Embodiment as a Bridge to Healthy Spirit Connection

Being Grounded and Within Your Own Agency

This course offers a practical framework to support you to be more grounded and nourished in your everyday personal experience of the Divine.

The aim of this course is to support you to grow your own relationship with Spirit in a simple practical way, so that you can access it when you want, gain insights, receive unexpected support and feel more connected to the vast, dynamic weave of life.

It is for supporting your ongoing journey from a place that honours the reality that we are not alone, nor meant to do it all alone and we are certainly not built to know everything! We are not designed to work it all out from within our own single little organism.

There is a larger field of Intelligence we can rest into, from a place that honours choice fullness and the sovereignty of our own bodily experience.

Let us begin there - in a way that feels within in our ability, is led by curiosity and rooted in ritual safety.

You will find support to trust your own instincts and intuition. Keep what works, discard what doesn't and develop more refined discernment.

The Idea Behind This Course

a short video from Rachel

'Every atom in this body existed before organic life emerged 4000 million years ago. Remember our childhood as minerals, as lava, as rocks? We are the rocks dancing. Why do we look down on them with such a condescending air? It is they that are an immortal part of us.'

~ John Seed, Thinking Like a Mountain

Why This Course?

This course aims to open up the possibility that this work is very normal for our species and accessible in a way that is no-nonsense and nourishing.

Something very old in us remembers how to do this. Our ancestors worked in this way for many thousands of years. So let's think of this as a remembering or a reconnection.

This work aims to remind us that a direct connection is not only possible, but part of our design.

We re-member Spirit as a vital reference and guide in the navigation and stewardship of our everyday, embodied experience. We honour its sacredness and potency without dissociating, or losing ourselves or our connection to the here and now.

How might we root this sacred relationship into the soil of our everyday life and not save it only for special occasions or psychedelic states?

What will I get out of it?

Tools and pathways for accessing direct connection with your own spiritual 'support team' in a way that feels enjoyable, creative and within your own capacity.

12 x 90 minute live, experiential workshops.
- An additional 10 hours of face to face Integration meet ups. (that's over 40 hours of live contact.)
- Community sharing spaces.
- Peer support groups.
- Life time access.
- Downloadable materials to support your ongoing practice.

Time Energy & Commitment

This course takes place over twelve live workshops, plus additional live integration meet ups. The integration spaces are for weaving in the learning and to support those joining via other time zones. You will also be offered a small group for peer support and home enquiries for integrating your discoveries.

LIVE WORKSHOP DATES for your diary:

23, 30 October 2025

6, 27 November 2025

4, 11 December 2025

15, 22, 29 January 2026

5, 12, 19 March 2026

Each live workshop runs for 90 minutes Thursday afternoons UK time, 4:30pm to 6pm . Each includes a deep dive visioning process along with breakout rooms, teaching and group sharing.

Each workshop weaves around a different theme and follows a fractal like unfolding progression.

There are spaces built in after each lesson block for rest and digestion. This work is metabolic, in the sense that the whole body / whole self is re-membering the connection. For digestion to happen we need space and time! Re-connection to this work is primal and natural for us. None-the-less, it has been a while and we need rest to digest it all!

The vibe is laboratory style with exploratory and interactive learning.

After each workshop, you will be given follow up emails to capture the information in a more practicle, cognitive way.

INTEGRATION MEET UPS

There will also be live INTEGRATION MEET UPS sprinkled through out to support the looping in of folks from time zones who will be doing the workshop via recordings. They are an open sharing environment hosted by Rachel, where you will have space to digest the learning in company. Everyone is welcome to any and all of them. They are a great way to deepen the learning and a chance to hear from each other in more depth.

These will happen following the second and third workshops of the block on some Tuesdays & Thursdays.

Integration Dates & Times :

13 November (Thursday) 4.30pm - 5.45pm UK
9 December 9.30am - 10.45am UK
18 December 4.30pm - 5.45pm UK
27 January 9.30am - 10.45am UK
5 February 4.30pm - 5.45pm UK
17 March 9.30am - 10.45am UK
26 March 4.30pm - 5.45pm UK

STAYING CONNECTED

You will be invited to a private off-Facebook community on Mighty Networks to share your experiences and if you wish to join it, a What's App group.

You will also be offered a peer group within your time zone (where possible).

RECORDINGS

If you miss the call live, you can always catch it on the recording - these will be uploaded to the course hub within 24 hours of each live call.

You will have life time access to the course content and recordings. (Or as long as I continue hosting courses here!)

'Ritual is how I remember I am not alone - even when no one else is there. 

The Ancestors arrive in the breath. In the drum.' 

