Subtle pleasure
An 8-week course exploring what it means to live from your deepest essence. When your essence is free to move, quiet joy arises without reason, and life begins to meet you with more ease. You begin to feel more whole within yourself, in relationship, and in the unfolding of your life. Through movement, subtle breath, deep listening, and deep rest, you’ll cultivate intimacy with subtle pleasure, a satisfaction that arises from within, independent of circumstances, and feels nourishing, authentic, and distinctly you. It brings greater depth to the everyday pleasures of food, touch, beauty, creativity, and meaningful activity, grounding them in a steadier source of joy that enriches how you experience life. From this steadiness, the ordinary discomforts and challenges of daily life can also be met more fully, with greater ease, resilience, and compassion for yourself and others. Over these eight weeks, we’ll move through two connected four-week phases, exploring different facets of living from subtle pleasure. Together we’ll explore subtlety as a portal to intuition and creativity, and what it means to take your place in the world from a deeper sense of belonging within yourself. This course is open to those who have completed the Foundation Course, or who have worked with Olivia for more than six months.
March - April
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The course runs for 8 weeks | Taught live online
Week 1 - 3 & 5 - 7:
Movement and subtle-breath practice
Across weeks one to three and four to seven, we’ll meet weekly for a 75-minute session. Guided by the course theme, you’ll be led into a breathing practice, followed by embodied movement, and closing in deep rest. All classes are recorded, so you can practice live or in a time that suits you best,
Each Wednesday 10:15 - 11:30 GMT/BST
Week 4 & 8:
Deep listening circle & Deep rest practice
In the fourth & eighth weeks, following the rhythm of the new moon, we’ll gather in 2 deep listening circles (in which you can attend one or both). On the Tuesday night this will be followed by an extended guided rest, held within the theme of the month. The closing rest will be recorded, so you can return to it in your own time.
Tuesday 18:00- 19:30 GMT / BST
Thursday 10:15 - 11:15 GMT /BST
You’ll have access to all class recordings for three weeks after each class, so you can engage with the practices in your own time. Live attendance isn’t required. Please note: Deep Listening sessions on Tuesday and Thursday are interactive and not recorded. The guided Deep Rest session on Tuesday (19:00–19:30), which follows Deep Listening, will be recorded and available afterwards. You’re also welcome to join partway through a course. You’ll receive access to all previous recordings for three weeks, and can continue attending any remaining live sessions included in your enrolment.
Cycles
These monthly courses move in rhythm with the moon. No matter your gender identity, you are a cyclical being, living on and with a cyclical Earth. Practicing in tune with these natural rhythms can enhance your connection to the cycles within and around you. As you soften into the many ebbs and flows, your whole life can be invited to move through you with more ease and less resistance (to change). Each course begins in the waxing moon phase and flows through the full and waning moons. During the week of the new moon, there is no movement class. Instead, we gather in a deep listening circle, followed by a guided deep stillness to invite a nourishing, rejuvenating rest. And if your body longs for movement that week, you’ll still have access to the previous week’s recording to return to whenever you wish.