The Awaken Series

Explore your spine, pelvic floor and eyes – awakening to sensations, connections and possibilities throughout your whole body.

Some aspects of ourselves can be easy to overlook.

Your spine, pelvic floor and eyes each play a significant role in how you move, sense and experience yourself and the world around you. Yet much of what they do happens without your conscious attention.

The Awaken courses use somatic learning to bring each of them into focus. Through movement, sensation, breath, imagery and changes of attention, you’ll spend time getting to know them from the inside — not simply learning about your anatomy, but developing your own felt experience of it.

And these areas don’t exist in isolation. As each course unfolds, the exploration reaches beyond its starting point, revealing relationships throughout yourself — your spine with your ribs, pelvis and head; your pelvic floor with your breath, feet and throat; your eyes with your neck, balance and whole-body movement.

Begin with one part of yourself, and discover far more than you expected.

The spine, however, never remains an isolated object of attention. These explorations continually reveal its relationships with pelvis, ribs, head, breath, legs and the rest of your body. In the course, movements are initiated from different places, differentiated, combined, made smaller, imagined and reorganised — not with an intention to perform them correctly, but to discover what you can sense and what other possibilities become available.

It is less a course of exercises for the spine; more a course in learning to experience yourself through your spine – opening up greater possibilities for sensing and moving.

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And, just as with the spine, the exploration doesn’t remain in one place. Instead you’ll discover relationships between your pelvic floor and your thoracic diaphragm; breath, throat and sound; your pelvis, hips and legs; feet and abdomen; your midline, eyes and the rest of your body. Sometimes your pelvic floor is simply the starting point. Often, focusing elsewhere provides a different way of experiencing it.

Through this course, you’ll develop your own felt sense of the layers of your pelvic floor, its movements and relationships – discovering possibilities that go far beyond simply contracting and releasing it.

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Throughout this course, you’ll explore your eyes in many different ways – focusing and defocusing, near and far vision, peripheral vision, left and right, as well as the relationships between eye, head and neck movements. You’ll use practices including palming, blinking and the Tibetan Wheel, alongside movement, breathing and sensory exploration.

As the course unfolds, the enquiry widens. You’ll explore what happens when the eyes move with, or independently from, the head; how movement of the neck and spine contribute to vision; and relationships between seeing, breathing, balance, orientation and whole-body movement.

Using this course, you’ll be able to develop a richer felt sense of your eyes and the act of seeing; and recognise how something that seems to happen entirely out there, in front of you, is connected with the movement, attention and experience of your whole self.

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The Complete Awaken Series

You don’t need to take all three Awaken courses. Each is a complete exploration in its own right, and you can begin with whichever one interests you most.

However, if you’re curious about all three, The Complete Awaken Series is available as one collection, giving you the opportunity to explore three very different starting points – spine, pelvic floor and eyes – and the distinctive ways in which attention to each can open into a wider experience of yourself.

Together, these three courses offer you more than 33 hours of somatic learning, plus additional bonus sessions, with lifetime access to everything.

Three courses. Three starting points. One collection to return to and explore in your own way.

£349

Individual courses £149 each (£447 in total)

Who is The Awaken Series for?

It’s for anyone who is interested and curious to explore! You don’t need any previous experience of somatics to take an Awaken course. The sessions begin with things you already do – moving, breathing, looking, sensing – and invite you to become more curious about how you experience yourself as you do them.

If you already practise somatic movement, the courses offer an opportunity to immerse yourself in areas of your body that you may not previously have explored in such detail. You can use whatever learnings you already have as a launch pad. 

The courses may also be particularly interesting if you teach yoga, Pilates, somatics or other forms of movement. Rather than giving you a collection of techniques to reproduce, they will offer rich material to experience for yourself – and perhaps new ideas and questions to bring into the way you work with others.

Meet Your Teacher

David has been teaching Somatics for over 17 years and working with individuals and groups for more than 30 years. His approach has been shaped by many years of exploring movement, awareness and breathing, including Somatics, Feldenkrais, Nia, Aerial Yoga and pranayama.

His interest in Somatic Movement began in 2009, following a bicycle accident and a period of relearning how to move and walk. His exploration of breathing grew from his earlier training in pranayama and developed further through his work as a Clinical Somatic Educator, where he became increasingly interested in the relationship between breathing, movement and the way we experience ourselves.

David has a remarkable ability to observe how experience unfolds. Rather than providing answers, he invites curiosity. Rather than telling you what to notice, he helps you discover it for yourself. His teaching has a quiet way of revealing patterns and possibilities that often go unseen, leaving you with a deeper trust in your own direct experience.

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