About New Together
We live in a world of screens, noise and a thousand small demands, all of it built to pull your attention outward. This work is about coming back home to yourself, and rediscovering the most sophisticated, ancient technology there is: your body.
We met dancing
It was 2024, at an Azul Conscious Movement teacher training in Assisi. Gita came from Ireland, Matt from the mountains of North Carolina, and neither of us was looking for the other. That's Azul: you arrive meaning to deepen your practice, and you leave with your life rearranged.
Azul, the path of conscious dance and embodied awakening founded by our teacher Amara Pagano, was already home ground for us both. It gave us a shared language, and it runs through everything we teach. We're both certified Azul teachers, and today we coordinate the worldwide Azul Portal, the practice's online home.
When we married in Joshua Tree, we danced under that enormous desert sky, and we made our vows through the six Doorways of Azul. Then Matt crossed an ocean to Ireland, and New Together is what we are building from that promise.
New Together exists to intentionally, fiercely and playfully manifest the New. Together.
The New
The New is partly remembering: the soul's purpose each of us came in with, the heart-centred wisdom our bodies have carried all along, what the people before us understood about the land and the stars. And it is partly what has never been: living our truth with the walls down, the masculine and the feminine in balance, sovereign beings choosing to walk side by side. The walls around the heart are made of shame and fear, and the only way through them is vulnerability. That is why this work begins in the body.
Together
Together, because we go further that way. We were never meant to live in isolation, and the patterns that hold us back rarely loosen alone: wounding happens in relationship, and healing has to happen there too. What re-patterns us is a field of support we return to again and again, a room that can hold what no one can hold alone. So we make spaces where people come back to what makes us human — love, connection, embodiment, play and pleasure, intimacy. In those rooms, something new becomes possible, within us and 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 turned somatics from her profession into something she needed herself.
From this September, Gita is opening a small number of one-to-one places.
Matt
Matt is a Certified Azul Conscious Movement teacher, a 200-hour trained yoga teacher and an Ecstatic Dance DJ, and was once ordained as a novice monk in Thailand. He teaches conscious dance and yoga at studios, festivals, retreat centres and online, and co-founded the High Country Movement Collective in North Carolina, U.S. In 2026 he completed a Men's Leadership Programme with Niall Graham, and that work has changed how he teaches.
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. 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. 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.
From this autumn, that practice becomes Strong Back, Open Heart: a weekly class, and one-to-one sessions with Matt.
Where we gather
In Ireland, in the US, and online.
No experience needed. All bodies are welcome. Come as you are.
Come move with us. Choose your door: Upcoming gatherings · One-to-one sessions with Gita · Strong Back, Open Heart · or write to us at contact@new-together.com — about couples work, about your organisation, or just to say hello.