~ Dohee Lee 

Course curriculum

    1. A message from Rachel

    2. Initial Reflections and Survey

    3. All the Important Links

    4. How to Sync the Event Calendar in Mighty Networks to your Personal Calendar

    1. Set up / Meet up / Story Share / Intention Setting

    2. Imagination is Part of it!

    3. Earthing & Embodiment First

    4. Recording of LESSON 1 - 23rd October 2025

    5. Audio Only Recording - Full Session - DOWNLOADABLE

    6. Home Enquiries for Week 1

    1. Orienting Via Resource - Anchor Teaching

    2. We are a Species who Learn to Self Regulate via Co-regulation

    3. A Felt Sensing Experiment

    4. Ritual Shape and Ritual Hygiene

    5. Live Zoom Workshop - Join Details & Link

    6. Home Enquiry for Lesson 2 & Sharing update

    1. Live Zoom Workshop - 6 November 4.30pm UK 2025

    2. Cultivating a Sacred Space / Physical / Spiritual

    3. Anchoring Helpers in Somatic Imprints & Physical Objects

    4. Home Enquiries for Lesson 3

    5. Additional Audio only drop in for deepening connection - lesson 3

    1. Integration Meet Up

    2. Integration

    1. Animism, The Divine in Everything & the Principle of Receprocity

    2. The Principle of With & Along Side and In the Presence of

    3. Live Zoom Workshop - 27 November 4.30 - 6.30pm UK

    4. Additional Resources on Animism

About this course

  • Over 40 hours of live face to face, experiential, group learning
  • Carefully structured learning so you can create your own rituals safely & effectively.
  • Rooted in ritual clarity and the neuroception of nourishment.

Mini Taster Workshop + Q&A - free

If you'd like to try a short workshop exploring using somatics & ritual in a safe, nervous system informed way, you can access a recording of this free workshop via the button below.

Bring a note book & a pen. The only other thing you need is a quiet space & a willingness to explore.

What does Embodiment have to do with Spirit Connection?

What do we mean by 'embodiment'?

Being in a body is the situation - or condition - in which we find ourselves in this life time. Embodiment is a condition of being alive. Being in a body is not separable from having a brain or having thoughts: Your head is also part of your body. Cognition happens in your body, because where else can it happen?

We may have grown up letting our thoughts run the show, which can get exhausting and cause all sorts of imbalance.

In this course, we will be exploring ways of seeing, listening, feeling, and knowing, that might not be the ways we are so familiar with. Thinking is also welcome as part of our whole embodied experience though it will only be one way we are paying attention.

How does that feel to read?

It might sound obvious, but our bodies are our instrument of connection!!

Many of us have grown up in spiritual or educational traditions which deny, ignore or make wrong the body and embodied intelligence. This denial has created a dismemberment from our natural and organic connection to Spirit. Embodiment is foundational and essential to this work. We might even say it is a core ethical value. Without it, the connection severs, or becomes unmanageable, like a flailing garden hose!! Without it, we can be dangerous to ourselves and the world. So let us first be present to ourselves in a living body.

Let us begin with the place we are in contact with the earth. Be with ourselves here first - then we can set out on this adventure of re-connection to Spirit from a place of embodied groundedness and resource.

'There is a deep desire to bring back our fragments into wholeness. This remembering is not nostalgia - it is ancestral instruction.'

~Rutendo Ngara

What this Course Will Give You

And what it might be useful for

What past students say about it:

Gentle, accessible & supportive

V.A.

"Rachel has an incredible way of bringing together grounded, trauma-informed somatic approaches to the numinous. As someone who has not had a strong relationship to spirit – one might even say I’ve been a sceptic – this way in has felt gentle, accessible and supportive. I would highly recommend this course to anyone who is curious about their relationship with spirituality and wants to include the body in that inquiry."

Safety within myself

J.R.

‘I've done this course twice. I look back now …and I almost start crying because I remember how unsafe I was inside my own body, before I learnt to trust the safety within myself. It's like night and day being able to trust that I am safe. I don't have to fear what's inside me or outside me. When I can anchor in my own body, I am the master of my own reality in a way. I can take care of myself. I have struggled for many years being very afraid inside myself, and when I started to learn the protocol and ritual safety with Rachel, I found safety within myself. So for me personally, it's a game changer."

Definitely recommend it big time

I.M.

"This was a beautifully supported journey gently familiarising the support of opening self to bigger, older supporting structures and to animism with very personal neuro-secure resources to venture. I have found strong spirit resources through this course, from developing a safe relationship with a sacred space to exploring strong mycelium connections. Rachel whole heartedly supported and guided this exploration - Thank you! Definitely recommend it big time."

