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Being in your body Anita's work offers an opportunity for deep somatic listening, inquiry and healing.

Supporting exploration of both the individual and collective human experience, sense of connection and belonging.

Winter unwinding When we've been through so much, when sleep is not enough, when we need to lean in and be held, by the ...
15/11/2021

Winter unwinding

When we've been through so much,
when sleep is not enough,
when we need to lean in and be held,
by the earth
with others,
in the way a grove of trees roots down and leans in to support one another
in relationship
When we carve out time for compassionate reflection, gently acknowledging our own existence
and need for nourishment and care
then maybe we can rest
opening space to meet our body's intelligence
our own inner guidance
and allow what's needed for transformation and regeneration.....
Anita Lewis

These sessions offer intentional space for deep rest, unwinding and renewal: new cycle of somatic movement practice on zoom

All are welcome.

email for booking details. Thank you.
[email protected]

Dates:
Tuesdays 8-9.30pm 16th, 23rd, 30th, 7th December
and an extra session on 14th December
Cost : 5 sessions - £75 / 4 sessions -£60, 3 sessions £48
1 session £20

Sundays 10-11.30am
28th November, 5th, 12th, 19th December,
4 sessions -£60, 3 sessions £48
1 session £20

I hope you are finding ways to take good care of yourselves, taking moments to pause and rest and center all that you lo...
15/02/2021

I hope you are finding ways to take good care of yourselves, taking moments to pause and rest and center all that you love and value most in life. As we know, life is precious and fleeting and, as the poet Blake advised, we should kiss the joy as it flies (or at least find some good resources and support as we find our way through this).

We've all had to make so many adjustments over the last year and if you've felt overwhelmed....that's because it has been overwhelming. Difficult experience and overwhelm need to be given space for purposeful tending and healing. Shock, stress and grief need to be digested and assimilated through the body. They don’t just ‘heal’ with time. They need metabolizing. If we had a meal last March that hadn’t yet digested we’d be concerned and look for ways to help that process take its natural course.

So I'm here to let you know of some resources I hope will support your life and your resilience.

These weekly and monthly practices aim to slowly and gently resource us, so that we can begin to integrate and metabolize experiences that were too much for us to process when they were happening. This is gentle practice and is not about 'releasing' but about giving space for our bodies to breathe again and heal. Metabolizing can take the form of nourishing rhythmic movement, of conscious rest and slowing down......

'Re-membering Embodiment'

15 spaces. Starts Saturday 20th Feb 2021 - a few spaces still availabe

Movement that helps metabolise survival responses and supports our ability to thrive. Noticing what feels pleasurable, nourishing, engaging. We will play with non-linear, fluid micro movements, breath and sound. Space for you to resource through your body's movement expression.

Session 1) Landing and locating (element: Earth)

Rooting into our relationship to ground (earth) and gravity, we will explore and notice how this supports your experience of connection. What supports you in feeling held.

Session 2) Resonance (element: water)

Humming tones and sounds will be spaciously explored together with pausing, resting, reflecting and non linear micro-movements. The play with sound will be a personal, private exploration of how sound moves and resonates in your body. We are bathing the tissues and fluids / fascia and bones to support growing health.

Session 3. Integration (elements: air and fire)

This third session will offer space for integration of our process with micro-movements, sound and mark making on paper where inspired.

This is a 3 part workshop over 3 months. You need to be able to attend all 3 sessions on zoom to apply as this is an in person event. Requirement: you need to have worked with me before or have some experience in movement practice.

Cost: £90 for all sessions ( plus some concession spaces).

Dates: Saturday 20th February, 20th March, 17th April
Times: 10 -12.30
There will be no recordings as this is an in-person on zoom event.

New workshop on zoom: 'Re-membering Embodiment'15 spaces. Starts 20th Feb 2021We will explore how movement enquiry helps...
10/02/2021

New workshop on zoom:

'Re-membering Embodiment'

15 spaces. Starts 20th Feb 2021

We will explore how movement enquiry helps metabolise survival responses and supports our ability to thrive. Noticing what feels pleasurable, nourishing, engaging, we will play with non-linear, fluid micro movements, breath and sound. Space for you to resource through your body's movement expression.

Session 1) Landing and locating (element: Earth)

Rooting into our relationship to ground (earth) and gravity, we will explore and notice how this supports your experience of connection. What supports you in feeling held.

Session 2) Resonance (element: water)

Humming tones and sounds will be spaciously explored together with pausing, resting, reflecting and non linear micro-movements. The play with sound will be a personal, private exploration of how sound moves and resonates in your body. We are bathing the tissues and fluids / fascia and bones to support growing health.

Session 3. Integration (elements: air and fire)

This third session will offer space for integration of our process with micro-movements, sound and mark making on paper where inspired.

This is a 3 part workshop over 3 months. You need to be able to attend all 3 sessions to apply as this is an in person event. Requirement: you need to have worked with me before or have some experience in movement practice.

Cost: £90 for all sessions ( plus 2 concession spaces).
Dates: Saturday 20th February, 20th March, 17th April
Times: 10 -12.30

There will be no recordings as this is an in person on zoom event.

