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Hi everyone,
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Long exhale...
This feels like a tender message to write. I want to be honest and to model that it’s okay — and sometimes essential — to pause and take care of oneself. It feels both vulnerable and important to share this openly.
Over the past year, I’ve been moving through some big internal shifts and deep healing. I’ve been working somatically with wonderful therapists to unwind and reset long-held survival patterns in my nervous system — patterns that, in different ways, we all carry as humans. It’s been profound work, full of learning, gratitude, and transformation. I want to keep finding ways to make this kind of embodied healing more accessible to others.
With this growth has also come a clear need for rest and resourcing. For the next couple of months, I’ll be simplifying and giving myself time to be with what’s moving through me — while limiting my energy to tending to our shops, loved ones, and daily life.
This means I’ll be pausing my Sunday morning classes, Monday classes, and Women’s classes, and I won’t be holding space for Solstice this year. I’ll miss dancing with you, but I know this time of rest will allow me to return in January refreshed and more deeply rooted in what I offer.

Jon will be covering my two Monday classes November 24th and December 15th(which will be our last one). Neil will be teaching the other classes.

My Monday Closed Group for January has just one space left, If you’d like to join, please get in touch. A beautiful group is forming, and I’m excited to be weaving together somatic movement and dance in new ways.
For now, I wish you gentleness, rest, and space to care for yourself in whatever ways you need. I look forward to dancing with you in the New Year.
With warmth and gratitude,
Jessica x

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I have been dancing 5 Rhythms for nearly 20 years and Jess's class in Oxford is my favourite out of the many classes that I have attended over the years. So good that I regularly travel from London to participate. Every 5 Rhythms teacher is different of course. I find that Jess has a unique sensitivity to the body's rhythms and how they correspond to music. In her classes she creates an intimate and safe space to allow dancers to explore themselves as deeply and sensitively as they dare to go. Dancing one of Jess's classes is an exquisite experience. Hud Saunders, Writer

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Jessica holds a beautiful and powerful space. I love her vulnerability and strength and her willingness to be part of the group and be seen. She also plays cracking tunes! Joshua Knight, Somatic Experiencer

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Jess creates spaces that foster openness, creativity & community and give nourishment and joy to the participants.  She brings a wealth of experience and her authentic, gentle and feminine strength is inspirational.  I heartily recommend her in her different roles all of which I have experienced and greatly enjoyed over many years.  Alexandra Lewis, Lawyer

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I love Jessica's classes, feel held and encouraged to delve into the dance that my physical body wishes to express; also the way she takes us through body parts into the flowing rhythm of the dance, brilliant! Lizzie Austin, Homeopath

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Jessica's groups are the highlight of my week. With her excellent facilitation skills I can move through all the week's issues in my own way and I step back into the world calmer, more resilient and hopeful.
Whatever you are dealing with in your everyday life Jessica creates a safe space. She facilitates unobtrusively with grace, warmth and honesty so you can experience transformation to a more peaceful and contented state.
Mary Kaspar, Acupuncturist

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Jessica’s movement classes are better than any drug prescription!  For me they are essential physical, mental, emotional and social maintenance. Her eclectic wide-ranging choice of music inspires me to move in all sorts of ways I might not usually, helping to make sense of and process whatever toxins, emotions, narratives might be storing up in my body.
Her unobtrusive facilitation, tangibly underpinned by years of experience, provides a safely held permissive space for anything that might emerge.  The class benefits from Jessica’s own continuing curiosity and learning about the human experience.  Amanda Maffett, Life Coach

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"From the first time I stepped on a dance floor with Jess I was touched by her deep embodiment and grace. I have since been present at many of Jess's weekly classes, including the women's sessions and also been to weekend and day long workshops she has facilitated. Jess responds to the energetic field in her movement sessions with a wide range of music that seems to invite the body to move in new and essential ways. Her sensitive suggestions to slow movement down, or bring attention inwards to the breath and inner sensation or outwards to another human being just at the 'right' moment are deeply intuitive and have allowed me a sense of connection and safety in my body. Jess combines strength, vulnerability and openness in her offerings to the Oxford community and leads the way for many of us in inspiring love and collaboration. I look forward to dancing with Jess again soon". Sarah Jane Heath, Artist

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