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Essential Elements of Movement Medicine®

SOUL POWER - SELF LOVE - CREATIVE FREEDOM

7 Week Intensive Online Course

13 October - 24 November 2024

with Keef Wesolowski-Miles

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Movement Medicine® is a body based movement meditation practice that will reconnect you to the wisdom of living from the heart, the joy of knowing who you are and the satisfaction of making your unique contribution to life.

During this 7 Week Programme you will have the opportunity to address what is calling for attention in your life - in your body-heart-mind and your past-present-future. It will deepen your connection to yourself, your creativity and the integrity and guidance of your own soul. Wholeness is the invocation, healing is the outcome.

It is a unique opportunity to study deeply with Movement Medicine Teacher and Somatic Soul Guide Keef Wesolowski-Miles within the safe and intimate container of a small community of cohorts who share a common purpose - living a fulfilling and creative life empowered with integrity, passion, purpose, patience and the poetry of presence. You will be guided to develop and embody your own personal somatic movement practice based on the fundamental principles and core practices of Movement Medicine.

In addition to cultivate your own personal Movement Medicine practice as a soul resource for every living, you will be invited to do plenty of self- reflection, wholeness resourcing practices, explore 'deepening' invitations and wander in nature frequently. You will have find company by your side as you remember, resource and enliven the magnificent and unique creative being you were born to be.

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“The ReSource group container that I've been a part of for the last 6 months has been simply incredible! It’s been so great to connect with a beautiful community of like minded souls to dance my socks off once a week! I was incredibly astounded how I could explore my inner emotional landscapes through the dance and throughout the time have moved through several powerful Movement Medicine systems and approaches, each with its own unique flavour, realisations, insights and healing. I cannot recommend this container or any other group containers held by Keef enough - Experience deep healing & have tons of fun in the process - what’s not to love?!” Jess Falmer, Coach

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What does it involve and what will I learn from this journey?

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• Study live online with a senior Movement Medicine teacher and Somatic Soul Guide
• Community: learn to embrace personal freedom and collective unity
• Practice: movement is the medicine 
• Awakening the Wild Dancer develop and strengthen your embodied medicine circle  
• Awakening The Heart - cultivate soul power, self love, fierce and tender compassion
• Learn transformative empowerment tools for personal and collective evolution
• Integrity - deepen your capacity to shape shift from reactivity to response ability
• Cultivating Wholeness - learn to breath, expand and embrace your whole being
• Elements: harness the elements for power, protection and inspiration 
• Relationship: dimensions of awareness. Everything is a relationship.
• Creative Freedom: utilise the dancing body as a channel of creativity 
• Shaman: awaken your inner healer with archetypal allies and guides
• Awakening: sensitivity, sensuality, presence and vital aliveness 
• E-motion - surrender to energy in motion and learn to feel what needs to be felt
• Ceremony: intention, incantation, dedication, prayer, devotion and sacred offering

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" Yes, yes, yes deep overflowing gratitude and fulfilment for this work, I am realising, in both senses, how much power there is available through the practices and holding on this course. Very happy to be part of it. " Ben Bont, Cymru

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Course Structure

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• 6 weekly Wednesday ReSource Sessions

October 2024 - 16, 23, 30th and November 2024 - 6, 13, 20th at 18.30-2100 (UK)

These sessions are a combination Movement Medicine practice and teachings regarding the conceptual frameworks, practices and processes of this ReSource programme. This will include at least 90 mins of actual Movement Medicine practice. Both the teachings and practices will evolve and expand, built on a simple foundation of core essentials.

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• 3 Monthly Sunday Community Medicine Circles 

October 2024- 13th, November 2024 -10, 24th at 14.00-17.00 (UK)‍

Sharing, witnessing and feedback. A primary ReSOURCE and arguably the most potent medicine is community. In these monthly circles, we will have the opportunity to share our process, to be witnessed and to witness each other. The invitation is always - What is asking to be felt? What is asking to be expressed? What is asking to die and what is asking to be born? The material you bring is whatever is emergent, whatever is hot. It may explicitly relate to the practices and processes we are exploring together or it may have a wider lens regarding what is alive for you in your life. These sessions will be book ended with 2 x 30 minute Movement Journeys.

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• 1 Golden Soul Portals - Sunday 3 hours Ceremony

‍November 2024 - 24th at 10.00-13.00 (UK)

RETURN TO THE SOURCE - 21 Golden Soul Portals This will be a deep dive into the Movement Medicine Mandala. An opportunity to weave together all the ReSOURCE tools whilst exploring the territory of your life from different perspectives. Ultimately, the intention is empowerment, responsibility and the harvesting of the fruits of our journey together.

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• Peer Support Group and Personal Study Invitations

- ReSource WhatsApp. Ongoing sharing support and inspiration where everyone will be encouraged to offer words, voicedrops, share challenges, victories, track commitments that you want accountability for and much more. These groups are as alive and vital as the energy each of us contribute. It's a place for the community to ReSOURCE and for you to ReSOURCE the community. 

