Moving Stories - for women
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Sat 20th Feb 2027
2:30pm – 5:30pm GMT (UTC +00:00)
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The Hands On Retreat & Hands On Skincare, The Hands On Retreat, Newton Abbot, UK |
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https://dandelion.events/e/t1iyj |
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Devon School for Embodied Therapy
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| Enquiries to | info@embodiedtherapy.org.uk |
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Moving Stories is a new open group for women, where we give the body the opportunity to tell its story through words and movement. The first one (on 20th Feb) is a taster session with the intention of creating a regular monthly group. We begin with an opening circle, and then move into the Dance of Awareness* cycle, using guided somatic awareness, embodied movement exercises, breathwork and free expression through dance and movement. We end with an integrating closing circle.
The body speaks not only of the immediacy of the moment, but of past body-held memories. In Moving Stories, we give the body the opportunity to move with and through the unique stories it holds, embodying and bringing awareness to early movement patterns and ways of relating. How does the body tell its story? We start off with what is already there, what is taking your attention, presenting itself in the moment. The body already knows... of what is on the move, what is stuck, what wants to be seen and of what wants to stay hidden. We uncover the new and rediscover the familiar, we repeat patterns, we take shape, we follow our flow. And then we return to the circle, to a place where the mind can begin to reflect on the movement experience. We sit, we talk, we listen to others, we stay silent... together. And as we weave together our individual stories, they may inter-weave with others’ stories.
As we re-discover and re-experience lost and forgotten aspects of ourselves, it makes way for new possibilities to come into being. There’s always something new and interesting that happens… Come and be part of it!
*Dance of Awareness is a therapeutic group movement practice grounded in psychodynamic theory and developmental psychology.
The group is facilitated by Clare Osbond (Dance Movement Psychotherapist) who has 23 years of facilitating somatic awareness and movement groups. There will be a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 10 participants.
This workshop is open to all women, regardless of movement experience, wellness or fitness level.