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Creating a sacred space where there can be flow

 

Through the transmission and teaching of somatic movement we intend to nurture
creative learning, community coherence, whilst practicing ecologically sensitive placemaking

​Sarah Gray  | "Tzara" BA Hons

(she/they/them)

Founder & interdisciplinary artist​

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Tzara practices yoga, somatic movement and experiential learning facilitation.

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Tzara lives and works in Totnes (Devon, UK) hosting collective learning and individual lessons in collaborative, practice-led movement research in both studio and outdoor sites. 

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Practicing yoga since 2012, Tzara certified as a yoga teacher in the spirit of Vanda Scaravelli in 2017 and is learning from first and second generation Scaravelli-inspired teachers in India, Greece and the UK. Join Tzara at a drop-in yoga class or lab series this Autumn term in Totnes and Dartington.

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Tzara is a regular teacher with the School Of Experiential Learning leading somatic movement seminars on the Holistic Studies in Human Anatomy programme and on the Saturday Somatics community workshops this Autumn.

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Tzara has been a dedicated student of Body-Mind Centering® for ten years and is enriching her practice by completing the Somatic Movement Education programme with SOMA Association in France (graduation due in 2026). ​

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cultivating a living arts practice

and an artful living practice. â€‹â€‹

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SOUND
SITE
Image by Biel Morro
Image by Chris Yang

Sound

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Explore sound as a medium of touch,
listening as an act of both giving & receiving,
& voicing as a means of expression & somatization
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As part of self-led solo arts project Sound Journeys, Tzara produced a digital sound-walk for Dartington, presented at the Schumacher College symposium Language, Landscape and the Sublime in June 2016. For more information, contact directly.

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Site

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Facilitating experiences
to offer up the opportunity to rediscover
our relationship to place.
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We are always exploring the context - our place, the landscape, our memory, and pattens of movement. Tzara is interested in rituals on rural and urban terrain, at threshold places.

Tzara's work (2005-2025) centers on the Dartington Hall Estate through broadcast, walking, listening, spoken word, embodiment practices and sound recording.

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SOMATICS

Somatics

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The exploration of the relationship between body and mind through first-person perception;
To directly experience; To pay attention to; To notice; 
To create the conditions for more choice.

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In a world of information,

can we embody and grow our felt knowledge?

 

Somatics is sensing and feeling the relationship between body and mind.  By bringing greater awareness to our whole selves we begin to become present to embody the reality of this constant change.  

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By turning in we limit how much we depend on the externals. 

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Overcoming addictions and habits, being neuroplastic and available to respond - these are the benefits of regular somatic practice.  Developing this response-ability is a process! It is one where love and patience are required.  With regular practice, we develop a greater capacity for self-care and therefore community and place care. ​

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"The key to physical, psychological and spiritual well-being lies in our Soma, which can perhaps best be defined as the essence of bliss or Ananda

arising from the core of our being"

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-Frawley, D. 2013. Soma in Yoga and Ayurveda. Motilal Banarsidass: Delhi, India. p.13

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For me, somatics practice is a process of deepening my sense of trust in myself and the universe.

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09 HEART OPENING IN TREE Sarah Gray Yoga

Research Interests

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Tzara's ongoing embodiment practices and movement research interests include, but are not limited to,

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  • Hatha yoga in the spirit of Vanda Scaravelli,

  • Body-Mind Centering, 

  • Radio arts,

  • Ritual and ceremonial arts,

  • Drift/derive/walking arts practice,

  • Sound-walks and in-ear audio composition, 

  • Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros

  • Eco-somatics,

  • Choreographic practices,

  • Authentic movement,

  • Contact improvisation,

  • Site-specific performance,

  • Somatic/automatic writing,

  • Dramaturgy,

  • Collaborative/devised/community-led and theatre/dance and transdisciplinary performance-making,

  • Community festivals, Folklore and seasonal cycles.  

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Education, Training & CPD

 
Dartington College of Arts
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First Class Bachelors of Arts with Honours in Theatre and Choreographic Practices. Dartington, Devon, UK. September 2005 - June 2008.
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Yoga Health Mandala
https://www.yogahealthmandala.co.uk/
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A Warrior's Balance 50 hours CPD (online) 21 April - 26 May 2021.

 

Vitality of the Spine 50 hours CPD (online) 20 January to 28 February 2021.

 

200 hours Hatha Scaravelli-inspired Yoga Teacher Training. 1-month immersion in Goa, India. February-19 March 2017.

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Body Mind Centering®
https://www.bodymindcentering.com/
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Somatic Movement Education (SME). 

 

Ongoing and due to complete and graduate with SOMA Association, France in July 2026. 

 

Modules completed:

  • Ontogenetics, SOMA Association, Valcivieres, France; 16-20 July 2025

  • RRR (Primitive Responses, Equilibrium Reactions and Righting Responses),  SOMA Association, Valcivieres, France; 7-13 July 2025

  • Basic Neurocellular Patterns, SOMA Association, Valcivieres, France;  12-19 April 2025

  • Organs System, SOMA Association, Paris, France; 14-22 February 2025

  • Nervous System, Embody Move, Edinburgh, UK; 13-20 December 2021

  • Fluids System; SOMA Ass, Grenoble, France;

  • Skeletal System; Somaatikum, Tallin, Estonia; 9-20 August 17.

  • Senses & Perception 1; SOMA Association, Paris France; 23-26 April 16.    

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 The School Of Experiential Learning.
https://www.tsoel.org.uk/

 

Somatics Experiential Learning Facilitator (SELF). 

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Ongoing 3-year course hosted near Buckfastleigh, Devon, ending in March 2026. 

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Modules completed:

  • The Opening Gesture: Foundations. 3-7 August 2025.

  • The Unseeable Animal Encounter & kinship in the natural world. 12-15 May 2025.

  • Our Life Sense:  The Immune system from an embodied perspective. 2-5 June 2025.

  • The Embryo in You. 21-24 July 2024.

  • Infant Developmental Movement. 11-15 May 2024.

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Holistic Studies in Human Anatomy from an experiential perspective. 

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Assisting Participant of a 2-year course, and pre-requisite to the SELF programme.

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  • Year 2. Buckfastleigh, Devon. October 2017 – March 2018.

    • Nervous System​

    • Muscles

    • Endocrine

    • Organs II

  • Year I. Dartington, Devon. October 2016 – March 2017.

    • Skin to Cells​

    • Skeleton

    • Fluids

    • Organs I

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