- Circle of Support. We will constellate small circle peer listening groups for weekly check-ins. 

- Study Invitations. I will invite self reflection and self-practice opportunities; sometimes for the whole group and sometimes more personalised. 

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• 1-1 Mentoring Calls

‍Optional at additional cost.

This course is essentially an extrapolation of phase one of the MENTORING PROGRAMME I have been offering individuals for the last few years. There are many blessings to sharing this journey in community - affordability, good company, peer support and inspiration, the power of witnessing and being witnessed - and inevitably it is not possible to be quite so precise and personalised. 

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To bridge the space between the Mentoring work and this group format, I am offering these 1-1 sessions at a reduced price to participants of this course so you can really dive deep into the intimate specifics of your personal journey. Please get in touch if you would like to further resource yourself in this way. 

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For more information about my full mentoring programme: www.awakeningthewild.org/mentoring

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Course Content and Dates

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• Week One ‍

- Sunday 13th Oct 2024, 1400-1700 (UK)- Inauguration Community Medicine Circle +Dance

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- Wednesday 16 Oct 2024 18.30-2100 (UK) - ReSource Practice

‍Core Practices: Awakening The Wild Dancer, Tree of Life, Yin-Yang, M.E.S.A Practice - Movement Energetics of Spatial Awareness,  Essential Elements

We will start this journey with a thorough embodied exploration of the core essential practices of Movement Medicine. These simple yet profound movement practices are the core foundation for the whole body of Movement Medicine work. They provide essential resourcing and refuge for the deeper and more intensive processes.

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• Week Two

- Wednesday - 23 Oct 2024, 18.30-21.00 (UK) - ReSource Practice‍

Core Practices: Journey of Empowerment‍

We will continue to deepen our exploration of the core practices and and start to explore the Journey of Empowerment by touching on our relationship with and between our body, heart, mind, soul and spirit.

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• Week Three 

- Wednesday 30 Oct 2024, 18.30-21.00 (UK) - ReSource Practice

Core Practices: Dimensions of Relational Awareness: Self, Other, Community, Spirit / Imaginal, Great Spirit / Source‍

In the dimension of SELF we will bring our resourced dancing bodies, our sensitive hearts and creative minds into an exploration of our relationship with this one we find ourselves experiencing in this lifetime. What thoughts, beliefs, feelings, emotions, stories, images, sensations and behaviours arise in relation to my body, heart, mind, personality, life when I relate to myself alone. What would I like to cultivate and strengthen in my wholeness and what would I like to heal and release or transform?  Can I hear the call of my soul? My personal mythos? My poetry? My song? My life dance? How do I take the next baby steps from egocentricity towards soul-centricity and live life where my ego is a delivery system for a deep soul purpose. 

In the dimension of OTHER/S, In the Mirror of Thee, I See Me, we will again bring our resourced dancing bodies into an enquiry about our relationship with other beings - both human and other than human, both generally and specifically - alive, dead and unborn.

In the dimension of COMMUNITY we will explore the dance of freedom and unity, of ‘power with’, creative collaboration, interconnection, belonging and inclusion.

In the dimension of SPIRITS AND IMAGINAL REALM 

Ancestors, Descendants, Spirits and Imagination 

In the dimension of GREAT SPIRIT 

His/Her STORY, My/Your STORY, It's all a Great Mystery

Of course all of these relational dimensions have shadow and light, have challenge and opportunity, difficulty and ease. We will shine the light on all of this and explore what we want and need to cultivate in all of these areas as we evolve our soul vision and dreams for a life of fulfilment and purpose.

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• Week Four ‍

- Wednesday 6 Nov 2024, 1830-2100 (UK) - ReSource Practice

Core Practices: Archetypes - Strengthening your Medicine Circle‍

In Carl Jung's psychoanalytic  theory, an archetype is  a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and is a living energy present in the collective unconscious. As such it has pure potential and can have a powerful effect when activated in the human psyche and especially when brought into embodiment and utilised in daily life. In Movement Medicine we work with several key archetypal allies. Dancing warrior, Dancing fool, Wounded healer, Great Mother, Great Father, Wise Elder and Inner Shaman / Healer / Dancer / Artist‍

This week will explore dancing deeply with these powerful archetypes.

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- Sunday 10th Nov 2024, 14.00-17.00 (UK) - Continuation Community Medicine Circle + Dance

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• Week Five

- Wednesday 13 Nov 2024, 18.30-21.00 (UK) - ReSource Practice

Core Practices: Essential Elements of Movement Medicine‍

The elements are essential ingredients in the Movement Medicine Mandal and Mesa. Located in the four directions. Earth in the South with the roots of The Tree of Life, Air in the North with the branches, Fire in the East - the place of the rising sun, Water in the west and Ether or Space in the Centre. The elements dance within us and all around us and have a profound effect on all aspects of experience as human beings. We are essentially Elemental Beings.  This week we will dive a little deeper into our evolving relationship with these primal forces of nature and our own true natures.

