Body as Earth

Movement as Remembering

In a world that rewards disembodiment, speed, and productivity, moving becomes an act of return.

Before there were theories, diagnoses, or institutions, there was the body—moving in relationship to land, rhythm, ritual, and community.

Movement has always been a way to express, regulate, grieve, celebrate, and belong.

Movement is one of our oldest ways of knowing.

support for facilitators, bodyworkers, and more

Mentorship for Practitioners

Private mentorship for practitioners seeking grounded, personalised support in how they listen, facilitate, and relate through the body.

Designed for facilitators, therapists, movement educators, and bodyworkers who want to deepen their practice beyond technique—toward greater presence, discernment, and relational capacity.

This mentorship supports:

  • Embodied attunement — strengthening your capacity to listen through the body, not only the mind.
  • Trauma-aware facilitation — cultivating the sensitivity to work with complexity, activation, and repair.
  • Relational accountability — exploring power, projection, boundaries, and the ethics of holding space.
  • Lineage-conscious practice — situating your work within broader cultural, ancestral, and political contexts.

This is a space to refine your practice, deepen your integrity, and expand your capacity to hold others without losing contact with yourself.

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gatherings & residencies

Deep Time Retreats

Intentional residencies and retreats rooted in land and culture around Southeast Asia.

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Embodied Landscapes™

An embodied exploration that awakens the nature within.

A space where the body can speak before the mind. Through movement as a gateway, we cultivate greater freedom, presence, and trust in the body’s innate intelligence.

Rooted in trauma-aware facilitation, these sessions prioritise accessibility, choice, and care—welcoming all bodies, abilities, and levels of experience.

Created by Chloe, Embodied Landscapes has been offered across Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Thailand.

What to Expect

During the class, we will begin with a somatic (body based) awareness practice, followed by opening the spine through simple yet effective spinal flow sequence to deepen into the ease, warmth, and widening of our sense of embodiment.

Once the fluidity of the spine is open, we will activate our spatial awareness through guided prompts, and transition into an intuitive flow.

Why Should You Join

Embodiment classes and workshops are focused on sharing healing power of the body. Movement therapy acts as a bridge for all abilities and body types to deepen their relationship with their bodies, leading into healthy expression and resolution.

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Class & Event

Percussive Pulse™

Chloe created Percussion Pulse which combines her embodiment class with live percussion and drum music by local musicians.

Dancing and drumming share a common ground of rhythm and movement. As seen as our inner impulses, within the cosmology, and as a way of life.

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"I felt blockages of suppressed emotions and feelings release and a lot of relief in my head, chest and neck areas."

“As a trauma survivor, I have been living with chronic pain that radiates from my abdominal region up to my heart, neck and right brain for almost 15 years.

Chloe, who is trauma-informed, a somatic abolitionist and deeply attuned to the systemic struggles of ethnic minorities in Singapore, facilitated a Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage with coconut oil.

I felt blockages of suppressed emotions and feelings release and a lot of relief in my head, chest and neck areas.

I would highly recommend Chloe who has refined her practice through her ancient and indigenous roots.”

 

Santosh Kumar

"it’s been so restful for my shoulders: slower thoughts and moments"

“i have been doing the movements and it’s helped so so much. i feel like i’m seated lower in my body and it’s been so restful for my shoulders: slower thoughts and moments. truly thankful for the sharing you did.” – Nurul, academic, Singapore

"I felt very much at home in my body and surroundings."

“Chloe was a crucial part of my audition. I sought her skills as I sensed a deep calm in her.

In the first half we focused on somatics, releasing the tensions and stories that were inhibiting from feeling comfortable and authentic. I found Chloe’s approach gentle yet concise. Her ability to hold space for those few hours was incredible and I found myself put at ease while working with some anxiety that was arising.

Chloe didn’t need to say too much, she really felt her way through her own process really authentically and seamlessly. We laughed, shook, tended to feelings that arose in vulnerable moments and by the end of the session I felt very much at home in my body and surroundings.

I believe Chloe has the connection to her own body and sense of self to hold to really understand and empathically work with students.” – Maya-Rose, Australia

"It’s truly been a liberating experience"

“I came into the Embodiment Mentorship because I was looking to reconnect with my body, having been so into my head for a while. I was always late to really listen to my body and would only be reminded through sickness. Wanting to change that, I decided to seek out Chloe because I had only heard beautiful things about her. I attended her Embodied Landscape Movements Session and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Chloe is really precise and poetic in how she delivers her instructions/suggestions, which made me believe it possible to engage in this workshop with her online. And it was. I felt very secure in each of the sessions, and through her instructions/suggestions, was able to really explore how I felt in my body. It’s truly been a liberating experience for me!

Chloe really listens and incorporated my use of visualisation as part of how she’d offer the movements. She is always generous and checks in to ensure the practice is beautifully received as it is shared. Truly a nourishing workshop and I’d recommend this to anyone who would like to experience the same.” – Nurul, Academic

"Container of communal care"

Embodied Landscapes with Chloe for me has been a profoundly progressive container of communal care, collective healing and an invitation of self exploration.

I am so impressed at the ways Chloe effortlessly and uniquely weaves her years of embodied movement and values of being in community into an hour of deep grounding in motion. In each class, she invites you to unthread any inner tension by offering playful shapes, curious questions to reflect on, as well as juicy playlists.

