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Workshop Announced – 25th Jan 2017 – Preston
Movement Resources for Reflective Practice Wednesday, 25th January 2017, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm UCLAN, Preston. Fee: £30 (£25 UCLan Graduates) Book here. Open to all dancers, movement practitioners, bodyworkers, therapists, and those with an interest in how our bodies and movement support our work in the field of health and wellbeing. How do you reflect on the […]
Info for Dads
We’ve had quite a few new Dads join us over recent months, so I wanted to include some links to some earlier blogs I’d written that might be of interest. In early months of the group I wrote up some of the sessions and summarised some of the information I’d mentioned, so I include the […]
Rock & Roll Dads November
Visited the ‘Weigh & Play’ session at Daisy Play Centre this morning, talking to parents about Rock & Roll Dads – Our November Session is happening this coming Saturday 5th November. Looking forward to welcoming the Dads I met this morning.
Artist Workshop
All set for running the Workshop for Artists today – linking our body resources to our creative process. The chance to share some of my art & images, words & writing that support the way I work with others creatively and therapeutically.
Birthlight
Light in Water – Birthlight International Conference – Cambridge Listening to presenters from around the world telling inspiring stories from their work as scientists, midwifes, marine biologists, swim teachers, Birthlight tutors, yoga teachers and Occupational Therapists. Hearing how their work informs the fields of water birth, water parenting and baby swimming. There’s lots I could […]
Book Review – Kids Beyond Limits
Anat Baniel – Kids Beyond Limits (2012) Pedigree I’d like to recommend this book to anyone who’s involved in supporting the development of others, particularly children with developmental delay or other special needs. I was recommended it by a colleague who had heard about my Somatic Movement Therapy work with children. Having read it, I wanted […]
Digital Human
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nnnlf Interesting listening to this programme about technology and the body, and the use of ‘body as machine’ metaphor. As someone working with the body and our emotional, psychological selves, I’m interested in how one affects the other. This comes to mind reading about working with children with special needs, and not trying to ‘fix’ […]
Creating Memories – Rock & Roll Dads
Rock & Roll Dads This Saturday – 2nd April 2016 Looking forward to the session at Totnes Children’s Centre, 10.30am – 12. As well as time to hang out with other Dads & Male Carers and their babies, I’ll bring along some props again to play with. We’ll revisit the simple framework of how your babies […]
Rock & Roll Dads Start the New Year
Rock & Roll Dads Starts the New Year. As well as the usual safe, clear space to roll around and explore, each month I want to share some aspect of infant movement development. My aim is simply to enable parents to notice and celebrate all that is going on in their baby. We tend to view their movement as, […]
Rock & Roll Dads – What’s on in Feb
Rock & Roll Dads next session is this Saturday, 6th Feb. As well as the usual time to play, I’ll be sharing a simple framework of how babies movement is organised. There are a handful of key themes, that if you know them, you can then spot these change and evolve in your baby. […]
It’s all about the Nervous System
Rock & Roll Dads Starts the New Year. Looking forward to our next session on Feb 6th 2016. At our January session, 3 new Dads joined us, and one Dad-to-be called in at the end to say hello, and hopes to come along in future months. As well as the usual safe, clear space […]
Workshop at MARJON Uni.
I ran a session today for the 3 year groups of the BA (Hons) Children’s Physical Education course, at The University of St Mark & St John, in Plymouth. I shared a Developmental Movement Map, of how children’s early movement patterns are built up as the nervous system develops. We looked at nervous system […]
Newsletter September 2015
As we begin the new term, here is an update since my last newsletter. Details include my Movement Therapy work in Early Years Education, and Fostering & Adoption; a new group for Dads; work with adults and teaching further afield. Work with Babies & Children In July I ended my work as a Child Support […]
Somatic Movement Gathering 2014
Bookings are now being taken for this years gathering in London – Nov 7th – 9th. I’m running a workshop, and leading an opportunity for men at the gathering to get together. Details can be found here: www.somatic-movement.org
Being with … silence, sound, sensory perception
At the weekend I went on a Dawn Quiet Walk, with Aunehead Arts and Tony Whitehead. Starting at 5.30am, we walked a short distance along the River Dart, near New Bridge. Light quickly came. Darkness fading, greyness growing, fading to colour, many shades of grey, blue and green. The multi-layered sounds of river, birdsong, planes, […]
Somatic Movement Gathering UK
I’m just back from attending this event – a gathering of 30 people with an interest in somatic movement work, in education, healing and therapy. A weekend of workshops to share what we do, and lots of conversations about how we offer this to the wider world. Very valuable to be with peers in the […]
the dialogue of contact
Contact Improv Jam – First one I’ve been to in a couple of months – and it was so good – the strong meeting place of the dance – a visceral meeting of 2 moving bodies, finding the pathways, the dialogue of contact, the commitment of the connection, the listening & responding, taking responsibility for ourselves, […]
Further Study – Reviewing Developmental Movement Patterns
Time in the studio today: reading, moving, drawing, writing. Exploring early movement patterns, and how these relate to my movement and sense of my body now, as an adult. Tracing connections of where the movement starts and allowing it to flow through all of my body. Reading about how these evolving movements are directly related […]