|
MONTHLY MEDICINE CIRCLES
On the fourth Thursday of each month I offer a Medicine Circle workshop. Each workshop consists of a group somatic coaching process, an on-theme Feldenkrais Lesson and a creative practice... not always in that order. This work arrives out of an emergent desire to anchor live Feldenkrais classes inside some deeper enquiries about being stewards of a living planet, and in living relationship to our own inner living ecosystem. It is about cultivating deeper, more sustainable change, that resources your nervous system and nourishes aliveness. There will be time for sharing and for you to bring your living enquiries to the workshop - a little like a laboratory. And everyone who purchases the workshop also gets an audio recording of the session (minus the sharings) to keep or enjoy again - whether or not you attend the workshop live. Medicine Circle Workshops are £40 individually (concession price available) or £90 for 3 consecutive workshops. Click here to sign up. |
Microscopic image of a cell, coloured - by Pawel Czerwinski on Unsplash
|
Upcoming dates below:
Past Sessions:
|
GIVING LESS F**CKS PRACTICE
22 June 2023 This Medicine Circle is for people who would like to give a few less f**ks.
Perhaps you feel anxious more than you'd like to. Maybe you are convinced that If you only concentrated harder, you could avert the climate emergency...? Perfectionists, compulsive problem solvers, over thinkers and worry warts all VERY WELCOME to this one. WORKSHOP FLOW
|
Cartoon by Matthew Zaremba
|
 Photo by Yeshi Kangrang on Unsplash
EXPERIENTIAL ANATOMY FOR THE HEART & CULTIVATING A HEART POEM
6th April 2023 A somatic enquiry for growing intimacy with our physical and symbolic hearts and then cultivating a poem from your heart space. Via somatic imagination, envisioning, somatic movement and creative practice. Workshop Flow -
|
GRATITUDE TENDING & CLIMATE GRIEF
25th May 2023 An enquiry into how we might be with climate grief with more resource and capacity, via envisioning, somatic movement and creative practice.
Workshop Flow - Ritual Set Up: Cultivating the conditions for the Neuroception of Safety and a clear ritual container. Intention setting. What might gratitude have to do with processing grief? Drop In Enquiry: Identifying what the somatic markers of grief might be. Turning towards these parts. Creative Practice: Somatic Movement - Inviting what wants to be moved or brought into creative expression. PART 2 - Drop in Enquiry: Gathering spiritual resources and information from sources other than our own thinking mind. Creative Practice: Cultivating / creative gratitude rituals. What might a gratitude practice look like? Holding the both and. Application: What are you called to do now? Set a time to do a bit of it.  Photo by Laura Vinck on Unsplash
|
Photo by Samuel Scrimshaw on Unsplash
|
CONNECTING TO A SPIRIT HELPER FOR SUPPORT & GUIDANCE
23rd February 2023 An online workshop for cultivating a relationship with a Spirit Guide. A process that prioritises nervous system safety, grounded in ritual practice and practical application.
This is a very practical and grounded way to connect to spiritual support. For advice, insight and information on what ever you might like some perspective on. Plus tools to cultivate the relationship beyond the workshop in your daily life. Working with Somatic Meditation, Comprehensive Resource Model, Visualisation, imagination and Creative Practice. Workshop Flow -
|
Photo by Wai Siew on Unsplash
MYTHIC IMAGINAL - SPIRIT, IMAGINATION & THE LIVING WORLD
Being a Bridge Between The Ordinary and The Extraordinary
24th November 2022
Experience based explorations into the possibility that imagination is bio-chemical and metabolic: into the possibility that it might be our bridge between ordinary reality and the realm of the symbolic.
Exploring what imagination might have to do with our living, dynamic and emergent connection to other Living Beings, Kindred Biological Systems and the Cosmos.
Strengthening our helical apparatus for bridging the known and the Vast Mystery.
FELDENKRAIS: Adventures in imagination and Your Neuroplastic Brain.
SOMATIC COACHING: Cultivating the relationship between Imagination and Spirit Realm in a safe and titrated way.
CREATIVE PRACTICE: Visualising the Bridge and cultivating the connection.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A RECORDING OF THE FELDENKRAIS CLASS FROM THIS SESSION
Being a Bridge Between The Ordinary and The Extraordinary
24th November 2022
Experience based explorations into the possibility that imagination is bio-chemical and metabolic: into the possibility that it might be our bridge between ordinary reality and the realm of the symbolic.
Exploring what imagination might have to do with our living, dynamic and emergent connection to other Living Beings, Kindred Biological Systems and the Cosmos.
Strengthening our helical apparatus for bridging the known and the Vast Mystery.
FELDENKRAIS: Adventures in imagination and Your Neuroplastic Brain.
