Alina is an exceptional therapist. With remarkable gentleness, depth and intuition, she captures what is happening in the therapeutic space and creates structured or free-flowing activities and processes through dance that give you access to yourself. She respects everyone's rhythm and process, always being attentive and connected to your needs and resources in the present. In addition, she has an extraordinary ability to keep your therapeutic journey in mind, making essential connections between what you worked on 2-3 years ago and what you are experiencing and understanding now. This continuity and depth of working together creates a safe space where you feel seen, heard and supported. Alina is a sensitive, gentle, empathic and present witness. Working with her is a joy and a blessing, and the process I'm going through is enormously helpful to me, both personally and professionally. I am deeply grateful for this journey and for the gentle and knowledgeable guidance Alina offers at every step.

What I feel can become overwhelming. There are warning signs. They're subtle, but they're there. The more I ignore them, the more intense they become, until nothing can be controlled. I used to not be able to sense why I was getting so angry or upset. As I began to realise how much I have been used to and taught to ignore the sensations and warning signs, (if you can call them that) and as I remained aware in the body, the ,,volcanoes" are not so though. I've got to listen to my body, eat when I'm hungry, drink water before I get a headache. I couldn't do this on my own at first, I was guided and I'm grateful to have heard of dance therapy. It is not easy, but the discomfort is there. It's something I observe with, something I empathise with. I haven't resorted to unhealthy habits for a long time, and this has given me more freedom.

"In the first modules I discovered that I have a body. Then that I have many blockages in my body. Dance as therapy helps you to access and release them."