Dr Lucy Tyler

Lucy is a yoga guide, somatic educator, artist and performance maker, who has been teaching creative and movement practices full-time since 2010. She uses yoga and somatic modalities, mindfulness, and breath work to help individuals connect more deeply with their bodies. Lucy’s approach fosters creative expression and personal healing. Her focus is on creating spaces of care, supporting people to move with ease and intuitive awareness. Lucy’s teaching is compassionate, invitational, and anxiety, trauma and grief aware. She welcomes working with individuals of all backgrounds, and has been trained by Stonewall UK as a Queer ally (2018).

Lucy is a certified Yoga Alliance Professional (RYT 200), completing an RYT 500 (an advanced yoga training). She has completed extensive CPDs in yoga asana practices (including yin, somatic, restorative, Hatha, vinyasa), and Ayuveda. Lucy has an Ashtanga Vinyasa personal practice.

Currently a student with the School for Body-Mind Centering (an embodied approach to movement, body and consciousness), Lucy is training as a somatic movement educator (SME), having completed over 200hrs of the programme. She is also grateful to have received guidance in ‘ecosomatic’ modalities: where somatic methods are blended with ecological contexts and concerns. She has studied ecosomatics with Body Cartography in Norway (2024 July; 2025, January and July), and from Frank Van de Ven (Body Landscape) (2024, August). In addition to yoga and somatics, Lucy also practices movement as creative practice, contact improvisation, and Authentic Movement as a source of devising for live art.

Lucy is Associate Professor of Performance Practices at the University of Reading, where she teaches performance making full-time. Around her theatre role, Lucy offers ELEMENTS MOVEMENT LAB in her community to bring movement enquiry, and explore the relationship between creativity, yoga and somatics with a wider group of people. Lucy holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, an MPhil in Drama (distinction), and a PGCHE teaching qualification (distinction).

Artist Bio

Lucy is also an artist & writer who makes performances, texts, videos and installations. She uses improvisational movement processes to explore how the present and futures of landscapes, spaces and places are intertwined with the material practices and ephemera of m/othering. She devises and writes mobile and sited performances, exploring the relationality of ecologies. In her recent work, Lucy is interested in how commodities, capitalist excess, surveillance, and pollution interact with mothering bodies and places. Her practice explores alternative futures to historical material logics. She works in poetry, scores, scripts, prose, photography and body-based/somatic experimentation. A key theme in Lucy’s practice now is the possibility of a ‘maternal ecosomatics’ that operates against economic imperatives. She collaborates with other artists in devising performance methods, improvising scores, and writing texts, and audio-visual material.

Lucy is also a scholar of the seeds that germinate into creative works (or, what is known in the arts as ‘r&d’). With a special interest in the generative phase of artistic research & development, she holds space for artists to make and, in so doing, explores questions about what it is to be with artists. To support artists, Lucy has developed bespoke classes: ‘Yoga for Artists’ and ‘Restorative Yoga for Creativity’ at Ayres House.