‘ How do we acknowledge that each of us has a place: that both our body and the earth are home?’
Andrea Olsen
Individuals
In-Person & Online
Collaborative Somatic Therapy
- Empower the Innate Intelligence of your Body in the Therapeutic Process
- Uncover the Potential Within your Wounding
- Discover Emergent Pathways through Presence
- Live Life with Greater Compassion, Clarity and Connection
Authentic Movement
- Rest into Being as you are in the Presence of a Witness
- Cultivate Listening Presence and Inner Knowing
- Experience Body as Ground for Wisdom, Awe & Wonder
- Explore an Embodied Presence Practice rooted in Dance, Healing and Mystical traditions.
NatureBody
- Explore Life’s Themes in the Embrace of the Land
- Re-Member Interconnection
- Meet your Past with Presence
- Welcome Awe & Wonder into Relationship with all Life
- Lean into the Support of the Land: Offer Yourself Back
Mother Space
- Receive Attuned Care and Listening Presence
- (Re)Connect with the Joy of Being in your own Body
- Cultivate Inner Resources & Process Challenge
- Grieve who you were: Embrace who you are Now
- Feel Supported through Pregnancy and Beyond
Collaborative Somatic Practice
ReSource
A regenerative and alchemical space for women to rest, move, create and connect: together
Regularly: Alternate Tuesdays 10 – 11.50am,
The Angel Hall, Bowden House
Organisations
The workplace of today needs trauma-responsive wellbeing approaches that support the whole person so that, in turn, the workplace culture can thrive.
You are an individual, group or organisation seeking ways to support yourself, and those around you, to thrive with life.
You are a changemaker, here to remember the interwovenness of all Life and your place within it.
You seek support as you cultivate the embodied relational presence necessary to intimately meet these times, to feel more fully alive, and to live through and from your wholeness as a collaborative and engaged participant in life’s great unfolding story.
You know each wound is a womb, full of potential and ready to be alchemised in service of all life.
Hi, I am Hayley.
Woman, mother, dreamer and lover of the wild body of the Earth. Explorer of embodied practices rooted in listening, curiosity, presence and ecological relationship.
I am a trauma-responsive, ISMETA registered, somatic movement therapist and educator (RSMT, RSME), IBMT practitioner, yoga therapist and educator, and singer.
Committed to nurturing an approach to relational somatic practice grounded in attuned presence, embodied listening, playful curiosity and reciprocity with the living world.
My trauma-responsive practice is informed by over three decades of personal exploration, and over two decades of somatic facilitation experience with groups, individuals and organisations. The somatic lineages that inform my practice are rooted in dance, healing and mystical traditions.
I am currently training in Somatic Experiencing ®, alongside participating in the Circles of Four programme, the official pathway to teach the Discipline of Authentic Movement.
In what has come to be known as the Global North, we live in a dominance culture that values immediacy, being busy and ‘power over’ the natural world. To slow down, rest and attune to the natural intelligence and cyclical rhythms of your own animal body has become a radical and necessary reclamation.
Giving space to these, often marginalised, parts within yourself can weave a web of remembrance and interconnection. When you connect with the collaborative intelligence of your own body the ways you gesture into Life shift. How you relate with the animate world around you changes. You can begin to reimagine culture away from a ‘power over’ paradigm to an ‘empowered with’ one. You can begin to remember yourself as part of nature, part of the great web of life.
The purpose of this work is not mastery
(of your body, or of life)
The purpose is to move into ever deepening relationship with Mystery,
through the living process of your body
Body as Support: In response to the current cultural paradigm in the Global North, I am motivated to share simple and effective offerings that support you to meet Life in these times. Your body is the ground, through which, all relationships unfold: inner and outer. Attuning to a supportive & collaborative inner ecology, in turn, supports outer ecologies to thrive.
Body as Guide: Collaborative Somatic Practice evokes awareness of, and offers expression to, body systems that can often sit below the threshold of everyday awareness. Contacting these systems and remaining attentive to body as living process can inform and guide you as you navigate your unique path.
Body as Nature: I work to validate the living wisdom of the body and its place as part of the animate Earth.
Through explorations in gentle movement, sensory awareness and reflection you are invited to experience yourself as a collaborative participant within a living world. How do you speak? And how do you listen?
We are not apart from nature. We are nature. At its heart, this work is dedicated to the remembrance of this through the body.
All life is movement: a continual interchange, exchange between one thing and another – a wind in a tree, waves against a lakeside, my feet against the ground, your words in my mind. If I awaken to the touch of the world on my skin and sense the movement, the conversations, within my body the quality of a ‘dance’ returns, however unmoving my world seems to have become.
Miranda Tufnell
‘Hayley creates a nurturing space and holds it with skill and care as she facilitates and helps participants to tap into the intuitive knowing and movement in their bodies.‘
Elle Franklin