My passion is teaching movement and helping my clients to understand how they move. How can you make it more efficient, pleasurable and stay curious? We’re moving from theoretical knowledge to embodied knowledge – making sense in your body.
My name is Katrin Neue and I am an Essential Somatics certified Clinical Somatic Educator, an interdisciplinary movement teacher, and mother, crafter, gardener.
I enrolled in a first formal training to teach dance just before I graduated from secondary school, and after knee surgeries squashed my dream of studying dance, had a 2 year stint at Frankfurt University to study political science, sociology and African language studies (all that I love digging into apart from movement!). I continued my studies at Erika Kluetz-School for dance and dance education in Hamburg, graduating in 2007. Following thousands of hours teaching dance to amateurs and pre-professional dancers in Germany, I moved to Ireland, where I took up an MA with focus on contemporary solo performance and graduated in 2010 with a First class honours under Dr. Mary Nunan at University of Limerick. My movement research during this intensive year of studies revolved around recovery, the split between dancing and personal body, and agency.
After the MA, I took up teaching Pilates, having trained with different providers. In 2014, shortly after the birth of my son, I also took the opportunity to start my education under Essential Somatics founder Martha Peterson, certifying as a Hanna Somatics Exercise Coach (now Essential Somatics Movement Teacher training). While my idea of the training was to get ‘just another tool in my toolbox’, receiving an astonishingly simple and profound hands on assisted pandiculation for my at that time numb and painful back taught me otherwise. I tentatively started teaching 1 client everything I learned and it became clear that I wanted to learn more. In 2015, I was accepted into the professional training and certified in 2017 as a Clinical Somatic Educator.
I started SOMAdublin in 2014 to offer private lessons as well as small group workshops.
I love to learn science-backed information on how to work with clients dealing with trauma and chronic pain. I also have a special interest working with women after breast cancer (I have a certification in Post Cancer exercise) and throughout peri-and postmenopause. Many of my clients are dealing with burnout and it’s many manifestations.
I regularly am invited as a guest teacher at Dance Ireland, both in the professional dancer’s morning classes as well as the Healthier dancer weekly wellness program. I also lectured at UL, teaching students from all dance programs (MA Contemporary and Traditional Dance Performance, BA Voice and Dance, BA Traditional Dance) for 2 years. I currently teach workshops twice a year in Finland.
My love for movement and teaching is bringing me back to dance education and I am excited to step back into the studio teaching ballet again, with all the knowledge I have gained in the last 20 years.