Photo: Helen Edwards 2019

Hello dear people,the friendliest of New Years wishes to you. I began this new year glad to wake up to the emerging ligh...
13/01/2021

Hello dear people,

the friendliest of New Years wishes to you.

I began this new year glad to wake up to the emerging light of a bright blue sky. Winter sunlight throwing shards of reflecting light over a frosted land. Frozen patterns of infinite, ephemeral beauty. The ordinary that is extraordinary. A blackbirds song, the company of a robin, the perfume of a flowering hyacinth, a walk amongst trees.

These encounters with nature are of immeasurable value and I wish more of this for all of us. Moments of slowing down, experiencing presence and the rich wealth of our interconnectedness.

Especially now as we collectively experience challenges we might never have foreseen or imagined. Life is uncertain. It is also full of moments of possibility and wonder.

If you'd like support accessing resources and skills to move through these times please get in touch.

From Tuesday I'll be offering more online body centred resources for enhancing our mental, physical and emotional health - both groups and individual, one on one sessions.

If you are frontline NHS staff (or know someone who is) I have a number of one on one support sessions available (for free).

Group sessions on zoom continue, starting this Tuesday at 8pm. Details below. Please e mail me to book a space.

Tuesday 8 -9.30pm - support for sleep

12th, 19th 26th January and 2nd February (£60 for 4 sessions). Some concession spaces for those with reduced income

Sunday 10-11.30am - Fluid Spine, gentle movement for enhancing spinal health and nervous system renewal.

17th, 24th, 31st and 7th February (£60 for 4 sessions). Some concession spaces

You can mix between the Tuesday and Sunday sessions.

Take care of yourselves,

I'll be continuing the community zoom sessions, offering awareness tools and movement practices that support breathing a...
23/11/2020

I'll be continuing the community zoom sessions, offering awareness tools and movement practices that support breathing and health.

Small group sessions offering weekly connection with a warm and friendly space.

This will be the last group of 4 sessions this year. As so many of you have expressed how much these sessions have supported you I'll keep them going into 2021.

If you can't make all the sessions of one series you can mix with another series of sessions or just drop into one or two.

e- mail me if you'd like to book a space.

Thanks,

anita

Dates:

Tuesdays - practices for supporting restful sleep and immunity.

24th November, 1st, 8th, 15th December - 8-9.30pm
-£60 for 4/ £20 drop in

Thursdays - yoga awareness practices to support nervous system health.

26th November, 3rd, 10th, 17th December 5.30-6.30pm
-£40 for 4 or £15 drop in

Sundays- fluid spine - movements that enhance resilience. fluid body and spinal health

29th November 6th, 13th and 20th December - 10am -11.30am -£60 for 4 sessions /£20 drop in

Embodied engagement with ourselves, our communities and the world around us. Horses rely on company to thrive. They are...
19/10/2020

Embodied engagement with ourselves, our communities and the world around us.

Horses rely on company to thrive. They are highly sensitive and attuned to their environment and each other. They are great co-regulators and will collectively modulate between alert states and rest through moving, twitching, neighing, yawning etc. Breath, movement, respectful boundaries and relational play interweave to create coherency through the herd.

I’ve learnt a lot about myself and my own nervous system being with natural herds of horses. Human bodies also respond collectively and like any other animal we send and receive messages through our bodies with gestures; the twitch of the mouth, a tightening of the jaw, a movement of a hand, a yawn, a long breath out...... bringing awareness to this through movement explorations can help us understand more about ourselves and how we grow capacity for responsiveness, for the flow of life force, for being with ourselves and in relationship with respect, dignity,tenderness, awareness, and care. Growing our ability to nourish our cells and input new movement messages and expressions that feed the body and brain. This grows health and our ability to slowly and gently digest and assimilate old overwhelming experiences.

In the zoom sessions I’ve been offering we’ve been noticing a lot of benefits practising in our home space and yet still sensing connection and community within the group.

I’m offering more sessions this month and next and there’s still time to join.

Dates below: E mail me me to book.

[email protected]

If you can’t make all the dates in one series you can mix with another.

Tuesdays

20th, 27th October,10th and 17th November.

8pm-9.30pm uk time
£60 x 4 sessions £20 drop in.

Thursdays

22nd, 29th October, 10th and 17th November 5.30- 6.30pm uk time

£40x4 or £15 drop in.

Sunday’s
25th October 8th 15th and 22nd November 10-11.30am uk time £60x4, £20 drop in.

All sessions on zoom.

12/10/2020

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Connecting the back of your head with your heart through your hands. Can do this sitting or lying. Can be a great soothe...
12/10/2020

Connecting the back of your head with your heart through your hands. Can do this sitting or lying. Can be a great soother. Helpful where the head feels disconnected or where there’s tightness and contractions through the back of the head and neck, helping soften held tissues. Explore as a way of connecting to the midline. Helpful in opening more flow between the head and chest (thoracic inlet). I’ve found this really useful for migraines and helping the whole body settle.

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