Chloe’s classes are medicine for the body and all its layers. Her sensitive nature and passionate gaze of the human form is beyond infectious. I have transformed so much as a person through being in the same room as Chloe, time and time again.

Ruth

Embodied Landscapes: Movement Therapy

"Ability to make everyone feel confident in their body"

Leave your inhibitions at the door and come dance. Chloe’s class is none like any other I’ve been to. If restorative movement meditation and a dance party had a baby, this would be it. She has the ability to make everyone feel confident in their body, and comfortable around others who are sharing the same space. It was a healing experience to say the least. I walked out of that class with my cup overflowing.

Caprice P.

Embodied Landscapes, Movement Therapy

"Therapeutic, refreshing, and helpful"

Her class is therapeutic, refreshing, and helpful in discovering and embracing my own movement

Yen Caballero

Embodied Landscapes: Movement Therapy

"Soulful expression of movement"

Chloe’s classes offer such a soulful expression of movement. The structure is freeing and playful. We danced as a riverine landscape flowing. Love dancing and sharing energy with all of you in her weekly classes.

Neena

Embodied Landscapes, Movement Therapy

"Collective co-created landscape of dancing bodies"

I love moving and Chloe’s classes is nothing short of amazing. With Chloe’s welcoming and empowering facilitation, I feel a deep exploration into my body’s natural movements. I was also inspired by the other participants and allowed myself to be affected, to respond to their landscapes too. It was truly a beautiful communal experience where individual expression was teased out, celebrated, augmented, and contributing to a collective co-created landscape of dancing bodies. At the end of the session my body felt spent in the best way possible, filled with positive vibes and with the relief of having metabolised some overwhelming emotions.

L. Chew

Embodied Landscapes: Movement Arts

"Atmosphere where you feel you’re dancing as one collective group"

Chloe’s classes are wonderful experiences, and no two sessions are the same! I really enjoy the flow that Chloe facilitates, with gentle guidance throughout, yet freedom to explore your own movement and dance. My favourite part is when music builds an energetic atmosphere where you feel as though you’re dancing as one collective group. No matter how I arrive, I always leave the session smiling and relaxed.

Michael

Embodied Landscapes: Movement Therapy

What is Embodiment & Movement ?

A Dynamic Dialogue of Body-Mind Connection

Embodiment is the practice of being fully present in your body, acknowledging its wisdom and intelligence. Movement is integral to embodiment, serving as a gateway to express emotions, release tension, and enhance the mind-body connection

In a world often dominated by cognitive or mental control, embodiment practices aim to shift the focus to a more holistic approach.

In other words, embodiment emphasizes the bidirectional relationship between the mind and body. It acknowledges that the body holds valuable information, emotions, and intelligence, and by tuning into the body’s signals, we can manage our mental states, decision-making processes, and overall well-being. Embodying a shift from mind control to a holistic integration.

This shift from mind controlling body (top to bottom) to a body integrated approach, where the body informs and guides the mind (bottom to top), is a fundamental principle in embodiment practices.

Embodiment is a journey from mind control to a harmonious integration, where movement becomes a profound tool for self-expression, emotional release, and holistic well-being allowing movements to guide our mind.

 
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About Chloe Calderon Chotrani as

Embodiment Facilitator

Chloe: “I barely spoke as a young child. Later discovering, I had selective mutism. With no voice, dancing became my refuge. I did not speak to people but I could dance in front of thousands. I did not socialise, but I listened deeply to my body, and too, understood other bodies before words.

I learned ballet, excelled, and then left once I experienced judgement and shame from the Western standards of ballet. I fell in love with street dance as they embraced all flavours, colours, and sizes. I learned – not the kind of street dance you see today in studios – but the kind found in parking lots, cyphers on concrete, and break dance battles. We worked with children from the slums to bring their attention from violence and drugs into dancing and expression. Dancing went beyond economic class or social status. It taught me about community and joy – the roots of dancing. That was my world for 12 years.

"Dancing is our most ancient ceremony"

I learned West African Modern Folk Dance, from the lineage of Mama Germaine Acogny in the coast of Senegal. I learned salsa, contemporary, somatics, and experimental improvisation from downtown Gibney Dance and the underground communities of New York City. I immersed  between traditional and contemporary forms through Malay dance from p71sma and Indian Odissi dance from Chowk in Singapore.

I am akin to an octopus – I integrate all that I have learned, embody dancing beyond category, and share this wisdom with all peoples that desire to deepen their relationship with their body. No one needs to be a dancer to dance. As seen in the thousands year old rock art in caves, dancing is our most ancient ceremony.”

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Biodynamic Somatic Therapy in Singapore

June 21 - 30, 2025

Biodynamic Somatic Therapy is a method of gently realigning the body’s dynamics to release tension, restore balance, and support holistic healing from chronic pain, stress, and emotional volatility.

Biodynamic Somatic Therapy (BST) is a gentle, hands-on approach that works with the body’s natural rhythms to reorganise from misaligned or overworked states into more fluid, available, and spacious states of internal harmony. 

Rooted in Craniosacral dynamics, BST focuses on the spine—the core of the central nervous system—helping to address chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, and the lingering effects of trauma. 

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