About PERMEA
The story & journey
About PERMEA
PERMEA is a practice-based methodology for somatic listening and embodied inquiry. It works with the body as a place where experience is learned, organised, and repeated — and where new ways of sensing, relating, and responding can begin.
Through movement, reflection, and relational practice, PERMEA explores how the body is shaped by history, relation, social conditioning, and environment, and how these patterns continue into perception, behaviour, and the ways we meet the world.
The Philosophy
PERMEA is rooted in somatic inquiry, improvisation, phenomenology, embodied research, creative interventions and relational awareness. It is informed by contact improvisation, ecological thinking, feminist and intersectional perspectives, process-oriented approaches, anatomical attention, and movement-based artistic research that values complexity, paradox, emergence, and not-knowing.
What matters in PERMEA is not only what is practiced, but how practice is organised. The methodology works by slowing down automatic continuation, supporting deeper attention, and creating enough structure for behaviour and bodily organisation to become visible.
About me
Roos Helena - somatic facilitator, embodied researcher, movement artist.
I am an interdisciplinary dance artist, facilitator, and embodied researcher working across movement, somatic practice, relational inquiry, performance, and artistic research.
My work explores how experience is learned, organised, and repeated through the body, and how those patterns shape the ways we move, relate, create, and take part in the world. I am interested in the body as a site of perception, relation, memory, tension, adaptation, imagination, and change.
My practice is rooted in contemporary dance, somatic work, improvisation, and embodied research, and has been shaped by working across different cultural and artistic contexts.
I am currently based between Amsterdam and Guadalajara, and my work moves between facilitation, performance, teaching, curation, and long-term research.
Education / Certification
Master Performance Practices
ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL)
2026 - 2028
Bachelor of Dance Education
Codarts University of the Arts (NL)
2019 - 2023
Propedeuse Dance Education
Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Tilburg (NL)
2018 - 2019
MBO Dance Artist
Rijnijssel, NL
2016-2018
Additional Training
Gliding Space Teacher Training, Greece (2021)
Integrative Somatic Arts Teacher Training, Greece (2022)
Contact Beyond Contact Teacher Training L1–4, Mexico (2023)
Voice Activation & Pranayama, Guatemala (2023)
Thai Massage Therapy, Guatemala (2023)
Yoga Teacher Training 200hr, India (2023)
500hr Yoga Internship, Mexico (2022)
Contact Improvisation Intensives, Thailand, India, Mexico (2022-2026)