Lillian Kemanis

Lillian Kemanis Registered Somatic Movement Educator & Therapist I am a somatic movement educator/therapist dedicated to the pursuit of inner learning and discovery.

I offer space and guidance for listening and self-exploration through bodily experience. My practice invites all aspects of the self to participate in physical presence, inner body awareness, and attention to sensation, feeling, and image. With practice we can move more fully into our experience of well-being.

Diving into another season of practice! If you’re in the Hudson Valley please join me for my Fall series of Authentic Mo...
08/28/2026

Diving into another season of practice! If you’re in the Hudson Valley please join me for my Fall series of Authentic Movement wildheart_center_art 🍃

Tuesdays at 6pm

About :
Authentic Movement is a contemplative dance practice rooted in expressive movement therapy, where participants explore the unconscious mind through the moving body. The practice brings focus to the relationship between a mover and a witness, fostering states of compassion, curiosity, and non-judgment. With eyes closed, the mover listens inwardly to impulses, sensations, feelings, and images, allowing their inner experience to guide self-directed movement. The witness cultivates open receptivity, non-judgment, and inner awareness as they hold space for the mover’s expression. In this exploration of “seeing and being seen,” participants deepen their sense of trust and self-awareness through the practice of Authentic Movement.

Starting Sept 3 | Join me for an hour of giving our undivided attention to the body — listening to sensation, following ...
08/24/2026

Starting Sept 3 | Join me for an hour of giving our undivided attention to the body — listening to sensation, following intuitive movement, and offering ourselves the care we deserve. Each week, we’ll begin with a guided somatic practice that invites us to slow down and listen inwardly, before heading into unstructured movement time, a space to follow your impulses, explore, rest, play, and follow what the body needs. No experience is necessary.

📸 Lady Deryn

this summer has offered so many surprises in the comings and goings of things. Almost too much flow to handle, even for ...
08/11/2026

this summer has offered so many surprises in the comings and goings of things. Almost too much flow to handle, even for my aquarian | cancer | gemini nature, i’ve been holding onto the handle bars with a tight grip all while delightfully squealing!

some ancient stuff has been in review for me : my sense of self worth and the sneaky ways i still play small. I’m learning that true service is in the giving our authenticity. Not in what we do for others, or how useful we are, but in being ourselves. Honesty is the real generosity.

though the land here is still lushfully green, I can feel the beginnings of the leaves turning. The quiet descent of Fall is here. Some upcoming, and ongoing offerings I have for you are :

⎯ Awakening Body (this September); a 5-week virtual somatic/arts-based container

⎯ Authentic Movement (this September) wildheart_center_art

⎯ Integrative Somatic Therapy sessions; virtual or in-person

See you there 🌈

A little bit about me and how I become to orient to my somatic healing work. Visit my website for more information about...
08/03/2026

A little bit about me and how I become to orient to my somatic healing work. Visit my website for more information about my sessions and other offerings ✨

📸 Lady Deryn

07/16/2026

🎵i want to break free 🎵

Returning : I am a celestial body in retrograde. I slide back along my ellipses and return to parts of myself dismembere...
07/14/2026

Returning : I am a celestial body in retrograde. I slide back along my ellipses and return to parts of myself dismembered and discarded along the way. I retrieve and re-member. I realign, and when I’m ready, go direct.

How do you know what parts are missing when you’ve lost touch? What is your way back to something whole and integral? How do you commune with what is beneath your memory?

A practice :
Turn everything off
Go inside and find that quiet place
(you know the one…)
Stay there
Listen for an echo
A song, a tone, a poem, a hymn…
Follow it’s beckoning
Be filled by what memory returns

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💚Love to this body that keeps dancing. Love to these bodies that keep dancing together. Love to the bodies who keep orga...
07/05/2026

💚Love to this body that keeps dancing. Love to these bodies that keep dancing together. Love to the bodies who keep organizing dance happenings. Love to the bodies that keep coming out to experience dance.

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Never stop listening for the magic ✨ Life is in the meaning we make. Western culture is trapped in a worldview of materi...
06/25/2026

Never stop listening for the magic ✨ Life is in the meaning we make.

Western culture is trapped in a worldview of materialism and objectivity — we only accept a very narrow method of truth-finding. When I sit with people and guide them into a state of listening (to their inner world of sensation, symbol, imagination, and meaning), they will often ask me “how do I know I’m not just making it up?” Little do they realize, in this question they are outsourcing their inner knowing; looking for someone or something else “out there” to tell them what is true and real.

There’s so much we can’t know, and I think this is good news. This means we’re always dwelling in a space of mystery and possibility. Are we making it all up? I’m not sure, but what I do know is the meaning we make shapes how we inhabit this world and the actions we take. Is my view one that is inanimate and deadening? Or one that is animate and life-giving?

A practice :

Find a portal in nature. A hole in a the ground. A space between stones. A pathway shrined by the trees. Stay there for a moment, and ask yourself “what’s on the other side?” Listen for the answer.

✨🌈🌱

06/16/2026

Whatever you do, don’t get banished by the gods and condemned to push a boulder up a mountain for all of eternity ⛰️⚡️🪨

Film by Lindsay Gilmour & Nathan Whitmont (2025)

Time to drop the mask. No more performing, no more holding it all together, no more trying to be palatable for others. T...
05/07/2026

Time to drop the mask. No more performing, no more holding it all together, no more trying to be palatable for others. There are no requirements here, only an invitation to practice curiosity, compassion, and attunement.

Throughout this weekend we will :
✨ move with our eyes closed
✨ practice witnessing with nonjudgment
✨make art!
✨go outside!
✨ engage in meaningful conversation
✨ rest

Hope to see you there 🌷

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