The Embodiment Journey
a 5-month immersive practice experience, April - September 2022
An immersive and transformative practice opportunity, where we will articulate, demonstrate and explore the principles of unfoldment as revealed through the body.
Through meditation, movement, experiential anatomy, and creative enquiry, we will be learning and training in key practices, skills and competencies that can lead to a life of satisfaction, joyful contribution, and genuine liberation.
The Embodiment Journey
At home in the body, at home in the world.
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Laying the Ground
April / May
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Trusting the Heart
June / July
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Uplifting the Space
August / September
We are still accepting registrations for Segments 2 and 3, June - September.
You are welcome to join us!
After Segment 2 the group will be closed for the remainder of the year.
What is a human body? What is it capable of?
How can I learn to use this extraordinary instrument wisely, lovingly, and creatively?
Most of us have heard or been told that the key to freedom is to be PRESENT, to BE HERE, to be with what IS.
Sounds simple, right?
What is not as well known or understood is HOW on earth do we actually do this? Often when we try to meditate or pay attention to our bodies and minds, we meet all sorts of difficulties and seeming obstacles in our way. Or perhaps we have been practising for a while, but keep bumping up against familiar challenges that we don’t know how to move beyond. The most simple thing, we discover, is not so simple after all.
Awareness of the body is known as the first foundation of mindfulness. It lays the ground for everything that follows, so we need to build this foundation thoroughly and skilfully. The body offers us a direct path to liberation, but we need to learn HOW to attend to ourselves in a way that will actually bring us the joy and satisfaction we seek. By establishing a clear sense of our physical form, we gradually begin to open to the wider dimensions of body that include more and more of life in its embrace. We discover more about who and what we really are. This is an organic process of revelation that is unique to each person.
The body also connects us to all of the life that is now and has ever been on our planet. It is the holder of all of our personal, collective and planetary history. Therefore, the body connects us to a tremendous data bank and support system that we can draw on to resource, illuminate, and integrate our lives here and now.
This 3-segment practice series is designed to demystify the principles of unfoldment through the body in a way that can be readily understood and applied. Each segment stands alone, but they build upon each other developmentally over the 6 months. Each will offer you practices and skill sets to train your attention and strengthen your capacities of presence, relatedness and responsiveness. They will build your confidence and trust in your own direct experience, and will support you to discover and develop your unique and genuine expression. This will be a kind of embodiment “school”, a dynamic and interactive space where we can really dig into practice together as a community, and learn from our own and each others’ direct experience.
If you have ever wondered how to tap into the potential that you know is within you,
and are curious about how your own body can show you the way, then this course is crafted for you.
Each Segment Includes :
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Weekend Immersion Workshop
Two half-days of immersive practice, this will launch each segment's material, laying the foundations for ongoing exploration.
In-person (Nelson, NZ) or streamed online for those attending by distance. Recordings will be made available for you to access and review anytime.
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Weekly Guided Practices
Each week for 6 weeks you will receive guided practices and support resources to deepen and develop your experience of embodiment. With regular practice and commitment, these will continue to build your skills, refine your awareness, grow your confidence, and unfold your potential.
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Touching Base Sessions with Q & A
Mid-way through each segment and before Integration Time there will be an online Touching Base Session - to bring the community together, share some guided practice, answer any questions, and troubleshoot any difficulties that may be arising in your home practice.
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Community Network of Practitioners
In between segments you are warmly encouraged to engage with your fellow practitioners through a private online community circle platform. This is a wonderful way to stay connected, share insights and discoveries, and learn from each other's experience.
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Integration TIme
At the completion of each segment there will be a period of Integration Time, for you to rest, digest, integrate and harvest the fruits of your practice.
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Access to Personal/Professional Development Supervision
As a participant of The Embodiment Journey, you have priority access to Individual Mentoring sessions. For those wishing to receive individual guidance or further instruction, additional sessions can be made available by Dana.
At home in the body,
at home in the world.
Segment 1 - April/May 2022
LAYING THE GROUND
In this segment we will lay down a steady foundation for our embodiment journey, and learn to honour and trust our direct experience. We will introduce the foundational practices to train our attention, and discover the power of an open question to activate our unfolding.
Through movement, meditation and experiential anatomy, we will enquire into many questions, including - what is a body? What is it comprised of? What are its layers of experience? How do I experience my body and what is my relationship to it? How do I train my senses? How do I learn to sense myself? What does my body have to teach me?
We will strengthen our capacity to self-regulate, reduce stress, deepen calm, and come into a more congruent relationship with our bodily experience. This allows us to develop an easeful and satisfying way to inhabit our day to day lives.
