About
We met dancing.
It was an Azul Conscious Movement teacher training in Assisi, in 2024 — two people who had each found their way home through the body, arriving in the same room. We're married now. Matt moved to Ireland this year. Somewhere in between, New Together began.
We danced at our wedding in Joshua Tree, under that enormous desert sky. It felt like the truest way to make a promise: not standing still, but moving.
What we're building
New Together exists to intentionally, fiercely and playfully manifest the New. Together.
The New is partly remembering — what life was always meant to be, what the people before us understood about the land and the stars. And it's partly what has never been. Both take a body to find.
Wounding happens in relationship, and healing has to happen there too. There is only so far any of us can go alone. So we make spaces where people come back to the body, back to each other, and let something new become possible — not only within us, but between us.
Gita
Gita Ramanauskaite is an Azul Conscious Movement teacher and a Dynamic Embodiment Somatic Movement Therapist with over a decade of practice, and she sits on the board of ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Her work weaves movement, supportive touch and deep listening, drawing on neurodevelopmental re-patterning. Originally from Lithuania, she has been running movement programmes across Ireland since 2015, bringing movement to people that fitness culture tends to overlook: Vision Sports Ireland, Arthritis Ireland, Kildare Sports Partnership, and the Kildare and West Wicklow mental health service.
Movement has always been her path. BMX racing internationally from the age of five, then running, triathlons, Qi Gong and Japanese martial arts, and the Camino. What she was looking for was depth. In 2016 that search led her to somatics, and to slowly reconnecting to parts of herself: her emotions, pieces of her that had been asleep or buried away. It wasn't easy or comfortable. But it was real. Conscious dance came next, and Azul gave it a language — movement meditation as a way to embodied wisdom, deep sovereignty and a heart-based way of living.
Her daughter is nine now. The pelvic injury Gita sustained after giving birth took away the physically active life she had built everything on, and left her with pain and, underneath it, a fear of moving at all. That fear turned out to be as much the problem as the injury, and it is what made somatics personal rather than professional.
She once ran an inclusion programme in a refugee centre, with families from different countries who spoke different languages, prayed differently and dressed differently. She played music from each of their backgrounds and waited. When a shared rhythm arrived, something opened: they began dancing to one another's rhythms, and the differences started being celebrated rather than managed. That is what she means by a common field of togetherness: something no one carries in, that the room makes together.
Gita's somatic practice →
Matt
Matt is a Certified Azul Conscious Movement teacher, a 200-hour trained yoga teacher, a meditation teacher and a DJ. He teaches conscious dance and yoga at studios, festivals and retreat centres, and co-founded the High Country Movement Collective in North Carolina, U.S.
He came to this by an unusual road. He holds a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology and has spent twenty-five years in environmental advocacy with Appalachian Voices, working to protect the mountains and communities of Appalachia. That work runs underneath everything he teaches: bodies carrying three and a half billion years of ancestry, change as an evolutionary process, movement as a way back into relationship with our bodies, with each other and with the earth.
He also knows what it is to be in a body that hurts. Chronic back pain from three herniated disks in his late twenties became severe osteoarthritis by the winter of 2017, when he could not sit or walk any distance. An x-ray then showed essentially no disk material left in his two lowest joints. He kept going to the weekly dance through all of it, lying on a bolster with his legs in the air. He has been almost entirely pain-free since 2018, and he no longer calls it a "bad back". The disks did not grow back. What changed was the practice: yoga therapy, the Alexander Technique, and years of conscious movement in a room with other people.
Most of the inner work that brought him here has been guided by women. In 2026 he completed a men's leadership programme with Niall Graham, his first sustained work in a circle of men. It shapes everything he teaches, and particularly the work he and Gita do with couples.
Where we gather
In Ireland, in the US, and online.
No experience needed. All bodies are welcome. Come as you are.