Leela Fisk
Leela loves to lead and dance on Mondays at Totnes Dance Collective. She values the welcoming group and community spirit. She’s passionate about the listening body and playful and healing potential of somatics, movement and dance.
Leela qualified in Soul Motion in 2010, after an apprenticeship with founder Vincent Martinez and somatic therapist Zuza Engler, in the USA. Leela also has a postgraduate degree in Education and now 3 decades of teaching experience. As a movement artist and community dance practitioner, Leela has led over 3000 hours of sessions and began her movement teaching career at the Esalen centre (of human potential), in California USA. She delights in learning in improvising environments and has also studied extensively with Anna Halprin and her colleagues.
In 2023, she founded Devon School of Soul Motion which offers Level 1 Personal Embodiment and Level 2 Facilitator Training. As a trainer, Leela is passionate about movement as part of a skillset transferable to the every day of relating, parenting, various work roles as well as dance as a career in and of itself.
She runs ongoing Friday evening dance groups in Dartington and Wednesday mornings online. She also founded local not-for-profit community group Movement for Life — awarded lottery funding since 2019 which brings dance to women and families. She has dedicated her career to the application of movement and dance practice for local community dance.
Leela lives in Dartington with her partner and daughter. In the wider environment, she feels deeply at home exploring moving in water as greatest teacher.
https://leelafisk.com/
Discovering conscious dance brought me back to my life after I nearly died in my late twenties. I remember my first moment on a conscious dance floor, I was terrified but I knew I had found something. And I was back the next day.
I love the collective magic, that cracked-open moment where the great totality is at play with itself. When body is alive to its limitless field and sensations are in love with their own existence. It’s a carousel of magnetic spaces that open in every direction. What a teaching.
And yes, some days it’s less magical and instead about remembering to breathe, stand up and walk while on computer admin.
But it’s always for me about re-membering the body knows, and handing over to that leadership.
