The Sentient Body

Rediscover your sentient body, the connection between your inner compass and the living system of the Earth in Tamera’s healing field.

Overview

“Fill up with Creation … feel your way through the world. See, smell and taste the way animals do, in natural presence… Let go of the old again and again, opening up to something new…. The result is a person who, with amusing calm, has integrated the many aspects of beingness as a creator. A deep reconciliation occurs with oneself and with the world, and this reconciliation can bring forth true change.”
– Sabine Lichtenfels, Sources of Love and Peace

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the challenges of our times? In our fast-paced, digital age, distressed by human and ecological crises, it’s easy to lose touch with our bodies, the Earth, and a healthy sense of orientation. We’re in an era of widespread individual and collective dissociation.

This week is an opportunity to slow down, center yourself and reawaken your innate capacity for perception and connection with what is going on inside and around you. Guided by experienced facilitators, you’ll journey into nourishing somatic work and deepened Earth connection in a community context.

Together we’ll:

• practice staying present and together as we recognise the impacts of modernity on our internal and external worlds
• listen to the healing impulses of our bodies and nature and explore how far we can connect with and trust ourselves, other people and the more than human realm

• overcome the isolation inherent in mainstream individualism in authentic, embodied and creative ways
• embrace complexity and challenging our binary thinking
• experiencing all forms of life, including humanity, as part of the living organism of the Earth – as it is, sentient and sacred.

“Sometimes it takes me a long time to listen, still plugged into the communications of humans and less sensitive to the slow stone clicks, the barometric dips and kisses, the deep somatic twitches of how a landscape both beckons us to its body and then, sometimes, sends us on our way.”
– Sophie Strand

Who is the course for?

• People who are ready to feel their connection with and love for life on Earth
• People with or without their own embodiment and creative practices
• People who are available for healing and growth through their bodies and in connection with nature, creativity and other humans
• Those who are ready for a break from the demands of their normality and are comfortable in, or ready to be challenged by unplanned, non-linear logic and the surprising insights that brings

What you’ll learn

• Practices to help you develop a finer perception of what is present within you, to listen to the body’s subtle signals, allowing you to tap into your inner resources for healing and growth
• Techniques to settle your nervous system, reduce stress, and enhance your overall well-being
• Ways to connect with nature so you can feel yourself as part of it; as belonging
• Playful, creative and embodied ways to express yourself and to connect with other people in profound compassion
• How to develop resilience and capacity for navigating life’s challenges
• Ways in which your presence can have a positive impact on your surroundings

This is an emerging Healing Biotope where we work to reconnect and restore the wholeness of life. Courses are focused on topics, but all of our research exists in an interconnected web, so your learning will likely expand on other areas.

As a learner, you can join our morning offers, which can include things like Yoga and Qi Gong. You’ll also be able to join in whole community events, like our Sunday matinee, the Ring of Power and Political Cafes.

Course content

• Somatic work: Exploring the wisdom of one’s own body through practices that include Qi Gong and dance and group harmonizing
• Connecting with the land: Activity and stillness in the natural world to listen for your relation and role within it
• Sharing your experiences, insights and challenges with others in an open-hearted and nurturing environment
• Artistic exploration in which we invite serendipity and the unconscious to play with your usual perception of reality
• Engagement with creative modalities, like dance, theater, clowning, drawing, painting, working with clay, body-painting and voice work

Joining instructions

We invite you to:

• Use this time for a “Digital Detox”, to make arrangements that allow you to unplug, or minimize phone and online communication, for this week
• Hold back from sexual contact with others during this retreat, as we want to increase the capacity to stay present and expansive in the liminal experience of erotic energy

Pre-requisites

• Participation in an Introduction week