Date/Time
Date(s) - 31/05/2025 - 01/06/2025
All Day
Categories
Expanding & Contracting: a Workshop
Breathe in
Pause
Breathe Out
Our bodies are in constant motion between opening and closing.
Our heartbeat,breath, and the way we relate to others and our
world all depend on this motion.
In times of challenge, we may have difficulty connecting with our vitality, flow, creativity and resilience. We may feel a stuckness in contraction or expansion.
In this weekend workshop, we will explore our current movement patterns, engaging with Gestalt–based body awareness and Developmental Movement sequences. We will include connecting with nature in outdoor spaces along with natural voice experiences.
In this liminal space, we will look at how we are connecting with life’s mysterious ‘dance’ at this never-before-experienced moment in our lives …
“Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
You would be paralysed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
The two as beautifully balanced
and coordinated
as birds’ wings.”
Rumi
When: Sat 31st May, 2pm-7pm & Sun 1st June, 10-5pm.
What: Facilitated 2-day workshop, including work individually, in pairs, and as a group Where: The Pavilion, Bradburns Lane, Hartford, Northwich, CW8 1LU(non-residential)
How much: £185. (Bursaries available)
With whom: Shirley Summers & Mungo Dalglish (bios below)
Places are limited so contact mungo.dalglish@gmail.com or Shirley at: movinggestalt@gmail.comto book
and have a chat about what draws you to the workshop.
BIOS
Shirley has been working with body-oriented therapies for over
forty years. Her core work is based in Gestalt Psychotherapy
and Developmental Movement. The depth of learning and
transformation that arises through increasing awareness and
acceptance of being-in-this-present-moment is what continues
to move and enliven her in her life and work. Lately Shirley has
been immersing herself in soul-making in nature, walking ever
more deeply into her own life through Vision Quest and the
Blessing Mirror. She now works in groups with the Way of
Council and is a student if Zen Buddhism.
Mungo is an explorer of body-mind-wild connection. Following a Degree in History (Leeds B.A.), he trained in bodywork (4Elements Massage, MFR UK), permaculture (Applewood Permaculture, Karuna), and nature-based rites of passage (WildWise, Wild Rites). In 2016 he co-founded Beech Hill: a 27-acre Natural Farming & Permaculture project in Cheshire where he tries to live in attentive, harmonious, and ceremonial relationship with self, other, land, and Mystery. His practices include spiritual ecology, contact improvisation, the way of Council, and Vipassana meditation.
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.