Segment 1 Schedule :
Saturday April 2nd 9am - 1pm / Sunday April 3rd 10am - 1pm Weekend Immersion Workshop
April 4th - 10th Post-workshop Integration Week and Review, a chance to catch up and review the workshop material
April 11th - May 22nd Weekly Home Practices and Support Resources
April 30th and May 21st 10am - 11:30am Touching Base Sessions
May 23rd - June 6th Integration Time
Segment 2 - June/July 2022
TRUSTING THE HEART
As we learn to settle in our own skin, resting on a sure foundation, we naturally discover our capacity to open. We sense our interbeing with the world around us, and our need to connect and relate fully. There is an increasing refinement of awareness and deepening of sensitivity. We deepen our loyalty to our direct experience, and sense the arising of integrity and natural ethics. The heart rouses. We want to contribute something wholesome, beautiful, and congruent to the world - to receive and be received.
In this segment we will explore what it is to trust the heart. What are the heart’s unique and powerful capacities? How do we learn to listen deeply to ourselves and others, to learn the art of asking beautiful questions? How do we align ourselves with the natural laws of unfolding? Can we listen to our heart’s call, and have the courage to follow its guidance?
As we deepen our primary relationship to ourselves and the movement of our lives, we will begin to explore the territory of the heart from an embodied perspective. This allows us to deepen our capacity for rich and rewarding connections - a mutual supporting of human flourishing.
Segment 2 Schedule :
Saturday June 11th 9am - 1pm / Sunday June 12th 10am - 1pm Weekend Immersion Workshop
June 13th - 19th Post-workshop Integration Week and Review, a chance to catch up and review the workshop material
June 20th - July 31st Weekly Home Practices and Support Resources
July 16th and July 30th Touching Base Sessions
August 1st - 15th Integration Time
Segment 3 - August/September 2022
UPLIFTING THE SPACE
This segment we begin to open more fully into the space around us. We will explore the larger dimensions of “body” that go beyond our personal experience to include all of life. As our embodiment deepens and widens, we can allow the spontaneous movements of life to flow through us.
Living from our deep aspiration, there is a sense of willingness to receive inspiration and to follow it. We know that what we contribute to the field matters, and we take responsibility for our presence. We deepen into wisdom - the capacity for more of the world to arise in us - and the compassion that naturally arises in response.
By listening to the body on all levels, we will give space to developing our sense of purpose, our authentic voice, our unique contribution in the world. We realise our capacity to uplift the space, to enhance the collective environment, for the benefit of all.
Segment 3 Schedule :
August 19th - September 9th Pre-Workshop Weekly Home Practices and Support Resources
Saturday September 10th 9am - 1pm / Sunday September 11th 10am - 1pm Weekend Immersion Workshop
Saturday September 3rd Touching Base Session - Live with Jess Huon
September 12th - 16th Integration / Practice Time
Friday 16th September Closing Ceremony - Harvesting the Fruits. Online or in person
Cost per segment
$150 - $300 NZD
Sliding Scale according to your circumstances
This includes registration for each Weekend Workshop, all course and home practice materials for the segment, all technical, digital and administrative support , private access to community site, guest presenters, and life-time access to The Embodiment Journey audio and video content.
There are a small number of part-scholarships available for each segment. Please get in touch if you would like to apply.
REGISTER FOR ALL THREE SEGMENTS TO RECEIVE A COMPLIMENTARY INDIVIDUAL MENTORING SESSION AS PART OF YOUR JOURNEY.
Why choose The Embodiment Journey?
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Skilful Facilitation
Drawing on over 16 years of dedicated experience in embodiment, meditation, and healing arts.
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Flexible Engagement
Practice with support from your home according to your energy and schedule. You can choose to participate in one or more segments.
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Quality Group Size
Spaces are limited to 30 people per segment, to support a friendly and fruitful learning environment.
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Supportive Community Learning Together
Enjoy the company of like-minded practitioners, nurturing a sense of community, uplifting and augmenting each other’s process .
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Reliable Methods of Practice
Practices are based on tested transformative methods of healing and enquiry, from both both ancient and modern wellsprings of wisdom.
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Ask any question!
A relaxed and engaging space to ask any and all questions relating to your life and practice. Your questions are a gift to everyone’s learning.
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Enrich and Deepen Your Existing Practice
Because we are directly increasing our capacity to be fully embodied, The Embodiment Journey will support, complement and deepen any exisiting practice you are engaged in.
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Personal and Professional Growth
As you cultivate presence, relatedness and responsivenes, this course will support you in an organic process of revelation and discovery that you can incorporate into your personal and professional life.
A Message from Chani
It gives me enormous pleasure to be able to offer this course. It is the synthesis of many years of experience into a body of practice that anyone who is interested can learn and deepen into. It draws on Dharma teachings (that point directly to the truth of how things are), the meditative wisdom traditions, the field of trauma healing and integration, and my work as a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Embodiment Facilitator. Fundamentally it is designed to point you in the direction of your own deep wellspring of wisdom, and to give you a reliable map to show the way. I want to honour and give thanks to all my teachers and colleagues with whom I have studied, practiced and learned so much from over many years. My wish is to share what I’ve learned in a grounded, accessible and inspiring way - to open a door for any curious person to walk through to discover the keys to their own unfolding. And I know that as a community we will create an honest, open, trusting and compassionate space, to support and celebrate everyone’s process.
I hope you will join us!
Please get in touch with any questions you might have about The Embodiment Journey.