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This is a space for anyone drawn to somatic practice and embodied awareness - whether you work professionally in therapy, education or movement, or you are simply keen to explore this work for your own rest, curiosity and personal insight.

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You may find this day restful if your work environment means you focus outwards: especially if attending or attuning, supporting or holding space for others. Including doctors, therapists, counsellors, coaches, GPs and other healing professionals.  Teachers, eductators. Movement practitioners or facilitators, such as yoga teachers, dance or pilates teachers. 

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As an introduction to Bodhi Somatics, the day includes somatic movement, mindfulness and nervous system awareness practices based on the principles of yoga, mindfulness, meditation and neuroscience.  Bodhi Somatics is a method which sits alongside talk-based, clinical and relational practice.

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Most of our experiences are processed through thinking, analysing and conversation or therapy. But experience doesn't only sit in the mind or thought. It shows up in the body too. In breath that changes. Shoulders that tighten. Postural changes. Energy that shifts, drops or spikes.  A nervous system that contracts or settles. 

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The focus of the day is to experience how somatic work supports presence, regulation and integration in the body, and how this can be relevant to the way you already work with clients.

THIS DAY IS ESPECIALLY USEFUL FOR YOU IF:

• you work with clients in a therapeutic, coaching or healing capacity

• you are interested in the body as part of the healing process

• you want to understand how nervous system regulation actually unfolds in practice

• you often feel there is more happening in the body than words can explain

• you want to deepen how you listen, notice and respond to people.

• you are open to experiencing a different way of being or working

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THE DAY INCLUDES:

• nervous system settling and embodied presence through mindfulness practices 

• intuitive and responsive embodiment and relational sensing through movement (somatic vinyasa yoga style movement)

• reflective inquiry into what is happening internally and in practice (mindfulness / meditation / journaling after practice)

• somatic restorative myofascial release with integrated breath (restorative style movement practices)

• somatic guidance to support staying inside the body

• deep integrative intuitive practice, including somatic mapping, ideokinetic awareness and regenerative stillness.

• observing patterns of regulation

• simple grounding practices that can be brought into daily life and client work 

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WHAT THE DAY OFFERS:

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• A CHANCE TO REST AND RECEIVE

• a clearer understanding of how the body is involved in emotional process

• a felt sense of how somatic work complements talk-based or clinical work

• experience direct awareness of regulation and nervous system states

• a more present way of holding space with clients

• insight into how somatic principles can sit alongside your existing approach

• a clearer sense of how future collaboration or co-facilitation could work

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IMPORTANT TO KNOW:

This is not a training or certification programme, and it is not a skills-transfer course.

It is an experiential immersion into Bodhi Somatics, offering a direct experience of how this work is facilitated, how somatic processes unfold in practice, and how this approach may sit alongside or support your existing way of working with clients.  It is also a day for you, to receive rather than give.