‘ How do we acknowledge that each of us has a place: that both our body and the earth are home?’
Andrea Olsen
Individuals
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
Mother Space
One-to-one Collaborative Somatic Therapy sessions for Mothers to support you in your journey of matresence and motherhood.
A space for you to grieve, remember and embrace all parts of yourself.
Authentic Movement
A space to be witnessed in your process
as it emerges through the moment,
to integrate your experience
and cultivate clear seeing.
NatureBody
Collaborative Somatic Therapy sessions in nature.
Moving the wisdom of the body within the wisdom of the land.
Moving in Community
ReSource
A regenerative and alchemical space for women to rest, move, create and connect: together
Regularly: Alternate Tuesdays 10 – 11.45am,
The Angel Hall, Bowden House
Organisations
The workplace of today needs trauma-informed 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 relational human being.
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 regenerative culture, embodied relational presence and our interwovenness with all things, through the artistry of the living body.
I work as a trauma-informed, ISMETA registered, somatic movement therapist and educator (RSMT, RSME), yoga therapist and educator, and singer.
I work with individuals, communities and organisations to develop and embody approaches that support inner and outer ecologies to connect and thrive.
My trauma-informed practice is informed by over three decades of personal exploration, and over two decades of somatic facilitation experience with groups, individuals and organisations. 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 West’, we live in a dominant 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 task.
Giving space to these, often, marginalised parts within yourself can weave a web of remembrance and interconnection. When you come to inhabit and work with your own body, your shape shifts, as do the shapes you make within the environment you inhabit. 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 this cultural paradigm, I am motivated to share simple and effective tools that allow you to inhabit your own body with a greater sense of presence and in relationship with the world around you. I see connecting with the body’s innate faculties of support as the groundwork that allows this work to unfold safely.
Body as Guide: 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.
Embodying your relational interconnection with others, the space you inhabit and the Earth forms an important part of this work. As does decentralising the place of humans within the context of the natural world. We may ask how is it to listen to the whisperings of the moss, or the river? And to notice how they move, shape and inform us.
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