The Story & Journey

About PERMEA

PERMEA is a space for embodied inquiry, movement, and relational practice. It brings together somatic work, improvisation, and artistic research into a practice that supports awareness, creativity, and choice.

The body is approached as a place of perception and intelligence, shaped by experience, context, place and relationship. Rather than working toward fixed outcomes, PERMEA creates conditions to notice, explore, and respond.

About Roos Helena

Roos Helena is an artist, dancer, and facilitator working across contemporary dance, performance arts, somatic- practice and research. Her work explores how experience is held and expressed through the body particularly in relation to intimacy, protection, perception, and relational dynamics. Through both artistic and educational contexts, she creates environments where the body is both subject and method, making internal processes tangible, visible, and open to transformation.

After graduating from Codarts University of the Arts, she has lived and worked across diverse cultural contexts. These experiences have shaped her way of facilitating, working with what is present rather than imposing methods, and approaching the body and practice with attention to context, power, and responsibility. Her approach combines movement, stillness, writing, and relational practices, guided through attention, inquiry, and creative process.

She is currently based between Amsterdam and Guadalajara,
where she works as a curator, director, and educator.

Education / Certification

Bachelor of Dance Education
Codarts University of the Arts, Rotterdam (NL)  2022

Pre-Bachelor Studies
ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL)  2018
Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Tilburg (NL)  2015–2018

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 (2023)