I AM ASTRÍÐUR
Movement has always been my language
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I create spaces where people reconnect with their bodies, their vitality, and the intelligence of life itself.
Before I understood embodiment, healing, or the nervous system, I knew movement.
The rhythm of a bicycle weaving through city streets.
The pulse of music moving through a room.
The intelligence of a body that knows how to breathe, feel, adapt, and find its way.
I have spent much of my life exploring one essential question:
What makes us feel truly alive?
Not successful.
Not productive.
Not perfect.
Alive.
Again and again, life has brought me back to the same place:
The body already knows.
My work is devoted to creating spaces where that wisdom can be heard.
Not through force. Not through fixing.
Through movement, breath, presence, connection, and the courage to fully inhabit ourselves.
MY STORY IS A RETURN TO ALIVENESS
Movement has always been my language.
Long before I discovered embodiment as a practice, I was exploring life through motion. As a bike messenger weaving through city streets, I learned about rhythm, intuition, resilience, presence, and flow. The bicycle became more than transportation.
It became a teacher.
It taught me to listen.
To respond.
To trust my instincts.
To move with what is here.
I have lived many lives within one lifetime.
Designer.
Entrepreneur.
Bike messenger.
Facilitator.
Explorer.
Student of life.
Each chapter revealed another layer of what it means to be human. And beneath all of them lived the same curiosity:
What makes us come alive?
That question led me through movement practices, somatic work, nervous system exploration, body-based therapies, breathwork, sacred healing arts, relational work, and community building.
I explored many paths.
Gathered many tools.
Searched for ways to better understand myself, others, and the mystery of being human.
Yet the deeper I traveled, the simpler things became.
I stopped searching for the perfect method.
I stopped trying to become someone else.
I began listening.
To my body.
To life.
To what emerges when we become quiet enough to feel.
And slowly, I began to understand:
We do not always need another answer.
Sometimes, we need to create enough space to hear what is already there.
THE BODY ALREADY KNOWS
Embodied Aliveness Journey
A personalized journey for those who want to go deeper.
Together, we explore what is alive within you through embodied awareness, movement, nervous system wisdom, deep listening, and intuitive exploration.
A space to meet transitions, patterns, desires, and questions not only through the mind, but through the intelligence of your whole being.
For those seeking deeper embodiment, meaningful transformation, and a more alive relationship with themselves and their lives.
Cura | Embodied Healing Sessions
An intuitive one-to-one space to slow down, listen, and meet what is present.
Through embodied awareness, energetic listening, movement, breath, and presence, we create space for what wants to be felt, expressed, released, or understood.
A space for reconnection. For clarity.
For coming back into relationship with yourself.
For those navigating change, seeking greater balance, or feeling called to listen more deeply to what their body and life are asking for.
The Living
Principles
This work is rooted in a simple belief: Life is always moving.
Toward expression.
Toward connection.
Toward greater wholeness.
And sometimes, we lose touch with that movement.
We become disconnected from our bodies.
Our desires.
Our creativity.
Our vitality.
Our capacity to feel.
Our capacity to receive.
Our capacity to be fully here.
The work is not to force life to move.
It is to listen for where movement has become difficult.
To create space.
To soften what is ready to soften.
To meet what is asking to be met.
And to allow life to move again.
Not by fixing ourselves.
But by participating more fully in the experience of being human.
THE BODY AS WISDOM
The body carries an intelligence far beyond the thinking mind.
We learn to listen to its signals, sensations, rhythms, impulses, and deeper knowing.
MOVEMENT AS MEDICINE
Movement restores relationship.
With sensation.
With expression.
With vitality.
With the world around us.
It reminds us that life is not static.
Life moves.
And so do we.
PRESENCE BEFORE PERFORMANCE
We gently loosen the habits of striving, proving, controlling, and performing.
Not to become passive.
But to discover what becomes possible when we no longer need to perform who we think we should be.
CONNECTION CREATES CHANGE
We do not exist in isolation. Transformation happens in relationship.
With ourselves. With others. With the world. With life itself.
When we feel safe enough to be seen, to feel, and to belong, something within us can begin to move.
ALIVENESS IS OUR NATURE
Aliveness is not something we need to achieve.
