Feeding Your Genius: Deep Resourcing For Activating Your Gifts
March to September 2024
With Brooke McNamara and Rachel Blackman
A 7 Month Program of 1:1 Coaching, Exclusive Group Learning and Earth Honouring Ritual.
OUR 2024 PROGRAM IS NOW FULL!
What Is It?
An Invitation Into Your Own Unique Offering To The World
A 7 month program of group learning, earth honouring ritual, creative practice and one to one coaching for supporting you to heed the call of your soul and translate it into form. An Invitation Into Your Own Unique Offering To The World
FEEDING YOUR GENIUS is a 7-month program of consistent group workshop learning and one-to-one coaching with artist-guides Rachel Blackman and Brooke McNamara.
It includes somatic resourcing, creative practice to cultivate your deep knowing and unique instincts, and earth-honouring ritual with a concentrated mid-point retreat.
Feeding Your Genius is lovingly crafted to support you in heeding the calls of your soul and translating them into form. This long-term, multi-layered program will support and challenge you to live into rich authentic resourcing to activate your gifts.
FEEDING YOUR GENIUS is a 7-month program of consistent group workshop learning and one-to-one coaching with artist-guides Rachel Blackman and Brooke McNamara.
It includes somatic resourcing, creative practice to cultivate your deep knowing and unique instincts, and earth-honouring ritual with a concentrated mid-point retreat.
Feeding Your Genius is lovingly crafted to support you in heeding the calls of your soul and translating them into form. This long-term, multi-layered program will support and challenge you to live into rich authentic resourcing to activate your gifts.
Why This Work & Why Now?
What Wants To Be Born Uniquely Through You?
There is a Generative principle at work through all organic life. This principle courses through you by virtue of your being alive. Your cells, your bones, your dreams and your longings are all emerging from and vibrating with this generative power ~ it is happening even now as you read these words.
Many of us have not even been taught we are a part of this generative, creative power, let alone how to engage with it and wield it responsibly, wisely, and artfully. When we forget we have access to this power, or forget to call upon it, our world loses enchantment and we sacrifice our agency and our potential.
The potential the world is longing for us to activate.
'The most common way
people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.'
- Alice Walker
It is not about whether you are deserving of it, or skilled enough. It is part of you, because you are living and you have a responsibility to it.
More than ever the world needs people who can trust themselves to act on behalf of the aliveness coursing through them. To listen, attend, translate and then to act on it.
The spirit of this thing calls on you to engage it. It longs to be activated through you and made use of – for the purpose of your soul’s fulfillment and to meet real needs in the world. Perhaps there is something in you that remembers (even distantly) how to transform base metal into gold, and inherently wants to fulfill this capacity.
The root of the word genius points us to a "guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth" and also "prophetic skill, generative power, and inborn nature.” How do you feed your genius, relate with it, and work well together to become deeply resourced and thriving with your generative power, for yourself and for the world?
What are you going to do with this extraordinary gift?
Do Not Choose The Lesser Life
'do not choose the lesser life,
do you hear me.
do you hear me.
choose the life that is. yours.
the life that is seducing your lungs.
that is dripping down your chin.'
- Nayyirah Waheed
You Are A Human Making
Envisioning, Incubating, Co-creating, Harvesting
Imagine yourself in full partnership with your aliveness.
This doesn’t mean you are always high energy or performing enthusiastic optimism. Instead, it is the feeling of resting into your own bones, here and now, and breathing into the soft space of your heart.
It is the invitation to be tender with all the parts of who you are, knowing each is doing its best at what it perceives its job to be.
Take a moment, if it feels resourcing, to lengthen this next exhale… Imagine yourself softening around - letting go of what can be released, resting into the reality of this moment, giving full permission to be, feel, and even befriend exactly what is here.
Now, as you open into the space inside and around you, what are you genuinely moved to do, and not do? What do you genuinely want?
The historical Buddha said, “Have few desires, but have great ones.” What are your great desires in this life; what do you want to do and be before you die?
And, what is extra - extra striving, extra tension, extra proving? Is it possible to let go a little of the extra, and relax into a deeper longing, an ever-present fire in the belly that wants your attention, a gift hidden somewhere below the surface that wants to be born through you, come into form, and perhaps meet a real need in the world?
