Aliveness Lab Workshop Bundle #1

Here are all the workshops that are included in your bundle:
You get lifetime access to all recordings.
Click on each for more details, or scroll below.

Are These Workshops For Me?

These workshops are suitable for anyone who lives in a body! Hoorah! 

You might be drawn to these workshops because you are wanting to learn ways of drawing on the deep wells of biological intelligence that is inherently with in you. 

You might be looking for opportunities to expand your range or interested in discovering ways of doing things that feel more easeful and aligned with your needs. 

These workshops may not be suitable for you if you are looking for a therapeutic process. These are experiential learning environments, where focus is assisted self study.  Whilst this work may have therapeutic benefit, it is not a replacement for therapy.

'Preparation teaches me that we bend 

so we do not break, 

and that gravity is a field, not a force. 

I am vibration.'

― Leo Lourdes

Somatic Resources for the Darker Months

We are a species who has mostly forgotten how to hibernate. 

When we go into the darker period unprepared, trying to push ahead with our usual way of doing things, it can feel constricting and pressurised. Like there is a diminishing of available space. 

How might we instead, soften into the darker months and find resource there too? 

In this workshop, you will encounter practices that will gently support you to navigate  your winter with more ease, spaciousness and enjoyment.  

WHAT YOU WILL GET

  • Some easy to learn home practices for supporting greater agency over the winter.
  • Your own bespoke inner tool kit for navigating the darker months.
  • Basic knowledge about embodied psychology and how it relates to earthing.
  • Basic education of how the Nervous System works in relation to this theme.
  • A re-membering of the planetary rhythms, how it relates to being in a body in the modern context. 
  • A recording of the whole workshop, plus itemised practices you can download as audio files, for offline use.

Coming to Quiet

We are a species who have largely forgotten how to settle our nervous systems. 

Our systems are designed for short bursts of intense activity interspersed with generous periods of recuperation. 

We are built to fluctuate easily between these two states. 

When we push ourselves onward, without carving out space for rest, our energy can get stuck in high adrenaline peaks and/or exhaustion. 

We can feel wired and tired. 

Settling down is an art! 

What might it be like to instead intersperse our busy-ness with nourishing non-doing rest? 

In this workshop, we will explore somatic practices to help you develop a relationship with coming to quiet, during both your waking hours and when you are preparing to sleep. 

We explore practices to help you drop into the resourcing aspect of your parasympathetic nervous system, inviting moments of deep embodied peace to create a more restful rhythm in our lives.

We explore pathways into settling yourself when you are in the thick of intensity and also ways to settle yourself when you are wanting to switch off at the end of the day.

WHAT YOU WILL GET:

  • Some easy to learn home practices for supporting greater agency over settling your nervous system when you want.
  • Your own bespoke inner tool kit for bringing yourself to quiet and rest, whether you are in the midst of a situation or heading to bed at rest time. 
  • Basic education of how the Nervous System works in relation to this theme.
  • A re-membering of the medicinal qualities of darkness and how it relates to being in a body in the modern context. 
  • A recording of the whole workshop, plus itemised practices you can download as audio files for offline use.

Resourcing Yourself to Meet the World

The world can be a tricksy and demanding place. Stepping out into it can be daunting. How can we prepare ourselves to do it with grace? 

We are a species who are living in demanding times, with multiple distractions and pulls on our attention. 

We have come away from our natural cycles of activity and rest. Our technology is often the first thing we look at in the morning, meaning we’re in the thick of the action before we’ve even oriented ourselves to being fully awake. 

We also tend to skate over transitions between being one place and another. Assuming they will just take care of themselves. What if we were to also take care of how we are doing the transitions. 

What might it be like to have a few easy practices for building your readiness for this? Practices to help you find yourself before the demands of the world find you first? 

In this workshop, we will explore neurobiological practices to help you develop a relationship with the transition between being in and being out. Supporting you to step out into the world in touch with your power, goodness and agency. 

You will learn easy ways to help you to ground yourself, get centered, and have a sense of your personal boundaries and uprightness. 

Then you will be invited into a practice around curiosity, harnessing a natural upswell of forward momentum to take you out into the world with energy and ease. Here you will be harnessing the medicine of your sympathetic nervous system that handles your get-up-and-go. You will be embodying the ‘Spring’ of your day, harnessing this energy of beginnings and emergence, but rooted in your agency. 

WHAT YOU WILL GET:

  • Some easy to learn home practices for supporting greater agency and choicefulness.
  • Options for how to prepare yourself well to meet life's daily demands.
  • Your own bespoke inner tool kit for feeling upright and in your embodied dignity no matter what situation you are preparing to face. 
  • Basic education of how the Nervous System works in relation to this theme.
  • A recording of the full workshop, plus downloadable audio recordings of the drop in practices, for offline use.

About Your Teachers

Your Stewards for these Journeys

Hello!

We are Kate & Rachel. 

We are two somatic practitioners who are passionate about supporting you towards a richer experience of aliveness. 

 We do this in various ways, utiliseing many different approaches, but the common thread is we start with the knowledge that your nervous system is wise and you are already resourceful, creative and whole. 

Somatics is a body of work that is interested in your unique lived experience. You might think of it as a way of being with ourselves in presence. It assumes that we are a whole creature experiencing ourselves in many aspects. We are a human being and doing, we are a human feeling, sensing, perceiving and of course also thinking. 

Somatics welcomes all of these aspects of experience. 

We will be your guides for this workshop. 

Kate is a highly experienced body psychotherapist, body oriented coach and artist. You can find more about Kate's private practice here at Body Mind Somatics. 

Rachel is a somatic coach and trainer of coaches. She is also a Feldenkrais practitioner and artist. You can find out more about Rachel's private practice at Vibrant Body.

Together they are writing a book. 

These are the first of a series of public workshops they have run, bringing some of the goodies from their book directly into your hands.