The Art of Attuning
1 - 1 Sessions ~ Workshops _ Group Enquiry
Introduction Mairéad Vaughan holds a PhD in the field of Contemporary Dance (Relase-Based), Somatic Practice & Creative Process. She works as an artist, facilitator, body-worker & researcher/writer. Attuning as a psycho-somatic framework, supports a direct living embodied enquiry. Arising out of a 30 year Dance, Yoga, Somatic & Craniosacral Biodynamic Practice, Attuning supports a way of life - a continuous returning back home, to our bodymind - to a deeply embodied way of living.
The Art of Attuning Attuning is an embodied practice, elicited through a process of living cultivation. Our bodymind space becomes our living conduit through which we explore, enquire and discover.
We re-learn how to sense, feel and inhabit our bodymind deeply. Attuning is an Awareness practise. Awareness being our capacity to allow all of our experience to be fully seen, sensed, felt, known and embodied. We allow space for all of our perceptions, experiences, patterning & habitual responses. We build awareness of what impedes our natural flow, our life force energy. And we embody all that clouds our natural open state of simple Presence or Being.
Attuning - a practice of ‘tuning in’ & listening to our direct experience as it unfolds in this moment here and now.
Cultivating - our bodymind’s inherent living intelligence - our sensory, kinaesthetic, energetic awareness - as our innate bridge into and as pure Awareness.
Enquiring - through our 4 living centres of intelligence - Core/Belly (Being), Heart (Oneness), Head (Awareness) & Root (Source).
Belly Centre - Core Being - Grounding into our natural state of stillness as Being.
Heart Centre - Harmonisation - Opening into our unified field & attuning as pure, open receptivity, interconnectedness & wholeness.
Head Centre - Awareness - Clarifying our capacity to witness, enquire, discern & discriminate, pure open Awareness.
Root Centre - Purifying our survival, sexual, instinctual impulses, behaviours and protective responses. Clarifying the ground as Source, as pure Mystery.
Soma Flow Awareness remains largely in the background of our experience, yet it can be felt and sensed directly as spaciousness within our bodymind. Cultivating our sensory, kinaesthetic & energetic awareness, may progressively; mature, deepen, expand & open ‘as’ pure Awareness.
Through which we access our essential quality as pure open receptivity - our fluid nature I call Soma Flow.
Soma is an innate healing liquid fluid that is spoken of in many ancient Vedantic texts. Soma supports the purification of our whole system. Soma can express in many different essential aspects, depending on what is required at a specific time. It is activated and generated as a support for our transformation progresses.
Conditioned patterning prohibits flow. Over time, our patterning becomes habituated. It may keep us stuck in inertia, or in a fixed loop cycle of automatic nervous system responses - through repetitive sensations, emotions, energies, impressions, thoughts & beliefs.
This patterning can also keep us stuck outside of our bodymind, in dissociative states which we mistake for higher levels of consciousness. All of these responses, fuel conditioned behaviours & defense structures, which impact us deeply as well as our relationships and our life.
While our conditioned patterning served as an intelligent response through certain stages of development, they now may become increasingly redundant, dysfunctional and maladaptive. Like outdated programming that no longer is required for our survival - we get stuck in the seeming safety of the habitual. We lose our felt sense of aliveness (life force energy) and our spaciousness (emptiness). Life can begin to feel contained, contracted, fearful, anxiety-ridden &/or overwhelming.
Maladaptive patterning in the bodymind may express as chronic pain (fight), dissociation (flight), stagnation (freeze/shock) and much more. All of which impedes our evolution and growth. And thus, prohibiting our return to our simple natural state of ease, joy and soma flow - our natural state or True Nature.
Attuning Sessions
These sessions support a progressive deep relaxation and expansion into our bodymind spaciousness. This settling down into your bodymind allows for a simultaneous sense of expanding and opening up as you become increasingly aware. As you become more aware, you access your inherent spaciousness, your presence & your wholeness. That which is always in the background of 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