EMBODIED ALIVENESS,
THE BODY AS WISDOM
Through movement, breath, sound, energy, touch, and connection, I co-create spaces to listen to your body and rediscover your vitality.
Come home to yourself. Come alive.
BENEATH THE SURFACE
There is a rhythm underneath the striving. A pulse beneath the tension.
A life beneath the roles we have learned to play. What happens when we stop trying to become someone else — and begin listening to what is already here?
To the body.
To sensation.
To breath.
To the subtle impulses beneath the surface.
This work is not about tearing down who you have been.
It is about meeting the intelligence that has carried you this far — and creating space for a new relationship with yourself and with life.
Breathe.
Move.
Sense.
Listen.
Let the body speak.
Let what has become still begin to move.
Let aliveness emerge without force.
WOMAN. MOVEMENT. MEDICINE.
Movement has always been my language.
Long before I discovered embodiment as a practice, my body was teaching me presence, resilience, intuition, and flow—as a bike messenger weaving through city streets, and through years of sport and exploration.
I have been a dancer, designer, entrepreneur, explorer, student and facilitator. The thread weaving these chapters together is listening—and learning to be honest with what I hear.
What makes us feel truly alive?
This question led me through movement, breath, sound, touch, energy, sacred sexual healing arts, plant medicine as teacher and the mystery of human connection. It also brought me closer to the medicine woman within me: the woman who listens, notices, and gives things time.
My heightened sensitivity finds a home here. Sensing the atmosphere of a room. Listening beneath words. Welcoming intuition as a gift, with curiosity and care.
For me, the feminine lives in this listening—in vulnerability, receptivity, and the courage to follow a path as it unfolds. With enough time and safety, something softens. Something becomes possible.
Movement is my language and my medicine.
An unspoken conversation. A way to feel, express, and explore what words cannot yet hold.
Today, I create spaces where you can reconnect with your body, your vitality, and your own knowing.
The body already knows.
We are here to live.
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There is an intelligence within us that exists beyond thought. It speaks through sensation, impulse, movement, desire, tension and release. Through the subtle feeling of expansion and contraction.
The body carries its own knowing.
Sometimes, beneath the noise of everyday life, we lose touch with it. We learn to override our impulses, hold our breath, brace, perform, and keep going.
This work is an invitation to listen again.
Not to force change. Not to fix yourself. But to create enough space for what is already within you to be felt, heard, and allowed to move.
Because perhaps the body does not need to be taught the way back.
Perhaps it needs the conditions to remember.
The body already knows.
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A SANCTUARY FOR AUTHENTICITY
A place to slow down. To breathe. To feel. To listen.
Nothing to perform. Nothing to prove. Nothing to fix.
Together, we create the conditions where your body can soften, your creativity can emerge, and your natural vitality can move more freely.
A space where you do not have to leave parts of yourself at the door.
Your sensitivity is welcome. Your intensity is welcome. Your tenderness is welcome. Your uncertainty is welcome.
Whatever is alive in you is where we begin.
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GUIDED BY WHAT IS ALIVE
My work is experiential, intuitive, and alive.
There is no fixed formula. No predetermined sequence. No single method that can meet every body, every person, every group, or every moment.
Instead, I listen.
To what is present. To what is moving. To what is asking for space. To what is ready to emerge.
I create immersive experiences that invite us out of the familiar and into a deeper relationship with ourselves, with one another, and with the intelligence of the body.
Sometimes the journey is subtle. Sometimes it is expressive. Sometimes we enter through stillness. Sometimes through intensity. Sometimes we explore alone. Sometimes we enter the field together.
Each experience unfolds differently.
What connects them is an invitation to move beyond the thinking mind and listen to what is alive beneath the surface.
To follow sensation. To meet our edges. To explore the space between holding on and letting go. Between structure and surrender. Between the individual and the collective.
My role is not to prescribe where the journey should take you.
I create the conditions. I hold the space. I listen to the field.
And from there, we explore.
This is where roles can soften. Where the familiar can loosen. Where something unexpected can emerge. Where life can begin to move again.
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DIFFERENT DOORWAYS. THE SAME DEEP LISTENING.
There is no single path into the body.
Some journeys ask for intimacy—a one-to-one space in which you can be deeply met, witnessed, and accompanied.
Others ask for the field.
For what becomes possible when we gather.
When one body responds to another.
When individual expression meets collective rhythm.
When we encounter ourselves through the presence of other people.
My work moves between these worlds—from intimate individual journeys to immersive group experiences, workshops, movement practices, and ritual spaces.
Each space has its own intelligence.
In individual work, we can listen closely to the subtle language of your body and follow the unique movement of your process.
There is time to notice what is present, honour your boundaries, and respond to what your system is communicating.
In collective experiences, another dimension opens.
The group becomes part of the journey.
We explore how we affect one another.
How we move together and apart.
