The Art of Attuning
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Introduction Dr Mairéad Vaughan holds an Arts Practice PhD in the field of Contemporary Dance, 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 is an awareness practice, cultivating wholeness, through deepening our sensory, kinaesthetic & energetic intelligence. Attuning supports the process through which we embody our patterning which allows space for our essential living qualities to arise. Attuning continues to inform Mairéads’ work as a Choreographer, Mentor, Craniosacral Biodynamic Practitioner, Researcher & Writer.
Attuning supports an ever-evolving, real-time (moment to moment) process of embodying Awareness. Through Attuning, we become increasingly aware of our habitual or inertial patterning - that which impedes our evolution. Awareness as our inherent open spacious nature, provides support for our habitual patterning, as it arises in our direct experience.
Attuning supports an organic process. One of digestion, metabolisation & integration of patterning. Ridding the superflous - that which is not needed - so that clarity, light & grounded stability may support our unique creative capacity. So that we may become a conduit for life’s intelligence. Surrendering to this greater intelligence, allowing it to flow through us, becoming more responsive, receptive & aligned.
The Art of Attuning is informed by Movement-Enquiry. All movement becomes the basis for deep inner enquiry. This enquiry is elicited directly through the bodymind. Movements are all contents of our direct living experience. This practise is deeply informed by both Contemporary the Ancient Eastern Wisdom Traditions (Iyengar Yoga & Indian Classical Dance (Bharatanatyam)).
This (w)holistic practise enquires into the nature of our existence & the nature of our living experience. How it arises right here & now. Through our bodymind system. And becoming increasingly aware of what is arising.
Attuning as an inclusive practice, allows all expressions within our experience to surface. All personal, emotional, mental patterning. All expanded states of consciousness & creative expressions. All of our experience is allowed to rise up into the light of our Awareness.
Cultivating pure, open receptivity , allows our spacious nature to be embodied. While simultaneously 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 - our ground of Being - rooted as life.
Attuning cultivates our 3 living centers of intelligence - our Belly, Heart & Head centres. These 3 centres provide support that emits very particular kinds of living intelligence.
Belly wisdom Being our deep sensory capacity to Be here right now in Presence.
Heart radiating Unity with & as the fullness of our inherent Oneness.
Head knowing its wide open sky like nature - Mind as pure Awareness.
As all 3 centres evolve, digest, metabolise, integrate, embody into & as one. And increasingly we know our ‘Self’ as 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 a process of attuning (a tuning into), listening, sensing & enquiring into how we are right now.
In open receptivity we ask - What is arising right now in this moment? Can we remain present to our direct 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 through our experience, so that we may access our underlying felt spaciousness, our awareness ? What is the quality of our listening ? Can we feel the wholeness of our system ? Can we sense what pulls our attention away from this emergent moment ?
Over time, we begin to fully anchor into our direct living experience & thus our Presence. Tracking all movements, sensations, thoughts, feelings, emotions, energies & impressions as they arise. Becomming aware of all the contents. And simultaneously, building our capacity to ground down into & through 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 supports all of the above process. The client has to be ready to become open, maliable, soften to their living experience. A session begins by taking time to drop in to the bodymind & to connect through your alive felt sense. While also sensing your depth - the still aspect of Being.
Stilling, melting, relaxing, opening, expanding - contacting the fluid raw nature of your sensory experiencing. And simultaneously opening up to your open spaciousness. Spaciousness as a kind of felt sense of expansion with clear, receptive, open attention.
And from here our embodied enquiry unfolds. Intuitively, spontaneously, dynamically responsive. Allowing the truth of your authentic expression to arise in a gentle slow embodied manner. Building your conduit - the bodymind container to radiate the spaciousness all of all your experience.
Each session supports a progressive deepening down into your depth as well as expanding. Allowing patterning, protective implulses, traumas, tensions, pain, structures to arise. Becoming aware of how patterns impact us & our relationships.
Enquiring into the raw textures, qualities, sensory, tones, colours, tasts, impressions. Building our somatic muscle to include the whole spectrum of experience. Deepening & cultivating our body mind space as one whole system. As our living conduit, an expression of True Nature.
For more information, email Mairéad - maireadmv@gmail.com