Anne Egseth first encountered the Discipline of Authentic Movement through Janet Adler’s writings, which offered a path to 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 practice that honoured her longstanding interests in movement, presence, adult development, and healing through relational awareness.
In 2017, Anne began her individual study of the discipline with Julia Gombos in California, later extending her practice through group work. She completed the postgraduate Circles of Four programme in 2025, studying with Julia Gombos, Bonnie Morrissey, and Paula Sager. She continues to study the collective body with Paula Sager and Bonnie Morrissey.
Anne teaches Authentic Movement online and in person, offering individual and small-group sessions in English and Norwegian. Her work is guided by questions that continue to shape her practice: How can the body be a doorway to presence and freedom? How does movement reveal the unconscious? How does sustained embodied attention cultivate intuitive knowing, and how can language emerge from experience itself?
Her work draws on more than thirty years of engagement with contemplative awareness, embodiment, and somatic education. Her background includes the Fourth Way tradition and Gurdjieff Movements, Five Rhythms dance, and more than a decade of study and practice with Dr Rudy Bauer at the Washington Centre for Consciousness Studies, encompassing Dzogchen meditation and existential phenomenology. Alongside her Authentic Movement teaching, she also works as a somatic coach for coaches, professionals, and artists.
Anne is a PCC-accredited Integral Coach with New Ventures West in the United States, where she has been a faculty member since 2012. She holds an MA in Movement Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, a BA in Acting from Rose Bruford College, and a BA in Literature, Drama, and Philosophy from NTNU, Norway. She spent fifteen years performing in theatres across the UK and Norway. Her background in meditation, coaching, and physical theatre informs her approach to embodied inquiry.