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Loving The Land

A 6 month movement group, fostering intimate, embodied relationship with land.

Based on Amerta movement, meditative practices, reflection and creativity.

Your body meets the body of the earth.

Re-Member that we are part of her, part of the land, not separate.

This work is a response to many years of movement with and within landscape, in all weathers, seasons, alone and with colleagues. Inspired by my love of and sense of belonging within the natural world, this is an invitation to return to a sense of reverence, belonging and a more interconnected way of being.
This reconnection offers inspiration, healing and a way forwards in this time of great change and soul-seeking as our species and this planet meet challenges never faced before.

What?

This year long course uses spontaneous, non-stylised movement (daily life movement and spontaneous gestures), sensory awareness and present moment attention, to enable you to follow the inner impulses within your own body system, whilst responding to the impulses from the eco-systems around us.

We touch and are touched, we communicate and listen.

Our experience, sensing and movement change as we move with and among the landscape and the flora, fauna, textures, spaces and elements. Our movement is stimulated by the world around us, as we are touched by the wind, rock, sun, grass, ocean. To become conscious of this enables a truly creative, alive and dynamic relationship. with ourselves and the world around us.

Movement comes from within us and expresses itself outwards, as we listen to our own inner world and allow ourselves to be moved, to be touched, to belong.

Where?

Each month we will visit a different site in the landscape around West Cork, attuning to seasonal changes as well as different landscapes and elements.

beach and shoreline, stone and sand
river, river banks, river bed
ocean and island
meadow, grass, flowers
hill, mountain
woodland, both natural and man-made.
stone, water, light, sky, earth, wind, air, space.

As well as working in nature-made places, we will also explore human-made environments such as a stone circle site, home garden and forestry.

How?

This work is based primarily on Amerta movement, as well as by an extensive background in other movement, meditation, therapeutic and embodiment methodologies.

The teaching is guided by relationship with each place, and whatever is arising in each moment: within the landscape, the group and individuals within the group, and within each persons body system.

I offer practical guidance and support, to enable you to feel confident in moving in ways that you may not have done before.

Based on daily life movements (walking, kneeling, crawling, lying, standing, running, jumping, stretching, rolling etc) you will expand your existing movement vocabulary and find new ways to express and communicate, as well as to listen through your body senses and movement.

The approach is respectful of the life of each other and the world around us.

Session format:

Group movement with guidance
Individual time
Witnessing each other (small groups or individual)
Reflective process through dialogue together
Art making, writing and ritual.
Integration
Offerings and thanks

Who?

Who is is this course for?

Anyone who already has or wishes to develop a deep and intimate relationship with the natural world and those who would like to include embodiment practices within their personal and professional life, or for whom embodiment already supports or informs their professional practice

E.g.

Group facilitators
Therapists from all backgrounds
Art therapists
Bodyworkers
Movers of all kinds (yoga, dance, tai chi)
Meditation practitioners who would like to explore an embodied approach
Performers (actors, performance art)
Environmental activists
Advocates for social change

Course aims

Experience a fully embodied way of being in the world
Develop your movement skills and language
Evolve your ability to listen, connect and express with the whole of your being
Move and to be moved, touch and be touched (receptive and active presence)
Recognise the effect of your being on the landscape environment, and the effect that nature has on us. What does your presence have to offer each place?
Experience a sensitive and profound connection with yourself, each other, the land and all the Beings who we share it with.
Evolve your ability to attune to internal and external stimulus
Open a new way of communicating and listening, in conscious relationship with the natural world
Open to “Blossoming” (Prapto) - to evolve your sense of presence and aliveness
To Re-Member yourself as belonging within and being part of the landscape and to open your whole being to loving the land and everything within the natural world

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When and where?

Beginning in Spring 2026 (Contact me for dates) in West Cork

Weekend 1 residential (3 days)
4 non-residential weekends (2 days)
Closing weekend residential (3 days)

Cost

2,000 euros

Payment plan possible

Deposit: non-refundable deposit of 250 euros secures your place.

Food and accommodation included only during the residential weekends

Spaces are limited to a small group to ensure personal attention and support throughout the course.

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