It is something we remember.
Something we allow.
Something we meet when we dare to inhabit ourselves more fully.
Beneath our patterns, our protection, and our stories, there is an essential vitality.
A life force.
Waiting not to be created — but to be lived.
My Path & Training
My work has been shaped by years of exploration across embodiment, movement, nervous system work, somatic practices, breath, body-based therapies, sacred healing arts, relational practices, and collective experiences.
These practices inform my work.
But I do not believe that transformation belongs to one method.
My approach is integrative and intuitive — listening to the person, the body, and the moment rather than following a fixed formula.
The modalities are not the destination. They are doorways. The deeper practice is listening.
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Before the somatic certifications, there were 20 years of visual architecture and movement. My work is built on a foundation of 20 years of Visual Design (FHD, 2007) and two decades of navigating city streets as an independent entrepreneur. This is where I learned the structure that now allows for the flow.
From Trauma 2 Trust Facilitator Training with Buster Rådvik I 2026
Aguahara Watertherapy Training L2 with Alexander Siebenstern I 2026
Advanced Sexuality - Dearmouring, Dysfunction, Arousal with The Gaia Method I 2025
Presence Dearmouring L4 with De’an Matuka I 2025
Kundalini Bodywork with Elliot Saxby I Currently 2025
Reiki Master with Elísa Butt Davíðsdóttir I 2025
Aguahara Watertherapy Training L1 with Alexander Siebenstern I 2024
Aguahara Watertherapy Intensive with Alexander Siebenstern I 2024
ICF International Coach Training with Evolvia I 2024
WIM HOF Fundamentals I 2024
International School of Temple Arts I 2023, 2024
TRE (Trauma Release Exercises) with Steve Haines I 2023
Women's Sexuality & Empowerment with Susanna Diamon I 2022
Priestess Awake Training with Luzia Mara Schucan I 2022
Sacred Rage with Deep Feminine Mystery School I 2022
Medicine Wheel of the New Earth with Luzia Mara Schucan I 2022
Body, Sound, & Breath with Dearmouring Arts I 2021
Internal / External Dearmouring with Dearmouring Arts I 2021
Neurotransformative Breathwork with Susanna Diamon I 2021
Tantra Teacher Training with Innercamp I 2021
Erotic Soul Power & The Erotic Reset II with Susanna Diamon| 2021
The Ritual of Cacao with Cacao Laboratory | 2020
Usui Reiki Level 1 with Tashina Viola Healing | 2020
Fascia Trainer at the AHAB Academy | 2020
Massage Therapist for Wellness/Fitness & Health Prevention at Body & Soul | 2019/2020
Lomi Lomi Nui Massage at ACEK | 2019
Thai Yoga Massage Workshop with Zoltan Gyorgyovics | 2019
Sequencing with Mark Stephens | 2019
Yoga and TCM with Tiffany Cruikshank, Yoga Medicine | 2018
Vinyasa & Yin Yoga Teacher Training (200 RYT) with Martin Becker | 2018 -
My commitment to guiding others on their Unmasking Journey is fueled by my own path of continuous learning and exploration. I am constantly deepening my understanding and integrating wisdom from various fields that illuminate the path to wholeness and authentic expression. My ongoing research includes:
Breathwork
Dearmouring
Pranayama
Cold Water Exposure
Trauma & Nervous System
Tantra
Yin & Kundalini Yoga
Conscious Touch
Meditation
Trance Journeys
Dance, Movement & Embodiment
Spirituality
Science
Human Design
Intimacy and Sacred Sexuality
An Invitation
You do not need another self-improvement project.
You do not need to become a better version of yourself before you can begin living.
Perhaps the wisdom you are searching for is already closer than you think.
Perhaps it is in the breath you have not yet fully exhaled.
The movement you have not allowed.
The truth you have not yet spoken.
The desire you have not yet listened to.
The stillness you have been avoiding.
What if your body has been quietly guiding you all along?
What if healing, joy, creativity, pleasure, connection, and vitality are not separate paths — but different expressions of the same life force moving through you?
What if aliveness is not something you achieve — but something you allow?
Take a breath.
Slow down.
Listen.
Your body already knows the way.