Debs Molwuka

a very lively and imaginative neuro-atypical brain (ADHD) which explains my many careers. I've been a serial entrepreneur within the business world including Image Analysis and after retiring early on medical grounds (at that time I had 22 hidden disabilities) from academia, I began healing myself through exercise and nutritional radical change which lead to me returning to the love of dance I had in my youth. Music is in my blood (my father was a jazz musician) so I was soon running community Dance and Exercise classes and trained my own staff in a thriving local business and charity - Move and Inspire Me. I was invited by Thames Tv to bring my community class participants to Britains Got Talent in 2018 (got through to the second rounds) and my YouTube Channel continues to enjoy over 30,000 impressions per month. The business did not do well transferring to online during the pandemic (the older audience prefer face to face) so I closed it and moved from South to West Yorkshire to be nearer the family of my husband (of 34 years). Can you believe it took 9 months to buy our apartment during which time we lived in a tiny two birth caravan staying in farmer's fields with our two little rescue dogs. My husband worked full time as a scientist from the tiny van during this time! My retirement didn't last long and I currently work freelance for a local charity in a socially and economically deprived area and with 3 local Nuffield Gyms where I provide 10 Dance and Somatic Yoga classes to older adults per week, mostly with muscular skeletal challenges. My dance classes are enjoyed most by the 65 plus market, using music from the 40's and Lindy Hop and Jive styles along with more usual aerobic moves and music. I facilitate a no judgement atmosphere where singing badly and having fun is valued more than getting steps right and all my classes are full with full wait lists. I have my Doctor's Referral Diploma and am an Advance Somatic Yoga Practitioner, being lucky enough to train under the founder, James Knight. I recently completed by Somatic Coaching training where I developed and interest in Organic Intelligence which I weave into my anatomy based and educative classes which are deliciously relaxing and slow, offering neural pathway transformation and an introspective experience like no other! I work with a personal trainer every week (and one weight training session on my own) to keep fit enough to perform at my peak at 61 years young. Outside of work I enjoy walking, bathing and grooming my amazingly calm and cute rescue dogs, from Cyprus and Romania - one little mite has only 3 legs as she was run over on the streets and lost all her puppies at the same time! We still love our sweet little caravan and I have a recumbent bike which I ride along the local canal towpaths with dogs in tow in their chariot on the back of hubby's bike and occasionally you can find us Lindy Hopping our way to happiness in the local dance halls. I sing with Voices of Yorkshire Choir and am known for my love of dressing up (particularly in wild and vintage Karen Millen). We are currently working with an interior design company on renovating our first floor flat which is in a converted teacher training hall of residence with tall windows and beautiful views across the Yorkshire countryside. I love technology and refuse to believe in ecosystems so own both Apple and Android products which sync almost perfectly and all my lights are under voice control when they feel like it!!!! I do lots of meditation (3 times a day often to calm my overactive brain), drink tons of coffee (which has the opposite effect on the ADHD brain) and sleep in the afternoon much of the week as I am an incurable insomniac and none of the sleep specialists so far have found a cure. ABOUT SOMATICS:

Somatic Yoga was founded by James Knight, who I had the rare privilege of training under. He took techniques from Hanna Somatic Education and his own experience as a masseur and yoga teacher and combined them together to provide slow mindful movements, mostly lying down, in which the thinking mind can be turned down in favour of an introspective experience or turning-inward focus toward the body in order to discern common areas of tightness such as hips, shoulders, neck, jaw and low back and discover how imbalances there might be affecting your everyday gait, joint pain and efficiency of movement. It’s much less about alignment rules and making specific Yoga pose shapes and more about very slow movements that highlight areas of stiffness and stickiness that affect our habits such as a lolloping gait or a stooped posture. Traditional Yoga sees the mind like a puppy that needs training. In Somatic Yoga our focus on the slow mindful movements means the mind chatter slows without deliberate effort and even disappears all on its own as we tap into the felt sense, noticing areas where the sensory motor cortex has less feeling which gives us less control over movements. However practicing in this way allows us to grow new neural networks and have a more permanent release from long held tension. As a retired Senior Lecturer in Psychology with an interested in the social construction of identity and in how the brain can be re-patterned using this technology, I teach you how lessons from the body can only be heard when you move slowly and preferably with eyes closed to enhance your introspective experience. The millimetre by millimetre movements tune you in and centre you so that you can hear signals from your body more clearly before the major alarm bells ring. Thus you are moving more efficiently, in a more balanced way and with awareness in every day life. The only thing you can do wrong in my Somatic Yoga classes is try too hard! In the West we are addicted to intense experience and to endlessly trying hard. In Somatics we are correcting this over-efforting and what is revealed is an underlying ability to experience small pleasures through the senses, and through our focus on pleasurable habitual movements we start to experience more enjoyment without the intensity which is mostly addictive (drinking, shopping, drama). Orienting to simple pleasures creates new subtle neural pathways and allows us more happiness and to become more resourced to deal with daily life stress and inevitable trauma. As we integrate Somatic principles we become nicer to be around and can offer more kindness and sympathy to our fellow human beings. Social Media Channels for Debs Molwuka
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DebsMolwuka
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debsmolwuka
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Lnnh2bqtdLU1YyfqKf9Cw or just search for Debs Molwuka (there is only one). Dance Classes
Mon 10.00 Civic Centre, Keighley*
Tue 13.00 Bangladeshi Community Centre*
Wed 10.15 Cottingley Nuffield
Fri 10.15 Cottingley Nuffield

Somatic Yoga Classes
Mon 11.00 Civic Centre, Keighley*
Mon 13:00 Shipley Nuffield
Tues 19.10 Shipley Nuffield
Wed 11:30 Cottingley Nuffield
Fri 11.30 Keighley Healthy Living (Seated)*
Fri 13:00 Silsden Town Hall (Seated)*


*Please book with Keighley Healthy Living on Tel: 01535 677177
Class cost: Suggested Donation £2