Have you heard of poo shock? Maybe you have experienced it! It’s when you go on holidays and can’t poo for days! Or maybe you get a sudden case of gremlin fatigue on holidays? Or you just can’t sleep a wink! Holidays are meant to be relaxing but they are not always!
Read MoreEver felt stuck in a rut? In the upright position, we are habituated in our personalities, and habituated in the way we are engaged in the world. When we lie down, all of that falls away. We surrender to gravity and we give up those habituated patterns and enter a state where our mind and muscles are in more of a blank slate space.
Read MoreGrounding need not be a to-do list, a series of precisely controlled actions, and it definitely need not be a prefrontal cortical activity. Because grounding is simply the truth of being human on planet earth. Grounding is a noun. Whether we want it or not, we are grounded, it is an undeniable truth.
Read MoreThe Parasympathetic Nervous System is such a delightfully noisy nervous system. It's not loud like the cheering, peacocking sympathetic but it is a wonderful witchy pot of gorgeous gurgles and hissing.
Read MoreBeing an audience member brings me so much joy. Watching students in their final showcase, in their debut with a company, finding their 'voice' with a new work, or when they move onto the BIG arena. But it also makes me reflect on how I often feel like an audience member to my own life.
Read MoreEvolutionarily the voice is one of our most precious assets for communication and, in times of need, protection. We whisper, laugh, cry, sing, gasp, shout and scream in relation to the needs of the moment. As a singer, teacher or performer we use our voice to communicate each day and yet at times, our voice can fail us, particularly when the stakes are high, or when we’re so frightened or overwhelmed we literally cannot speak.
Read MoreMaybe you know this already, but I didn't and if you're a naturalist 'beaver' like me ;) and don't know how to tell the time with rainbows I have a story that links rainbows with Moshe's understanding of how 'we think with our bodies'.
Read MoreMoshe consistently stated that our experience and expression of all emotions, including anger, can be traced back to our earliest stages of development and “the earliest interaction of the child with the external world is entirely physical and therefore, associated or linked with muscular and postural patterns.” (The Potent Self, p82)
Read MoreRead MoreWe said goodbye to the home both my children were born in and the only home they have ever known. I said goodbye to the home I became a mother in, the place where my whole life changed, where I changed. And I said goodbye to the memories of struggle and learning and love that is motherhood.
Contemporary dance uses core stability in the same ways as every dance style: for alignment, balance, co-ordination, precision and centring, but in contemporary dance we also use core mobility for things like spirals, suspensions, falling, off-balance turns and partnering work (both men and women).
Read MoreNervous System Harmony is a workshop series that gives you all you need to know on your Autonomic Nervous System. Part 1 is a somatic educational lecture. Part 2 is somatic practice and application. There is one shorter follow up video to Part 1. Enjoy :)
Read MoreThis Somatic Exploration is drawn from Feldenkrais and Embodied Consent practices. Look around your house for some fascinating objects and then find a quiet, warm and comfortable place to sit. And dive deep into your senses.
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