A well-designed exploration

M.R

"Rachel's Cultivating Healthy Connection with Spirit course is a well-designed exploration of many ways in which the powerful energies of the spirit world may be accessed for guidance in daily life, in a safe and healthy manner, however the beliefs each individual brings may lead. Throughout the course, Rachel provides caring presence and accompaniment to all participants, with time allowed for valuable one-to-one peer conversations and a platform for group discussion."

Pricing options

Please choose the price that most honestly represents your financial situation. If you own your own home, own a car and have savings, please consider paying the benefactor price. The budget price is for folks who really need it.

You can either purchase just the course on it's own, or the course + 3 x 1:1 sessions. Prices are available as one off payments or monthly payment plans over 4 months. Prepaid 1:1's are £75 each. Once the course has begun individual sessions will be available at £100 each.

If you don't see a price that feels right for you, please get in touch - we can always extend the monthly payments.

Hello! I am Rachel

I am your facilitator. Here's a little bit about my journey with this work.

I am a daughter, sister, wife, aunty and proud bonus mum. I am descended from - way back Scottish, Scandinavian with some more recent English ancestry. Most of my living people inhabit Australia: some were fairly recent migrants by choice, others had migration forced upon them as convicts.

I am a Somatic Coach, Trainer of coaches, Theatre Maker, Somatic Educator and Feldenkrais Practitioner. I teach coaches to work with embodied intelligence at The Somatic School and have been supporting clients to work with Spirit as a resource in my 1:1 sessions and group somatic coaching workshops for about a decade.

I've been slowly gathering this material into a teachable format over several years in response to nudges from students and Spirit teachers.

It has taken a while to feel like I am ready, but I am being shown that it is now time to properly emerge from the spiritual closet.

My connection to the metaphysical has always come naturally from very young. But my personal entry into working with Guides specifically, began with the sudden appearance of one, when I was 30. It was vivid and significant, but, having no clue how to work with him I kind of ignored him and hoped for the best.

He hung around :-)

Always standing guard to my left. Always a very powerful, benevolent, sub-bass presence. Over the years, he began to show me how to work with him via my body work practice - I would often let him guide my hands. Show me what was needed with clients. He also helped me with boundaries and discernment.

I began exploring how I could nurture this connection via pagan ritual practices and hands on healing trainings. I thought I was getting the hang of it.

Then, about fifteen years ago, I experienced a kind of cataclysmic deluge of Spirit information coming through me in a way that was quite overwhelming and very difficult to ground. (I wrote a blog about it a few years back, if you're curious to read more). It lasted for three days and was so strong it became immediately apparent I needed a much more robust tool kit! I urgently sought out teachers, ritualist, healers, practices and lineages that prioritised healthy ethical and spiritual boundaries.

Parallel to this and for many years prior to it, I was doing a lot of somatic trainings, trainings in performance and improvisation and also nervous system healing. I begin to notice a connection. At first, I noticed how well it supported me in this kind of work, then eventually how absolutely foundational it is to it.

When journeying, or working with Plant medicine, or doing intensive awareness practices, I 'knew' ways of working choice-fully and safely, because of my somatic trainings and creative practice. Some pieces began to re-connect. This course is a weaving together of some of these knowledges for the curious student.

My work is not rooted in any one tradition, but is supported by many and is a synthesis of many teachings, trainings and experience. Please take a look at the 'honourings' section below for more detailed lineage acknowledgements and gratitudes.

I stand downstream of giants and am a daughter and a student.

Gratitudes & Honourings

I honour the original stewards of the unceded territories of my birth & childhood - The Muwinina, Bungalung & Eora Nations. I express deep gratitude for the ancestral and spiritual lineages and trainings I am blessed to carry forward with this work.

I'd like to honour the following wisdom holders and teachers, who have helped me to earth this material and work with it in more choice-ful, healthy ways.

My maternal Grandmother, Joyce Voysey, and the wider council of Ancient Grandmothers and Grandfathers, Sankan Usna at Onyana Joni Shipibo, Comprehensive Resource Model, Dr. Amber McZeal at De-Colonising The Psyche, Dr.Daniel Foor at Ancestral Medicine, Francis Briers, Uwe Hirschberg, Moshe Feldenkrais and Gabrielle Roth. The many teachers of Theatre and Ritual Technologies. The generative environment at The Somatic School. Also the Medicines of Crow, Stone, Olive Tree, Big Waters and Song.

And to Shad and Akash and the beloved chosen family that holds me so well here by the sea on Albion Isle.