SOMATIC COACHING: Cultivating the relationship between Imagination and Spirit Realm in a safe and titrated way.
CREATIVE PRACTICE: Visualising the Bridge and cultivating the connection.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A RECORDING OF THE FELDENKRAIS CLASS FROM THIS SESSION
CULTIVATING ATTENTION AS A GENERATIVE ACT
22nd September 2022
Where you place your attention - that is what you are cultivating. Whether you mean to or not. Attention is a generative act. So why not cultivate how we are applying it? It is natural in an emergency to focus on the issue and go into problem-solving mode. However some of us are living our lives in problem solving mode all the time. Problem solving mode is just one way of giving conscious attention. There are many other ways of offering our attention. This workshop is about exploring those fertile alternatives.
FELDI - How might we choose to follow ease and enjoyment instead of focusing on problems and obstacles?
COACHING - Bring something you'd like to give attention to - something you'd like to do more of / spend more time with / develop your relationship to. Taking the metaphor of following ease off the mat and into practice.
CREATIVE PRACTICE - Making space for giving attention where we long to place it.
22nd September 2022
Where you place your attention - that is what you are cultivating. Whether you mean to or not. Attention is a generative act. So why not cultivate how we are applying it? It is natural in an emergency to focus on the issue and go into problem-solving mode. However some of us are living our lives in problem solving mode all the time. Problem solving mode is just one way of giving conscious attention. There are many other ways of offering our attention. This workshop is about exploring those fertile alternatives.
FELDI - How might we choose to follow ease and enjoyment instead of focusing on problems and obstacles?
COACHING - Bring something you'd like to give attention to - something you'd like to do more of / spend more time with / develop your relationship to. Taking the metaphor of following ease off the mat and into practice.
CREATIVE PRACTICE - Making space for giving attention where we long to place it.
Joy by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash
TENDING TO JOY AS A BODILY EXPERIENCE
28th July 2022
COACHING - Tracking sap rising... Where is joy? How do we embody it? Is it something we can learn to follow?
FELDI - Developmental movement for experiencing the simple pleasure of being in a body.
CREATIVE PRACTICE - Expression for it's own sake. Expression because we are not dead yet.
28th July 2022
COACHING - Tracking sap rising... Where is joy? How do we embody it? Is it something we can learn to follow?
FELDI - Developmental movement for experiencing the simple pleasure of being in a body.
CREATIVE PRACTICE - Expression for it's own sake. Expression because we are not dead yet.
Inner Universe by Some Tale on Unsplash
INNER ECOLOGY - TENDING TO YOUR INNER UNIVERSE
23rd June 2022
FELDENKRAIS - Inner Vision - Imagination as a bio-intelligent resource.
SOMATIC COACHING - Envisioning as nervous system resource. Working with Comprehensive Resource Model to connect to a supportive and helpful guide from a place of a supported nervous system.
CREATIVE PRACTICE - Vision boarding - tending to your inner life. Nourishing the connection.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A RECORDING OF THE FELDENKRAIS CLASS FROM THIS SESSION
23rd June 2022
FELDENKRAIS - Inner Vision - Imagination as a bio-intelligent resource.
SOMATIC COACHING - Envisioning as nervous system resource. Working with Comprehensive Resource Model to connect to a supportive and helpful guide from a place of a supported nervous system.
CREATIVE PRACTICE - Vision boarding - tending to your inner life. Nourishing the connection.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A RECORDING OF THE FELDENKRAIS CLASS FROM THIS SESSION
Ground by Joshua Woroneiki on Unsplash
EARTHING, GROUNDING - BEING ON, WITH and OF EARTH
26th May 2022
Coming to ground.
Being more grounded.
Earthed.
Rooted.
Nurturing rootedness.
Giving back to the earth.
On, with and of our Earth.
Remembering the ground beneath our feet.
Being resourced through the roots.
FELDI - Working with the unconditional support of the floor.
COACHING - Growing your own embodied metaphors for identifying your relationship with rootedness and exploring where you would like to feel more rooted.
CREATIVE PRACTICE - Growing an living dialogue with our living planet.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A RECORDING OF THE FELDENKRAIS CLASS FROM THIS SESSION
26th May 2022
Coming to ground.
Being more grounded.
Earthed.
Rooted.
Nurturing rootedness.
Giving back to the earth.
On, with and of our Earth.
Remembering the ground beneath our feet.
Being resourced through the roots.
FELDI - Working with the unconditional support of the floor.
COACHING - Growing your own embodied metaphors for identifying your relationship with rootedness and exploring where you would like to feel more rooted.
CREATIVE PRACTICE - Growing an living dialogue with our living planet.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A RECORDING OF THE FELDENKRAIS CLASS FROM THIS SESSION