Natasha has extensive teaching experience with diverse communities, having worked in primary and secondary schools, secure units, prisons, and youth intervention programs. Her practice is inclusive and often student-led, and her sessions empower individuals through movement, creativity, and self-expression.
Natasha has delivered workshops in prisons in dance and yoga and has led Augusto Boal’s inspired workshops based on the Theatre of the Oppressed in both male and female institutions. These sessions focus on building confidence, communication skills, and awareness, and they explore themes of agency and empowerment. Drawing on participatory and non-hierarchical processes and approaches, Natasha uses movement and theatre to facilitate self-reflection and verbal and non-verbal dialogue in challenging environments.
Equally transformative, her work in schools and secure units involves drama, dance, and yoga sessions that support participants toward mental and physical well-being, emotional regulation, and creative exploration. Natasha’s teaching is collaborative, ensuring a safe space for young people to express themselves, explore their potential, and have a platform for their voices to be heard. Natasha integrates storytelling, improvisation, and physicality in constructing sessions that enable her students to build creative ideas from their lived experiences. Her approaches can be used to explore curriculums and themed-based sessions through an enriched, alternative embodied learning experience.
Natasha uses teaching to explore past and current issues and as a tool to adopt in various settings outside the classroom to navigate personal and professional situations students may face. Her focus is on accessible and inclusive sessions, using movement and theatre to connect with people who are too often excluded from mainstream education and societal frameworks. Her work shows how creativity and embodiment can break down barriers and lead to new possibilities for self-discovery and empowerment.
January 13, 2025