Meet the Team

ART FOR RELAXATION

Heidi’s background is in illustration and photography but she has always loved exploring many creative disciplines and experimenting with different techniques and materials. Currently, she is focusing on making paper sculptures using natural items she collects, as well as starting to work with ceramics.

Heidi is passionate about helping people feel free and relaxed when creating art, encouraging them to believe in themselves as artists and value their unique abilities. She strives to help others gain confidence and recognise that there is beauty in imperfection. Art should be an enjoyable and accessible experience for everyone.

SING FOR BETTER HEALTH

Udita Everett trained at the Academy of Music Vienna - she is a musician, music therapist and voice/ breath/ body coach with many years’ experience.

She has been leading several Sing For Better Health groups per week from 2007. She has always loved singing, and has been interested in the effect of singing on our minds and bodies.

CREATIVE WRITING

Rosanna has worked as a writer across various genres, including theatre, journalism and TV. She is particularly interested in writing about people and places, history and ecology. She believes in the power of writing to enhance wellbeing and to express untold stories and unheard voices.

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DANCE FOR WELLBEING

Dr. Rosaria M. Gracia, PhD is an award winning dance artist, dance and health specialist, researcher and lecturer. Her dance career started in late 1990s and since then, her practice has developed not only through the dance styles she practices but also through the inclusion of mind-body techniques like energy medicine and somatic movement. She is a certified practitioner in different disciplines including GYROKINESIS (R) and GYROTONIC (R). Her classes focus on the joy that movement brings and how dance and movement can support our bodies and minds to feel, nurture, rejuvenate and perform well, independently of our age, condition or ability, working with what we have and blossoming with it.

WRITING FOR WELLBEING

John O'Donoghue is the author of five books, including Sectioned: A Life Interrupted (John Murray, 2009), which was awarded Mind of the Year 2010. He has a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa, and has taught at a number of universities. He is a firm believer in the power of writing to transform lives, as it has transformed his own, and draws on his broad experience in his work for The Hera Project.

PHOTO-WALKS

Dan Blomfield is a professional freelance photographer working in the studio and on location, across the UK and the World. From assisting a Devon Community Photographer in 1996 to studying Photography in depth at Falmouth University and later at Nottingham Trent University, his passion for the subject is always growing. He's worked for professional printing companies, film studios, magazines, advertising campaigns, individual clients, and art galleries along with always developing his own practice and vision.

ART FOR WELLBEING

Suzie Poyntz is a visual artist with a particular interest in noticing surroundings and tuning in to the environment we find ourselves in using the senses. She likes to work intuitively with materials responding to natural wild places is a particular passion. Suzie is all about the process of making art, enjoying materials & exploring techniques, letting go of preconceived ideas of what something should look like and creating with a curious open attitude.