The Body Unwinds
A Non-Directed Movement Intensive
A 23-class series with written practice summaries, Q &As, and references + email support from Megan & Chris
$75 USD
The Body Unwinds: A Non-Directed Movement Intensive is for folks looking to develop an embodied understanding of somatic movement, fascial unwinding and the nervous system.
This course is particularly helpful for practitioners working with significant emotional or physical activation, those that find themselves getting habitually stuck in dissociative/freeze states in meditation and/or daily life, and those experiencing strong involuntary impulses or movements in their sitting meditation practice.
Discover “living stillness” - a stillness that is not the result of a control state enacted by a manager part, and that is also not “separate” from physical & energetic movement.
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Course Overview
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Course Recordings
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Class 1: Course Orientation
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Class 2: Follow The Breadcrumbs
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Class 3: Fluidity
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Class 4: Skipping & Redoing
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Class 5: Cycles
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Class 6: Pathways
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Class 7: Habitual Movements
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Class 8: Frozen In Time
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Class 9: Thinking
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Class 10: The Space Of Permission
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Class 11: What Is Soothing & Supportive?
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Class 12: Waiting Without Waiting
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Class 13: My Octopus Teacher
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Class 14: Pendulation
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Class 15: Cycles Of Intensity
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Class 16: Being Communicated With
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Class 17: Reclaiming
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Class 18: The Tremendous Energy Contained In The Subtle
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Class 19: What Feels Good
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Class 20: Coming Out Of Alignment To Go Back Into Alignment
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Class 21: The Energy Body
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Class 22: How We Integrate
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Class 23: Closing Session
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Practice Summary & References
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Practice Summary
This section is a kind of “cheat sheet” that attempts to synthesize the flow of pointers we give over the course of the intensive.
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References & Resources
Spontaneous/Non-Directed Movement has played a key role in both traditional contemplative traditions and modern somatics. For those of you wanting to explore further, here are a few directions to go.
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Questions & Answers
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The Circular Nature of "Having Symptoms" & "Fixing Symptoms"
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What Is The Relationship Between Non-Directed Movement & Unprocessed Trauma?
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What Is The Difference Between Avoiding Discomfort & Sensing An Authentic Impulse To Move?
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Am I Subtly Trying To Make Something Happen?
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How Do I Work With Doubt?
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Are Disorienting Experiences Normal?
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Do I Need To Know 'Why' An Involuntary Movement Is Happening?
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What Is The Role Of Imagination In This Practice?
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Does It Matter Whether the Pattern Is Developmental, or Familial, or Collective?
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What About The Urge To Fall Asleep?
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What Happens When Uncomfortable Thoughts Arise?
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Working With Chronic Nerve Pain
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“In my own experience and in that of working with pupils, the biggest challenge for everyone is to meet that moment of feeling and not react by trying to change things.
In fact, this is the biggest change it is possible to make — no change at all — since habitually we always meet that moment and try to change things. Though it sounds like a very simple choice to make, if you have not done it you cannot imagine just what a huge challenge it is to actually carry out in the face of the immediate and overwhelmingly ‘real’ feelings, thoughts and emotions of that existential moment. It takes every bit of courage and clarity to stick with this means whereby when your entire experience is screaming at you, “WRONG! WRONG! GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!”
The fact that such all-encompassing changes take place almost immediately when we do manage to inhibit reacting shows how big a change it is to willingly accept what we feel is wrong and to freely live in the given ‘here and now’.”