About Myla Rose
Myla Rose is a Somatic Movement Educator, facilitator, and performer with over a decade of experience guiding others into deeper relationship with their bodies.
Certified through the School of Body-Mind Centering® and a member of ISMETA, her work bridges embodied anatomy with intuitive movement, offering clear and grounded pathways into the rich wisdom of the body.
Rooted in long-term practice and teaching of Contact Improvisation, Myla weaves the principles of physics in motion, collaboration, trust, and creative emergence into her facilitation. She began teaching yoga at 19, and her approach has since evolved into an integrative practice drawing from authentic movement, eco-somatics, embodied performance and developmental movement to create nuanced, inquiry-based learning environments.
Myla’s facilitation style is clear, direct, and responsive to individual and group processes. Her work invites others to inhabit the full spectrum of their expression with presence, sensitivity, and curiosity.
Alongside her professional practice, she is a mother of two and maintains a strong connection to land-based and outdoor movement practices, which continue to inform her teaching.
Pillars of Intrinsic Movement
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More Details on the Pillars
‘Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. Developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, it is an experiential study based on the embodiment and application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical and developmental principles, utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind.’
As a Somatic Movement Educator trained through the School for Body-Mind Centering®, this work sits at the core of Myla’s approach to facilitation.
A nuanced, multi-layered understanding of the body informs and underpins all aspects of her teaching and creative practice.
'Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Sometimes wild and athletic, sometimes quiet and meditative, it is a form open to all bodies and enquiring minds.'
—Ray Chung, 2009
Myla Rose has been engaged in the practice of Contact Improvisation since 2012. She has trained with founder Nancy Stark Smith as well as other long term practitioners such as Martin Keogh, Karen Nelson, Andrew Harwood, Jacob and Joey Lehrer and Emily Bowman. It forms a central pillar of her movement language and continues to inform her approach to facilitation.
She contributes to the ongoing development of the form through producing multi-day events, supporting regular community jams, performing, and facilitating workshops both locally and interstate.
Integrating her background as a somatic movement educator into performance-making, Myla creates work that is rooted in lived, embodied experience.
Her approach prioritises authenticity of sensation and presence, allowing the material to be felt rather than simply represented.
This depth of embodiment invites both performer and audience into a shared field of resonance, where transformation arises through direct experience rather than narrative alone.
Past Productions
Birth Story (2023)
Roots Pt. 1 (2024)
Drawing on both her experience of motherhood and her training as a Somatic Movement Educator, Myla offers an integrated approach to early developmental movement. Her work weaves together theoretical frameworks with the lived experience of parenting, making this knowledge practical and accessible.
She supports caregivers to engage with the foundational stages of a baby’s development—from conception through to walking—highlighting how early movement patterns shape a child’s ongoing relationship with themselves and the world.
As a woman, Myla is deeply committed to creating spaces for women to gather in embodied connection.
Her work centres the body as a site for bridging inner sensation with outer expression, giving voice to the unspoken and exploring the unique opportunities/ challenges we face as women across the arc of a lifetime.
She recognises the potency that emerges when women meet in vulnerability—where shared experience cultivates empathy, insight, and collective strength. This work moves between the personal and the collective, extending beyond the individual body into wider cultural and intergenerational contexts.
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Currently training as a botanist, Myla’s work is deeply informed by her relationship with the natural world. In a time of accelerating environmental change, she sees the cultivation of direct, embodied connection with our ecology as essential.
Her approach draws on both somatic movement and ecological understanding to support a felt sense of connection with place. Through this, she creates experiences that invite deeper listening, sensing, moving and relationship with the more-than-human world.
Grounded in the understanding that place-based connection is fundamental to human experience, her work supports a reorientation towards more reciprocal and responsive ways of relating within the ecosystems we are part of.
