The Art of Attuning
1 - 1 Sessions ~ Workshops ~ Talks ~ Enquiry
Introduction Mairéad Vaughan holds a PhD in the field of Contemporary Dance, Somatic Arts Practice & Creative Process. She works as an artist, facilitator, therapist/body worker, researcher and writer. Attuning arises out of her 30 year Contemporary Dance, Choreographic and Performance practice. It is informed by a wide variety of principles including: Release-based Contemporary Dance Technique(s), Post-Modern Improvisation, Somatic Movement Enquiry, Energy Yoga & Craniosacral Biodynamics.
The Art of Attuning Attuning is an embodied practice & a way of life. Through this practice we cultivate our capacity to be, with all of our living experience. We learn how to build our capacity to stay with all that arises here & now. Our bodymind becomes our living conduit of authentic expression. We learn how to re-inhabit our living vessel in each unfolding moment. This becomes the substance of our living enquiry.
Attuning, a practice of ‘tuning in’, listening & enquiring into our direct experience as it unfolds.
Cultivating our bodymind’s inherent living intelligence - our sensory, kinaesthetic, energetic Awareness.
Enquiring - through our four living centres of intelligence - Core/Belly (Being), Heart (Oneness), Head (Awareness) & Root (Source).
Core Being - unpacking our core wounds, as we ground into our natural state of Being.
Heart Harmonisation - opening up our emotional, energetic & receptive nature, to reveal our inherent interconnectedness & our wholeness.
Head Awareness - clarifying our capacity to enquire, discern & discriminate, developing the open attention of expansive mind - as Awareness.
Root Source - deepening into our survival & instinctual mechanisims, inhereted & collective behaviours and traumas, so we can clear the ground and unfold source as Mystery.
Patterning Awareness remains largely in the background of our experience, yet it can be felt and sensed as a kind of empty spaciousness within our bodymind. Developing our sensory, kinaesthetic and energetic awareness, may progressively; mature, deepen, expand & open. We access a receptive and aware fluid statelike ‘Soma Flow’ - or ‘Fluid nature’.
Our conditioned patterning prohibits flow. Over time this patterning becomes habituated. It may keep us stuck in inertia, or a fixed loop of automatic nervous system responses, through repetitive sensations, emotions, energies, thoughts & beliefs. These fuel conditioned repetitive behaviours, which impact our relationships.
While our conditioned patterning served us as intelligent responses through certain stages of development, they now may become increasingly redundant, dysfunctional and maladaptive. Like outdated programming no longer required for our survival, we often get stuck in these habitual looping mechanisms. Making life feel contained, contracted, fearful, anxiety-ridden &/or overwhelming.
Maladaptive patterning may express as chronic pain (fight), dissociation (flight), stagnation (freeze) and much more. Patterning can impede our evolution and growth, prohibiting our return to the simplicity of this moment. To be here just as things are right here and now - in our bodymind fully and wholly. And live our natural state or our true nature.
Attuning Sessions
These sessions support a progressive deep relaxation, learning to drop into and inhabit your bodymind system more fully. This allows for a simultaneous sense of expanding and opening up. To access our inherent spaciousness & our wholeness. That which is always in the background of our experience. And we allow our patterning to arise gently, titrating & opening slowly. From this embodied space, we progressively become aware of our pattering more fully. We attune, listen & enquire into our direct experience & the patterning that emerges in our time together. And over time, a progressive process of digestion, metabolisation & integration may occur. Patterning which impedes our natural open fluid state begins to dissolve. So that which is always present, right here and now comes to the forefront of our experience. Sessions vary in time. Usually are from 1 - 1.5 hours, depending on your needs & circumstances. Costs vary accordingly. For more information, email Mairéad - maireadmv@gmail.com