WHY WORK WITH THE BODY-MIND?

BEFRIENDING

a 1-day Dance of Awareness   workshop ​

 

'Stop trying to heal yourself, fix yourself, even awaken yourself. Let go of letting go... Instead, bow deeply to yourself as you actually are. Your pain, your sorrow, your doubts, your deepest longing, your fearful thoughts are not mistakes, and they aren't asking to be healed. They are asking to be held. Here, now, lightly, in the loving arms of present awareness.'

- Jeff Foster

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We reach out to others when they need help but what do we do with parts of ourselves that are in need of support? In this workshop, we will enquire how can we befriend ourselves?  How can we relate to our painful feelings, fearful thoughts and habitual patterns with curiosity, openness and kindness? 

We will move our way through the Dance of Awareness cycle (Sensing, Grounding, Expressing, Releasing, Connecting and Completing) to connect with ourselves and others, cultivating our ability to stay present with emotions felt in the body. Using the medium of dance and movement to create more spaciousness and awareness around our automatic reactions, we will practise counteracting the tendency to judge and push away what feels uncomfortable, and learn to stay with and befriend all that we are experiencing.

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Future date to be confirmed

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