The Art of Attuning
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Introduction Dr Mairéad Vaughan holds an Arts Practice PhD in the field of Contemporary Dance (Release-Based), Choreographic Practice & Creative Process. A living practice-based enquiry called The Art of Attuning, directly emerged out of her 35 year practise as an Artist. Attuning as an awareness practice cultivates our whole bodymind intelligence. Our sensory, kinaesthetic & energetic intelligence become the portals through which we embody our more essential living qualities. Attuning continues to inform Mairéads’ work as a Choreographer, Mentor, Craniosacral Biodynamic Practitioner, Researcher & Writer.
Attuning supports an ever-evolving, real-time process of embodying Awareness. A process through which, we become increasingly aware of our habitual, inherited & inertial patterning - that which impedes our evolution. Awareness as it is embodied can be felt as our inherent open spacious nature. This space provides support for what arises in our direct experience.
Attuning supports an organic process. One of digestion, metabolisation & integration of our patterning. Ridding the superflous, the out-dated - so that clarity, light & grounded stability may support our creative capacity - our authenticity. Life may now become our canvas for creation. As we become co-creative partners with life’s intelligence. Surrendering to the greater intelligence that flows through us, allows us to make more responsive aligned choices. All of which supports our evolution & our increasing capacity to trust the process of surrendering.
The Art of Attuning is informed by Practice-Enquiry, elicited directly through connecting to the inner subtle movements. These movements may be called our direct living experience. This practice is highly influenced by Release-based Contemporary Dance Technique, Authentic/Somatic Movement, Post Modern & Improvisational Practices. And by the Ancient Eastern Wisdom Traditions of Iyengar Yoga & Indian Classical Dance (Bharatanatyam).
This (w)holistic practise is one of exploration & discovery into the nature of our existence. We enquire into our existence - the nature of our living experience. How it arises right here & now. We ground into our bodymind system & make ever-deepening contact with what emerges.
Attuning is an inclusive practice. Allowing all expressions within our experience to surface. All expanded states of consciousness. All creative expressions. All the good, the bad & the ugly - allowed to rise up into the light of our Awareness.
Cultivating pure, open receptivity of our spacious nature, plus the contents of our experience. Deepening our capacity to sense, feel, enquire. Generating a more responsive, grounded, authentic expression. As we increasingly becoming aware, we embody our spacious. And we innately begin to embody our depth unfolding its essential Being.
Attuning cultivates our 3 living centers of intelligence - our Belly, Heart & Head centres. These 3 centres of support emit very particular living qualities that support our return to simplicity.
Belly knowing Being through the portal of our Sensory Awareness (the rawness of our sensory experience).
Heart radiating Energetic Unity with & as the fullness of Oneness.
Head knowing its wide open sky like expanded quality of Mind as pure Awareness.
As all 3 centres evolve, integrate, embody into & as each - increasingly we know our Natural State or our True Nature.
Enquiry
We drop into & enquire into the contents of our direct experience. Our bodymind becomes our living conduit through which we increasingly become aware of all of our experience. We cultivate a practice of embodiment through attuning (a tuning in), listening & enquiring into how we are right now. Enquiring in open receptivity - What is arising right now in this moment? Can we remain present to our experience? What do we sense, feel in our bodymind ? What pulls our attention away from our sensory experience? Do we have the capacity to feel our underlying spaciousness, our awareness ? What is the quality of our listening ? Can we feel our whole system ? Can we sense what pulls our attention away from what emerges in this moment ?
Over time, we begin to fully anchor into our direct living experience & our presence. Tracking all movements, sensations, thoughts, feelings, emotions, energies & impressions as they arise. Becomming aware of as we witnessing all the contents. And simultaneously building our capacity to ground into all that arises. Our habitual patterning, our traumas, our defense structures, our habitual ways of interacting/relating. Remaining with all so that we can return back home into the our depth of our Being.
Sessions
A typical session starts with taking time to drop in & to connect through your felt sense. Stilling, melting, relaxing, opening, expanding - contacting the fluid raw nature of sensory experiencing. And simultaneously opening to your underlying sense of spaciousness. Spaciousness as a kind of open, expansive, clear, receptive attention.
And from here our enquiry unfolds. Intuitively, spontaneously, dynamically. You allow the truth of authentic expression in an embodied manner. Building the container to hold in spaciousness all of our experience.
Each session supports a progressive deepening & expanding simultaneously. Allowing patterning, protective implulses, traumas, tensions, pain, structures to arise. Becomming aware of how patterns impact us & our relationships.
Enquiring into the raw textures, tones, colours, tasts, impressions. Building our somatic muscle to include the whole spectrum of our experience. Deepening & cultivating our body mind system as our living conduit of expression. So that we may deepen into our embodied enquiry in a dynamic, fluid & grounded manner.
For more information, email Mairéad - maireadmv@gmail.com