What is it?

A recorded experiential workshop for supporting you to come to quiet when you want and head towards sleep when you're longing for it.

We will 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.

Nervous system informed and designed to support you beyond the workshop, into your life, this will be the second in our Aliveness Lab workshop series.

Facilitated by somatic practitioners Rachel Blackman & Kate Daisy Grant.

Remembering How To Come 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 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.

What will I get out of it?

YOU WILL GET -

• Some easy to learn, take 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 workshop (orignally delivered in February 2024) you can watch online, plus itemised practices you can download as audio recordings for offline use.

• Lifetime access to all the workshop materials.

WORKSHOP FLOW

- Welcome / check in 

- Developing your enquiry 

- Drop in with Kate 

- Sharing Space 

BREAK 

- Drop in with Rachel 

- Sharing space 

- Front Brain conversation / Q&A 

- Applications & Closing


Is This Workshop For Me?

This workshop is suitable for you if you'd like to learn some practical ways  to settle yourself in the moments when you'd like to take it down a notch and / or re-member the skill of preparing for sleep. 

The workshop is open to anyone who lives in a body! Hoorah! 

You might be drawn to this workshop because you are wanting to learn ways of drawing on the deep wells of biological intelligence that is inherently within 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. 

This workshop may not be suitable for you if you are looking for a therapeutic process. This is an experiential learning environment whose focus is assisted self-study.  Whilst this work may have therapeutic benefit, it is not a replacement for therapy.

Purchase Options

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  • £40.00

    Coming to Quiet Workshop Recording

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Your Guides

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. 

This was the second of a series of public workshops they have run, bringing some of the goodies from their book directly into your hands.