About Becca
Through movement, soundscapes, ritual, performance, and healing practices, my work explores connection—to self, others, the earth, and the unknown. I am passionate about the transformative potential that emerges when we listen intently to our felt sense, intuition, and the mysteries beyond the familiar. Movement improvisation and creativity become sacred languages, guiding us beyond the known into the vast intelligence and imagination that lie beyond the everyday, opening new perspectives, aliveness, and healing.
I find joy in creating soundscapes that accompany deep dancing journeys, where the edge of our habitual movement expression opens into sacred improvisation, infused with the mystery of the unknown and unseen. As an Open Floor International Movement Facilitator, I offer classes and workshops in London and Devon that encourage participants to explore the rich possibilities that arise when we connect more deeply with our inner landscapes, each other, and the world around us.
My deep love for the wild finds expression in the landscapes of Dartmoor, where I feel most at home among granite, waters, moss, and trees. The workshops and classes I offer are inspired by my twelve years of intensive study with Helen Poynor in Environmental Movement, as well as by my studies with Javanese movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto), Northern Drum Shamanic Practice, long-term exploration of Somatic Movement, and ongoing engagement with my own movement artistic practice.
I also work in Devon NHS Trust as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist and Environmental Arts Therapist.
I studied performance, live art and physical theatre intensely from the age of 14-21. I am a fully qualified Open Floor International Movement Teacher, ADMP registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist (MA) Outdoor Nature Therapist (WIlderness Foundation) and Environmental Arts Therapist (SEAT). I am training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and have also trained with Gendered Intelligence to support my working alongside trans, gender diverse and questioning people.
As a queer, non-binary person I hold inclusivity as central to my work.
Publications: Becca Parkinson (2023) Eco dance movement psychotherapy (EDMP) and queer embodied kinship with the more than human world in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17432979.2023.2256373?src=