Somatic Education
Being in a Living Body, in a Living Ecosystem
How might it be to connect with your experience as if it were a vibrant centre within a living system?
What is it that brings you most alive?
What is the work that longs to come through you?
And might it be possible to attend to that aliveness from a well-resourced place within yourself?
What is Somatic Education?
Soma is the lived experience - the felt sense - of being in a conscious body.
Somatic Education is any process that facilitates a coming home to our own inherent biological intelligence, by working through or with the body, the felt sense and the whole being.
It is a very broad church that is a holding place for many modalities that work using some of the following principles:
It honours the self as sovereign as well as inter-connected and acknowledges that we are each whole, creative, resourceful and changing.
Somatic Education is a re-education or re-wilding or re-membering... a moving away from objectification culture and towards a lived experience of integration and wholeness.
It is good medicine for our species.
What Somatic Education opportunities do you offer?
The approaches I offer include Feldenkrais, Somatic Coaching, Embodied Enquiries, Integrative Somatic Feedback, online courses for nurturing aliveness, mentoring packages and also, training programs for actors, coaches and trainers learning to work with and listen to the body in their practices.
I provide beautifully held containers for you to get to know your own universe and begin living into the longed for possibilities.
Click through the options below to see more details of live online courses I am currently offering, or find out about working with me 1:1.
COURSE: Jan-Mar 2027
Tending the Soul of Your Business
Range of price points available
MEMBERSHIP
KIN: Writing from Connection with the Wider Web of Life
£40.00 per month
COURSE: Oct 26 -Mar 27
Cultivating a Healthy Connection with Spirit
Range of price points available
What is Feldenkrais?
The Feldenkrais Method is a system of Somatic Education that helps us develop awareness of how we do what we do each day, and supports us to make better choices.
It is brilliant for expanding our range of movement and making everything we do less effortful, more enjoyable and more graceful. It does so through exploring very subtle movement with awareness, resulting in neuroplastic change.
It is taught either in group instruction via Awareness Through Movement lessons, or via one-on-one work on a couch called Functional Integration.
Rachel is a qualified teacher of Awareness Through Movement and completed her teacher training at the Feldenkrais International Training School in Lewes in 2021.
To discover a little more about Feldenkrais and how it works, visit the website for Feldenkrais UK.
Downloadable Classes
Four audio recordings of live 1-hour long Feldenkrais classes for finding ease and mobility in the deep core and hip flexors; with student sharings at the end of each session.
If you are new to Feldenkrais, please start with lesson 1 or lesson 4.
Lesson 1: Feldenkrais for Hip Flexors - Rolling through Lengthening
The first in a collection of lessons enquiring into how we are using our hip flexors - the deep structures at the centre of ourselves, to roll, to twist, to sit up, stand up and to walk. How can we use movement, enjoyment and awareness to support our profound and innate organismic intelligence to do what it does best? For this lesson we'll be mostly on our tummies.
Lesson 2: Feldenkrais for Happy Hips
Continuing our enquiry into how we are using the deep flexors in the core of us. This is the second of 4 explorations into how we are using our hip flexors and deep core. This is another one where we will be remembering some early developmental movement... because, way, way back, before we knew how to bear our own weight and couldn't even lift our own heads, we still knew how to kick!
Lesson 3: Feldenkrais for Supporting Hip Mobility
A third way into freeing the hips and the deep core flexors. I also found this one good for releasing sciatic and sacroiliac pain. And as so often happens with Feldenkrais you may discover that it is also about lots of other things too.
Lesson 4: Feldenkrais for Supporting Psoas and Hip Opening
The forth in a collection of Awareness Through Movement lessons exploring how we might free and open the hip flexors and deep core flexors. For this lesson you will mostly be on either side and sometimes on your back.
You will need at least 61MB of available space on your hard drive to receive the files. The files will come as a zip folder containing the four audio files.
Enjoy exploring.
Two audio recordings of live 1+ hour long Feldenkrais classes for supporting the breath; with student sharings at the end of each session.
Lesson 1: And Everybody Breathe
How are we doing our breathing, people? Recorded during the time of pandemic, when breath was a powerful theme, not only because the disease targeted our breathing capacity, but also because when we feel anxious, one of the first places that we contract is our breathing. So it is complex. What can we learn about better supporting our natural capacity to breathe? This one is very good for anyone who might have had the dreaded corona-drama-rama. But it's also good for anyone wanting to support themselves to be a more preventative, more well-resourced environment, where disease is less likely to take hold. For this one we are mostly laying on our backs.
Lesson 2: And Everybody Breathe Some More
This one is very powerful for unravelling blocks to better lung function. And it is surprisingly gentle, though unexpectedly deep. When I first did this one myself, the extra oxygen made all the colours brighter and my vision more vivid. I felt a kind of quiet elation. Then when I got home I had a big releasing cry and a surprisingly long, lovely sleep. Good for general wellness. Also great for anyone wanting to improve lung capacity post-Covid or improve lung function for better oxygenation of everything.
You will need at least 29MB of available space on your hard drive to receive the files. The files will come as a zip folder containing the two audio files.
Enjoy exploring.