FAQ’s

Who facilitates ReSource?

The ReSource sessions will be facilitated by Hayley Nettle, a trauma informed somatic movement therapist & educator, who draws on over two decades of movement-based facilitation and therapeutic practice. You can read more about Hayley HERE

What is?:

Embodied Rest:

These are gently guided rest sessions, drawing on the practices of yoga nidra and somatic meditation modalities. With the focus on the body, Embodied Rest will offer you space to deeply rest, restore and return to the support of the ground upon which all your movements unfold.

Embodied Rest is a powerful act of non-collusion. Not only does it support your personal wellbeing. It refuses to collude with dominant modern culture, whose ethic and value systems are built upon your compliance as a cog in the wheel of a machine of productivity for profit of the few.

Embodied Rest reclaims your humanity, placing it back in your body in relationship with the wider ecological systems within which you can truly thrive.

Embodied Rest offers space to slow down, to digest and to process your experience, which is ever important in an age of information overload.

Embodied Rest allows your body to yield into, and come into relationship with, the supportive surface of the ground, the foundation for all your actions upon this animate Earth. It offers opportunity to drop into a deeper kind of listening: a listening to the spaces in between, to the undercurrents that arise through and from silence and space.

Embodied rest evokes a quality of receptivity and listening to the deeper, quieter parts of yourself, to your soul and to the more-than-human, through which sparks of creativity can ignite and inspire all that you have to offer to this world.

ecoSomatic Movement:

Movement gives voice to the inner murmurings of soul as they bubble toward the surface and are expressed through the moving gestures of the body. As your body moves, with attentiveness and attunement, you come into a reciprocal relationship with the world around you. The gestures you make become offerings as movement unfolds through and from you, fully embodied. A dance emerges, one that is enlivened through its reciprocal nature with both the seen and the unseen. Your body becomes part of the wider ecological landscape and culture. You feel yourself in inter-relationship with it. Life, and all it contains, becomes your dance partner as you respond and listen and move together.

Thomas Hanna used the term somatic to describe the body as experienced from the inside.

There are so many different approaches to Somatic Movement. Each approach offers a process of discovery into the landscape of your own body and the invitation to inhabit yourself with greater presence and loving connection.

In her approach, Hayley draws upon the Discipline of Authentic Movement, the work of Miranda Tufnell, Andrea Olsen, Linda Hartley and Emily Conrad, as well as other somatic movement lineages.

ReSource is ever inspired by and draws wisdom from the intra-relationship between body and earth. Themes seek to root the body in place, as part of nature, and in connection with the shifting seasons.

You can expect to be gently guided into the wisdom of your own body, exploring ways to nourish and resource each body system through movement.

Sessions are practice based. We will explore different body systems, developmental patterns and traverse layers from the personal to the collective and transpersonal.

You will build body literacy through your experience of exploring these themes and learning to inhabit your own body with greater presence, open attentiveness and compassionate holding.

There is always permission to listen to what you need in each moment and respond from there. All offerings are invitations and are rooted in consent and respect.

I live with chronic illness. Will these sessions be suitable for me?

You are very welcome to come and try a session and see for yourself if they feel supportive for you.

These sessions have the potential be very supportive and regenerative for those suffering with chronic illness.

You are also welcome to book in a chat with Hayley to discuss your needs and find the most supportive way of working with your experience.

I am pregnant. Can I come?

Yes.

You are welcome in this group.

You may like to consider if you would prefer to join when you are in your second trimester.

For some, the first trimester can feel like a sensitive time, where not everyone may know about your pregnancy. Please make your decision around this depending on what you feel comfortable with (of course, you do not have to share news of your pregnancy with the group).

For the Embodied Rest, you can adapt this to lay on your side and you are welcome to adjust your body throughout as you need to so you can be comfortable.

The Somatic Movement is gently guided and designed to elicit the wisdom of your own body in a permissive space. Therefore, you can adapt it as you need to, listening to what feels right for you and baby (eg. not rolling on to your front but rolling from side to side instead).

While these are not a pregnancy specific sessions, Somatic Movement and practice, while pregnant, can be a wonderful way to connect with your own body in preparation for birth.

I am a woman but not a mother. Can I come?

Yes!

ReSource is a space to come and receive nurture. Please join us, and connect with other women and let’s widen the web of community and connection together!

Why are the sessions 1hr 45mins?

In dominant modern culture, we spend so much time rushing around and doing, often in a state of stress. The demands of modern life can perpetuate this. Creating spaces that offer opportunity to slow down, rest and restore are ever more important to achieve a healthy balance and allow for states of being and becoming to emerge.

When working with the body, time and space for transition and integration are needed. These sessions are an opportunity for you to give yourself that all important time. For the parts of you that need to rest, process and integrate to have space to breathe.

In (very simplified) terms of the Nervous System our disposition toward doing and stress states translates as a tendency for the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system to dominate in an unhealthy and unregulated way.

In contrast, the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system is responsible for the resting, digesting and processing of our day-to-day and longer term experiences. In ReSource, we give these faculties of support time to be and breathe.

Ultimately, our bodies thrive through the healthy expression and dynamic balance of both sympathetic and parasympathetic activity.

ReSource is an opportunity to create a more healthy balance in your system as a whole through creating space for rest.

Do you use music in the sessions or are they in silence?

Sessions include a mixture of both: movement explorations accompanied by music and explorations in silence. Sounds that arise through your movement are welcome in the space.

Is the movement practiced individually or with others?

Both.
As the group finds its feet, the focus will be on resourcing through your own body. As the group progresses, gentle movement with a partner or in a group may be part of the sessions.

Consent is embedded within the practice space. There is always opportunities to listen to what you need and continue in your own individual sphere if this feels right for you, alongside the invitation to explore moving in relationship. Because we are a group, there will always be a group field that connects us as movers in a shared experience.

Do I have to book / commit for the whole term?

Booking for the term is preferred. It will allow you to sink in to the practice, connect with the group, and track the benefit of regular rest and gentle movement in your own life over the longterm.

As the group establishes, there is both drop in and committed options.

I can’t afford the sessions. Can I come?

I have tried to price the sessions fairly for the length of time they are and the work, and hidden costs, involved in running them. My hope is that, with sessions being on alternate weeks, they will be more affordable over the longterm (eg, when booked as a block through the EarlyBird booking they are £7.25 / week).

Please contact me to discuss your financial needs if ReSource is not accessible for you.

I need therapy! Are these sessions suitable for me?

Possibly. Possibly not.

These sessions may be therapeutic in nature however, they are not intended to replace individual therapy sessions that may support and meet you at another level of your journey.

If you think you may struggle to regulate within a group and are in need of individual support, I offer one-to-one collaborative somatic therapy sessions as well as sessions specifically for mothers, called Mother Space.

Collaborative Somatic Therapy and Mother Space are spaces for you to receive the deeper holding you may need to process challenge and cultivate inner resources.

It is always possible to be in touch and discuss this with Hayley to see what would work best for you.

It may be possible that a combination of both group work and individual therapy may suit you.

I really want to come but I don’t have a car. How can I get there?

We’ll be setting up a lift share whatsaap group so that you can get here and back.
Watch this space.

I know I need this! How do I sign up!?

Booking is open!
Book here.
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Got more questions?

Email me: hello@hayleynettle.com