The practice is about showing up again and Again
Fold Practice is about creating a compassionate structure that supports daily reflection and restoration even when inspiration isn’t striking, exhaustion is high, and we don’t know what we’re doing. With every intentional practice we touch the deepest waters within ourselves and with our inherent interconnectedness. This is not about escapism. It’s about facing the trials and joys of life with clarity. It’s about cultivating the desire and tools to change the personal and collective systems that are no longer working.
My path has always been guided by intuition. I’ve followed that intuition through many different fields of study and practice, but each one informs how I show up in the world. It is through these studies and in relationship with others that I’ve come to believe that our wholeness is never entirely separate from the beings and ecosystems around us. We are interconnected and our ability to be well has to do with that.
I’ve worked as a professional artist for 12 years and as a professional archivist for 6. I’m a lifelong seeker who grew up in a very niche church and pursued somatic and meditation trainings post-undergrad. I hold a master’s degree in library science and have spent my archival career writing about and studying embodied archives in a way that explores how bodies, movement, and lived experience hold and transmit knowledge and memory.
As a choreographer, I’ve created works for Atlanta Downtown Improvement District and Fulton County Arts and Culture. My creative practice and teachers continue to shape the way I understand presence, attention, and connection.
Hi, I’m Anicka.
A Take-the-Pressure-Off Approach
My work lives somewhere between art and embodiment, intuition and inquiry, selfhood and relationship. As a sensitive person, who has been prone to anxiety, runimation, and doubt about the power of my own voice, I’m interested in the power that can awaken when we slow down enough to listen to what the body already knows. My approach to holding space is informed by how I’m learning to hold space for myself:
To be well is not about perfecting ourselves or arriving at some finished version of who we are. It is an ongoing practice of listening and reflection and making room for the fullness of our experience.
Liminal space and transition are fertile ground for reflection and becoming. They are opportunities to pause where we are and hang out in the unknown with curiosity and compassion.