Anne-Lise has attended numerous workshops, classes and courses in circle dance and has taught in earnest from 1996. She has run many classes in her native Cumbria since then as well as delivering courses and holidays nationally and abroad regularly. Circle dance has also been a valuable way of bringing people together at charity events, weddings, birthdays and memorial services. As a way of fostering understanding of different cultures and ways of life she has also introduced circle dance to day hospice, care homes and schools. It is her passionate belief that this inclusive form of dancing helps to promote wellbeing, as well as being a caring way of introducing understanding of different cultures and ways of life.

After more than 25 years of leading circle dance her main focus is still of creating a sense of family, belonging and of physical and mental wellness through the medium of music and movement.

Since 2015 Anne-Lise has annually brought her special brand of circle dance to La Maison Anglaise where the dance highlights include meditative dawn dancing on the roof top terrace, dancing in a local village and at the Claudio Bravo museum, often with the locals joining in, as well as evening sessions in the beautiful workshop space at the guest house. Together with the cultural experiences and the care of the wonderful, family-orientated staff, leading circle dance at La Maison Anglaise is the main highlight of Anne-Lise’s year.

In these uncertain and physically dividing times we are living through it is more important than ever to find ways of togetherness. Moving to the same rhythm and beat – the same heartbeat – is a great way to foster that sense of community and what better place to do that than with ‘Holidays with Heart’.