What This Is

An 8 Week Course for supporting the love that comes your way to be felt, experienced more deeply and turned into useful nutrition that blesses you and spills over into those you come into contact with.

We will explore with an intimate group, working with dynamic Somatic, Ritual and interactive Creative practices, to bring this theme to life. The work is weekly and designed to be accumulative. So in a sense you will be developing your own receiving tool kit. You will leave the course with a swag of methods for enhancing your capacity to recognise and tolerate goodness when it is offered to you. 

We will also do some work on invocation and cultivating what you would like to have happen. This is the natural extension of receiving the good: we want to give back and co-create. We want to find ways of supporting life to happen through us. 

It comprises 8 x 90 minute live, experiential  workshops that happen weekly on a Thursday afternoon UK time. The course is timed to coincide with Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. 

 'If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, 

don’t hesitate. Give in to it…

It could be anything, 

but very likely you notice it in the instant 

when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the

case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid 

of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.'

~ Mary Oliver (from Don't Hesitate)  

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Rachel tells us what to expect in this course

Why This Work

How are you with compliments? How deeply are you able to be with a gift when it is given? Do you even recognise it as a gift in the moment?

Sometimes, it can be very complicated to receive the good that is sitting right there in front of us. The good that everyone else can see. That is staring us in the face, but which we may miss if we are facing elsewhere.

Once I took one of my shows up to the Edinburgh Fringe festival. We paid a press agent a chunk of money so we got decent press and plenty of reviews. The press came. They loved it. Great reviews! Four and five star reviews! I didn't dare read any of them because I didn't want to get a big head. I didn't want it to distract me from my work. Then one day we got a 2 star review. A 2 star review! Yikes. Reader, which review do you think i read and re- read and read some more? Which review do you think I obsessed over and went to bed thinking about and woke up thinking about some more and learned off by heart?You guessed right.

This course is a laboratory for learning or possibly re-learning the art of being enough, receiving goodness, focusing on what is possible (instead of getting obsessed with what isn't working). Turn the good into something you can risk sharing and cultivate more of it in the world.

'Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.'


~ Mother Theresa

Course curriculum

    1. Live Call - Thursday, 14th May, 4pm to 5:30pm

    2. The Many Gifts of Cultivating Gratitude

    3. Embodying Practice

    1. Live Call - Thursday, 21st May, 4pm to 5:30pm

    2. Practicing Compliments and other Discomforts

    3. Adopting a Playful, Experimental Attitude - Group Game

    1. Live Call - Thursday, 28th May, 4pm to 5:30pm

    2. Ways of Meeting and Working with the Shame of Recvieving - Somatic Relational Practice

    3. Calibrating the Good & Making it Digestible - Group Game

    1. Live Call - Thursday, 4th June, 4pm to 5:30pm

    2. Support for What You'd Like to Have Happen - Ritual

    3. Compliment Practice #2: Exploring Via Pitch, Frequency, Shape & Movement - Somatic Creative Practice

    1. Live Call - Thursday, 11th June, 4pm to 5:30pm

    2. Somatic Sounding Prayer for calling in something longed for

    3. Preparing the Senses to Receive - Somatic Visualisation

    1. Live Call - Thursday, 18th June, 4pm to 5:30pm

    2. Imagining into What you Would Like To Have Happen: Drawing and Constellating - Group Game

    3. Support For What You Would Like To Have Happen - Ritual

About this course

  • 8 x 90 minute live workshops
  • Somatic, Creative and Ritual Toolkit for Beyond The Course
  • Intimate Group Learning

Free Taster Workshop

If you are curious about this course and would like a taster of the kind of things to expect,
you can access a recording of a free taster workshop below.

Time, Energy & Commitment

This course is designed to be highly interactive and many of the exercises are created to be done live in small groups or pairs. If turning up live is impossible for you due to life commitments or time zone, fear not! You will be given options to explore some of the games offline with a real life pal if you are drawn to it. This will be encouraged for whether you are joining live or not. Finding a practice partner might look like: a willing flat mate, family member, or a lover. The tone is playful and light. No one needs to be an expert of anything. In-fact you will be better served by letting go of needing to know much of anything at all and simply exploring like a child might!

The work comprises 8 x 90 minute workshops that happen weekly plus creative prompts for continuing the exploration into the week and into your life beyond the course. If your time is limited, you will get plenty out of it simply by turning up to the live calls (90 mins per week) . If you are a keen bean and want to invest more heavily, you could do the follow up practices daily and meet up with a peer to practice and consolidate between the workshops. This might look like a commitment of roughly 3 hours per week.

Pricing options

This course has two price points. A Regular price and a Benefactor price.

The regular price can either be paid in a lump sum or as a monthly payment plan at a cadence that suits your budget. If you choose the benefactor price, it opens up a scholarship space for folks who would not otherwise be able to afford the course.

Who is this course for?

And what will I get out of it?

This course is for you if you are someone who would like to develop a more vibrant relationship with receiving the nourishment that is available within you and all around you in the present moment.

This course might also be for you if you enjoy group games as a way to explore and learn, along with creative practice, embodiment and ritual. You might also be interested in some of these things and have not experience of them. You don't need to have experience of any of these things to get plenty out of it, a simple open curiosity is enough.

This course might not be for you if any of the above ways of working simply don't feel like your jam. Also if you are in the Americas you might find it tricky to make the live calls as they will be crazy early in the morning for you. You might, however be able to be paired with someone else in your time zone for co-exploring via the recordings.

Our hope for this program is that you will come away with a living tool box of things you can do to help receiving happen more readily in your life. To recognise it when it is happening and take time to enjoy it. And that this goodness can be harnessed, woven and catalysed into worldly creations that chime with your heart and bless the world.