Coming Home to Ourselves - 4 Week Somatic Therapy Course for Women in Cultivating Self-Kindness | 11 Apr - 2 May 2024 | Cork City
Weaving Self-Kindness back into the Body
11 Apr - 2 May 2024 | Thursdays 7pm - 9.30pm | Cork City
This experiential and psycho-educational course offers you a warm and supportive space to explore your relationship with your own self, while learning somatic practices and resources to cultivate safety within your body and support you in coming into a more kind and nourishing relationship with your own self.
Weaving together somatic psychotherapy, embodied enquiry, movement and breath practices, as well as music and poetry, you are invited to slow down, turn your attention inwards and attune to the language deep inside your body – listening to the ways in which you speak to your own self, getting to know those parts of yourself you have come to turn away from and deepening your awareness around how these rejected parts can get carried in the body as patterns of tension and tightness.
By anchoring your awareness back down into the felt sense of your body, you can begin to slowly reclaim these rejected parts of yourself, learning ways to offer them the medicine of your own attention, listening to their stories of unmet needs, whispering to them words of kindness, until slowly you weave a sense of belonging back into your bones, coming to know again the sweetness of your own voice, honouring your needs, trusting your instincts and intuition, and strengthening your boundaries.
In this course you will:
- Learn about the nature of self-kindness
- Learn about the origins of self-criticism, it’s role in self protection and the ways in which it can interrupt your capacity for self-kindness
- Learn about the nature of stress and trauma and how to identify your body’s holding patterns of fight/flight/fawn/freeze
- Learn about the relationship between self-criticism and these patterns of holding and tension in the body
- Learn about the role of the nervous system in regulating your emotions and learn somatic practices for cultivating safety within your body and turning towards these patterns of holding and tension with gentleness and kindness
- Deepen your awareness of what brings joy and nourishment to your body
- Explore somatic practices for softening your body into a place of rest and restoration
Each week you will be offered a rich variety of resources, somatic practices, guided meditations and self-kindness journal prompts to support and strengthen your process.
This course takes place at 4 Tuckey Street, Cork, a warm and nourishing space in the heart of Cork City.
Booking is essential. Please note purchases are non-refundable.
€220
Artwork licensed from Tijana Lukovic
“May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within. May you never place walls between the Light and yourself. May you allow the wild beauty of the invisible world to gather you, mind you and embrace you in belonging”
- John O Donohue
Some kind words.
“A truly powerful and transformational four week course. It was a beautiful journey inwards. Each week I grew the courage to be with myself more. The support from Emer and the other women in the group was a wonderful experience.” (LOC)
“I found it was an incredibly safe space from the beginning. Emer made the content accessible and digestible, which blended the psychology perfectly with the holistic practices. The blend of practice and space holding resonated with me in a way that I hadn’t experienced before and allowed me to start a journey of shedding years of shame and self-criticism. I’ve enjoyed coming home to myself” (AJW)
“A gentle and empowering experience with a lovely blend of insightful theory and nourishing embodiment practices.” (LD)
“An amazing experience. This was the first time I felt I could address some of my nervous system activations. Previous talk therapy was great for the mind but this course has been great for my soul.” (KMcC)
“Emer is an exceptional facilitator, so warm, calm and compassionate. She walks what she is teaching as you can see she has done the work. An inspiration to anyone doing her courses.” (OOM)
“This course was exactly what I needed. After a lot of talk therapy, I hadn’t acknowledged how much I had overlooked the “felt” experience. This course has given me a path home.” (DP)
“The course was so authentic and had the perfect blend of information, connection and practices. The space Emer has created is so calm and safe” (LF)
“ Emer is an amazing facilitator, warm and generous. She creates a safe space to explore somatic practices and to learn to self-regulate. Highly recommend!” (MMG)