Paula Turner | Newcastle based Yoga Teacher, Dance Artist, Creative Ageing Pioneer and Participatory Arts Specialist.
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Paula Turner | Newcastle based Yoga Teacher, Dance Artist, Creative Ageing Pioneer and Participatory Arts Specialist.
Paula Turner | Newcastle based Yoga Teacher, Dance Artist, Creative Ageing Pioneer and Participatory Arts Specialist.

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Climbing Out Of The Box
Climbing Out Of The Box

Boxes, labels, language. Those of us who work in the field of dance and movement however are more than most put in a box  "Twirlies, prancers or touchy feely types".... 

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LeverhulmeEmma George30 June 2017
Listen more often .......
Listen more often .......

I have been "walking with" the children of Marine Park Primary School in South Shields for 12 years. I experience walking as a way of waking; waking up to our full embodied selves, to noticing what's really real..... saying less and listening more.

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Children & Education, LeverhulmePaula Turner20 June 2017
Yoga Nidra Practice (Yogic Sleep) - 30th June 6.15-7.15pm
Yoga Nidra Practice (Yogic Sleep) - 30th June 6.15-7.15pm

Not Going Out, Going In. A spacious and deeply calming way to start your weekend whether you intend to potter or party.

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YogaPaula Turner19 June 2017
Foot First - A "Pied a terre" approach to fieldwork
Foot First - A "Pied a terre" approach to fieldwork

A curiosity about fieldwork  is a developing area of interest, what it means to me and what it means to geographers. To begin with the  geography department itself was the place in which I conducted fieldwork, watching and listening

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Dance & Performance, Participatory Arts, LeverhulmePaula Turner6 June 2017
Somatic Yoga Workshop - Saturday 17th June 10.30 to 12.30pm
Somatic Yoga Workshop - Saturday 17th June 10.30 to 12.30pm

A workshop that will combine yoga, somatics and yoga Nidra. Paula will blend yoga postures with her many years of practicing and teaching somatic movement techniques.

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YogaPaula Turner21 May 2017
Throughfare....play or pass. Let the geographical games commence
Throughfare....play or pass. Let the geographical games commence

More experiments with everyday choreography.....joining , attuning, blending and celebrating...

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Participatory Arts, Dance & Performance, LeverhulmePaula Turner16 May 2017
Stair Skylarks - "You can't see them.....but you can hear them"
Stair Skylarks - "You can't see them.....but you can hear them"

Last week's  activation/observation and contemplation of being present in a "passing" space was full of richness, synchronicity and  exchanges......the poetry of everyday choreography. 

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Participatory Arts, Dance & Performance, LeverhulmePaula Turner7 May 2017
The Environment Of Learning And The Three F's.
The Environment Of Learning And The Three F's.

The form, function and feeling of the lecture theatre.What "lecture" would our bodies give...how do we RE-MEMBER our physical selves in this place?

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Participatory Arts, LeverhulmePaula Turner1 May 2017
Brief Encounters aka "Why is that there" a geographer ponders...
Brief Encounters aka "Why is that there" a geographer ponders...

Being in a very large institution can be intriguing for one used  to practicing mainly in community halls, hospital wards, day centres, classrooms, gardens and fields.

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Participatory Arts, LeverhulmePaula Turner24 April 2017
Facilitation - A reciprocal process.....not a replication
Facilitation - A reciprocal process.....not a replication

A plea for reflective practice. Just recently I have had a lot of researchers, academics, artists and students watching what I do and or asking about what I do and why...

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LeverhulmePaula Turner22 April 2017
 Being - a physical human
Being - a physical human

Exploring the territory of the Geography Department

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LeverhulmePaula Turner21 April 2017
The Particularities of participation....start here , start now.
The Particularities of participation....start here , start now.

Spent a delightful morning....making gentle suggestions to M.A. students from Northumbria University as part of Saturday "school" at Baltic

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Children & EducationPaula Turner14 April 2017
What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath


The title of our most recent piece 'What Lies Beneath' turned out to also be an opportunity for thinking about and sharing the guiding principles on the processes which underpin the work of GGDC.

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Dance & PerformanceEmma George23 March 2017
Bloody artists and the sweet alchemy of sound.
Bloody artists and the sweet alchemy of sound.
Dance & Performance, Participatory ArtsPaula Turner24 February 2017
Getting in the habit of inhabiting the space
Getting in the habit of inhabiting the space
Dance & PerformancePaula Turner11 February 2017
Yoga Workshop 11th February - Matters of the Heart
Yoga Workshop 11th February - Matters of the Heart

We will combine flowing, opening yoga sequences with heart centred concentration and meditation techniques. The workshop will conclude with yoga Nidra practice.

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YogaPaula Turner13 January 2017
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