Self-Practice Mentorship offers an opportunity to explore your practice in relation to your own experience, with personalised guidance to help you recognise and live from the intelligence of your embodied knowing.
It offers an opportunity to explore your own unique relationship with your body, breath and meditation, allowing what you have experienced in practice to deepen and become more intimately woven into the way you live. Developing a self-practice is an unfolding process. There may be times when you feel unsure about what to practise, how to include particular practices in your everyday life, or how to allow your practice to respond to the changing circumstances of your life. At the heart of this is supporting you to become more attuned to your own experience and to recognise what is supportive and meaningful for you. Rather than relying on someone else to tell you what to do, the intention is to develop the sensitivity and understanding that allow your own experience to inform and guide your practice.
Self-practice is where what you have discovered through classes, workshops or courses begins to become part of your everyday life
How this can support you:
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Understanding which practices might be most supportive for you at this time, and how to incorporate them into your everyday rhythm.
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Developing a regular self-practice, or finding ways to work more independently with the practices you've already learned.
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Exploring something particular happening in your body, and developing a clearer understanding of it through postures and movement practices.
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Finding ways to work with emotional experiences, mental activity or particular circumstances in your life through your practice.
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Exploring a particular posture, sequence, breathing practice or meditation in greater depth, and understanding how to work with it.
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Recognising when and how to adapt your practice in response to what you are experiencing.
HOW IT WORKS:
session 1
UNDERSTANDING & EXPLORING
An opportunity to explore what has brought you to the mentorship, what you're experiencing and what you would like support with. Together, we consider how your practice might respond to your particular needs and identify some things for you to explore over the following weeks. Following this session, I may suggest particular practices for you to work with, drawing on existing resources or introducing something new, depending on what feels most relevant to you.
session 2
DEVELOPING & REFINING
We meet again to explore your experience of the practices and what has emerged. We can look more closely at particular aspects of your experience, explore practices in greater depth and refine what you're working with. I may suggest further practices or adjustments to support the next stage of your exploration.
session 3
INTEGRATING & DEEPENING
An opportunity to reflect on what you've discovered, what has become clearer and how your practice has developed. Together, we consider how you can continue to draw upon these insights and allow your self-practice to keep unfolding.
The mentorship consists of three individual sessions, each lasting 50 minutes, taking place over approximately six to eight weeks. This allows time between sessions to explore what we've worked with, bring it into your daily practice and experience what emerges.
What might a session look like?
Each session is shaped around you and what you would like support with.
Before we meet, I'll ask you to complete a short questionnaire. This gives me an opportunity to learn a little about your experience, your current self-practice (if you have one) and what you'd like to explore, so that we can make the best use of our time together.
During our time together, we might:
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Spend time talking about what's happening in your life and practice, and what you'd like to explore.
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Explore your relationship with your practice, reflecting on patterns, questions or uncertainties that might be emerging.
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Look at how particular practices might support you, and which ones might be most useful to work with in your everyday life.
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Explore a particular posture, sequence, breathing practice or meditation in more depth. I may introduce or guide you through practices that feel relevant to what you're exploring.
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If you'd like, you can show me some of your movement practice or seated posture, allowing me to observe and offer individual feedback and suggestions.
There isn't a fixed format. Sometimes our time might involve more conversation and reflection, while at other times we might spend more time exploring through practice.
Cost & what's included
Self-Practice Mentorship
Three individual one-to-one sessions, each lasting 50 minutes, taking place over approximately six to eight weeks.
- Three 50-minute sessions
- A short introductory questionnaire
- Email contact between sessions, should a question arise or something you'd like to share as you explore your practice.
Cost - £360
Single session
There is also the option to book a single 50-minute session for £130.
Facilitated by Olivia Crooks
Olivia has taught embodiment for over two decades, in which she has given over ten thousand hours of teaching.
What she has to say about her approach:
"Crossing the 10,000-hour threshold made me a yoga elder some years ago, through years of
teaching classes, intensives, retreats and teacher trainings. Yet even with that background,
each class I give is still a new experience for me, shaped by the people present and by what
unfolds between us, whether online or in person.Being an embodiment guide is, for me, about
guiding people into a more enriched relationship with their body’s intelligence, awakening
their capacity to listen, trust, feel, and live from their innate wisdom"
