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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. These circles are facilitated by Rachel with the occasional visiting special guest. 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
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A Splendid Offer -
If you are not already signed up to Rachel's mailing list, you can do so below and we'll send you a code for
10% off one of the upcoming workshops!
More details about the workshops below.
My mailing list is a place we share discounts to courses and classes that aren't offered elsewhere on t'internet. It is also a place where we introduce you to people who's work is bringing us alive at the moment - always on the theme of being in a living body in a living system.
The vibe is Nourishment and the bringing of Aliveness and we take care to mail you sparingly.
Realistically, that means roughly once a month (if we are organised...).
If you are not already signed up to Rachel's mailing list, you can do so below and we'll send you a code for
10% off one of the upcoming workshops!
More details about the workshops below.
My mailing list is a place we share discounts to courses and classes that aren't offered elsewhere on t'internet. It is also a place where we introduce you to people who's work is bringing us alive at the moment - always on the theme of being in a living body in a living system.
The vibe is Nourishment and the bringing of Aliveness and we take care to mail you sparingly.
Realistically, that means roughly once a month (if we are organised...).
Upcoming dates below:
Joy by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash
TENDING TO JOY AS A BODILY EXPERIENCE
28th July 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
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.
Morning Flow:
A mini ritual and a sharing.
A Feldenkrais lesson.
morning tea
A sharing.
A group somatic coaching experience.
A creative process.
A sharing.
Close.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 28TH JULY
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 3 WORKSHOPS FOR £90
28th July 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
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.
Morning Flow:
A mini ritual and a sharing.
A Feldenkrais lesson.
morning tea
A sharing.
A group somatic coaching experience.
A creative process.
A sharing.
Close.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 28TH JULY
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 3 WORKSHOPS FOR £90
~ AUGUST is a SUMMER BREAK ~
CULTIVATING ATTENTION AS A GENERATIVE ACT
22nd September 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
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.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 22ND SEPTEMBER
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 3 WORKSHOPS FOR £90
22nd September 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
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.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 22ND SEPTEMBER
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 3 WORKSHOPS FOR £90
Butterfly by Arun Clarke on Unsplash
ADAPTATION - THE MEDICINE OF BEING ABLE TO SHIFT SHAPE
27th October 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
Being visible when you want.
Being heard when you want.
Disappearing when you want.
Field / distance viewing.
Transitioning between private and public selfhoods.
And how to apply these tools with integrity.
COACHING PART 1 - Identifying our preferences.
Function / dysfunction & longings.
FELDI - Your brilliant, neuro-plastic brain! - how adaptation is deeply woven into our bio-mechanics and species knowing. A simple lesson for revealing this principle experientially.
COACHING PART 2 - Actor training tools for identifying these different embodied states and beginning to work with them as tools rather than simply being states that 'happen' to us.
CREATIVE PRACTICE - identifying places in your daily life where you could play the game of your choice.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 27TH OCTOBER
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 3 WORKSHOPS FOR £90
27th October 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
Being visible when you want.
Being heard when you want.
Disappearing when you want.
Field / distance viewing.
Transitioning between private and public selfhoods.
And how to apply these tools with integrity.
COACHING PART 1 - Identifying our preferences.
Function / dysfunction & longings.
FELDI - Your brilliant, neuro-plastic brain! - how adaptation is deeply woven into our bio-mechanics and species knowing. A simple lesson for revealing this principle experientially.
COACHING PART 2 - Actor training tools for identifying these different embodied states and beginning to work with them as tools rather than simply being states that 'happen' to us.
CREATIVE PRACTICE - identifying places in your daily life where you could play the game of your choice.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 27TH OCTOBER
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 3 WORKSHOPS FOR £90
THE MYTHIC IMAGINAL - SPIRIT, IMAGINATION & THE LIVING WORLD
Being a Bridge Between The Ordinary and The Extraordinary
24th November 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
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 SIGN UP FOR 24TH NOVEMBER
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 3 WORKSHOPS FOR £90
Being a Bridge Between The Ordinary and The Extraordinary
24th November 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
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 SIGN UP FOR 24TH NOVEMBER
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR 3 WORKSHOPS FOR £90
~ DECEMBER is a WINTER BREAK ~
Past Sessions:
Inner Universe by Some Tale on Unsplash
INNER ECOLOGY - TENDING TO YOUR INNER UNIVERSE
23rd June 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
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.
23rd June 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
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.
Ground by Joshua Woroneiki on Unsplash
EARTHING, GROUNDING - BEING ON, WITH and OF EARTH
26th May 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
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.
26th May 2022 - 10am to 12:30pm (UK time)
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.