Hi. I’m Deanne Love. Welcome.
Teacher, artist, somatic practitioner and lifelong student of the wild intelligence of the body, flow states and dreams.
For over two decades, I’ve been guiding people into movement, creativity and embodied awareness. Some people know me from Hoop Lovers, the global hoop community I accidentally started in 2008 (that changed my life!).
These days my work has widened.
I create spaces where people can slow down enough to hear themselves again.
Formally educated in the arts of education and human behaviour (Bachelor of Education & Masters of Counselling). Shaped by a life of flow, shadow, and dreams.
I am a queer woman, living in Melbourne/Naarm, Australia with my partner and dog (Sweet Joe)
What I Create
Right now my work lives in four places:
The Dream Listening Room
A weekly guided self-practice on YouTube where we move, write and create with dream fragments to make a connection with recall, patterns and creativity.
Somatic Dream Circles
Monthly live online gatherings where we explore dreams collectively through movement, writing and creative reflection.
1:1 Somatic Sessions
Individual sessions for people who want deeper listening, support and embodied inquiry.
Hooplovers.tv
My online home for hoop and flow. A library of courses, classes and creative flow practices supporting people to move, play and build confidence through hooping.
The Lineage of This Work
Before dream circles, there were hoops.
I devoted my life to teaching hooping around the world, building communities of movers who understood something essential: movement changes the nervous system.
When people move together, something opens.
Over time my curiosity deepened into somatic therapy, psychology, creative practice and the relationship between the body and imagination.
My work now sits at the intersection of:
movement
somatic therapy
dreamwork
creative practice
and collective witnessing
Not as separate disciplines, but as one ecosystem.
Along the way, I became deeply attuned to creativity as medicine, and the quiet ways the body speaks when we stop interrupting it.
As I was completing my Master of Counselling, swimming in theory, ethics, trauma, and the careful art of listening, my life took an unexpected detour. My own body began speaking loudly.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Before any scans or appointments, I had a dream. A visitation. The dream told me I had breast cancer and exactly where it was. It wasn’t a dramatic or startling dream, it was a solid knowing. My body spoke, my psyche listened.
I have always listened to my dreams. They have been rich, imaginative, and deeply informative my whole life. That dream was not a nightmare; it was communication. And it was correct.
Within the last 6 months, I have had treatment and a double mastectomy to remove the cancer from the exact area the dream led me to.
So when people tell me they don’t dream, I don’t usually think something is missing. I think something is being unheard.
What I Believe
I don’t believe people need fixing. I believe we need space to listen. We live in systems that force urgency, performance and certainty. They train us to override our instincts and distrust our inner signals.
The work I offer is slower than that. It is relational. It is curious. It respects the psyche as something alive and intelligent.
There are no five-step formulas here. Just practices that help people rebuild trust with their own inner world.