About Becca
Through movement, soundscapes, ritual, performance, and healing practices, my work explores connection—to self, others, the earth, and the unknown.
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=