Movement as a language
Classes and workshops treat movement as a way to sense, think, feel, and reorganize. Technique matters, but it is always in service of aliveness and choice.
Forest Lighthouse
A lighthouse in a forest?
Meet the place, the people, and the practice behind Forest Lighthouse in Brussels.
Origins
Nuestra Casa Es Su Casa.
Forest Lighthouse began as a desire to make room for humanity, connection, and serious embodied study.
Nikos, from the windswept coasts of Denmark, and Betzabel, from the vibrant heart of Mexico, met in India. Their shared love of art, research, and culture gradually turned into a vision for a center where people could rediscover themselves through movement, awareness, and community.
The place was never imagined as a neutral venue. It was imagined as a living home: a space that can hold weekly rhythm, deeper study, informal exchange, and the many different tempos people need when they are learning.
In uncertain moments, Forest Lighthouse offers gentleness and orientation. In more adventurous ones, it becomes a place to celebrate discovery, forgotten wisdom, and the pleasure of learning together.
A living, extended family
The center is cultivated like a garden: shaped by different people, sustained by reciprocity, and made stronger because the whole is larger than the sum of its parts.
Inside the house
A walk through the rooms, the garden, and the atmosphere
The About page on the live site carries a whole visual essay. This slider now brings that material into the rebuilt page too.
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Practice
Awaken the body's wisdom
Learn together. Live more fully.
Embodied learning that stays with you
The work is designed to transfer back into daily life: teaching, art-making, caregiving, recovery, coordination, and the many small decisions that shape how we live.
A place to pause and reorient
Forest Lighthouse is built for people who need room to slow down, inquire, and find a clearer path forward without giving up depth or rigor.
People
Nothing meaningful is ever built alone.
Meet some of the people who shape, support, teach, and extend the Forest Lighthouse ecosystem.
Co-founder and Feldenkrais practitioner
Betzabel Falfan
Betzabel brings the center's work back to lived experience: weekly classes, individual sessions, and a way of teaching grounded in warmth, rigor, and care.
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Co-founder and Feldenkrais practitioner
Nikos Appelqvist
Nikos helps shape Forest Lighthouse as both a practice space and a research-minded ecosystem, where somatics, culture, and hospitality can meet.
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Co-founder, composer, and filmmaker
Mattis Appelqvist
Mattis works between music, film, and cognitive science, extending the center's pedagogical work into documentaries, animation, and narrative experiments.
Dancer, practitioner, and operations support
Eve Kolinski
Eve brings the same attentiveness to organizing classes and trainings that she brings to movement practice: precise, responsive, and quietly essential.
Feldenkrais practitioner
Yvo Mentens
Yvo's presence extends the center's commitment to nuanced perception, steady attention, and the long arc of embodied learning.
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Feldenkrais practitioner and assistant trainer
Pia Appelquist
Pia contributes a long view of transmission, helping the center stay connected to lineage, clarity, and the craft of teaching over time.
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Mind-body physician and educator
Dr Howard Schubiner
Howard's work on chronic pain broadens the conversation at Forest Lighthouse, linking somatic learning with clinical insight and compassionate care.
Feldenkrais trainer
Alan Questel
Alan is part of the wider teaching constellation around the center, known for bringing clarity, creativity, humor, and humanity into the learning space.
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Teacher
Alan Fraser
Alan Fraser is a pianist, teacher, and author originally from Montreal.
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Dancer, Performing Artist, Feldenkrais Practitioner
Alice Godfrey
South African dancer (NDT, Sharon Eyal / S-E-D), Feldenkrais practitioner.
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Teacher
Ana Victoria Iommi
Ana is a dancer, Doula, Pilates and Yoga teacher. She began with ballet and then moved on to contemporary dance. She discovered Pilates after a serious knee injury.
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Teacher
Chen-Wei Lee (Wei-Wei)
Chen-Wei Lee is a Brussels based Taiwanese artist. She is a choreographer, freelance dancer and Gaga teacher, and the holder of the 24th TECO Award for the art of dance.
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Gaspard Rozenwajn
Gaspard Rozenwajn is a multidisciplinary artist from Brussels, an actor, dancer, singer, and graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in dramatic arts.
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Teacher
Lara Liu
is one of 3 French-speaking Senior Trainers in Ruthy Alon's Movement Intelligence programs (Bones for Life, Bones for Life Chairs, Walk for Life, Mindful Eating, Solutions for an Optimal Mobility).
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Dancer, Choreographer, Gaga Certified Teacher
Mourad Bouayad
Parisian dancer and choreographer, Batsheva Ensemble alumnus, certified Gaga teacher.
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Teacher
Orazio Giurdanella
Orazio Giurdanella is a well-being and Pilates instructor with over 20 years of experience.
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Robert Sussuma
Countertenor, vocal pedagogue, and Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner.
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Teacher
Sabine Boone
Sabine is a multi-disciplined yoga teacher and has built up a profound experience in various yoga styles over more than 15 years.
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Sacha Kocic
Sacha Kocic is a trained psychologist and worked for five years in a psychiatric care facility.
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Scott Clark
Originally from New Mexico, Scott trained as a dancer after taking a BSc in mathematics.
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Tara Appriou
Tara is a certified Pilates teacher (Balanced Body method) and a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method (Brussels I), with an initial background in contemporary dance.
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Our roots
Diversity of people, cultures, and movement is the fertile soil this place depends on. When learning mirrors nature, it becomes adaptive, plural, and full of perspective.
Curiosity
Every meaningful connection begins with attention and a real question. Curiosity keeps the work alive and prevents certainty from closing it down too early.
Cultivation
Growth needs conditions. The center tries to create those conditions with care: time, structure, hospitality, continuity, and enough freedom for discovery.
Community
People learn better with and from one another. Forest Lighthouse treats companionship, dialogue, and shared practice as part of the work itself.
Come by
Come for a class. Stay for the conversation.
Whether you are arriving for a first lesson, looking for a training path, or simply curious about the space, Forest Lighthouse is meant to be entered from many sides.