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.

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 🌷

There is a quality of listening we’ve lost touch with in these modern times. A kind that emerges when our senses are att...
04/25/2026

There is a quality of listening we’ve lost touch with in these modern times. A kind that emerges when our senses are attuned to our environment and we have a core sense of quiet from within. This can only happen when we’ve had the proper rest, nourishment, connection, and leisure. Or in other words, when our nervous system unfreezes from its constant state of defense and returns to its fluid and responsive nature. Or in other words, when our physical, social, and spiritual needs are met.

More and more I am learning what it really takes to resist this over-culture of extraction, violence, and dominance. I take back my attention from its possession by returning to my felt-sense, my body. I practice self observation with neutrality and warmth toward myself. I release the grip of my belly and jaw when I’m writing my emails or driving in my car. I spend time looking up, at the trees and the sky. I water the friendships that are right here in front of me. I dance. Alllll the damn time. I sing in the shower. I say hello to the squirrels in the morning. I pray to the great mystery and realize impermanence whenever I can remember.

At least this is where I think it starts — from the inside out.

On May 16 & 17 I will be holding my second practice container : Authentic Movement Immersion. Please join me and take a dive into the depths of your living body. We will move. We will witness and be witnessed. We will explore what it takes to return to ourselves and each other (and nature!)

See you there, or somewhere I hope 💓💫

Today marks the end of an era for me. I ended my lease in Brooklyn and officially moved out. Though I’ve been traveling ...
03/30/2026

Today marks the end of an era for me. I ended my lease in Brooklyn and officially moved out. Though I’ve been traveling and living upstate for a while now, still, as any New Yorker knows it’s hard to let go of a good rent controlled apartment.

It feels like a big story is ending energetically, as if all the disparate plot threads suddenly all make sense together. All the choices I made over the past several years in total uncertainty, with the only voice guiding me my inner one…all has come to fruition. Lesson complete *beep boop boop beep*

There’s a lot I could share about my 12 years in Brooklyn, or where I hope this next story will take me…but what I am sitting with most is an ineffable awe for how life keeps surprising me when I follow my soul’s calling. Yes, my soul! That mysterious thing that keeps speaking to me from within, the one that knows what it came here for, what it wants to experience in this lifetime in this Lillian body, with full ferocious hunger.

I’m grateful to be old enough, and have paid attention enough, to see a pattern emerge : when I’m ready to let go, the new will come in. Simple as that. Grow, let go, grow, let go, repeat. (And try to chill out and not worry so much in the meantime).

Anyway, that’s all. Shout out to my Dad who’s my right hand man, always, anytime I have had to move 💗

To new beginnings ✨

We did it y’all…we took a proper vacation 🌴🌊😎 Happy birthday to my friend 💗
03/26/2026

We did it y’all…we took a proper vacation 🌴🌊😎

Happy birthday to my friend 💗

I have a simple practice i do whenever i am feeling scattered, fractured, or overwhelmed. I’ll often do it when I’m arri...
02/08/2026

I have a simple practice i do whenever i am feeling scattered, fractured, or overwhelmed. I’ll often do it when I’m arriving in a new space or starting a task that I desire to be fully present for. I close my eyes and say : “I call all parts of myself back to my body.” I recite this as many times as needed. It’s incredible to me how much energy almost immediately restores. It feels as though i am bellowing out a majestic horn into the ether, across space and time, herding my bits and pieces to return. They come in like flocks of children, happy to come home.
 
The multiplicity of Self and Consciousness is something that fascinates me deeply. It feels so true to me, that “i am” not one but many ⎯ an orchestration of various lived experiences, past, present, historical, mythological, archetypal ⎯ all living inside of me, and through me. My body is the place; the location through which everything occurs. 
 
This is why going inside is a perfectly reasonable thing to do to see what’s happening. To investigate what’s true. It’s been my experience that this is always the first step to healing, or greater maturity, or spiritual evolution : That we take practice in a very specific quality of awareness. One that is kind and warm. A cultivation of inner space that welcomes all parts - that rejects nothing - but invites the kaleidoscope of individual and collective consciousness to unfurl, to be revealed through the body, to be seen and known, to move. 

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I have 1:1 Somatic Therapy Sessions available this month. Head to the link in bio to see my February calendar 🪽

📸 by Natalie Deryn Johnson

Today is my birthday! What a great privilege it is to age - to feel the lapse of time through my body. I have more smile...
01/25/2026

Today is my birthday! What a great privilege it is to age - to feel the lapse of time through my body. I have more smile lines now than the year before. I am happy to be here 🌈☀️

(I offer you my favorite poem by Mary Oliver 🙏)

Last weekend I had the incredible honor of holding a practice container : Authentic Movement Immersion : here . I almos...
01/19/2026

Last weekend I had the incredible honor of holding a practice container : Authentic Movement Immersion : here . I almost didn’t post about it because there’s so much I could say and I didn’t know where to start, ha! But I would be remiss if I didn’t give it some reflection and a share…

There’s always a profound edge we’re up against when we practice authenticity with others. Authentic Movement centers the relationship between a mover and a witness - meaning, we’re inviting ourselves to be seen in our authenticity; we’re also practicing seeing others in theirs. (Vulnerability is a give in…and I find we tend to like the idea of vulnerability until we’re actually facing it 😅)

At this edge of ‘seeing and being seen’ we can encounter shame, judgement, projection, grief and longing. Rather than going into our habitual defense patterns can we invite a new experience and create a new story? In this practice we deliberately take a chance! We actively transmute our shadows through compassion, awareness, and self accountability.

Ironically, when we explore authenticity - connecting to our true, inner self - we find that the self is not a singular subject, but rather a living process in conjunct with everything else. We each are cosmic centers of cause and effect.

“You, me, we, us.”

The personal becomes transpersonal.

Where there is shadow there’s also light! In this space we open the portal to greater capacity for play, creativity, love, compassion, joy, imagination, insight, inspiration…new options for choice-making and surrender.

I’m learning so much from the courageous souls who dare to share this play space with me! It’s a humbling path and I am grateful.

More to come💫

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Winter class series of Authentic Movement starting Tuesday, Jan 20

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12/20/2025

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Open the portal of your subconscious mind through automatic writing. Channel the wisdom of your inner & outer guides 🌈
11/04/2024

Open the portal of your subconscious mind through automatic writing. Channel the wisdom of your inner & outer guides 🌈

Join me this Thursday, November 7 for Somatic Care ~ an hour long online gathering to cultivate deep internal listening,...
11/04/2024

Join me this Thursday, November 7 for Somatic Care ~ an hour long online gathering to cultivate deep internal listening, reflection, and self/community care.

https://www.lilliankemanis.com/book-online

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