In this course you will be encouraged to explore using your lived experience and felt sense rather than things you think you know. Of course knowing things is important too... but we'll get to that later... 

Through, movement, imagination and touch, you will move through 7 x deep dive Experiential Anatomy workshops and 5 Feldenkrais classes. You will discover ways of coming into relationship with parts of yourself that you may not have imagined possible. 

We will share about what we encountered and then further support our learning with science.

The primary focus of this course is to re-home your imagination, envisioning, felt sense and instinct in an integrated and earthed place within your experience of being embodied.   

What It Is

A 12 week course of 7 anatomy and physiology exploration workshops and 5 Feldenkrais lessons.

  • Being In a Body - Primary Experience

    Most of our time together will be devoted to themed somatic explorations... that means experiential, process based learning, for deepening our personal relationship with our anatomy & physiology. This will involve movement, imagination, visualisation and self touch.

  • Sharing Circles

    Some time in each live workshop, will be put aside for sharing - both in smaller groups and in the large group. What did you encounter in the exploration? There will also be a community page for continuing the sharing. This is an important part of deepening your experience and understanding.

  • Imaging & 3D maps

    After the experiential session, we will visit some relevant 3D anatomical maps for further context and ongoing research. I will also point you in the direction of relevant texts.

  • Feldenkrais classes

    interspersed with the workshops are 5 pre-recorded Feldenkrais classes, for you to do in your own time. These have been added to develop and enrich certain aspects of what we have been exploring in the previous workshops.

  • Recordings for life

    You will have access to the recordings of all the live workshops and all the Feldenkrais classes to keep for life. To do in your own time, or revisit as your ongoing enquiry deepens. The idea is that this becomes a living library.

  • Synthesis & Integration

    How do we put this all together and use this knowledge to enrich our experience of being alive? How might it be relevant to our work? We will explore real life applications.

About Your Host

Rachel Blackman

Rachel is a somatic educator with over 20 years experience. She has worked both clinically (hands on) and remotely, in classrooms, in groups, one to one and in training programs locally and internationally.

She is fiercely passionate about supporting us to re-home our whole selves in our embodied experience and grow a more sustainable way of being.

For 8 years she worked as a guest trainer and then co-lead trainer at The Embodied Facilitator Course. Now she trains coaches to work with the body at The Somatic School. Her specialisms are touch, play, imagination and expression.

She is also a trained actor, Feldenkrais practitioner, theatre maker, improvisor, somatic coach, creativity consultant and mentor.

Rachel grew up on unceded Bungalung and Eora lands in what is now NSW Australia. Most of her people are still there. She lives in Brighton UK with her husband and bonus son.

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