The elements are ever present and  are closely related to our emotions and qualities. We will explore this in more depth in week 6. 

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• Week Six ‍

- Wednesday 20 Nov 2024, 18.30-21.00 (UK)

Core Practices: The Human Heart - Empowerment and Response-Ability‍

Raw emotion. Emotion as medicine. Animal Allies. 

Cultivating healthy states, qualities and relationships.

What’s asking to be felt? What’s asking to be expressed?  

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AWAKENING - Fear (earth)

INTEGRITY - Anger (fire)

SURRENDER - Sorrow (water)

GRATITUDE - Joy (air)

GRACE Compassion (space/ether)

A deep inquiry into our innate animal intelligence and the emotional chambers of the human heart. We will invoke animal and elemental allies to support us in cultivating the ground of our being for Awakening, Integrity, Surrender, Gratitude and Grace.

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• Week Seven

- Sunday 24th Nov 2024 1000-1300 (UK) - Ceremony - RETURN TO THE SOURCE  - 21 Golden Soul Portals - 3 hours

The stage is set for our final wild ride around the Movement Medicine Mandala. Buckle up as we go on a 3 hour odyssey from Great Mystery though the 21 Golden Soul Portals and finally Return to the Source.

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- Sunday 24th Nov 2024 1400-1700 (UK) - Completion Community Medicine Circle + Dance

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You should now be thoroughly prepared for our next programme How The Light Get In - Systemic Essential Energy Retrieval and Phoenix rEVOLUTION.

Whilst these are designed to be stand alone programmes, it is optimal to follow the sequence ReSource, How The Light Gets In - Systemic Essential Energy Retrieval , Phoenix rEVOLUTION.

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"This was the first online course in which I've experienced very profound moments through dance. I had the pleasure of being with others who had similar depths of experience. For me it was a genuine sense of community creating safety along with potent teachings from Keef that created an aliveness that I had previously only known through in-person immersions. Initially I underestimated the efficiency and effectiveness of movement medicine, soon humility to my Ego was gifted through the simplicity and grace of healing through guided movement and music. Thank You Keef and All the 2023-2024 Re-Source Crew!" Edward Thompson, Musician and Movement Coach

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21 Portals of the Movement Medicine® Mandala

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“Movement Medicine is shamanic medicine for our times. It gives us direct, embodied experience of the dance of life that’s going on inside us and all around us. As a species, we face enormous challenges right now that we see as arising from the story of separation; separation between body and spirit, between individuals and nations, between the human world and the web of life we are part of and depend upon. Simply put, Movement Medicine reconnects us, deepening our capacity for empathy and compassionate being and action. Since prehistory, dance, song and ritual-making have played an important role in the human community. Movement Medicine is a contemporary expression of this inheritance. It marries ancient and modern wisdom, and supports you to experience the transformative power of your own potential in a co-creative community.” Susannah and Ya'acov Darling Kahn, Co-Founders of The School of Movement Medicine

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The symbol of the Movement Medicine® Mandala contains all the teachings that make up Movement Medicine. Each of its 21 gateways is an invitation to engage with a different aspect of life in the most creative way possible. Each Gateway opens up an important aspect of life's journey. As your practice deepens, the mandala becomes more and more useful, both as a reminder of where you are, and as a measure of your evolution. The ancient Greek symbol of the Phoenix sits at the centre of the mandala. 

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During ReSOURCE - Essential Elements we will touch on each of these gateways and we will dance the territory of the map in our final ceremony together. The Phoenix is explored in depth in the Awakening The Wild Movement Medicine Intensive - ‘Phoenix rEVOLUTION’

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“Given enough resources - namely love, enough safety, support, acceptance and movement, all human beings have it within them to rise from the ashes of suffering and create a new story. The cycle of life, death and rebirth that the Phoenix reminds us of reflects the reality of mortality and opens us up to the reality that all things come to an end. 'Dying whilst still living' is a universal shamanic principle and philosophy. In order to evolve, our patterns, identities, and roles often come into question. The presence of the Phoenix reminds us that change is both inevitable and constant. Dancing with whatever life brings is part of what Movement Medicine teaches us. Change is part of life. Whether it involves an actual death or a metaphorical one, working with the Phoenix as a symbol helps us to be more at ease with life's only guarantees - namely change and death.” Susannah and Ya'acov Darling Kahn - Co-Founders of The School of Movement Medicine

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For more information about my full mentoring programme: www.awakeningthewild.org/mentoring

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Soul Investment

Earlybird - ends 13th Sept - £445

Full Price - £495 

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Payment Plans available.

SPECIAL OFFER - purchase ReSOURCE and How the light gets in together and receive a further 5% discount.  Does not apply to bursary places.

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BURSARY by application. 

Bursaries are for students, those on benefits or who are experiencing financial hardship in some way. We have a limited number of bursaries available for each training that are offered at our discretion.

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