Imagine yourself softening, resourcing deeply, and then powerfully cultivating your great gifts and desires. Feel the aliveness now that carries you all along the way. There’s no rush, and simultaneously, there is no time to waste. Our world needs your unique gifts.
This doesn’t mean you are always high energy or performing enthusiastic optimism. Instead, it is the feeling of resting into your own bones, here and now, and breathing into the soft space of your heart.
It is the invitation to be tender with all the parts of who you are, knowing each is doing its best at what it perceives its job to be.
Take a moment, if it feels resourcing, to lengthen this next exhale… Imagine yourself softening around - letting go of what can be released, resting into the reality of this moment, giving full permission to be, feel, and even befriend exactly what is here.
Now, as you open into the space inside and around you, what are you genuinely moved to do, and not do? What do you genuinely want?
The historical Buddha said, “Have few desires, but have great ones.” What are your great desires in this life; what do you want to do and be before you die?
And, what is extra - extra striving, extra tension, extra proving? Is it possible to let go a little of the extra, and relax into a deeper longing, an ever-present fire in the belly that wants your attention, a gift hidden somewhere below the surface that wants to be born through you, come into form, and perhaps meet a real need in the world?
Imagine yourself softening, resourcing deeply, and then powerfully cultivating your great gifts and desires. Feel the aliveness now that carries you all along the way. There’s no rush, and simultaneously, there is no time to waste. Our world needs your unique gifts.
Group Learning and Togetherness
Supporting Individual Process through Group Connection
We don’t have to do this work-play alone. It can be powerful, effective, challenging and more fun to play with others in a shared container of resourcing and generating.
Not only that, we are built to be interconnected. Our nervous systems are designed for interconnection and we do best when we are operating in an atmosphere of loving kindness.
Everyone’s efforts root and resonate power into the things we’re calling into form and this connecting can be a weaving and a co-mingling.
Collaborations may arrive; interconnections may prove fertile. Great ideas may spring out of unexpected conversations, creative collisions and happy 'accidents'. Ideas catch fire in people and need people to mobilise and express them. To draw them into form.
Together we are more powerful and more than the sum of our parts.
This program is a rare invitation to cultivate rich intimacy with the souls you are travelling along side. Let us dare to be witnessed in the triumphs, the challenges and the in between moments and to grow all the more sturdy and rich for those moments having being shared.
Not only that, we are built to be interconnected. Our nervous systems are designed for interconnection and we do best when we are operating in an atmosphere of loving kindness.
Everyone’s efforts root and resonate power into the things we’re calling into form and this connecting can be a weaving and a co-mingling.
Collaborations may arrive; interconnections may prove fertile. Great ideas may spring out of unexpected conversations, creative collisions and happy 'accidents'. Ideas catch fire in people and need people to mobilise and express them. To draw them into form.
Together we are more powerful and more than the sum of our parts.
This program is a rare invitation to cultivate rich intimacy with the souls you are travelling along side. Let us dare to be witnessed in the triumphs, the challenges and the in between moments and to grow all the more sturdy and rich for those moments having being shared.
- Process -
:: phase one :: R E S O U R C E :: (14th March- 30th May)
- Deep Resource. Sourcing Nourishment from three Fields - Somatic / Interpersonal / Numinous
:: phase two :: T H R E S H O L D :: :: (1st - 7th June retreat)
Cultivating a Generative Practice / Celebration Portal & Commitment Ceremony
:: phase three :: G E N E R A T E :: ::(13th June- 26th Sept)
- Gift Activation - Grit in the Oyster/ Making & Business as Sacred Activism & Exchange / Meeting The Needs Of The World / Making A Living.
* * *
MORE ABOUT THE THRESHOLD RETREAT
1st - 7th June - This is currently planned as a live online retreat. There will also be offline explorations as part of this time together so please plan to keep this whole period free. You will get the most out if it, if you allow it to be fully immersive.
All tuition is included in your sign up fee.
MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS
Generally these are at a fixed time on a Thursday and happen on the 2nd & 3rd Thursdays of the month. They run for 2 x hours, are experientially focused and cover various themes. Some themes will be pre-planned, others will be emergent as the group needs reveal themselves. Brooke & Rachel will co-teach all of the workshops. For dates and times the live workshops, scroll down.
MORE ABOUT THE INTEGRATION MEET UPS
These 90 minutes sessions are held with the intention of supporting your learning to be further digested through group process and deeper sharing. Also to support group connection for people who may not be able to be present for the live workshops due to time zones and other constraints. They are your spaces to use as you need. They will be lightly facilitated by either Brooke or Rachel and occasionally both. They will be offered in the fourth week of the month and timings will adapt to the needs of the group. So far we have 6 scheduled for Thursdays at the usual time (see below). More will be added according to the group's needs. we are aiming for roughly 2 of these a month.
MORE ABOUT THE REST WEEKS & INDIVIDUAL COACHING SESSIONS
The rest weeks are scheduled for you to get on with your projects, catch up with your peer group, have your monthly coaching session or - you know - REST!
Individual coaching sessions can be taken at any point during the month according to Brooke & Rachel's availability. Your sign up fee gives you 6 individual sessions. 3 with each teacher and additional sessions are available as you need at half price for the duration of the program *where available.
- Deep Resource. Sourcing Nourishment from three Fields - Somatic / Interpersonal / Numinous
:: phase two :: T H R E S H O L D :: :: (1st - 7th June retreat)
Cultivating a Generative Practice / Celebration Portal & Commitment Ceremony
:: phase three :: G E N E R A T E :: ::(13th June- 26th Sept)
- Gift Activation - Grit in the Oyster/ Making & Business as Sacred Activism & Exchange / Meeting The Needs Of The World / Making A Living.
* * *
MORE ABOUT THE THRESHOLD RETREAT
1st - 7th June - This is currently planned as a live online retreat. There will also be offline explorations as part of this time together so please plan to keep this whole period free. You will get the most out if it, if you allow it to be fully immersive.
All tuition is included in your sign up fee.
MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS
Generally these are at a fixed time on a Thursday and happen on the 2nd & 3rd Thursdays of the month. They run for 2 x hours, are experientially focused and cover various themes. Some themes will be pre-planned, others will be emergent as the group needs reveal themselves. Brooke & Rachel will co-teach all of the workshops. For dates and times the live workshops, scroll down.
MORE ABOUT THE INTEGRATION MEET UPS
These 90 minutes sessions are held with the intention of supporting your learning to be further digested through group process and deeper sharing. Also to support group connection for people who may not be able to be present for the live workshops due to time zones and other constraints. They are your spaces to use as you need. They will be lightly facilitated by either Brooke or Rachel and occasionally both. They will be offered in the fourth week of the month and timings will adapt to the needs of the group. So far we have 6 scheduled for Thursdays at the usual time (see below). More will be added according to the group's needs. we are aiming for roughly 2 of these a month.
MORE ABOUT THE REST WEEKS & INDIVIDUAL COACHING SESSIONS
The rest weeks are scheduled for you to get on with your projects, catch up with your peer group, have your monthly coaching session or - you know - REST!
Individual coaching sessions can be taken at any point during the month according to Brooke & Rachel's availability. Your sign up fee gives you 6 individual sessions. 3 with each teacher and additional sessions are available as you need at half price for the duration of the program *where available.
Dates For Your Diary
DATES FOR THE LIVE WORKSHOPS & INTEGRATION MEET UPS
The basic rhythm of these are 2 x consecutive weeks of workshops on a Thursday that go for 2 hours each, 1 x integration call (90 minutes at a flexible time) & 1 x rest week each month. With slight adaptations around the midpoint retreat & the ending.
