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Many dance, exercise and mindful movement classes instruct you how to move, where to place your body parts and what you are trying to achieve in these positions. My approach guides you, but is less about following my instructions and more about following your body. 

My practice integrates lineages of authentic movement and experiential anatomy. In my all my groups I will guide you to feel where your body is, focus your attention in places or processes in your body and encourage you to feel your body senses coming alive to your attention. Thus your unique body will offer you inner guidance from your body senses as to how to place your body in the space and how or whether to move or not.

The skill and learning is how to unlearn the conditioning that tells you how you should look, move, conform to the norm. The adventure is in becoming more natural, more authentic and embodied which can increase your confidence, creativity and freedom from conditioning in your body.

Resource yourself and explore embodiment at a weekly class; focus on an aspect of applied embodiment at a more specialist workshop; embark on an embodied education course that will take you deeper into knowing your body as you.

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Weekly Classes

Body Mind Movement Journeys

A weekly 2 hour retreat from our disembodied culture… a facilitated space to connect within your primary physical home on this Earth: your own body mind. This class may tempt you if you seek a practice for more ‘inner’ connection to yourself and your body. Also if you are a mover or dancer the class can help you to slow down, sense and integrate more subtle intelligence in your body. You may also be drawn if you know you want to live and learn more in your body intelligence but struggle to make time and space to connect to your body and health in meaningful ways.

Time: 7-9pm
Cost: Gift economy £5-20.00 for the session to cover venue and creation costs. (Max group size 8 people.)
Venue: Octoportal, Deer House, Park Road, Stroud GL52JF
About: In part guided meditation to open your connection with your body; in part your own emergent movement time guided by your attunement to sensation, sometimes with music. Over a series of sessions, Mari guides you through diverse physiological pathways within your nervous system via physiological structures, fluid and energy movement to sense and express from your bodymind. Each particular pathway leads you ‘home’ in very unique yet interconnected qualities of Being and Knowing.

Body Mind Movement Journeys are designed and informed by my experience of facilitating embodiment groups, are trauma informed and inspired by Linda Hartley’s integrative body and movement therapy. I welcome and hold space for difference within a shared context of experience in your body and believe that our differences when shared enrich us all. I’m happy to share more about this and any aspect of the classes if you enquire.

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Workshops

Workshops can be introductory or more in-depth, and they are opportunities to discover, deepen and broaden your connection to your living anatomy. 

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Awakening Contact Movement – Saturday 1 April 2023  – with Mari Winkelman & Sophie Marsh

I tailor my workshops and collaborations to the interests of those who will attend, and can adapt the time and focus given to experiential anatomy, movement, creative and reflective processes and discussion time, depending on how experienced people are.

Please contact me if you would like me to offer an embodied living workshop for a group you are part of or to contribute to a programme you are coordinating with other workshops.

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Courses

I run shorter and longer courses which allow for a supportive group and ongoing enquiry to become the foundation for your embodied learning. 

Fallow Body – a seven week closed group series on Zoom and in Nature near you. Nature and Culture want to influence us in the living fabric of our bodymind. The series supports you to explore and relate with both in guided journeys and personal enquiry. Click here to read more about the intention of the closed group series. 

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Contact me to find out more ~ I offer a free 20 minute consultation. You can also scroll down to subscribe to my mailchimp email listings and to visit my Facebook group to find out what I’m up to!