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.

Udita is also trained as a “Singing to beat Parkinson’s” leader.

Udita finds singing can help improve posture, breathing and lung function, foster overall happiness and reduce social isolation.

EXPRESSIVE WRITING FOR WELLBEING

Rosanna is a writer, storyteller, and sometimes a performer! Rosanna has written for theatre and screen, as well as poetry and travel writing. She was a sketch writer for the BBC and has even written for Japanese comics.

Rosanna has a PGCE in Primary Education from Homerton College, Cambridge with an English/Drama specialism. She taught A-Level Theatre Studies and Performing Arts in state sixth forms in North London and Cambridge and has been Head of Drama in schools in both South London and Malaysia.

http://rosannalowe.com

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) and the TARA Approach. she focuses 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.

PHOTO WALKS

Tolly Robinson is a photographer and documentary maker based in Brighton. His work explores local stories that feed into global narratives, whether they be decaying political systems, epilepsy or sea sewage.

His work has been shown in the Guardian, on the BBC and in the FT. His project More Than Seizures also sits in the UAL permanent art collection.