A great day with a colleague, working with Authentic Movement and IBMT bodywork. It was really valuable to practice: the clarity of defining and locating experience, sensory perception, and imagination – and being able to articulate and communicate this – for my own process and as a foundation for working with others. working at the […]
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Working with Touch
Working with a young child with Cerebral Palsy today, alongside a physio. Using touch, holding and movement to ease and release tight, contracted muscles. Tuning in, and finding ease. There’s a lot for me to learn here, in working with such a body and soul. The sensing and tuning in, to find ways to ‘work […]
Responding to Gravity
3 hours in the village hall. Moving drawing writing. Exploring the ‘Yield & Push’. This is one way of describing the degree to which we respond to gravity and receive support, and an early way we meet the ground. It involves how we engage with pushing away and feeling the support from the floor. The […]
Birth Imprints
A weekend of training – Looking at Somatic Psychology – the body psychology – of our birth process. Looking at a framework, a map, that describes the different stages of birth (Stanislav Grof’s Basic Perinatal Matrix). How the experience of being born, and the stages of being in the womb, contained, then constrained, then pushing, […]
Exploring Body, Mind & Emotion
Working in the studio yesterday exploring the themes of Body, Mind & Emotion, by moving, drawing and writing. Knowing that these 3 themes are connected to the 3 layers of cells in the early embryo that go on to form our muscles/bones, Nervous System, and guts. Movement explorations revealing images, and writing creating meaning. Rich […]