Somatic Community Practice Days

Brighton

NEW DATES COMING SOON

Specifically for yoga teachers with some experience of Charlotte's Somatic and Mindful yoga teaching (either through classes or courses)Ā who welcome the chance to explore such practices in a group setting.Ā 

This will be a space to meet, practice and reflect - time with those who feel the deeper need for compassionate exploration and embodied awareness.

Coming together in-person gives us the chance to feel the very real effects of moving fromĀ emerging patternsĀ and breath.

See the rough schedule below for ways we will look to practice in the middle space between fully guided and fully self practice.

Honouring bothĀ our communal and individual natures can help truly orient our needs.Ā 

Schedule

11-11.30am - arriving circle; tea and check-in

11.30am-1pm - practice lead by Charlotte; things she's playing with currently - some formalised shapes and movements leading into exploration, and a respectful amount of space for restorative time and savasana.

1-1.15pmĀ - reflections of previous practice

1.15-2.30pm - lunch (plenty of choice in Brighton nearby)

2.30-3.15pm - talk by Charlotte; eg the theme of allowing gesture and movement to emerge and guide practice – how self-practice in this way feeds into teaching by some direct and often non-direct ways. [A different theme for each day to feed into the practice to follow...]

3.15-4.30pm - loosely guided personal practice; a communal space for physical practice or meditation in silence - Charlotte will guide timings of starting shapes (lying, all-fours, z-legs etc) for you to explore what you need, with the agency to follow where that goes freely.

4.30-5pm - reflections of previous practice and anything that has come up during the day.

Upcoming Dates

New dates coming soon

Venue info

Purple Turtle

Old Slipper Baths
Barrack Yard
North Road
Brighton
BN11YA

  • Famous North Laine area
  • 9 mins walk from Brighton train station
  • Close to bus stop for Park and Ride from Withdean Sports Complex (BN1 5JD)
Prices

Ā£70 (Ā£50 concessions) - book below

Upcoming Dates

Upcoming dates will be announced via email.

Note: If you select a date and it brings you back to this page, this means the date is sold out and you'll need to choose a different date.

Meet Charlotte

Charlotte's work as a yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer and nutritional therapist over the last few decades has had a focus on how we bring together our whole selves in movement, nourishment, expression and self-care. This includes a recognition of the psychosocial stresses so prevalent in our modern world and the traumas that we hold in our tissues, as well as our emotional states.

In her yoga and movement work, this has meant shifting towards a more somatic framework, with an emphasis on exploring boundaries and processing of the stories we hold in our bodies. Using yoga philosophy and psycho-neuro-endo-immunology as a framework to hold kind, curious exploration, trains, yoga, teaches and other health professionals, movement and subtle practices that support whole health.

For yoga teachers and other health professionals, she runs courses, training, teachers, in somatic, therapeutic and mindful ways of holding space for others so that they have the curiosity and agency to support themselves. Charlotte runs courses and teaches for Yogacampus, London, and is a guest lecturer for The Minded Institute.

She teaches how to use movement, not simply in the context of what we can do physically, but as a way to attune, listen and respond to our deeper, often unconscious needs. In her more specifically, health-focussed courses, (digestion, immune and respiratory health and books on these subjects), she weaves how the relationships between body, breath, fluids and our structure are part of one highly responsive organisation.

Charlotte is an author with many published books, including Yoga and Somatics for Immune and Respiratory Health (Singing Dragon 2022), Yoga Therapy for Digestive Health (Singing Dragon 2018), Good Mood Food (Nourish 2018) and The De-Stress Effect (2015).

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