Tina Cockett

Dance Movement Therapist

Tina practices as a dance movement therapist within the NHS mental health services in Surrey, England. She also runs expressive movement workshops for women drawing on mythological themes.

Originally trained in education and Laban Art of Movement, Tina has learnt Indian classical dance, practiced and taught astrology, and worked in the field of arts and heritage education. This involved devising and managing schools and community projects with dancers, artists and musicians from diverse cultures.

A Piscean born on St. Patrick's Day, Tina's deep love of nature, the elemental realms and the landscape stems from her rural childhood in Sussex, which inspired life-long work with pagan traditions, and study of folk and herbal lore. Her connection with the Celtic Lands comes from
her mother's ancestral line of seers and childhood holidays visiting family in South Wales. She has been returning to West Cornwall for over 25 years to connect with its special energies and sacred sites.

A deep sense of the healing power of dance and ritual combined with the desire to integrate the different aspects of her professional and spiritual life led Tina to retrain as a dance movement therapist in her 50's. Inner experiences evoked by this work and embodied movement and dreams led Tina to meet Nancy Dancing Light Sherwood and in 2009 she attended the Shamanic Convergence in Nova Scotia.

Currently Tina is working on embracing and embodying her crone aspect helped by crow, and to integrate her work further with her personal practice.

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