Jenny Wessel

Jenny Wessel works under the name Livs Levande, with the words inspiration, joy and rest as her guiding thread. Her mantra, carried for many years, is that if you don't go within, you go without yourself. Her wish is to enrich other people's lives with joy, inspiration and rest, drawing on her knowledge and life wisdom.

Movement has always been central to her life. Her parents introduced her to dance early, taking her along as a small child to folk dance, bugg and foxtrot evenings, and those forms are still a big part of her life. She danced hip-hop, streetdance and disco as a teenager, and trained in aerobics, step-up and water gymnastics during upper secondary school. She also competed in ten-dance for a year, then found that competing took away the joy for her, though she still loves watching dance competitions.

In 1999 she met Nia, a holistic movement form that puts well-being first and sees the person as a whole of body, mind, emotions and spirit. She describes it as a way of getting to know yourself through movement. She runs Nia Movement together with her friend Emma Stålvik.

Alongside dance and movement, her work spans music and meditative song, treatments, and art and creating.