What to expect
SATURDAY SOMATICS
Reclaiming the joy of being in the body
Saturday Somatics
Reclaiming the joy of being in the body
Exploring how we can develop our inner sensory awareness & experience greater ease and presence in the moment
Thankyou for our session yesterday. It was gentle and peaceful. 14th June 2025
Lovely to do your workshop on Saturday, a quiet rainy morning, so peaceful in the studio with you holding the space. 22nd July 2023
Thank you for today, lovely work in a lovely sunlit space! 7th October 2023
Saturday Somatics
Reclaiming the joy of being in the body
6th September 2025: 10.30am - 1pm
4th October 2025: 10.30am - 1pm
8th November 2025: 10.30am - 1pm
6th December 2025: 10am - 4pm
giving and receiving from a somatics perspective
Caddaford Barns Studio, Devon, UK
Fees by donation
In these workshops we will take time to slow down and experience how we can recover greater ease and comfort in our daily movement activities, breathing & rest.
Working at a slow and gentle pace we will explore simple movements in lying, sitting, standing and walking. The workshops include floor-based exercises and hands on touch upon ourself and sometimes in partners.
Through gaining greater sensory awareness within we can discover for our self how we can function with greater pleasure and vitality in our body-mind.
Our body's are rich with millions of sensory receptors informing us of how we move; with how much effort, with how much breath, how much tension, how much comfort. How can we become more sensitively aware of this innate inner intelligence?
6th September: Rosalyn Maynard BMCA
4th October: Sarah Gray *
8th November: Rosalyn Maynard BMCA
6th December: Rosalyn Maynard BMCA
* Sarah Gray will be joining the teaching team for Saturday Somatics starting in October. She has been assisting and participating in this workshop programme since it began in 2013 and also teaches on the courses at SOEL since 2018.
Sarah says: In this workshop we will explore our felt relationship to ground, gravity, and space through rest, gentle movement and simple touch enquiries informed by how we receive ourselves in each unfolding moment.
Saturday Somatics is practical community workshop programme offered at SOEL since 2013. These workshops are for the mind & body and are based on each of us discovering for our self how we can pay attention easefully to our day to day activates such as walking, eating, speaking, cleaning our teeth, holding a child’s hand, planting a seed - to become more conscious and to learn from it.
There are no prerequisites just patience and a love of exploring.
...we learn from ourselves...
"Living has nothing to do with methods. We learn from ourselves…from little children, or from growing plants what living means. And in this way we learn something that comes directly from nature rather than what is in text books or advertised as the new technique. Coming together, being together, getting in contact with each other and having sensitive connection to what we are doing…has nothing to do with techniques…there is something very sacred about nature and the nature of things."
Charlotte Selver.
TESTIMONIALS
Vivian
During my sessions with Ros, of which dialogue is a key and enjoyable part alongside practice, and while practicing and reflecting on my own after the sessions, I have learned a number of things about my habits and history - both in terms of movement, and in terms of patterns of thought. My view is that somatic practice is indispensable for leading a healthy, balanced life with more confidence in and knowledge about what supports that life (what is good for you, both physically and emotionally).
Freda
The style of teaching and attitude of the teachers was what really impacted on me. I felt rejuvenated, able to distinguish between head and body as opposed to living mainly from my head and therefore the majority of the time not being physically at ease.
This was amazing as it reminded me of how things can be and that one doesn't have to become stuck in head mode!!
Tiffany
I find that Ros's workshops give me a sustained toolkit of practical things that I can do and change to improve my physical and emotional circumstances whilst at the same time, allowing ailments to simply 'be' and pass.
Ros is part of a very important second wave generation of 'somatic' practice, and it is incredibly fortunate that she is based in the South West, let alone locally to us in Devon