Course preview
This course is a guided experience, and you will be brought through six weeks of facilitated embodied learning. Each week, we open with guided grounding, then teaching and Q&A and exercise, then a group body poem, and integration with reflections to close. We will come together to connect with our bodies on every level, to return to the joy of the body. As there will be a group of participants, there will be clear agreements, fused by a shared intention. We will accelerate healing by observing one another’s journeys as mirrors of our own. Observing someone else provides a soft distance to see the patterns and problems being acting out in our own life. Through the course, you will step into somatic awareness, explore body-based practices, and observe the openings, shifts and releases they facilitate. It is a chance to begin a new way of relating to your body, creating new levels of intimacy and understanding, and creating an internal and external environment for it to flourish.
Course modules
An introduction to root us in a place of embodiment and connection through somatic practices. Start to unfold your unique experience of being in a body, in your body. Come to connect with your own self-created joy through the landscape of your body and find a new level of comfort in your body.
To trust our bodies and open to what feels good we must be willing to acknowledge our desires and more than that, to voice them. In this class we will discuss what obstructs desire-based action and create permission to please ourselves first. You will evaluate your joy ethics and unravel the beliefs that create your joyful (or joy-less) reality.
The body is a place of projection: self-worth, identity, capability. What associations do you have with your body and bodies in general? In this class we’ll explore how you categorise yourself and others, and how to build new associations.
Mindfulness-based pleasure is an untapped resource. In this class we will experience pleasure as way to positively change our body and mind.
An opportunity to confront body shame, conscious or unconscious to further unlock our ability to compassionately be with ourselves just as we are, which ironically frees us in a transformative way.
The amount of pleasure anyone can have in their life is infinite. Learn how to expand how much joy you can hold in your body through simple somatic practices. Attend ready to express yourself through your whole body.
