The First Stirrings of Spring - Feldenkrais, Free Movement & Ritual Envisioning for Imbolc
The First Stirrings of Spring Once Upon A Time You Were A Soft Little Seed - A Feldenkrais. Free Movement & Envisioning Workshop for IMBOLC. Co-creating the year ahead for 2024
Saturday 10th February 2024
9 - 12pm UK time / 10am EU
£50 / 45
It is Imbolc and the very first stirrings of life happening below the surface of things. The seeds are beginning to wake up and turn towards the light, curious about what the rest of the year might bring.
This is a perfect time to do some visioning of the year ahead.
Not so long ago, before you knew how to speak, you were like a soft little seed yourself. Full of curiosity, wonder and delight at the miracle of being in a brilliant little body. This time of year invites us back to that time.
It is rare for our fully grown adult bodies to remember they can explore with wonder, ease and softness, like we knew how to do many moons ago.
Something in you remembers...
How might it be to imagine into the year ahead together from this young, preverbal place in ourselves? How might it be to envision the year from the place of being ready to begin waking up into it?
We begin by getting cosy on the floor. Then you will be guided in some deliciously slow and gentle, exploratory movement. This is a lesson which tracks some primal developmental movement - movement from a time when you, yourself were a soft, stirring little seed. Then after a break, there's a sharing circle, followed by a guided somatic ritual for envisioning this moment in the year and how it is inside you - feeling (not thinking) your way into your intentions. Then you will be invited to move that vision into physical expression. Finally we will all settle into cultivating our visions for the year ahead via collage and drawing, completing with another share at the end.
Workshop flow:
9 - 10am - Feldenkrais lesson
10 - 10.10 - Morning tea break
10.10 - 10.20 - Sharing
10.20 - Imbolc Somatic Ritual into expressive movement.
10.45 - Envisioning 2024 - collage time
11.30 - Sharing & First steps.
12.00 - Close
(times will vary according to numbers)
You will need:
For the whole thing:
- The internet
- A private space to work
- A candle (optional - for ritual purposes)
For the movement:
- A matt on the floor with a blanket on top.
- Comfortable clothes you can move in.
- Layers for warmth
- Space to move
For the Ritual & Envisioning process:
- Magazines to cut up.
- Scissors, Glue, pens, paints, art materials
- Something to collage onto (large paper /sketchpad / cardboard)
Everyone who signs up receives the recording of the whole session as video and audio. You also get downloadable copies of all the individual guided practices to keep and revisit.
If you have any questions about it, email me here.
For the concession price use the code FELDITREAT at check out.
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