What if movement was more than exercise?
About
The Sensing Self is a movement practice community based in Rotterdam.
Are you curious to experience physical education in a whole new way?
We develop our bodies comprehensively, exploring multiple disciplines and layers: from physical capacity and skills to body intelligence and personal meaning. This allows us to sense more, perform better, and live a fuller life.
We study movement as a language to express ourselves and communicate with our surroundings and other people.
We learn in structured classes while nourishing human connections beyond as well.
Are you curious to experience physical education in a whole new way?
Stories from our community
Discovering Unique Style & Way of Moving | Meet Justin
Discovering Joy through Movement | Meet Fenna
Leaning Into Fear with Movement | Meet Louisa
Key pillars of the practice
This practice supports not just physical skill, but overall well-being, making you feel more capable and alive in everyday life.
-
Well-rounded physicality
We train strength, mobility, coordination, balance, ground movement, and even a touch of acrobatics. Instead of isolated techniques only, we focus on core principles and adaptable patterns, building a body that’s capable, curious, and deeply aware. -
Partner work
Connection is at the heart of what we do. Through playful tasks and shared challenges, we build trust, awareness, and the ability to respond to another person in real time. Partner work is where we learn to support, challenge, and be challenged, exploring boundaries and the joy of moving together. -
Mind-body connection
Movement is a tool to explore your internal states. We engage with fear, discomfort, and uncertainty in structured ways, building resilience, trust, and self-awareness through embodied experience.
What is a movement practice?
Your teacher
- Valeryia LiseichykavaFounder & facilitatorValeryia is a movement educator who helps people of all ages and backgrounds find joy in movement and get better at it in a structured way.
For the past three years, Valeryia has taught movement in community and art spaces, sports schools, and even to the local municipality, all while continuing to learn from the best in the field.
As a former intellectual worker, Valeryia is passionate about sharing how embodied experiences are one of the most meaningful ways to connect to yourself, others and your environment.
Moments of connection
Impressions from the Sensing Self classes.
Frequently asked questions
This practice is for curious adults of all ages and backgrounds who want to develop physical capacity, body intelligence, and a life-supporting movement practice within a community that fosters connection, growth, and joy in learning. It’s open to all fitness levels, as long as you bring an open mind and the effort to explore your potential through practice.
A stronger, more mobile and coordinated body, increased body awareness, a solid skill to apply your attention to anything you want to learn and a toolbox of different practices and techniques you can use to modulate your physical and mental states.
Any comfortable clothes to move in. At indoor classes, we practice barefoot, in socks or in shoes you only wear inside.
Memberships and intro passes are generally not refundable, but I am open to discuss your particular situation if needed.
If you have a different question, please reach out via email - info@thesensingself.nl.