Sarah-Jane Menato
Sunday 24th 4-6pm BST, Narratives of stumbling and dancing in the dark
This will be a reflective, interactive and powerful exploration of themes such as:
Sarah-Jane Menato will facilitate this two hour session. She works as a coach, facilitator, author and women’s leadership consultant. During the time together she will draw on her experience of working with ancient myth and archetypes as resources for our own current and stormy times. Greek myths were written at a time of transition, the collapse of an older world. Their themes of loss, tragedy and conflict seem prescient as well as ancient.
More information about Sarah-Jane: www.sjmcoachingandtraining.co.uk
Her book, “Ariadne’s Thread and The Myth of Happily Ever After” was published in July 2018.
- What might be possible if we step more fully into our own unique territory of embodied experience as women?
- How might gathering in circles of women sustain us in the challenges of “Being Woman in times of Radical Change”?
Sarah-Jane Menato will facilitate this two hour session. She works as a coach, facilitator, author and women’s leadership consultant. During the time together she will draw on her experience of working with ancient myth and archetypes as resources for our own current and stormy times. Greek myths were written at a time of transition, the collapse of an older world. Their themes of loss, tragedy and conflict seem prescient as well as ancient.
More information about Sarah-Jane: www.sjmcoachingandtraining.co.uk
Her book, “Ariadne’s Thread and The Myth of Happily Ever After” was published in July 2018.
Charlene Vincent
Wednesday 20th May 6-8pm BST, Nourishing with Self-Touch
Most of us have experienced some forms of restriction in our freedom to self-pleasure.
Furthermore our modern civilisation endorses that pleasure and its nourishment is to be found almost exclusively from outside ourselves.
The journey through conscious self-touch will serve to nurture and invite an infolding of intimacy, to attune us more deeply
to our very nature as pleasure itself.
Gentle guidance and open invitations will be given to invite you to slow down, to recognise and honour
any fluctuating needs and desires, whilst being guided by the creative presence of your body with its inherent delight.
In this tender, sensitive and sometimes playful inquiry, the emphasis is not to fix or heal but to meet the natural rhythms of subtle pleasure without imposition,
welcoming whatever is present as a delicious celebration of the wholeness and pleasure you most deeply are.
Note* Self-touch of the pelvic floor may be invited,
however internal touch will not be invited or guided during this session.
Charlene’s interest in Somatic Spirituality began 17 years ago when she became an apprentice to Godfrey Devereux;
pioneer and creator of Somatic intimacy, a spectrum of modalities based on the inherent intelligence of the body.
Deepening her interest in the natural healing ability of the body she completed a 2 year training in Craniosacral Biodynamics with Franklyn sills
and a post-graduate course ‘Facing the Core Wound’ with Charles Ridley.
To complement and enrich her skills in both Biodynamics and Somatic Tantra, she became certified in the Wheel of Consent by Betty Martin.
Having completed a Doula course with Natural Child birth pioneer Michel Odent,
she is also a certified Women’s Holistic Pelvic care™ therapist by founder Tami Lynn Kent.
Upon integration of all her trainings, Charlene created Primal Touch & Core Vitality to offer specialised & comprehensive sessions for both men and women.
Based in Denmark, together with her sister Melodie they host Radical ecology and Somatic intimacy retreats.
In these changing and troubled times, Charlene believes that intimacy with oneself and other/be it a person, the soil, a creature, animal or tree,
is the most direct and powerful way for each of us to know our pleasure nature, with its delight of deep loving peace as a limitless source of resilience and light to guide our way.
Furthermore our modern civilisation endorses that pleasure and its nourishment is to be found almost exclusively from outside ourselves.
The journey through conscious self-touch will serve to nurture and invite an infolding of intimacy, to attune us more deeply
to our very nature as pleasure itself.
Gentle guidance and open invitations will be given to invite you to slow down, to recognise and honour
any fluctuating needs and desires, whilst being guided by the creative presence of your body with its inherent delight.
In this tender, sensitive and sometimes playful inquiry, the emphasis is not to fix or heal but to meet the natural rhythms of subtle pleasure without imposition,
welcoming whatever is present as a delicious celebration of the wholeness and pleasure you most deeply are.
Note* Self-touch of the pelvic floor may be invited,
however internal touch will not be invited or guided during this session.
Charlene’s interest in Somatic Spirituality began 17 years ago when she became an apprentice to Godfrey Devereux;
pioneer and creator of Somatic intimacy, a spectrum of modalities based on the inherent intelligence of the body.
Deepening her interest in the natural healing ability of the body she completed a 2 year training in Craniosacral Biodynamics with Franklyn sills
and a post-graduate course ‘Facing the Core Wound’ with Charles Ridley.
To complement and enrich her skills in both Biodynamics and Somatic Tantra, she became certified in the Wheel of Consent by Betty Martin.
Having completed a Doula course with Natural Child birth pioneer Michel Odent,
she is also a certified Women’s Holistic Pelvic care™ therapist by founder Tami Lynn Kent.
Upon integration of all her trainings, Charlene created Primal Touch & Core Vitality to offer specialised & comprehensive sessions for both men and women.
Based in Denmark, together with her sister Melodie they host Radical ecology and Somatic intimacy retreats.
In these changing and troubled times, Charlene believes that intimacy with oneself and other/be it a person, the soil, a creature, animal or tree,
is the most direct and powerful way for each of us to know our pleasure nature, with its delight of deep loving peace as a limitless source of resilience and light to guide our way.
