From resistance to safety
March 12th - June 4th
Resistance can take many forms, woven deep into the ways you respond to life. It can shape the way you think, the way you experience emotions, and how you express yourself.
Patterns of resistance can run deep, forming habits that lead to feelings of loneliness, disconnection, inertia, helplessness, dissatisfaction, and a constant search for more—leaving you feeling as though you never have enough. This can manifest in subtle ways or take hold more obviously, making it difficult for you to enjoy your life and thrive in the world.
By connecting deeply with your breath, body, and mind, you can begin to develop an intimacy with resistance—discovering how it shapes your unique experience of life. Within this intimacy resistance will lose its power and dissolve into a deeper fortitude and resilience.
Over these next 12 weeks, I’m offering weekly online classes (in three four-week courses) for you to explore the layers of your resistance, and expanding your capacity to feel safe and at home in your own skin. You will be invited to come face to face with your vulnerabilities, unlock your courage, embrace your pain, and embody a resilience that allows you to move with more fluidity and ease—no matter the challenges of your world.
I will offer you simple, somatic keys to navigate your days with enthusiasm , resolve, commitment, fulfilment, generosity and solidarity.
Patterns of resistance can run deep, forming habits that lead to feelings of loneliness, disconnection, inertia, helplessness, dissatisfaction, and a constant search for more—leaving you feeling as though you never have enough. This can manifest in subtle ways or take hold more obviously, making it difficult for you to enjoy your life and thrive in the world.
By connecting deeply with your breath, body, and mind, you can begin to develop an intimacy with resistance—discovering how it shapes your unique experience of life. Within this intimacy resistance will lose its power and dissolve into a deeper fortitude and resilience.
Over these next 12 weeks, I’m offering weekly online classes (in three four-week courses) for you to explore the layers of your resistance, and expanding your capacity to feel safe and at home in your own skin. You will be invited to come face to face with your vulnerabilities, unlock your courage, embrace your pain, and embody a resilience that allows you to move with more fluidity and ease—no matter the challenges of your world.
I will offer you simple, somatic keys to navigate your days with enthusiasm , resolve, commitment, fulfilment, generosity and solidarity.
Times & Classes:
- Meeting Wednesday's 10.15 - 11.30 GMT, for a movement, breathwork and meditation class (1hr 15)
You can attend this live or by recording in your own time.
- Optional extra: is to join once a month for a women's circle (for women) and a men's circle (for men).
This is to give an intimate space to share more deeply about the different aspects of resistance and safety.
Specific dates/times given below for each month (more of these sessions might be added, if other time options are needed).
You can attend this live or by recording in your own time.
- Optional extra: is to join once a month for a women's circle (for women) and a men's circle (for men).
This is to give an intimate space to share more deeply about the different aspects of resistance and safety.
Specific dates/times given below for each month (more of these sessions might be added, if other time options are needed).
Dates & booking:
You can book for the whole three courses (12 weeks) or one course (4 weeks) at a time
From resistance to safety
Openness:
the pathway into courage including a
women's circle & men's circle Thursday March 27th 6.30 - 7.30 GMT |
Healing:
physical pain and emotional pain including a
women's circle & men's circle Thursday May 1st 6.30 - 7.30 GMT |
Resilience: embodying the
changeless within the changing including a
women's circle & men's circle Thursday May 29th 6.30 - 7.30 GMT |
What you will get from this course: |
Who is this course for: |
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- You will learn a range of movement and stillness practices to feel more safe in your body.
- You will learn how to navigate and integrate discomfort in your body and challenging emotions (such as anxiety, fear, grief, anger, and loneliness), through becoming intimate with your experience. - You will gain the tools to access more readily your capacity to be open, heal deeply and experience your resilience. - You will learn breathing practices to release stresses and tensions whilst developing deep core strength. - You may also experience many other personal discoveries along your journey into your subtle pleasure. |
Anyone who is inspired by the invitation to become more deeply and fully embodied.
And has enough mobility to walk upstairs and sit on the floor unaided (so you'll be able to do the movement practice offered). |
Have a look here for answers to any more questions you might have:
Taught by Olivia Crooks
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Olivia began training in teaching yoga in 2001, in Sydney Australia. After that in 2003 she began a 10 year apprenticeship with Godfrey Devereux. This eventually led to her assisting and co-teaching his teacher trainings.
For the last 14 years she has been running workshops, courses, intensives and retreats (specifically for women). Teaching somatic movement, meditation and pranayama. She continues to teach with Godfrey each year on their annual winter Somatic Meditation Retreat and summer Radical Ecology Retreat. Olivia is striking in her inability to be inauthentic, or lean on any external authority. From her deep trust in life she extends, in her presence, words, actions and teaching, an almost irresistible invitation to say 'yes' more deeply to life just as it is. |
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Assisted by Daniel Scoble, who will host men's circle's for men
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Daniel is a therapist, personal trainer and nutritionist. He has been working with groups these past 4 years, in compassionate enquiry and somatic therapy.
He has a broad and deep capacity to hear and meet other's in spaces of sharing, listening and healing. |