Language: English, Norwegian
Location: Italy, Norway, US
Email Address: aegseth@gmail.com
Anne Egseth first found the Discipline of Authentic Movement through the writings of Janet Adler, a discovery that addressed a question she had carried for much of her adult life: What does it mean to become more conscious through the body? In Janet’s texts, she found a path that honoured her longstanding interests in movement, presence, adult development, and healing through relational awareness.
In 2017, she began studying the Discipline with Julia Gombos in California, fully dedicating herself to the practice. During her studies with Julia, Anne experienced how Authentic Movement combines psychological insight with embodied presence, and how, through moving and being witnessed, long-standing patterns of perception can soften, allowing deeper dimensions of Being to be embodied.
She completed the postgraduate Circles of Four programme in 2025, studying with Julia Gombos, Bonnie Morrissey, and Paula Sager. Over time, the practice has become a way of life, shaping how she meets the world, from the practicalities of motherhood to the subtle energetic layers of existence.
Anne teaches Authentic Movement both online and in person, offering one-on-one and small‑group sessions in English and Norwegian. Her work grows from questions that continue to guide her: How can the body be a doorway to presence and awakening? How does movement reveal what is unconscious? How does the practice of sustained attention deepen our direct knowing of the many dimensions of embodiment, and how do we give language to what arises from experience itself?
Her teaching and practice draw on over thirty years of engagement with contemplative awareness, embodiment, and somatic education: from studying within the Fourth Way tradition (which led her to sacred dance through the Gurdjieff Movements), to movement meditation rooted in the Five Rhythms; from more than a decade of mentorship, study and practice with Dr. Rudy Bauer at the Washington Centre for Consciousness Studies, (Dzogchen meditation and Existential Phenomenology), to years of offering somatic coaching to coaches, corporate professionals, and artists.
Anne is a PCC-accredited Integral Coach with New Ventures West (US), where she has been a faculty member for ten years, teaching somatic practices. She holds an MA in Movement Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, a BA in Acting from Rose Bruford College, London, and a BA in Literature, Drama, and Philosophy from NTNU in Norway. She has instructed movement and mindfulness in theatre programmes and leadership courses at university-level institutions, and she spent fifteen years performing in theatres in the UK and Norway. Her background in physical theatre, myth, and archetypes continues to inform and enrich her work, supporting students' access to a deeper, more direct embodied inquiry.
She is the author of This Is All He Asks of You (2020, Roundfire Books), a work of literary fiction that explores the interplay between language, body, human connection, and the sacred, themes that continue to shape and inspire her teaching and practice today.