Wisdom Within the Womb

The Winter Series of Collaborative Somatic Practice is open to all adults
No prior experience necessary, although some prior experience in movement / body oriented practice will be helpful

During this series you will develop skills toward:

• Compassionate Presence
• Creative Processing
• Somatic Attunement
• Psyche & Soma Integration
• Intuitive Knowing
• Embodied Presence

These skills will support your existing professional practice alongside welcoming greater embodied presence in your daily life

What is Wisdom Within the Womb?

The embryo spirals into form through the first 8 weeks in utero. During this time there are key phases of development that can leave deeply rooted patterns in your being. These patterns impact the ways you gesture into life, beneath the level of everyday consciousness: through body, movement, perception and relationship to self and others.

We all have imprints of the earliest echoes of our development. They occupy spaces within us that predate verbal articulation and, even, nervous system development. These imprints inhabit a consciousness that is far more fluid and cellular than cerebral.

Wisdom Within the Womb explores these key stages of embryonic development through gentle somatic movement & dance, embodied rest, creative process & reflective practice.

We enter this territory through the wisdom of the sensing, feeling body. We seek to listen to what emerges: often awe struck by what emerges into relationship to be seen, to be met, to be held within the field of the embracing presence of adult consciousness. We learn to meet the past with presence, allowing a new story to emerge.

‘The wave function of a relived past moment overlaps with the wave function of now, and the two unite to form a new way forward.’ Zohar

As we explore these themes, we ground in our own inner resources: the places that root us within the present moment and bring their own sense of nurture, welcome, & connection.

This series will give space for a process of dreaming into being: for you to attune to what would like to be born through you, through shared practice and meaningful connection.

You will explore:

Session 1: Pre-Conception: Entering the Embryological field

Session 2: Conception: The Dance of Polarity, Union & Sacred Pause

Session 3: Implantation: Coming into relationship. Committing to Life

Session 4: Gesturing into Form: Streaming Cells & Fluid Rhythms

Session 5: Discovery: Bowing to the Field of the Heart

Session 6: Being Here: Authentic Movement as Integrative Practice

Why explore the journey of the unfurling embryo?

The gestures of the embryo offer rich ground for somatic exploration and psychological integration. This journey encompasses each of our own origin stories and will connect you with your emergent potential.

Tracking the organic process of the growing embryo can remember within you the lived experience of collaboration and sacred pause that serve to enliven clarity and reverence of being.

Cultivating space to explore somatic developmental themes through shared practice serves to remember interconnection with each other and within a far wider field.

Remembering the power and re-patterning potential of orienting toward support affirms the existence and accessibility of a radically compassionate inward presence, in the here and now.

Falling in love with the joy of being in your own body invites an interplay with presence: the emergence of a way of being where the field of your heart finds resonance with the grit and beauty of all of life.

This series is for you if you are seeking to deepen your existing practice through an immersive relational approach integrating psyche and soma.

Time:
10am- 12.30pm

January: 14th & 28th, February: 11th & 25th
March: 11th & 25th

Place: Caddaford Barn Studio, TQ11 0JT

Investment:
Standard rate: £150
Supporter rate: £180
Concession rate: £135 (limited number of concession places available for those in jar 4 of the green bottle sliding scale. See here )

Committed Group. Small Size

About Hayley Nettle:

Hayley is a Trauma-Responsive Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator (ISMETA), Somatic Experiencing ® trainee, Yoga Therapist and Yoga Elder (Yoga Teachers Together), with 22 years (since 2004) of experience facilitating body-oriented approaches within diverse settings. She is committed to nurturing an approach to relational somatic practice grounded in attuned presence, embodied listening, playful curiosity and reciprocity with the living world. The somatic lineages that inform her practice are rooted in dance, healing and mystical traditions.

Hayley is currently training in Somatic Experiencing ®, alongside participating in the Circles of Four programme, the official pathway to teach the Discipline of Authentic Movement.

If you love the sound of this series and think it may be supportive for you, but feel that you would struggle to regulate your own experience within a group and would need individual attention, please contact Hayley to discuss Collaborative Somatic Therapy sessions, where we can weave working with somatic developmental psychology and trauma-responsive somatic practice into a tailored environment where you can receive the individual support you need.Please visit my website for other offerings

Green Bottle Sliding Scale: See here for more information

Cancellation Policy:
Bookings are refundable, less a £40 admin fee, within 30 days prior to the first session (please contact Hayley directly to arrange - hayleynettlesomatics@gmail.com . Bookings are non-refundable within this 30 day period.
Bookings are non-transferrable onto other courses. Booking your ticket implies agreement to this cancellation policy.

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