How to induce/invite/direct/support/seduce/support movement as a vehicle for fluidity, shadow work, release, acceptance and growth.

You will be taught how to use a very particular frame:
Focus – Breath – Movement – Rhythm – Space

In order to embody and invite our innate capacities for:

Centering
Grounding
Midline movement on the horizontal and vertical planes
Rising and Falling
Releasing
Acceptance

In each of these resources, you will be taken through experiential study, exercises, explanations and explorations for you to embody and develop in your own teaching.

You will be asked to create your own scores (plans/maps) for offering to others.
You will be guided in the use or non-use of music/sound to assist access to these resources.
You will be encouraged to use your own creative interests or experience to use in your facilitation e.g writing/drawing/art therapy/gestalt/mask work.
You will have direct experience of teaching your fellow trainees as a training ground and receive hands on reflections and feedback from Cathy and Nele.
You will be asked to run at least five sessions outside the holding of the training before you graduate.

Everything we do, act on and relate to as humans, resonates with a layers of the body’s anatomy.

Each anatomical layer is a gateway and is connected to specific emotions, thought patterns and a creative intelligence and spirit. Each layer has a different connection to earth and environment. By offering movement through the knowledge of these layers and becoming aware of these processes in the background, we support the dancers to realise the full potential in the dance and real life. This work, Bodyspirit, has been developed and created by Nele and Kurt (her husband).

Resources for working with emotional landscapes that may turn up for people – what do you do if someone on your floor freezes/fights/wants to leave? This is not a trauma training though we will be giving you tools and support for working with a range of what may turn up for your students as they move and travel through their histories and stories.

You will be shown how to open up the moving body to working with emotional energies in a held and boundaried way – we will look at fear, anger, sadness, joy, surprise and disgust – both the shadows and the healing power inherent in these fields.

You will have an embodied understanding of the Window of Presence and how to see it in the room and your own lives.

You will be asked to take one of these emotional landscapes, delve deep and come up with your own creative moment project on how you would facilitate and bring it to a group.

How to hold ritual and ceremonial space – out on the land and inside spaces.

You will receive a basic shamanic map for working with the elements, creating both boundaries and a field or container for prayer and healing work.

The nature of your creativity and how you can harness it in your role as facilitator.

You will be asked to utilise different creative parts of yourself – perhaps you’re a writer/a cook/a hiker/an artist/ a mathematician/an architect – and examine how this part of you may feed into holding space for others. You will be introduce to a variety of leaders in different fields who will come and talk about their work – their passion and their why, their soul work.

We will look at the art of presence, listening and noticing. What can you see and sense in a moving body and how might you articulate it as a facilitator. How does witnessing and being witnessed enable a sense of becoming, a sense of essence or true nature.