In the world of Expressive Arts, your feelings, challenges, and stories find creative form and transform into new possibilities
No art skills needed
I work at the intersection of creativity, embodiment, and change. My sessions invite you to reconnect with your senses, imagination, and childlike wonder, and to discover new ways of meeting challenges.
Individual sessions
Express, Explore, Become
An invitation to come back into contact with yourself through creative and body-based practices. I support you in exploring new ways of relating to your experience, moving through emotional burnout, and life changes. Meet yourself through form, texture, and movement — listening to what your body has to say.
For organisations and communities
Polina Yakymenko
My projects
Mar 2026 - now
Community Arts sessions
The Free Space: Community Lab / Frauenalia gUG
I facilitate trauma-informed, arts-based sessions for women and teenagers with refugee and migration experience in shelters and neighbourhood centres. These participatory spaces support expression, connection, and resilience, helping participants strengthen their resources, feel seen, and build agency. The work balances personal growth with shared learning, creating an inclusive space where they can experience mutual support and belonging.
I adapt each session to the specific setting and group, working alongside an interdisciplinary team at The Free Space project in collaboration with Frauenalia gUG. The project, funded through the Integration Fund of the Treptow-Köpenick District Office, is present across eight shelters and neighbourhood locations.
Sep 2024 - Aug, 2026
Master’s Thesis Research on Pre-Reflective Self and Embodied Perception
The European Graduate School
My research sits at the intersection of the pre-reflective self (Zahavi), embodied perception (Merleau-Ponty), and poiesis (Heidegger, Levine), explored through Expressive Arts-Based Research and phenomenological inquiry.
Senses of Self: A Phenomenology of Embodied Becoming through Expressive Arts
Apr 2023 - Aug 2025
The Liminal - Expressive Arts Collective in Berlin
@the.liminal.expressivearts
Co-founding member of the collective that hosts expressive arts circles for an international audience. This project involved preparing and facilitating group sessions, using art-based activities to support creative expression, self-discovery, and community building. Examples of session themes I co-facilitated include:
Blankness as Potential: A Collective Unfolding of Form and Story • The Art of Letting Go • The Forest: The Play of the Senses • Sensing into Now, Ready for What's Next • The Fire Within • Eros & Thanatos • “I” in Relation • 間 (Ma): The Space In-Between • Nurturing Hope
Feb 2025 - May 2025
Creating Your Kali Myth: Recognising the role of anger
Creating Your Kali Myth
Workshop series exploring anger through expressive arts, inspired by the archetype of Kali. Participants worked with anger using art-based and embodied practices, reimagining their unique Kali in their own shapes, colours, sounds, movements, and rhythms.
