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Embodied dance for creative play, expression and connection across the lifespan.
Wild Kin
Creative Dance for Adults
Expand your movement range through play. Wild Kin is a playful, expressive space for creative movement, blending somatic awareness, improvisation, and guided exploration to support physical ease and emotional vitality. Through individual and group movement, you’ll expand your range, awaken creativity, and connect more deeply with yourself, others, and the living world. All bodies and backgrounds welcome—no experience needed, just bring your body as it is.
Saturday 10th May
8:15am - 9:45am
Samford Community Hub
How we move impacts the way we think, feel and the state of our nervous system.
Creative Dance and Yoga
for children
Our Creative Dance and Yoga classes offer a joyful space where children can explore movement, imagination, and self-expression. Through playful activities inspired by music, and imaginative themes, children develop confidence, body awareness, and emotional resilience.
Unlike traditional dance classes, our sessions encourage children to discover their own unique ways of moving—free from the pressure of right or wrong steps. Yoga elements are woven in to promote balance, focus, and relaxation.
Join us as we explore, play, and grow through dance and yoga!
Ages: grades 2-6
Location: Samford Village
When: Tuesdays, 3:30 - 4:30
Please get in touch for more info or to come along to a trial class.
dance, express, create!
WINTER SCHOOL
HOLIDAY PROGRAM
Creative Dance for Kids – 3-Day Program
8–10 July | Samford Valley (venue TBC)
Tuesday–Thursday | 10am–12pm
Performance Thursday evening + shared soup dinner 5pm-7pm
Ages: grades 2-6
Over three days, participants will collaborate to create a performance using dance, music, and storytelling.
The experience nurtures confidence, creativity, and connection, building skills in collaboration, artistry, and expression—all while having fun!
✨ No dance experience needed. All bodies and backgrounds welcome.
🎭 Family and friends are invited to a performance sharing evening on Thursday.
Please get in touch to register your interest!
Cost $160
Welcome to Dance Garden
Creativity, movement, and connection for well-being
Dance Garden celebrates connection—with oneself, others, and the world around us—through movement and play. Rooted in the therapeutic power of dance and community arts, I offer creative movement experiences that support well-being, self-expression, and joy.
About Me
I’m Emma Wilson (she/her), a dance artist and trainee Dance Movement Therapist passionate about the healing potential of creativity, movement, and embodiment.
My background is in contemporary dance, and over the years, I’ve come to understand dance not only as performance but as a powerful tool for healing, community-building, and personal transformation. I focus on the therapeutic benefits of community arts, offering inclusive spaces for creative exploration.
My Approach
I believe that feeling safe and at home in our bodies is essential to well-being. I’m committed to creating spaces where people feel seen, supported, and empowered. My work is grounded in principles of agency, consent, collaboration, and care—where diversity is welcomed and celebrated.
Through somatic practices, creative play, breath work, and movement improvisation, I invite people into deeper connection with themselves and others. These sessions can support nervous system regulation, expression of emotions, and exploration of identity—often in ways words alone cannot reach.
Whether in a group class or community workshop, I offer dance as a space for connection, discovery, and healing.
My Offerings
Somatic Movement Classes
& Creative Movement Experiences
Supporting your health and well being journey
Dance Garden is dedicated to providing a range of movement therapy services to your needs. Whether you are looking for somatic movement classes, or tailored group creative movement experiences, Emma is committed to creating a safe and nurturing space where you can explore and enhance your physical and emotional health through the power of movement.
I have experience working with people with disabilities, neurodivergent individuals, elders, children, teens, and people living with dementia.
What is
Dance
Movement
Therapy?
Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) is a psychotherapeutic method harnessing movement, play and focused bodily awareness to promote psychological healing and personal growth.
Through gentle creative exploration, participants are guided to engage with their inner experiences via movement, unlocking fresh patterns of expression.
DMT aids in regulating the nervous system and deepening interpersonal connections. Ultimately, it offers a holistic pathway to well-being, integrating mind, body, and spirit in a dynamic, experiential journey.
Emma Wilson Credentials:
Masters Creative Art Therapy - University of Melbourne (current)
Graduate Diploma Somatics and Dance Movement Therapy - Tensegrity Training (current)
Level 1 Yoga Teacher Training - Kate Pell Yoga 2012
Bachelor of Choreography - The Amsterdam School For The Arts 2010
Bachelor of Contemporary Arts (Dance) - Deakin University 2005
Participant Experiences
“I didn’t know that movement combined with guided meditation could be so healing. I reached depths of experiences both past and present that Emma helped me to explore safely and with compassion.
Difficult experiences seemed to move quickly through me and felt released to the universe. I don’t do stillness well and so being able to dance/move was a new and surprising way of meditation.“
“It was an appreciated and affirming experience, to enter a safe space and take the time to tune into my body and be guided to explore possibilities.
Over the duration of the sessions I felt progression towards feeling safe to find the spaciousness around me and opening up that was in contrast to feeling stuck and trapped within myself and physical body.
The key 'take-away' for me by the end of the sessions was that I really felt accomplished and confident to overcome the moments when I feel 'stuck' in a place of no movement/rest/sedentary (pain), feeling depleted and unmotivated to be being hopeful.”
Get in Touch
I would love to hear from you. Feel free to reach out to me for any inquiries or to discuss your movement needs.
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Acknowledgement of Country
Emma Wilson Movement Is Therapy acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands and waterways of the Moreton Bay Region, the Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi, Jinibara, and Turrbal people. I pay our respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging. I recognise the ongoing connection that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to this land and honour them as the original custodians. Sovereignty has never been ceded; this always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.
I recognise First Nations Peoples as the original storytellers, dancers, art and culture makers of this land, and I am honoured to follow in their footsteps by using the creative arts as healing modalities. I am committed to allyship, guided by the leadership and self-determination of First Nations Peoples, and to ongoing practices of decolonisation that centre their experiences.
Emma Wilson Movement Is Therapy is dedicated to embracing diversity and eradicating all forms of discrimination in our wellbeing services.
I celebrate people of all ethnicities, faiths, sexual orientations, and gender identities. My practice is committed to being anti-racist, anti-discrimination, anti-ableism, anti-stigma, and anti-oppression.
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