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Moving with the earth
One of the key principles of ecological work is the central importance of the moving sensing body. This provides the ‘glue’ necessary for true ecological relating – the human animal body finding its place in the ecology of being here.
All my work brings attention to the body but the courses on this page represent a new focussed development for me. In these I offer spaces where participants can spend some drop-down-depth time cultivating a relationship with their ‘moving-body-in-place’. Together we enter the world of somatic ecology – where listening to our bodies - in dialogue with our more-than-human kin - is our starting point, and movement takes centre stage as a core language.
These courses, based on non-stylised movement practices and other body work traditions such as Relational Traumatherapy, are the culmination of several years personal and professional work of developing an ecological movement practice (You can find out more about this practice by reading the book chapter mentioned at the bottom of this page!)
‘Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.'
David Abram
Essentially, my way of working offers the fundamentals of a practice of belonging i.e. how we relate somatically with who is living around us. The intention being to offer ecological skills for finding our proper human place within the extraordinary system or symmathesy (to use Nora Bateson’s term) that is our earthly home.
The Return of The Erotic
14th - 17th May 2026
Shining Cliff Woods Derbyshire
Audrey Lorde
This course offers an opportunity to move with the spirit of the divine feminine. This supports the human animal’s innate capacity for love and belonging - returning to a profoundly relational and embodied experience of the erotic (aliveness, feeling the world at depth, sexual energy) realm.
Rooted in body and ecological movement work from different traditions of non-stylised movement practice, we will work exclusively outdoors in the woods incorporating the presence and wisdom of our more-than-human kin into our practice. We will focus on entering places in a way that will support experience of ourselves as ‘being among’ the more-than-human - working with ecological principles of reciprocity, gratitude, and affinity, and embodying ethics of care.
The aim amongst many others is to cultivate an ‘ecological glue’, whereby the sensing, moving human body leads us to a place of mindful, creaturely belonging.
In practical terms we will explore taught skills through basic practices, and structures (or scores), that offer support in building a nuanced relating with the land. You will have the opportunity to develop a personalised ecological body & movement practice, through a deepening relationship with your erotic self. All this will involve extensive outdoor immersion working solo, in pairs and group, closely linked with some fireside teachings and group discussion.
The course will be suitable for all human relations and body work practitioners, subject to an informal conversation beforehand. No previous experience of led body or movement work is needed, just your breathing sensing body! and a willingness to engage with the woodland and the group alongside your process.
£150 deposit - balance payable in instalments
Places are limited to 14.
Bookings are now open for the new 2026 dates -
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