I’M JO.

I am an artist, somatic practitioner and guide. I am interested in where art, breath, and narratives of the body intertwineand weave with our understanding of living and breathing in the Anthropocene and beyond. In my practice, I work with sound, sight, space and technology, to create experiences that engage with breath, body and more-than-human influences on, in andaround the human body.

I am interested in how we can adapt and shift our human-centric experience of SOMA (body intelligence) to inform an ecological trans-corporeal understanding of ourselves in which bodies are understood as embedded and connected: not simply on the Earth, but of it.

I take a breath-body-led approach to my practice, to make work that will co-regulate with other bodies and spaces: to explore the inner spirals, spaces, folds, undulations, and pulsations of thebio-intelligence of the trans-corporeal body: the body connected to all bodies and organisms: the immanence of life.

We live in a time where we are disconnected from really knowing our bodies and our aliveness. Everything is experienced in a dissociated way - we treat bodies like machines made up of

small parts. We have placed intellect and logic over knowing and intuition. As a result, the Earth has suffered. Repairing the rupture of our experience as human organisms needs to beginfrom a different place. Apocalyptic tropes drive our bodies into more freeze and fear. My work, through different explorations and practices seeks to track and explore the body as an alive organism,with breath as the enlivening, entangled force. The work is not concerned with performative communication or getting somewhere, but rather exploring what the body has to communicate directly with materials, as an continuum of matter.

I am an avid learner - here are some of the teachers and trainings that have shaped my offerings along the way:

Yoga Alliance 200 hour 2005
Various Donna Farhi, John Friend, John Stirk Workshops
Max Strom Teacher Intensive 2010
Dharma Ocean Somatic Meditation Trainings 2014-2016
Breathwork Level 1-4 David Elliott
Art of Breath Functional Training - Brian Mackensie
Coherence Breath Training - Stephen Elliot
It Didn’t Start With You - Family Constellation Training with Mark Wolyn - 2020
Feminist Copywriting - Kelly Diels - 2020
Stalking The Wild Psoas Training - Liz Koch- 2020
Wild Psoas Application training (10 months) - Liz Koch - 2021
Deeper Still - John Stirk - 2022

MA Fine Art Falmouth - 2021 - 2022
Business

Linda Thai: Certificate in Somatic Regulation Strategies - Levels I, II, III - 2023
Somatic Art Practioner Training - 2024