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
Saturday Somatics
Reclaiming the joy of being in the body
18th May 2024: 10.30am - 1pm
15th June 2024: 10.30am - 1pm
13th July 2024: 10.30am - 1pm
In these workshops we take time to slow down and explore how we can recover greater sensory awareness in our daily movement activities, breathing & rest through guided exercises and movement activities.
Working at a slow and gentle pace we are guided through simple movement explorations including floor-based exercises to discover for our self how we can function with greater ease and vitality.
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 do we know? How can we become sensitively aware to this innate inner intelligence?
Teaching: Rosalyn Maynard BMCA
Assisting: tbc: 18th May 2024
tbc: 15th June 2024
tbc: 13th July 2024
Lovely to do your workshop on Saturday, a quiet rainy morning, so peaceful in the studio with you holding the space. 22nd July 2023
Thanks you for today, lovely work in a lovely sunlit space! 7th October 2023
Thank you for a wonderful session on Saturday. I’m so glad I came. 22nd July 2022
Saturday Somatics
Giving & Receiving from a somatics perspective
9th December 2023: 10am - 4pm
How sensitively can we act in our relationships with ourself and each other? How much do we receive? How much do we give?
In this workshop we will take time to be quiet & comfortable through guided movement activities exploring how we feel in the acts of giving and receiving through our sense of gravity, ground, weight and levity, breath and inner motion.
The workshop will include simple floor based exercises and guided hands-on touch upon our self and in partners exploring how our inner sensations in the act of giving and receiving.
Teaching: Rosalyn Maynard BMCA
Assisting: Tallula Bentley
"Through the simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honour everything with our inner attention"
Charlotte Selver
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