How we express, receive, lead, follow, and remain connected to ourselves while participating in something larger.
These spaces invite curiosity, presence, expression, connection, and surrender—always held within consent, personal responsibility, and respect for each person’s boundaries.
Nothing is forced.
You remain sovereign.
You choose how deeply you enter and what participation means for you.
Sometimes transformation unfolds through the intimacy of being deeply met.
Sometimes it emerges through movement, rhythm, touch, stillness, or sound.
And sometimes it happens when we realise:
We are not moving alone.
Different doorways.
The same deep listening.
The body already knows the way.
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COMING HOME TO THE BODY
This work is not about transcending your humanity.
It is about inhabiting it more fully.
Not escaping the body—but returning to it.
Not forcing yourself through what is difficult—but developing the capacity to remain present, listen, and respond at your own pace.
Not becoming someone else—but discovering what becomes possible when you no longer have to perform who you think you should be.
You may recognise yourself here:
You sense that more vitality, creativity, pleasure, and freedom are available than you are currently experiencing.
You are tired of living primarily from your head and long to reconnect with the intelligence of your body.
You want to meet life with greater presence, authenticity, ease, and self-trust.
You long for richer relationships without abandoning yourself within them.
You are curious about what may emerge when you stop performing, begin listening, and allow your body to lead.
If something within you feels a quiet yes, this work may be for you.
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WHAT BEGINS TO EMERGE
You are curious about what may emerge when you stop performing, begin listening, and allow your body to lead.
If something within you feels a quiet yes, this work may be for you.
WHAT BEGINS TO EMERGE
Integration is not something you achieve.
It is not a perfected state or the absence of contradiction.
It begins when the different parts of you no longer have to fight for space.
When your body, voice, boundaries, and desires can be heard.
When you can stay connected to yourself—even while meeting intensity, uncertainty, or another person.
You begin to recognise your yes.
Trust your no.
Feel what you feel without needing to justify it.
Notice what you want without being required to act upon it.
And remain in relationship with yourself throughout the process.
Gradually, inner conflict may soften.
Your capacity for choice can grow.
Your inner authority becomes something you can feel—not something you need to prove.
You begin to become the ground you stand on.
Coherence is felt, not performed.
Freedom becomes embodied, not merely understood.
You create more space between impulse and action.
You can respond rather than only react.
Choose rather than only brace.
Move from what feels true instead of shaping yourself around who you think you should be.
And perhaps, slowly, another kind of belonging begins to emerge.
Not a belonging that depends on fitting in, performing, or abandoning parts of yourself.
But the belonging that comes from being deeply rooted within yourself.
You belong—first to yourself.
And from there, you meet life.
What People Are Saying
Astrid is deeply sensitive and intuitive, with a gift for sensing where support is needed. During a breathwork workshop, her presence helped me release emotions I was ready to let go of. A profound experience. I highly recommend her bodywork, energy work, and workshops. — Bjardni
I've been seeing Astrid for a year now and every single time I leave thinking, wow that was amazing! She is incredibly skilled, deeply intuitive, warm and gentle. I highly recommend her work for people that are ready for a deep transformation and healing. — Steinunn
Astrid is a real witch—in the BEST way! Skilled, intuitive, warm, and grounded, she creates a space where I feel safe to let go and fully receive. Her Lomi Lomi massage was a beautiful experience. — Jacquo
🜁 / YOU
🜁 / CURA
EMBODIED HEALING SESSIONS
An intuitive one-to-one space to slow down, listen deeply, and meet what is present.
Each session is a unique embodied experience, guided by what is alive in the moment.
A place to land. A place to breathe. A place to feel. A place to remember yourself.
🜁 / 1:1 alchemy
EMBODIED ALIVENESS JOURNEY
A deeply personalized journey into the places where life is asking to move. Together, we explore what is alive within you and what becomes possible when you begin listening more deeply to yourself, your body, your relationships, your desires, and your expression.
This is not about becoming someone else.
It is about becoming more fully yourself.
— THE COLLECTIVE
Something changes when we gather.—
Through movement, expression, and shared presence, we meet ourselves through others—exploring our edges, being witnessed, and belonging without losing ourselves.
Sometimes playful. Sometimes raw. Sometimes still.
We arrive as individuals. Together, we listen for what wants to emerge.
🜄 / — EXPERIENCES / WHAT'S ALIVE NOW
🜄 / 1:1 reykjavik
a Journey into the Intelligence of your Body
Nov 5th - Dec 8th
🜄 / eKStasis
November 20, 19.00
Bolholt 4, 4th floor Reykjavik
Step Into Your Vitality. An invitation to come alive.—
To move. To feel. To create. To connect.
For those who sense there is more life to explore—and are curious about what becomes possible when we give ourselves space to listen.
To the body.
To its rhythms.
To what feels alive.
The body already knows.