Embodied Coaching through Open Floor One-on-one & small group sessions
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost.
The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression.
It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.'
Martha Graham
Do you like to move? Are you interested in self-developement? In listening to yourself? Finding your inner, best path?
Connect your body, heart, mind & Soul, cope with the hurdles on your path (develop the direction and the perspective to bounce off from 'failures' or stuckness), and follow your own life path.
No previous dance experience is necessary. For more information about Open Floor, look here.
Why Coaching + Dancing ?
- Make space for your embodied wisdom
- Transcend your (physical, emotional, & mental) limitations
- Learn to move gently, and in your own terms, with what's going on
- Find your embodied way, and develop long-term trust into it
- Find the Freedom to be yourself - on the path from being Gentle with yourself to being at Peace with your relationships
What can you expect to find in a one-on-one Embodied Coaching session?
- Take the time you need for self-connection in a trusted atmosphere. Feel the intimacy with yourself, the fine embodied self-awareness inside of your body; and from this inside self-perception, explore your creativity outside (range of motion, connected to your emotions, your mind, and to your wider purpose) and joy of moving and dancing freely
- Benefit from a personalized embodied coaching process, where you can access your your body's inner wisdom & insights, anchoring the new emotional and mental awareness in your body
- Explore your issues with the help of intra- and interpersonal connection coaching, dancing & embodiment tools: discover and practice your personalized embodiment process to take into your own life and towards what you need to feel, be and do, while trusting you have the key to yourself
- Work towards your objectives in an embodied way. Get unstuck, notice & go beyond your interconnected mind-body-emotional patterns, and enlarge the range of your possibilities for physical, emotional and intellectual movement
Individual Embodied Coaching session price:
150 euros for a 1.5-hour Embodied Coaching session
300 euros for a 3-hour session: includes an Embodied Coaching session, then a guided Dance Integration
(if in person in The Hague, add room rental costs)
(on Zoom: includes a break)
Please contact me here.
In practice, for the Embodied Coaching session: we connect to your current situation, objective and potential obstacles before the session. On the day of the coaching session, we typically sit and discuss more in depth your situation. My coaching questions will help you reflect and make the necessary feeling and sensing connections between your body feeling, energy, postures and movement, and you emotional and mental life, to help you to get to your embodied objective.
In practice, for the Dance Integration: we stretch, we rest, we arrive at our own rythm, and come onto the dancefloor in our own pace. We get more and more into our body sensation awareness, semi-guided (you are free to take or replace the instructions: the goal is mostly self-respecting & self-loving self-connection). Music is playing. Then we gradually move to a guided conscious dance and embodiment journey, to integrate all of the learnings and what was stirred in this coaching session. Typically, more insights will come, but I also guide you to more embodied movement resources, connected to what we just discussed. There is a point where you are free to explore what's been learned and developed by yourself, with music, to just let go of all of it or have fun with what you learned. By the end of the session, we come back to settling into whatever state we have arrived in, and close the session. The closing gathering might involve speaking, it might not - as always, you're always free to feel what is most fitting to you at that moment.
What happens during a Small Group Embodied Coaching session?
Connecting to the different parts of ourselves - body sensations, emotions, thoughts, and sense of self - in music, in silence, together, by ourselves, using the Open Floor core movement resources and embodied anchors to facilitate deeper and deeper self-awareness and resourcing, that's what I find sums-up a group session. We learn to better connect to ourselves, and to support ourselves; and we learn to better connect to others, and to navigate the landscape of connecting to them from the inner space of ourselves. It's a journey, not a destination. You're never finished, never fully complete - and at the same time, exactly right the way you are right now, for yourself to keep evolving. In relationship, we evolve faster. It's full of surprises, good and bad - and we learn new ways, we expand our capacity to cope, to resource ourselves and to support each other - and then, to have full, unadulterated, pure bliss! Being ourselves, together. In our common humanity.
