Hello, Im Kirstine
Im so happy you are here
About Kirstine
The Body has always been my way in
I have spent a large part of my life exploring what it means to be human, and the body has always been my way in.
I have worked professionally with movement and people in movement since 1999. It began with dance, and for many years I worked as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and producer. But my fascination and curiosity have always reached beyond dance itself.
I have been interested in how people move. How we hold ourselves. How a body changes in the presence of another person. The small movements and expressions that reveal so much about us.
When I was studying dance in England around the turn of the millennium, I could spend hours observing people in the most ordinary situations. I would take in their movements, expressions and patterns and allow them to find their way into my own body and my artistic work.
Later, I spent six or seven years working with the late Dutch-Canadian choreographer André Gingras. Much of our work explored physical and psychological states through movement, and through a very direct embodiment of their physical expression. We allowed the body to enter these states, to sense how they were organised, and to explore how they might take form through movement.
Many years later, when I began working therapeutically and studying trauma, the nervous system and the body's response patterns, I recognised something. I had already encountered many of these states through art and through my own body.
My artistic work took me across much of Europe and into many different forms of physical and performative practice. In 2011, I was nominated for Tänzerin des Jahres for my work with Mute Comp. Physical Theatre/DK.
Looking back, I can see that what was then an artistic exploration was already part of what continues to drive my work today: a fascination, curiosity and sense of wonder about our inner lives, the relationship between body and psyche, and the body as a way of experiencing and knowing.
From Movement to the Inner Life
Alongside dance, another practice slowly began to emerge. Yoga, meditation and breathwork have been part of my life since the late 1990s, and over time my interest in the body began to move further into our inner lives.
I became interested in the relationship between body and psyche. In the nervous system, trauma and our defence mechanisms. In the unconscious and the spiritual. In how our experiences continue to live in the body and influence the way we move through the world, meet other people and experience ourselves.
In 2015–2016, I went through a period of burnout, depression and anxiety. It changed my life and the direction I was moving in. I had lost touch with something within myself, and I began exploring the body, the nervous system and our capacity to change the patterns we develop throughout our lives.
In the years that followed, I trained in body therapy, trauma work, breathwork and somatic therapy, and began working therapeutically with others. Since then, I have continued studying, working under supervision and deepening my professional understanding.
The further I have gone into therapeutic work, the clearer it has become to me that the body is my way into something much larger.
The very experience of being human.
What We Do Not Yet Have Words For
Through my work with movement, therapy and meditation, I have encountered experiences again and again that are difficult to place within the categories we normally use to understand ourselves. The body can respond to something before the mind knows what is happening. A movement can arise without being planned and open into memories, emotions or images. In meditation, our experience of who or what we are can change. And sometimes we know something without quite being able to explain where that knowing comes from.
This is something I find myself increasingly drawn to: the relationship between body and consciousness, between the conscious and the unconscious, between what we can understand and what we can experience. I am curious about intuition, about the energetic dimensions of our experience, and about what happens when we allow the body and our senses to lead the exploration somewhere we could not have imagined beforehand.
There is so much we can now understand about the nervous system, the psyche and the body. And yet, in my work and in life, I continue to encounter something that resists a simple explanation.
Perhaps this is also where the mystery lies for me: in the willingness to stay with the exploration and move further into the human experience, where life reveals itself as something tangible, deeply felt and full of mystery.
The Work That Is Emerging
My work today draws on many years of experience in dance, art, therapy and my own personal practice.
Dance and movement. Therapeutic work. My interest in the nervous system and the unconscious. Meditation and breathwork. Art. My curiosity about consciousness and human experience.
Out of all this, Felt Sense Flow® has emerged, an embodied practice of inquiry in which movement, sensation, breath, stillness and whatever arises along the way are all allowed to become part of the same exploration.
At the same time, writing and filmmaking have once again begun to find more space in my work and in my heart. Through them, I explore consciousness, relationships, presence, meaning, the pace at which we live, and all the strange little and not-so-little things that come with being human.
Because although my work has taken many different forms over the years, there is one question I keep returning to:
What does it really mean to be human?
Background & Training
Dance & Performing Arts
BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance & Choreography, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds
Professional dancer, choreographer, producer & artistic director
Therapeutic Training & Supervision
Totum School of Body Therapy, Foundation & Advanced Training
Somatic Developmental Therapy (Trauma, Somatic Psychology, IFS & Nervous System Regulation)
Kenshō Breathwork & Trauma Therapy
Additional training and courses in Yoga, Meditation & Somatic Movement
Gestalt & Body Therapy Supervision Group with Anne Marie Troelsen (3 years)
Teaching & Facilitation
Founder of Felt Sense Flow®
Former educator, Totum School of Body Therapy
Guest Teacher, Honestbodytalk Practitioner Training
Felt Sense Flow® teacher, Dansalliansen & Teateralliansen, Sweden
Get in Touch
Whether you have a question, an idea for a collaboration, or simply feel like saying hello, you are very welcome to write to me.
I'll get back to you as soon as I can.