Two days of complementary practices for experiential learning and self-discovery. In the Saturday workshop we will be developing sensory awareness and interconnectedness through the exquisite exercises of Deep Listening® and The Naked Voice. We will experience gentle energy movements, mantra and mudras, attention to our environment, mindful walk practices, dream and voice-work. On Sunday we will be listening to the body in a shared dialogue of safe, non-intrusive Clean Touch, as we discover ways of deep body wisdom communication through the magic of metaphor.
The workshops can be taken separately, or together for the very best experience of interconnected practices.
All welcome: no prior experience necessary. Maximum group size of 10.
Cost £50/day (concessions – please ask) or £45 early-bird if paid by end of March.
For booking, directions to the workshop, and questions, contact: jackie.calderwood@btopenworld.com
Please bring delicious food to share for a vegetarian lunch. Soup, tea, coffee & tisanes will be provided. Onsite B&B Accommodation available – please ask.
Saturday 14th April: LISTEN – SOUND – MOVE A Day of Interweaving Practices from DEEP LISTENING® and THE NAKED VOICE
The workshop will bring together practices from both of these extraordinary rich and deep transformative bodies of work. We will explore the interconnectedness of sound and movement, listening, stillness, silence, voice, self and community. No previous experience is necessary. Please bring a journal and optional cushion or blanket.
Deep Listening®, developed over forty years by American composer Pauline Oliveros, is a way of listening ‘in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds’. Through a process of inner and outer listening, you will be guided to experience global and focal listening, noticing your body and bringing your dreams to consciousness, to expand your awareness of sound as it travels in time and space, encountering many possible audible forms beyond ordinary sound perceptions in daily life. https://deeplisteningaphiliateuk.wordpress.com/deep-listening/
The Naked Voice is ‘your original voice, fully-embodied, naturally-expressed, and free of self-consciousness. It is your authentic sound, as unique as your DNA or fingerprint’, and can be explored and catalysed with the vocal practices focused in over thirty years research by founder Chloë Goodchild, integrated with energy practices and mudras from the movement art-form Shintaido (meaning ‘new body way’). http://www.thenakedvoice.com
Inês R. Amado is an artist, curator and researcher. ‘My interests are in art and activities that connect people; different areas of society that all have something to say. We are all interdependent and interconnected, to strengthen and underpin that, most of my work relies on connectivity, collaboration and participation, whist focusing the individual I question the collective.’ http://www.breadmatters.org
Inês has a long experience of running academic courses, workshops and intensive classes, which explore a range of integrated practices and methods that can open and develop insight and bridge the gap between knowledge and consciousness. She holds a certificate in Deep Listening® and is a founding member of Deep Listening® in the UK.
Jackie Calderwood is a media artist, researcher, facilitator, holistic practitioner and creative consultant and has been working with the Naked Voice practices for four years. She is training as a facilitator of the Naked Voice and has assisted founder Chloë Goodchild on retreats in Canada and Gloucestershire. Jackie holds a fortnightly Naked Voice practice group in Wincanton.
Cost £50/day (concessions – please ask) or £45 early-bird if paid by end of March.
For booking, directions to the workshop, and questions, contact: jackie.calderwood@btopenworld.com
Please bring delicious food to share for a vegetarian lunch. Soup, tea, coffee & tisanes will be provided. Onsite B&B Accommodation available – please ask.
Sunday 15th April: CLEAN TOUCH Day Workshop
Clean Touch is a process that invites a client (or receiver of touch) to access their body’s wisdom through the creation of metaphor in a shared dialogue of giving and receiving touch, using specialised questions drawn from David Grove’s Clean Language alongside techniques from massage and guided meditation/mindfulness. Clean Touch is always different and unique to the person at that moment. Working with touch, embodied metaphor and Clean Language enables a dialogue that is completely focused on the needs of the individual’s system and opens the door for rich multisensory communication; facilitating relaxation, greater self-knowledge and potential change.
http://www.cleantouchmassage.com/about
Jeni Edge and Jackie Calderwood are both experienced Clean facilitators and massage practitioners. Clean Touch is the result of their exploration of using Clean with massage, and then adapting their process for non-specialists to use, through clothing, in a safe communal learning environment. They presented the first workshop on Clean Touch at the International Clean Conference, London in 2013 and continue to innovate and share new ways of working in workshops and private sessions. Jackie is a Reiki Master Teacher and EMF Balancing Technique™ practitioner, she draws on a holistic approach to wellbeing and the use of Clean in her recent doctoral research and her art practice. Jeni is a psychotherapist, with a private practice in Somerset and Bristol. http://www.jenniferedge.org
For more about the experience of learning Clean Touch, and ‘how to ask questions your body can answer’ – using Clean with a range of bodywork practices – we recommend Nick Pole’s excellent book Words that Touch, 2017.
Jeni and Jackie will be offering a day workshop of Clean Touch, suitable for any level of experience, in Wincanton, Somerset on Sunday 15th April. Arrive from 10am for 10.30 start, finishing at 4.30pm. Expect a relaxing, insightful and energising day with lots of practical tools to take away and use with friends, family, clients – or just to enjoy for yourself!
The workshop will include:
- an introduction to Clean Language, Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge as we use them in Clean Touch.
- relaxing guided meditation to deepen your own awareness and explore self-touch through the magic of metaphor.
- demonstrations, practice and discussion exploring Clean Touch as a giver and receiver of touch working with your own body, sharing with another, and the dynamic movement of working with two or more facilitators.
Clean Touch can be used alongside other forms of bodywork, therapy and expressive arts: and can be given and received without the need to remove clothing.
Cost £50/day (concessions – please ask) or £45 early-bird if paid by end of March.
For booking, directions to the workshop, and questions, contact: jackie.calderwood@btopenworld.com
Please bring delicious food to share for a vegetarian lunch. Soup, tea, coffee & tisanes will be provided. Onsite B&B Accommodation available – please ask.
