to contemporary dance.
Contemporary dance is a large term and can consist a lot of different approaches. Doing movements that some one (wether it be teacher or choreographer) is showing me, never interested me much, but luckily I met a school that thaught improvisation and somatics, where it is as important to sense what am I doing, as to how does it look like. Actually, I would say that the sensory comes before visual, the sensory is creating the visuality.
I was specially drawn in by contact improvisation, which started as an art form and has now become more of a social dance form. I think my main interest in it is the extended possibilities of larger physical structure than just myself. How to work with other structures (I could use word “bodies” as well) and how to do it with listening and preciseness, that is still one of my main interest.
During the years of studying dance and dancing bodywork was integral part of the study and was and is a big part of the work that I’m doing.
About 10 years ago I met thai yoga massage and I like the practical approach of it and how it resonates well with my work on dance: working with effiency and weight, using the physical forces of earth, not so much muscles.
I’ve been working ever since with dancing, teaching dance, doing bodyworks and massages. I also organise workshops and I’m part of groups organising festivals of contact improvisation.
At the moment I am studying osteopathy in Metropolia university of applied sciences.
I am heavily interested in coffee and tea. If you care to have a tea session with me (connected to the body work), just let me know.
I also created Holistic Personal Training, Incase you would like to talk about larger things in life.