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