My movement history

I have been a passionate practitioner of movement since birth. Growing up climbing trees, rowing, running, riding horses, rolling down hills, swimming and partying. Around 1999 I became serious about studying human movement, from personal trainer to massage therapist to teacher trainings in Ashtanga yoga, Critical Alignment Back Therapy , Donnah Farhi and Leo Pappas’s Somatic Yoga approach and Katy Bowman’s biomechanics model of Nutritious Movement. Plus a dash of Ido Portal’s Movement Culture weekends.
I have studied Resistance Stretching, levels 1 to 5 with Bob Cooley. These videos the Body is Medicine are worth the watch!
My journey through all these forms of movement have allowed me to release a lot of the armouring that was held in my body. I am a completely different person in how I move in this world today. I hold deep gratitude for all I have experienced and embodied from these teachers.

Since 2020 I have been exploring the work of Thomas Hannah, Somatics. This is relaxing and opening my body in completely unique ways that I have not experienced previously. The premise of sensory motor amnesia makes so much sense. By learning to regain both awareness, sensation, and motor control – an educational process that can only be achieved through movement – we remember ever deeper layers of relaxation and ease of movement and enhanced sensory awareness.

The deep peace and increasing freedom that awareness facilitates is very delicious.

This bodywork aligns incredibly well with Internal Family Systems - no longer adding better habits and creating a better version of myself, instead stripping away the burdens I carry in my psyche and physiology. Making the unconscious conscious and creating choice.

From 2006 to 2022 I was owner of yoga2go in Castricum, the Netherlands.

contact: lucie@yoga2go.nl

For dutch speakers, here a bunch of movement videos for home practice. Enjoy! And of course, respect your own body’s limits.