We have all been traumatised, even if not by overt violence. To be traumatised is to carry defensive tension that restricts your perception, action and behaviour. This tension is embedded in neuromuscular tissue. Neuromuscular tissue acts on the basis of habit, through neuromuscular pathways. Neuromuscular pathways can be simple or complex, local or nonlocal, strong or weak. How strong they are depends upon how much they, or their subsidiary pathways, have been used before. How local or complex they are depends on the nature of your movement and how many muscles are needed to bring it about. They strengthen through use, and atrophy through disuse. Individual muscles participate in many different pathways, and different pathways can bring about the same, or very similar movements and actions.
When your body is shocked, or more slowly driven, into chronic defensiveness (traumatised) this defensiveness is sustained by powerful and rigid neuromuscular pathways. The neurological element of these pathways is locked in freeze mode. Your muscles are in chronic restriction or tension, limiting your movements and actions. While these pathways can be released in many simple ways, this release, however long it lasts, is temporary. Your nervous system will soon return to its default defensive mode.
In order to dissolve traumatic residue embedded in neuromuscular tissue you need to both dissolve your defensive pathways, and establish new wholesome pathways. While both can take place simultaneously, it takes time, and a recalibration of your whole body. Dissolving defensive residue requires repetition of soft, safe movements that engage all of the traumatised muscles so that they soften out of freeze mode. Establishing strong wholesome pathways requires repetition of a range of movements that also engages all traumatised muscles. Without these new pathways your body will return to its defensive default mode. Because your body acts as a unit the movements you use must engage all the motor, respiratory and structural muscles of your body. Learning how to do this is the heart of this Immersion.
This 24 hour Immersion is open to anyone who can walk upstairs unaided. It will provide you with a solid foundation for both dissolving traumatic residue and establishing stable neuromuscular Pathways of Wholeness. These will both take place through a practice sequence that is as potent as it is as accessible as it is healing.
Using movement as a preparation for sustained stillness you will be immersed in the Momentum Towards Wholeness of Natural Intelligence so that it can guide and fertilise your movements and actions. This fertilisation will spill out from your mat and into daily life, especially if you maintain a regular daily practice. At the same time regular practice will prepare the whole of your body to do traditional yoga postures more safely, satisfyingly and effectively due to your new Pathways of Wholeness.
Saturday November 4 & Sunday November 5 16.00-19.30 CET
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday, Friday November 6-10 18.00-20.00 CET
Saturday November 11 & Sunday November 12 16.00-19.30 CET
All sessions will be recorded and available for two months after the end of the course.
£195 includes practice notes.
When your body is shocked, or more slowly driven, into chronic defensiveness (traumatised) this defensiveness is sustained by powerful and rigid neuromuscular pathways. The neurological element of these pathways is locked in freeze mode. Your muscles are in chronic restriction or tension, limiting your movements and actions. While these pathways can be released in many simple ways, this release, however long it lasts, is temporary. Your nervous system will soon return to its default defensive mode.
In order to dissolve traumatic residue embedded in neuromuscular tissue you need to both dissolve your defensive pathways, and establish new wholesome pathways. While both can take place simultaneously, it takes time, and a recalibration of your whole body. Dissolving defensive residue requires repetition of soft, safe movements that engage all of the traumatised muscles so that they soften out of freeze mode. Establishing strong wholesome pathways requires repetition of a range of movements that also engages all traumatised muscles. Without these new pathways your body will return to its defensive default mode. Because your body acts as a unit the movements you use must engage all the motor, respiratory and structural muscles of your body. Learning how to do this is the heart of this Immersion.
This 24 hour Immersion is open to anyone who can walk upstairs unaided. It will provide you with a solid foundation for both dissolving traumatic residue and establishing stable neuromuscular Pathways of Wholeness. These will both take place through a practice sequence that is as potent as it is as accessible as it is healing.
Using movement as a preparation for sustained stillness you will be immersed in the Momentum Towards Wholeness of Natural Intelligence so that it can guide and fertilise your movements and actions. This fertilisation will spill out from your mat and into daily life, especially if you maintain a regular daily practice. At the same time regular practice will prepare the whole of your body to do traditional yoga postures more safely, satisfyingly and effectively due to your new Pathways of Wholeness.
Saturday November 4 & Sunday November 5 16.00-19.30 CET
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday, Friday November 6-10 18.00-20.00 CET
Saturday November 11 & Sunday November 12 16.00-19.30 CET
All sessions will be recorded and available for two months after the end of the course.
£195 includes practice notes.