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.

About This Course.

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.

Over 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 eleven 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:

7, 14, 21 February 2024

13, 20, 27 March 2024

17, 24 April 2024

8, 15, 22, 29 May 2024

Each live workshop runs for 90 minutes Wednesday mornings, 9.30 - 11.00am UK time. 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.

Exact dates and times for these are tbc. We will begin with some on Friday afternoons UK time to support people from The Americas and add more as needed.

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.

'Everyone is God speaking.

Why not be polite, 

And listen to her?'

- Hafiz

Course curriculum

    1. A message from Rachel

    2. The flow and rhythm of the course structure

    3. Initial Reflections and Survey

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

    2. Imagination is Part of it!

    3. Earthing & Embodiment First

    4. Live Zoom Workshop - Wednesday 7th February, 9:30am-11am UK time

    5. Recording of LESSON 1 - 7th February 2024

    6. Audio Only Recording - Full Session - LESSON 1

    7. Lesson 1: Sacred Space - Guided Drop In - Audio Only

    8. Home Enquiries for Week 1

    1. Orienting Via Resource

    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 - Wednesday 14th February, 9:30-11am UK time

    6. Recording of LESSON 2 - 14th February 2024

    7. Lesson 2: Full Session - Audio Only

    8. Downloadable: Felt Sense Experiment

    9. Downloadable - Drop In Practice - Audio

    10. Home Enquiry for Lesson 2 & Sharing update

    1. Live Zoom Workshop - Wednesday 21st February, 9:30-11am UK time

    2. Cultivating a Sacred Space / Physical / Spiritual

    3. Anchoring Helpers in Somatic Imprints & Physical Objects

    4. Recording of LESSON 3 - 21st February 2024

    5. Recording of Lesson 3 - full session - Audio Only

    6. Lesson 3: Guided Drop-In - Audio Only

    7. Home Enquiries for Lesson 3

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

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

    1. Integration Meet Up

    2. Note there is no recording for this session.

    1. Integration Meet Up

    2. Recording of Integration Session

    3. Recording of Integration Session - Audio only

About this course

  • £415.00
  • 118 lessons
  • 27 hours of video content

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.

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."

A beautifully supported journey

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! I’m sure this course will grow more heartfull and grounded in the next iterations. Definitely recommend it big time."

A well-designed exploration

ML.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."

Is This Course For Me?

This course is for you if you are curious to cultivate a direct and enjoyable connection with Spirit.

It is suitable for you if you have an active contemplative practice and have some experience of inner work. This might be via your own spiritual practice, visioning, creative practice, somatic work or therapy.

This course is for those whose curiosity has led them here. You are welcome at any stage of your spiritual or somatic journey.

It offers a structure to begin to explore in a healthy way.

Traditionally, the one who guides and stewards our connection with Spirit, might be called a Priest, Priestess or Ritualist. This is an important role in human culture. It is one which can be attractive to wounded healers and unstable nervous systems and/or held in a way that doesn't always honour and respect the experience and sovereignty of the experiencer.

This course hopes to weave some healing and re-connection here, by anchoring this work in your primary, somatic experience and choice-fulness. So you can move towards the teacher or path that feels resonant for you.

It does not offer a therapeutic process, nor is it a substitute for therapy. So if you are brand new to this territory, you may find it helpful to support yourself with a parallel therapeutic process.

It is not a teacher training, but for your own personal use.

If you're curious and would like to get more if a flavour of it, Rachel is running a free taster workshop on Wednesday 17th January.

Sourcing Guidance & Nourishment From Earth Wednesday 17th January 2024
A CHSC Workshop & Q&A
9.30 - 10.30am London time / 8.30pm Sydney .
FREE

Everyone who signs up will receive a link to the recording as an unlisted you tube link. To register, click the button below.
Register for the free 17th Jan workshop

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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 - so 21 years ago(!). 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 eleven 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've written about this event elsewhere in more detail, 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.