Anna Murray Preece

An opportunity to deepen your embodied experience of the turning of the seasons as a way to support both yourself and others. This series will be of particular interest to those who work therapeutically and wish to explore how to incorporate movement based practices into what you offer. It will also be of value as a personal journey of enquiry and process of remembering what may have been forgotten in your relationship with your body, the land and the seasons.

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The ground of enquiry is to come home to the body by attuning to your own rhythm and timing through a combination of movement, meditation and creativity in a warm and nourishing indoor space. 

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The movement practise invites increasing coherence between inner alignment and outer expression, creating space for stuck processes to unfold into greater health, vitality and embodiment. This unfolding is enhanced and supported by attuning with the wider field of Source and the natural rhythms and cycles of the seasons.

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Our own rhythms and tides are not separate from those of the rhythms of nature. It is from this intimate experience of the body that we open to each season through movement and embodied practices directly in relationship with the land and the elements. 

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From here we will explore practices that support others to deepen into a compassionate, coherent, and embodied relationship with themselves, others and the planet.

 

Acknowledging the continuum of our connectedness with the natural world there will be a particular focus on how we relate to the ever changing climate and weather, the response of plants and trees and how this touches us in our personal process. 

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The main reference point is your experience, alongside this, I will draw upon the dynamic wisdom of Chinese Five Element understanding to inform and support us in this process.

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 The course will include:

 

• Time, space and guidance to open more intimately to yourself, your rhythm and timing.

 

• An opportunity to deepen your relationship with the support of the wider holding field of Source.

 

• Exploration of principles of embodiment and what brings us into more alignment and coherence between our physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual bodies in relation to the body of the land.

 

• Honouring a dynamic reciprocal relationship with the living natural world.

 

• Learning from nature though time in the land - listening, moving with and meeting the seasons and all they hold - warmth, cold, wind, rain, stillness, movement, clouds and thunder etc.

   

• Exploring 'Body Journeys' - a way of relating, similar to that of shamanic dream journeys but experienced through the body and movement.

 

• Movement and meditation practices that facilitate others in movement and stillness to promote more alignment with healing and embodiment. 

 

• Practices and support for you in your holding of others.

 

• Principles of holistic healing to support you in your understanding and tracking of emerging processes.

 

• Sacred Fire Ceremony to support us in our connection with the holding field. 

 

• Exploration of how we listen, honour and meet what arises - e.g. resistance, excitement, emotion etc.

 

• Individual and small group enquiry between sessions.

 

• Learning from each others experience and sharing of your own to mutually deepen our understanding of the process of healing on this planet at this time. 

 

I look forward to sharing what I have learnt over many years of working with individuals and groups about healing through movement and in relationship with the natural world. This is a synthesis that has arisen out of teachings from many wonderful teachers. I will draw on my background of experience of Rhythmic/Movement Healing, Amerta Movement, Plant Spirit Medicine, The Chinese Five Elements, Homeopathy, Fire and Weather Shamanism, Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and Psychotherapy. With huge gratitude to all those who have guided me in my learning, in particular to Sandra Reeve, Prapto Suryodarmo, Ruth Noble, Eliot Cowan, David Wiley, Misha Norland, Maura Sills and the Karuna Institute. Last, but definitely not least to my husband Rob and lovely sons Alex and Toran for our journeys together. 

 

I look forward to seeing what emerges through the group learning, as we enter into an open and curious enquiry into the nature of the continuum of our experience from body awareness to planetary alignment.

 

Please note: 

 

The course is suitable for those who are both sensitive yet emotionally robust and may also support these qualities. 

 

There will be some walking on rough ground so a basic level of physical fitness is necessary.

 

This is a trauma informed course but also requires you to have the capacity to hold yourself and make choices as to what you feel safe to bring.

 

Alongside the exploration of our embodiment in relation to the natural world, this course can be received as an introduction to working with others through movement and nature awareness. It is not a full therapy training. It will, however, give you many resources to enhance your work with others and support to deepen into and explore the transformational possibilities of movement in alignment with nature. 

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You will receive a certificate of completion at the end for CPD,18 hours per residential and weekend and 15 for the online weekend.

 

On completion of the year's course you will be eligible to participate in weekends to promote further development. 

 

Dates are as follows: - please let me know if you would like to know more or are interested to book a place.

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Blossoming in Summer - July 9th - 12th 2027 - Fire Element

Receiving Nourishment - Sept 4th/5th (online - date tbc) 2027 - Earth Element

Letting go into Autumn - October 22nd - 25th 2027 - Metal Element

Rhythm of the Bones - February - 4th - 7th 2028 - Water Element

Spring Awakening - April 28th-May 1st 2028 - Wood Element

Completion/integration - July 14th - 17th 2028 - Fire Element 

 

Sliding scale £425 - £550 per residential weekend, Sept online weekend - £150 - £200.

Fully residential with mostly single ensuite bedrooms. 

Early Bird Price - £395 per residential weekend if booked before 31st March '27

(some bursary assisted places available)

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Residential weekends from Fridays 6 pm to Mondays 9.30 am

In a beautiful Dartmoor environment.

Max 8 - 10 participants. 

CPD hours - 18 per residential weekend and 15 for the online.

 

Rhythm of Nature - Rhythm of the Land - Rhythm of my body