Thursdays in March -
14th & 21st - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
28th - Integration meet up (TBC example only) 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
Thursdays in April -
4th - REST WEEK
11th & 18th - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
25th - Integration meet up (TBC - example only) 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
Thursdays in May -
2nd - REST WEEK
9th & 16th - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
23rd - Integration meet up (TBC. example only) 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
30th - REST WEEK
JUNE RETREAT - 1 - 7th Inclusive
This is a live retreat, online times are:
4 - 8pm UK / 9 - 1pm MT / 11 - 3pm ET
Thursdays in June -
13th Integration meet up 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
20th & 27th - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
Thursdays in July -
4th - REST WEEK
11th & 18th - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
25th - Integration meet up (TBC example only) 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
Thursdays in August -
1st - REST WEEK
8th & 15th - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
22nd - Integration meet up (TBC example only) 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
29th - REST WEEK
Thursdays in September -
5th Workshop - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
12th - Rest week
19th - Equinox Workshop - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
26th - Completion meet up 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
The basic rhythm of these are 2 x consecutive weeks of workshops on a Thursday that go for 2 hours each, 1 x integration call (90 minutes at a flexible time) & 1 x rest week each month. With slight adaptations around the midpoint retreat & the ending.
Thursdays in March -
14th & 21st - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
28th - Integration meet up (TBC example only) 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
Thursdays in April -
4th - REST WEEK
11th & 18th - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
25th - Integration meet up (TBC - example only) 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
Thursdays in May -
2nd - REST WEEK
9th & 16th - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
23rd - Integration meet up (TBC. example only) 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
30th - REST WEEK
JUNE RETREAT - 1 - 7th Inclusive
This is a live retreat, online times are:
4 - 8pm UK / 9 - 1pm MT / 11 - 3pm ET
Thursdays in June -
13th Integration meet up 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
20th & 27th - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
Thursdays in July -
4th - REST WEEK
11th & 18th - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
25th - Integration meet up (TBC example only) 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
Thursdays in August -
1st - REST WEEK
8th & 15th - Workshops - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
22nd - Integration meet up (TBC example only) 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
29th - REST WEEK
Thursdays in September -
5th Workshop - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
12th - Rest week
19th - Equinox Workshop - 11am - 1pm MT / 6pm - 8pm UK
26th - Completion meet up 11am - 12.30pm MT / 6pm - 7.30pm UK
Curious And Want To Know More?
We are hosting some free mini workshops & Q&As over the next few months to help you make a decision.
We are running 4 x different opportunities to come and explore what it is like to work with us, with a space for Q&As about the program.
These are running at different times of day to accommodate our different time zones and traveling. To check how these relate to your time zone, go here.
The dates for these are listed below. Please click on the date and time that works best for you to sign up. Come to as many as you want!
21st (22nd) December US / AUSTRALIA
21 December (US time) 3.30 - 4.30pm MT / 10.30pm UK /22 December (Aust) - 9.30 - 10.30am Sydney
18 January 10.30 - 11.15am MT / 5.30 - 6.30pm UK time / 6.30 - 7.30pm EU
~~ CLICK HERE TO SEE THE RECORDING FROM THIS SESSION ~~
8 February 10.30 - 11.30am MT / 5.30 - 6.30pm UK time
~~ CLICK HERE TO SEE THE RECORDING FROM THIS SESSION ~~
* the 29th of February session was canceled.
If you'd like a deeper cut, we ran a 90 minute workshop recently that will give you more of a flavour of how it is to work with us at depth.
SOMATICS & POETRY FOR TENDING TO A SOFTENING HEART - An ever-green workshop with Rachel & Brooke - £40 / 30 GDP ($48 / 36 USD)
How to Apply & Next Steps
Applications are now closed for 2024 and the program is full. If you'd like to be on a waiting list or learn more about when applications are live for the 2025 program, please email Jayme on [email protected].
To apply, you will be invited to fill out a short application form followed by a 30 minute zoom conversation with Brooke & Rachel. The aim of the zoom call is to get to know you a little better personally and see if we are all an easy fit.
This work is very intimate and not for everybody. It important we feel like we can all work together in both an individual and group capacity. We will be assuming you are curious about both being self responsible with your own process as well as being a generative presence within the group environment.
The program is also a significant financial investment and we want to do everything we can to support you to feel like entering is the right choice for you in this moment. If it is, it will feel like a YES.
Everyone is welcome to apply. No pre-requisites are necessary, although you might find it helpful have an experience of what it is like to be in one of our facilitated spaces. Are we your cup of tea?
