Behind the scenes...

(MA Therapeutic Arts, E-RYT 500, Dip ANP, Post Grad Dip J, BA)

Wonder, open mindedness and passion for possibility are defining tenets of an agent of inquiry. Coupled with lifelong research into embodied intelligence, lived experience and kinesthetic awareness, an Embodiment Inquirer is created! Though Camilla has tongue in cheek when she calls herself an Embodiment Inquirer, the title captures the heart of her work. Technically she is an educator and movement/sonic artist specialising in Embodied Education and Therapeutics.

Camilla synthesises several decades of research, professional development, performance and teaching in movement/dance practices, yoga, improvisation and sound design. Her work rides the intersection of art, health and education to promote awareness of our embodied intelligence and its critical role in personal vitality, social cohesion, environmental care & positive change. Camilla considers embodied intelligence as an essential for sustainability as a people and planet.

Camilla is Co-founder/Director of Melbourne-based social enterprise Live Particle who recently launched their innovative online embodied education resource - Adventures In The Field.

Her private practice began in London, 2007 and has evolved to it’s Melbourne offering - Embodied Therapeutics: movement & creative art therapy.

Camilla founded and directed pioneering Melbourne-based yoga & movement studio, The Yoga Lab (2014-2017) to explore ways to create greater accessibility and understanding for somatic-based work. She has danced for as long as she can remember and continues to do so as research, pleasure and performance. She regularly performs around Melbourne with dance improvisation duo - LIPS. Anusara Yoga taught her an immeasurable amount. Her committed studies in Body-Mind Centering, perpetually nourish at the deepest of levels, and there have been many discoveries within Dance Improvisation, The Alexander Technique, Skinner Release and Contact Improvisation among other modalities.

Camilla has a Masters in Experiential & Creative Arts Therapy, is a registered Yoga Therapist and is studying as a Somatic Movement Educator in the Body-Mind Centering approach through Somatic Education Australasia. She has presented at TedX and consulted to Smiling Mind. Camilla has a background as an arts journalist & radio documentary maker with Radio New Zealand. Her ceaseless appetite for lived experience, the stuff of science, story telling, philosophy and movement fuels her work. 

Camilla facilitates compelling movement-based educational experiences. Whether it be for therapeutic purposes, personal growth, professional development or simply intrigue, people who engage in Camilla's work, explore their understanding and awareness of themselves as integrated multi-sensory organisms. They literally grow their understanding of what and how they are, and what this has to do with their environments, and themselves in them. Camilla’s offerings are creative investigations into the physical, philosophical and daily applications of human embodied experience. 

Alongside her teaching & therapeutic work, Camilla collaborates artistically, designs sound and spends heaps of time sharing a dynamic life with her partner Bing, children Stella & Taylor and their dog Jiemba.

For some time Camilla described her work in three parts: yoga . movement . sound (visit her old Facebook page). Now these are integrated elements of The Embodiment Inquirer. Here however, the differentiation is helpful for biographical & professional credential purposes.

Camilla & movement

I've danced for as long as I can remember. It's how I know me and this world I'm in. My moving research is vital creative practice, direct expression, sophisticated processing and profoundly informative and therapeutic. It's my way of communing.

camilla & yoga

Yoga is a way of being in the world and considering worldly things. For me it is like coming home. Yoga philosophy directly informs my work & yogasana is a beautiful embodied practice I cherish.

Camilla & sound

I’ve always been captivated by our aural world. The mix of natures tunes, the sonic human and our various environments and stories. I love the cinema of sound, how it reveals the beauty in the ordinary, and harnesses the power of our imagination. The microphone has been my instrument but more recently I’ve added the keys to this combination - paino, synth, hamonium.