IMMERSIONS
INFORMATION
It brings the rawness to the surface and tenderizes the contracted parts of the soul; it allows the breath to breathe through us. — S.B.
“I love the humility of the practice, the truth that comes with so much safety and love and grace. And just the fact that that’s possible to be with, is just so incredibly healing.” — N.L.
“I experienced more transformation in these last four days than I have in my whole life.” — P.W.
THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE
Most Breath Of Life immersions are offered as intensives in a retreat format.
Restore your senses and deepen your craniosacral practice in the presence of nature’s beauty.
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STILLNESS SPEAKS
Container: four days.
Description: In this introductory course we will delve into the guiding principles of craniosacral biodynamics. With presence and wholeness as primary orientations, we will explore inner practices such as embodied felt-sense, tonal match, full body breathing, resting in invisible midline, and residing in neutral. Following the insights of Dr. Sutherland and his successors, we will learn how to listen to primary respiration and the Breath of Life, sensing tides, fulcrums, stillpoints, subtle rhythms, states of consciousness, and more.
This course will invite you to develop and refine your essential skills for grounding and centering in yourself, creating and maintaining safety and trust with your client, increasing potency in your touch and sensitivity in your awareness. With dynamic stillness as the guide, we can cultivate our capacity to support the body’s innate wisdom of healing in ourselves and in each other.
Prerequisite: No prerequisite is required. Appropriate for those who wish to broaden their skillset and clinical offerings, newcomers to bodywork, and those who are in search of self-healing and development.
TIDAL BODY
Container: four days.
Description: After the Stillness Speaks immersion, in which we established the foundational inner practices, gained an understanding of basic touch skills, and learned to quiet ourselves enough to settle into Stillness, we then approach The Tidal Body. As our capacity for listening grows, we are able to receive much more information from our client — physically and energetically sensing rhythms, rates, tides, and their corresponding states of consciousness.
Dropping deeper into these fluid tides, we receive somatically intelligent awareness of the fluid body, ultimately learning how to abide by and surrender to the fluid matrix itself. In the mornings, lightly guided, intuitive free-dance sessions are incorporated to aid us in our inquiry into how the fluid body dances.
Prerequisite: Stillness Speaks, or equivalent relevant experience.
YEARLONG IMMERSION
Container: One calendar year.
Description: A yearlong program, meeting in-person every three months of one calendar year. Held within the container of closed committed cohort. Geared for those who are seeking deeper study for their personal development and/or are called to become a practitioner. The next Yearlong Immersion will commence in Autumn, 2024. Dates and Locations TBA.
Prerequisites: One or more of our immersions, or equivalent experience.