Episode 11 Summary — Season One Reflection

In this solo reflection episode, Megan takes a moment to pause and look back on the conversations, themes, and questions that shaped Season One of CMS.

She reflects on what emerged across the ten episodes — love as a creative practice, the value of presence and listening, and the courage it takes to stay connected to why we create.

Megan shares how hosting these conversations has influenced her own relationship to movement, collaboration, and artistic integrity.

The episode serves as a gentle closing to Season One and an invitation to carry these reflections forward into future practice.

In Episode 10, Megan speaks with Jiwon Oh, a Korean dance and multidisciplinary artist based in London, about how love, care, and human connection shape her creative practice, from self-filming in the studio to collaborating tenderly with her grandmother.

They explore how Gaga opened a new sense of freedom for both of them, shifting their relationship with movement from discipline and expectation toward curiosity, joy, and self-permission.

Jiwon shares about her choreographic and creation process, touching on how working across Korean and English helps her create atmospheres rooted in feeling, and how prioritizing people over product has become central to her choreography.

Together, they trace her journey into dance and the ways love — for movement, for collaborators, and for the process itself — continues to guide her artistic path.

In this episode of Conversations for the Moving Self, Megan is joined by Laura, a dance artist, teacher, and Pilates instructor whose movement journey has stretched across dance, gymnastics, football, netball, running, and more.
Together they trace how those early, wide-ranging experiences have shaped the way Laura moves and teaches today — a practice now rooted in dance, Pilates, and cross-training, guided by curiosity and sustainability. She shares her transition from performer to teacher, and how her work with both children and adults with disabilities continues to shape her inclusive approach to movement spaces.
Megan and Laura explore the balance between structure and creativity in teaching, the evolution of language in dance education, and how returning to familiar practices can reconnect us to joy. Laura also introduces her current “jeffing” running practice — a rhythm of running and resting that invites a kinder, more embodied relationship with endurance.
Throughout, they reflect on how teaching movement can be both creative and healing — a space to meet the body, and each other, with care.