Nily Ron
A quick peak at my path here: I moved to the UK thinking I’d become a professional dancer, but instead linking my dance training with my psychology training and qualifying as a dance/movement psychotherapist. After years of working in the therapy field, I was lured to the challenges and financial rewards of a management career in London. However, after the birth of my children, perspectives changed, priorities realigned and I returned to the field of promoting emotional well-being.
Throughout my life I found movement in particular to be the source and inspiration of emotional well-being. In my teenage years I practiced a variety of martial arts that gave me focus, strength and discipline; in my 20s I performed and taught belly-dancing through which I empowered women to embrace their feminine movement and increase their self confidence; as a dance/movement therapist I worked with people with different mental health challenges and with adults with learning disabilities, providing them new ways to communicate when they couldn’t do so in words; and in 2019 I founded MummyMoves, a dance class that combined Pilates, Yoga and bellydancing to strengthen young mums’ core muscles while bonding with their babies who joined the dance in the sling.
You can find links to my previous projects below, including my article on Dance/Movement Psychotherapy for amputees and MummyMoves background.
In 2021 I founded trimoving where, together with the clients, we focus on movement towards goals (Coaching) and movement of thoughts and perspectives (NLP) to provide YOU with an opportunity for exploration, clarity and resolution of how to be the ME you want to BE.
My official credentials include: NLP Practitioner, Personal Performance Diploma in Coaching, MA in Dance/ Movement Psychotherapy, BA in Psychology and Management. I am a member of the British Psychological Society, the Association of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the International Coaching Federation.
Learn about me through my previous projects
Moving beyond a mended body, revealing the dance of the unseen limb: A theoretical based Dance/ Movement Psychotherapy working model for amputees
Article published in the BACPAR journal issue 31 Autumn 2009 based on my MA thesis.
From the Abstract: In the following paper I attempted to link the work done in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) sessions to physical and emotional themes that are currently being researched in the amputee rehabilitation field. The main themes discussed in this paper are body-image, a sense of ‘wholeness’, the phantom sensations and phantom limb pain. The most significant aspect of the proposed working model is the attempt to correlate between the research done on imagery and virtual reality in the amputee rehabilitation field and the working methods in the DMP field.
Mummy Moves
Mummy Moves is a unique class for Mum and Baby to bond whilst mum gently strengthens her post-birth body. We use quirky exercises heavily influenced by belly-dancing, as these focus on the pelvic floor muscles. We use beautiful music from around the world to expose Baby to various rhythms. We make sure that Baby is very much part of the class by incorporating dances and exercises that are specifically aimed to stimulate them (e.g. hands and fingers dance) and by including hugs in our exercises and dances. Every class we work on a short sequence which Mum can use when trying to settle baby to sleep (again… and again), after she had enough of walking forwards and backwards.
Initially a in-studio class, since 2020 many recorded classes available on the mummymoves Facebook and Instagram links:
@mummymovesandgrooves