To apply, you will be invited to fill out a short application form followed by a 30 minute zoom conversation with Brooke & Rachel. The aim of the zoom call is to get to know you a little better personally and see if we are all an easy fit.
This work is very intimate and not for everybody. It important we feel like we can all work together in both an individual and group capacity. We will be assuming you are curious about both being self responsible with your own process as well as being a generative presence within the group environment.
The program is also a significant financial investment and we want to do everything we can to support you to feel like entering is the right choice for you in this moment. If it is, it will feel like a YES.
Everyone is welcome to apply. No pre-requisites are necessary, although you might find it helpful have an experience of what it is like to be in one of our facilitated spaces. Are we your cup of tea?
What's Included
- 3 x 1:1 coaching sessions with Brooke & Rachel. So 6 x all together.
- 14 x live groups workshops facilitated by Brooke & Rachel.
- 11 x integration sessions facilitated live across multiple time zones with either Rachel or Brooke.
- A summer 6 day retreat intensive live, online*
- Life time availability of recordings of all the group sessions.
- Intimate peer groups, private Facebook community and What's App support.
- half price additional 1:1 coaching sessions for the duration of the program. (£75 saving per session)
INVESTMENT - £2150.00 GDP / $2690.00 USD.
EARLY BIRD price £1850.00 GDP / $2315.00 USD (register before the 16th FEB 2024).
Both price brackets are available as either a one off payment or in 7 and 10 monthly instalments.
Following receipt of your application and follow up zoom call, If it feels like we are all a fit, an upfront non refundable deposit of £400 GDP / $500 US will be due upon registration. The next installment (or the remainder) is due on the 11th of March - the Monday before the program commences. If you are on a payment plan, that amount is due no later than the second Monday of each month.
Cancellation policy for 2024: Your deposit is nonrefundable. Those needing to cancel before April 18 will receive back 50% of their remaining tuition after deposit. There will be no refunds for cancellations after April 18.
- 14 x live groups workshops facilitated by Brooke & Rachel.
- 11 x integration sessions facilitated live across multiple time zones with either Rachel or Brooke.
- A summer 6 day retreat intensive live, online*
- Life time availability of recordings of all the group sessions.
- Intimate peer groups, private Facebook community and What's App support.
- half price additional 1:1 coaching sessions for the duration of the program. (£75 saving per session)
INVESTMENT - £2150.00 GDP / $2690.00 USD.
EARLY BIRD price £1850.00 GDP / $2315.00 USD (register before the 16th FEB 2024).
Both price brackets are available as either a one off payment or in 7 and 10 monthly instalments.
Following receipt of your application and follow up zoom call, If it feels like we are all a fit, an upfront non refundable deposit of £400 GDP / $500 US will be due upon registration. The next installment (or the remainder) is due on the 11th of March - the Monday before the program commences. If you are on a payment plan, that amount is due no later than the second Monday of each month.
Cancellation policy for 2024: Your deposit is nonrefundable. Those needing to cancel before April 18 will receive back 50% of their remaining tuition after deposit. There will be no refunds for cancellations after April 18.
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
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
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 4 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.
This photo is by Shad.
www.vibrantbody.co.uk
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 4 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.
This photo is by Shad.
www.vibrantbody.co.uk
Images -
Prayer Hands - by Arun Narayanan
Astronaut - vai Unsplash
Fire - by Benjamin De Young
Ritual Shapes - by Ashley Batz
Ritual Objects - by Todd Quackenbush
Pastels - by Peter F
Companions - by Joseph Pearson
Conversation - by Priscilla Du Preez
Moon cycles - by Alexandra Andrews
Spring Path - by Annie Spratt
Leaf reflection - by Javardh
Blank page - by Kelly Sikkema
Potters wheel - by Swapnil Divedi
Angled Photographer - by Aziz Acharki
Adventuring Letters - Hector J Rivas
Tomato harvest - by Valentina Ivanova
Lightning in the desert - by Jonathan Blackman
Composing - by Sound Trap
Sand thrown - by Kunj Parekh
Floating girl - by Ashley Bean
Roots - by Cory Vincent