Laura Muskan
Monday 18th May 5.30-7.30pm BST
A deeper look at our pelvic anatomy with Laura Muskan
In this session we will have a deep look into the anatomy of the pelvis. To uncover a deeper intimacy with it.
We will journey through the pelvis via the bones and into the superficial and deep muscles. Through different practices we will get in touch with the sphincters and the front, back, left and right side of the vagina. You will learn about how to take care of your pelvic floor in daily life and will uncover a map for your own personal practice.
Laura Muskan.
I have been passionate about body intelligence and meditation from an early age.
20 years ago I travelled to India where I lived wildly for long periods. There, I got in touch with different teachers in yoga, meditation and self inquiry. Leaving in community and participating in woman circles, tantra, dance and Ayurvedic massage training . My interest in the world of woman took me to do the training as a doula in assotation of ‘mares doulas’ in Barcelona , with Liliana Lamber and Michel Odent , participating in several births since then.
In order to understand more deeply the body, I completed a 2 year training in Biodynamic craniosacral therapy in the institute of Barcelona. Here I learned to listen deeply to the body and feel the tides and fields.
Since 2013 i have been practicing, training and now teaching Dynamic Yoga/Somatice Awareness (Godfrey Devereux), I am deeply in love with this approach to consciousness, yoga and radical ecology.
I have participated in several courses of anatomy for movement with Blandine Calais-Germain, training in the method 'Perineum and Movement' 6 years ago. Since then I facilitate woman bringing awareness into the pelvic floor through personal sessions and workshops.
I give Craniosacral Biodynamic sessions and yoga from somatic awareness, combining all these paths in order to bring more love to our bodies and allowing the intelligence of consciousness be more present.
We will journey through the pelvis via the bones and into the superficial and deep muscles. Through different practices we will get in touch with the sphincters and the front, back, left and right side of the vagina. You will learn about how to take care of your pelvic floor in daily life and will uncover a map for your own personal practice.
Laura Muskan.
I have been passionate about body intelligence and meditation from an early age.
20 years ago I travelled to India where I lived wildly for long periods. There, I got in touch with different teachers in yoga, meditation and self inquiry. Leaving in community and participating in woman circles, tantra, dance and Ayurvedic massage training . My interest in the world of woman took me to do the training as a doula in assotation of ‘mares doulas’ in Barcelona , with Liliana Lamber and Michel Odent , participating in several births since then.
In order to understand more deeply the body, I completed a 2 year training in Biodynamic craniosacral therapy in the institute of Barcelona. Here I learned to listen deeply to the body and feel the tides and fields.
Since 2013 i have been practicing, training and now teaching Dynamic Yoga/Somatice Awareness (Godfrey Devereux), I am deeply in love with this approach to consciousness, yoga and radical ecology.
I have participated in several courses of anatomy for movement with Blandine Calais-Germain, training in the method 'Perineum and Movement' 6 years ago. Since then I facilitate woman bringing awareness into the pelvic floor through personal sessions and workshops.
I give Craniosacral Biodynamic sessions and yoga from somatic awareness, combining all these paths in order to bring more love to our bodies and allowing the intelligence of consciousness be more present.
Olivia Crooks
Each Saturday 8-9.45amBST , Somatic Awareness into Pleasure.
Sunday 10th 4-6pm & Sunday 31st 8-10am BST, Deep Attunment.
Somatic Awareness is based on slow, rhythmic movements, synchronised with the breath. Guided by sensitivity to sensation it cultivates somatic and behavioural pathways of love.
Deep Attunment is a facilitated sharing and listening.
Olivia Crooks (DynamicYoga senior trainer of teachers & Yoga Elder in the IYN) www.intimatbeing.com
I have been helping people through Somatic Self Enquiry for about 18 years. This began with teaching yoga, meditation and Tantra, and then training Teachers. Over time my work began to open and broaden from its traditional foundations in response to the multi-faceted challenges of being human in the 20th Century. More recently it has coalesced into the development and teaching of Radical Ecology. This is a practice based approach to being human based on deep intimacy with self and other. The somatic practices I use are all invitations to experience the presence of Wholeness and the deep support it offers to the individual. I am not a therapist, but the work I do has clear therapeutic effects. I am currently offering online classes and courses in: Somatic Awareness, Embodied Resilience and Women’s groups. I am inspired by the depths and power of human intelligence, its natural wisdom, compassion and generosity. My deepest commitment is to help people find security, safety and solidarity in this often daunting universe.
More about Olivia here..
Deep Attunment is a facilitated sharing and listening.
Olivia Crooks (DynamicYoga senior trainer of teachers & Yoga Elder in the IYN) www.intimatbeing.com
I have been helping people through Somatic Self Enquiry for about 18 years. This began with teaching yoga, meditation and Tantra, and then training Teachers. Over time my work began to open and broaden from its traditional foundations in response to the multi-faceted challenges of being human in the 20th Century. More recently it has coalesced into the development and teaching of Radical Ecology. This is a practice based approach to being human based on deep intimacy with self and other. The somatic practices I use are all invitations to experience the presence of Wholeness and the deep support it offers to the individual. I am not a therapist, but the work I do has clear therapeutic effects. I am currently offering online classes and courses in: Somatic Awareness, Embodied Resilience and Women’s groups. I am inspired by the depths and power of human intelligence, its natural wisdom, compassion and generosity. My deepest commitment is to help people find security, safety and solidarity in this often daunting universe.
More about Olivia here..