Workshops

All Workshops

The open-handed invitation of these pioneering workshops and coaching sessions is to come into co-respondence with the inspiration of life itself as it courses through us. They all share a common focus: working at your own pace to get in touch with the felt sense of your living body (soma), thereby developing a body-mind conversation and accessing the spontaneous and life-changing benefits this brings.

Within this overall approach, the formats each offer a slightly different emphasis, and the bespoke One-to-one Co-Creation sessions draw on the whole range of practices.

Coming to Our Senses and Recovering Connection emphasises sensory receptive awareness;
Dancing Freedom is about movement and dance as way into creative expression;
Touching Earth is an experiential realisation of connection and co-respondence with the wider natural world;
Embodied Visioning is about connecting with our felt sense of a future direction to guide our actions.

Workshops and Coaching

Working gently with the body, through sensing and moving practices, Somatic Health can be offered in a variety of contexts, and tailored to each unique situation – sometimes working with more than one modality. Below is a menu of the different formats through which we can explore this territory together. I’d love to hear from you if you’d like to schedule a session or workshop, or to discuss possible combinations.

Coming to Our Senses

Group workshops for anyone interested in beginning to connect and more deeply connect with the sensory language of their body. For stabilisation, rest, vitality and resilience from burnout and overwhelm. Offered as an introductory session and follow-on course of eight, two-hour workshops. Also as short, responsive sessions outside of regular workshop spaces.

Recovering Connection

Recovering Connection for groups in recovery from all kinds of addiction. To safely meet the challenges and thrive within a community of practice. Offered as an introductory session with follow-on course of eight, two-hour workshops.

Touching Earth: Tuning-in to the Movement of Life

Group workshops growing your experiential realisation of the body as a direct experience of the natural world.

One-to-one Co-creation

Led by you, the client, these ninety-minute one-to-one sessions invite a collaboration where the client and facilitator work creatively together in awakening awareness of the human body.

Embodied Visioning

For those wanting to explore a vision of their future by connecting to their somatic felt sense – that is intrinsically trusted, meaningful and clear to the body itself. Exploring the link between embodiment, awareness, and social systems. Half-day group workshops.

Dancing Freedom

For those looking to expand their physical, creative and communicative expression through playful and meaningful dance improvisation and contact improvisation sessions (we will be clear about invitations to engage in physical contact in our course descriptions). Sessions for adults and children. Offered as an introductory session with follow-on course of four more indoor group workshops. Also offered as one-day workshops and outdoor workshops.

What People Say. True Testimonials.

Enjoyment

‘This is the best experience. I love it’ (S)

‘I can’t say how fantastic this is. It is beyond fascinating’ (B)

‘Apart from being with my children this is my very favourite part of the week’ (J)

Feeling of Body Connection

‘I’m starting to connect to my body for the first time’ (G)

Embodied Visioning

‘The clarity of the visual and gesture that came from Embodied Visioning is still of great value to me now, a year later – I have fully embodied it – it has become part of me and has walked me forward into so much newness in my life’ (Sarah N D)

Understanding the Body-Mind Connection

‘I’m coming to understand that the mind and body don’t function in isolation but in tandem – each informs the other, they are in constant communication’ (H)

‘I learn more about my whole self. I value this time – I’ve denied myself body time. I’m realising that for years I have ignored my body and my mind’s ability to work with it. I am grateful, in no state of need and full of positive expectation’ (J)

Understanding Me Just As I Am

‘Jenny has done more to help me understand and unlock the depths, subtleties and aliveness of my body, through our body work and somatic sessions, than any other practitioner I’ve ever worked with.

Jenny’s humanity and deep commitment to understanding me just as I am in that very moment, comes through every time we work together.

Jenny’s breadth of life experience, skills and talents means she can move in an instant in almost any direction with ease, spontaneity, creativity and presence’ (abie)

– One to One Co-Creation

Healing Shock by Bringing Past and Present Together

‘Jenny has a unique way of connecting people to what deeply matters to them. I could feel the hurt in my body, name it and locate that with the confusion in my mind. I could link what was happening in the present to what had happened in the past.

It put something back into my hands because I had connected to the source of it and got some level of balance again.

I had a desperate need to understand and this unique approach brought me into the zone so that I could safely explore the magnitude of what had happened. I could manage the hurt because I knew what it was.

This is a unique way of helping me to make sense of a difficult situation’ (L)

– One to One Co-Creation

Body as a Source of Relief

‘I felt so safe’ (S)

‘I realised how much more of me there is, unconsciously giving me relief, versus the part of me identifying with the addiction’ (JE)

‘When the word REST was said, in relation to my knee: the restriction I had placed on my body to be well was released, multiple muscle sets released and the body suddenly felt more at peace with itself.

It just hadn’t occurred to me before, as a real tangible option, that I and my knee could have a direct communication as a way of healing. Over time my knee became my friend as I could recognise when I was pushing it and myself too hard or when my body was up for challenging itself more.

This placed the whole recovery process firmly back into mine and my body’s hands. The results were a fast rate of recovery which I hadn’t found through physiotherapy and pain relief medication’ (Re)

Contact Info

Phone

+44 (0) 7387 904467

jenny@somatichealth.org

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