Access all 5 of our workshops for 40% off for a limited time.

From now until 30th December, we are offering all of our workshops as a package at a big discount. 

These workshops took place through out recent years as part of our animist writing membership KIN. 

This bundle grants you lifetime access to the materials, which is about 10 hours of recorded content, as well as downloadable audio files you can revisit while you cook or walk (or paint?). It also grants you discounted access to the live workshop happening on the 15th of December, Somatics & Poetry for Connecting with a Healthy Ancestor, in case you'd love to join us live.

These are usually £40 each. But this package allows you to get all 5 of them for £120 British Pounds. (Roughly $160 USD depending on the exchange rate.)

We are really proud of this body of work. Hope you enjoy taking a look.

This Bundle Includes:

Click on each item below to explore each workshop in more detail

Hello,

We are Brooke & Rachel

Thanks for being here.
This photo is from when we met for the first time this year.

Back in 2023 in response to what we perceived to be a hardening of hearts and rising intolerance in the world, we put our tools together to make a workshop for supporting softness in the heart. That one was called Somatics & Poetry for Tending To a Softening Heart and it was a truly profound experience that was beautifully received. That naturally birthed a river of collaborative offerings, part of which includes these Somatics & Poetry workshops.

We find the combination of embodied practice and creative practice to be a very potent one when it comes to helping us approach and metabolise large, perplexing subjects. This combination can provide rare medicine both at the level of soul and the nervous system. It is one that culturally we may forget to otherwise make time for.

Each workshop is 2 hours long and responds to a different theme we are in active dialogue with in the moment. Usualy a great pain or a great longing in the world. Our desire is that this work blesses those who encounter it and that the blessing ripples out in ways we cannot even imagine. May it be so.

Scroll down for a bit more info about us.

More About Rachel Blackman

Rachel Blackman is a Somatic Coach, Trainer and Educator, Mentor, Theatre Maker and Feldenkrais Practitioner.

She trains coaches to work with embodied intelligence at The Somatic School. Themes that really bring her alive include creativity and the generative principle, biological intelligence and supporting change at the level of neuroplasticity.

She is an Animist and and loves to hold spaces that weave together connections between the sacred, the embodied and our biosphere.

Rachel works with people 1:1 and in groups, coaching and teaching embodied intelligence, Earth honouring ritual and creative practice. She is one half of The Aliveness Lab with Kate Daisy Grant, whose aim is making embodied practices that are normally only available in 1:1 contexts, more accessible. She is also the mama of an online space and art project called The Museum of Tiny Failures, which is all about taking the shame out of our non-award winning moments.

In her life as an artist, you are most likely to have seen her as Charra in Matrix Revolutions. She is also an award winning theatre maker and has created 5 full length original plays.

Rachel is down-lineage of - way back - European, Scandinavian, Scottish and English ancestry and more recently, a mixed bag of convicts and settler colonists to Australia, where her family now live mostly on the unceeded territory of the Bungalung and Yugambeh Nations. She is now based in Brighton UK where she lives with her husband Shad and bonus son Akash by the big wild Mama sea.

www.rachelablackman.com

More About Brooke McNamara

Brooke McNamara, MFA, is a poet, creativity coach, meditation instructor, and transmitted Zen teacher and lineage holder.

She has published two books of poems: Bury the Seed and Feed Your Vow. She loves to create poems from 3 main ingredients: the raw material of everyday life, wholehearted and visceral listening, and the mind of meditation. For her poetry, Brooke is the recipient of the Charles B. Palmer prize from the Academy of American Poets.

A dancer and writer since childhood, movement, meditation, and poetry have always been her way of sensing meaning in this wild world. From Tinkerbell to Clara in the Nutcracker to some mind-boggling, experimental contemporary performances, Brooke loves engaging mind, body, soul, and spirit to seek and ignite connection on many levels. From 2003-2018, she danced professionally with Malashock & Dancers (San Diego), LEVYdance (San Francisco), Sweet Edge Dance (Denver), and in extensive collaboration making dance-theater duets with Lauren Beale (Boulder).

Brooke has taught at Naropa University in Yoga Studies and at the University of Colorado, Boulder in Dance. She is president and a founding teacher at Dragon Lake Zen, and teaches in-person and online courses and retreats to facilitate the awakening of innate wisdom, compassion, artistry, and play. She continues to study and deepen with her Zen teacher, Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi.

Originally from San Diego, Brooke now lives in Boulder, CO on the unceded territories of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe people, with her husband, Rob, their two sons, Lundin and Orion. They continuously teach her every day how to live in love.

www.BrookeMcNamara.com
www.DragonLakeZen.org