Embodied Knowing

Through  Movement/Dance,  Aware self touch, Breath sounds, felt-sense-attention , deep rest, and silence.

 Ongoing Closed Group  8 Week Cycle    

Attending the whole cycle is recommended

Facilitated by Marianne Gabriel

Where:  Bandon Town Hall.

Sundays 11am- 1pm. 

First Cycle of 8 weeks starts Sept 4th … second cycle of 6 weeks starts November 5th.

Cost:  20 euro per class if you sign up for 6 sessions altogether - 25 euro if you  pay individually for sessions.

Please book in advance www.mariannegabriel.com 

There are just 8 places.

* We begin the session by slowing down, exploring ways of arriving with the practice of Receptivity.  Here we discover and recover our own ground finding safe ways to arrive and yield to what is already here  

Sound Pathways:  Then there is a gentle guided vocalisation accompanying breath inviting the subtle micro-movement of breath throughout the body’s bone muscle, tissue and organ.

• This usually prepares the ground for moving /dancing through our elemental nature … we find our ground, our watery flow and our fierce and fiery nature leaving time and space for integration and open awareness where we follow our body’s natural movements and streaming.

• Another part of this practice is to ‘pause’ and come into deep listening.

• This ‘ deep listening’ or Open Awareness space which lengthens over time, whether we are lying, sitting, walking inside / outside as we follow our own rhythms and flow opening out int the larger field we are sharing with others allowing for the unfolding of the larger mystery we are participating in!!

• We encourage the freedom to discover who you are when you are not following instructions from outside. This practice is an inquiry into your own ’flowering’ as the guidance emerges through you. Now you are following your ’own stream’ cultivating a capacity to know and nourish yourself. We draw inspiration from the ancient wisdom of a natural yoga , mindfulness, Authentic Movement , Continuum, poetry and world music.

*Sometimes there is music, other times we move in the silence. The open Circle is offered in the spirit of Self-Enquiry, Respect, Kindness and Inclusion. 

Other aspects of this work are Art,  Nature and personal ritual.

**** No Experience necessary, just a willingness to move, allowing yourself to move and ‘be

Moving Meditation & Dance Space

Embodiment, Nourishment, Heart Space, Silence & Mystery

A series of 6 One Day Workshops.

We’re invited to sense and feel each part of the body as part of the whole body-mind. To let go into the simplicity of the next out-breath, awaiting the new life of in-breath, letting practice support us .... touching nature and each other .

We slow down, soften our bodies hearts and minds, reconnecting again with the kinesthetic delight of being in our own skin.

Moving is a powerful way of cultivating awareness of ourselves, each other and our environment. ... we continue to move and dance , to rest and inquire too  entering  a heart-embodied space for ourselves and each other.  

Come dance, imagine, sing, and dream together.

This movement practice is rooted in a felt-sense of a need to follow the body’s desire to move and thus allow its natural movement as a way of healing and retrieving the forgotten hidden and neglected parts.  Each morning there is a somatic practice, as well as creating a dance for personal pleasure returning to the ancient art of dance as prayer and offering.  Time too for a writing prompt, giving voice to our bodies through words and images.

Afternoons:  After a period of resting (relaxation) there is lots of time made for each of us to enter our natural movements remembering  "the mysterious animating flow that moves through every cell in the body and all life systems is the creative source" (Adler, J. McHose, 2013)       

Where: The Yoga Loft Cork

Dates: Saturdays, June 30th,

July 28th,

Sept 1st,

Oct 6th,

Nov 3rd,

Dec 1st 

Times 10-5 each day

Cost: €75  per day

10% reduction if you do all 6 days and pay for them together.

Intention: My intention is to create a safe space where we can feel more ease and space in our bodies, hearts & minds. .... slowing down to breathe a little deeper , let go , pause and through the wisdom of our felt-sense explore ways of re-connecting to our true and wild nature.