ABOUT
The story of PERMEA - and me.
Hi, my name is Roos.
After years of moving, teaching, and creating, I founded PERMEA as an online platform to move, create, and reimagine.
My work weaves together contemporary dance, somatic practice, contact improvisation, and experimental performance. It grows out of questions—social, personal, and philosophical—and seeks to explore how these questions can be lived, felt, and expressed through the body. In movement, in performance, and in teaching, I approach the body as a site of inquiry and possibility.
For me, practice is not separate from life. It is a continuous process of integration and truth—something embodied, experienced, and shared in the everyday.
My Path
I hold a degree in Dance Education from Codarts University of the Arts. After years of professional dance education, I felt exhausted and deeply insecure about myself and my body. I decided to leave my home country to research and explore different approaches to movement. Living in many different places and environments has shaped me profoundly.
My path has led me into yoga, (eco)somatic education, meditation, writing, painting, and—above all—improvisation. Through residencies and trainings across India, Thailand, and Latin America, I came to understand that the way we move is the way we relate to life. I discovered that creative practice is a restorative practice—a practice of uncertainty, of not knowing, and of giving expression to the inner voice that lives in all of us.
What guides my work is seeing the body not as something to fix, but as a space of truth, agency, and shared possibility. My practice is shaped by non-hierarchical forms of exchange and collective learning, bringing places, people, and stories together.
The Story of PERMEA
PERMEA is an online and in-person space for private sessions, programs, and workshops — where growth is understood as cyclical, relational, and intuitive.
It offers a return to the body through somatic practice, meditation, dynamic improvisation, and contemplative dance.
PERMEA is shaped by the belief that change begins within the individual body and ripples outward — through relationship, reciprocity, and engagement with the world.
Through PERMEA, I offer courses, programs, and one-on-one sessions that center the body as a site of inquiry — shaped by what we bring, sense, and choose to observe.
