Listening to the Earth
Movement and Ecotherapy Workshop
Saturday 6 July 2024
11am-5:00pm
Church Farm Meadow
Private Nature Reserve
Bramfield, Suffolk
Sink into the gifts the Earth offers you each moment. Tune into the ecosystems inside and around you with your whole body and all your senses. When we let the natural world come to us, we can really include it into our experience. We can rest in what is right here, enter into a creative conversation and notice how it changes us. No longer separate, belonging to the meadow, meeting the pond, the grasses and the trees and being met by them.
Drawing on practices from ecotherapy, dance movement psychotherapy, voice movement therapy, community dance, and mindfulness, Katy Dunne (Norfolk Arts award winner, 2023) and Sebastiana Black will create a nourishing day to support you in deepening your connection to your whole self, the natural world, and each other.
The day will include:
- Movement exercises to deeply connect with ourselves, and those we meet on the land
- Meditation practices to slow down and sense the inner and outer world
- Voice, imagination and movement to nourish ourselves and give back to nature
- Creativity to enhance and digest our experiences
- Time for you to slow down and rest in nature
No previous movement and meditation experience is necessary, just willingness to sit quietly in nature and move according to your ability.
Contribution to Ecotherapy East: £60, £50, £40- choose what you can afford. Please consider paying the highest amount to support our work and those who can only afford the lower price. If this is too high for you and you would like to join us, please get in touch.
Spaces limited to allow for a small, connected group.
Tea and coffee and biscuits provided.
To book, click here to email: ecotherapyeast@gmail.com
Travel: We encourage car sharing, use of public transport or bicycles.
Parking: Parking is available at Bramfield Village Hall for a small charge of £3 per vehicle.
We have 4 spaces by the meadow for people with limited mobility.
Buses: The workshop is timed to work around when buses arrive and leave Halesworth. The Charcoal Line 40, 41, X41 runs from Norwich to Halesworth once an hour, and Bus 521 goes from Halesworth to Bramfield. All Suffolk buses timetables can be found here: https://www.suffolkonboard.com/ways-to-travel/bus/bus-timetables/
Address and directions will be provided after booking.