Readying 2023, Embodying Your Year & Walking Your Path is a two day in-person workshop on 21/22
January working with embodiment and somatic practices, activating body, mind and soul; imagination, emotion, intuition, and intent; towards embodying your purpose and your vision for the coming year. I warmly invite you to join me and explore what may be possible.
When you think about the coming year, what changes do you want to make? Towards what are you being called? What is the path you want to travel? What is the difference you want to make?
Following your path is not only about where you are walking but how you are walking and how you are shaping yourself for the journey. Moving towards our future self tends to require a reshaping from our current bodymind patterns into new potentialities able for what we want to create,
The mind is not always sufficient to make the difference. When we engage the body and integrate the intelligences of head, heart and gut we bring more potential and possibility to the table. What might emerge by being more centred and aligned within yourself and the relational field. We never create alone.
“….the path is made by walking. By walking one makes the path…” Antonio Machado
“Having worked with Paul and leadership embodiment practices I discovered how my body wasn’t always congruent with my intentions. I was curious how exploring how I am walking my path would enable the journey, shift what I’m wanting and what I can achieve and realise. In the initial explorations I became increasingly more aware of the subtle and nuanced ways the patterning of the body coalesced to ‘take me’ in one direction even when my heart and mind were directed towards another. I’ve learnt to find space, capacity, and uplift (joy) by taking ‘the curved path’, as well as find increased momentum with resulting spaciousness to follow the call. There is a rather wonderful paradox that emerges in staying soft. Those hooks and derailers, which we all have, lost some of their potency. Instead of embodied efforting with the practice of receiving, more of what I’m desiring is finding me.”
Coach & Consultant
Some elements of the two-days:
Shaping yourself for the emergent journey, exploring your habitual patterns of organising, their gifts and their limitations and exploring other enabling possibilities to support your journey . Deepening the power of centring, aligning head, heart and hara and opening to the greater field, bringing together perception, compassion, courage, and confidence. Stocking your backpack with resources from within and without. We will work with additional embodiment and breath practices to deepen your connection to your hara and core.
Travelling the path, a walk is a constant conversation between losing balance and finding balance along your path. The Western mindset with its over emphasis on willful efforting can take the body and mind off-balance. Swinging between too much try hard and losing direction or giving up. There is balance to be found embracing the wisdom of yin and yang, the complementarity of apparent opposites. Balancing focused intent and listening to the call. Making things happen and allowing. Reaching towards your vision while also letting the vision come to you. Intensifying and softening, Action, pausing, listening, reflecting, experimenting, adjusting, and so it goes… How are you breathing?
Meeting derailment As we are all very aware “life does not always go to plan”. It is helpful to prepare for those disruptions, resistances, doubts and challenges that may arise, before they happen. This will include considering patterns of holding and stuckness, and embodying agility and flexibility.
As another saying goes, “Be ready(ing) for anything, expect(ing) nothing’.
Coaching I am offering the option of two workshop follow up coaching sessions (60-90 minutes) to support you in continuing to develop and embed your readying and practices in walking your path.
I am also offering coaching along these themes (or on anything else) independent of the workshop.
Venue: Marsh Farm Hotel, Royal Wootton Bassett, Swindon
Dates: 21st January(10.00-17.00) 22nd January (10.00-15.30)
Fees: Special pricing for this workshop
Workshop £225+VAT (including refreshments and lunch)
Workshop with coaching sessions £425+VAT.
If you are interested and your current circumstances makes this price challenging for you, please reach out to me.
Please email me with questions or to book, paul@thebeyondpartnership.co.uk
