BraveSpace Sensual Intelligence: Embodying Joy & Presence through Movement

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Description:

Unlock the transformative power of your body’s innate wisdom with BraveSpace Sensual Intelligence: Embodying Joy & Presence through Movement. This immersive online training is designed for those ready to enter the heart of intimacy, meeting the divine life force that flows through every body. Whether you’re a yoga teacher, a therapist, or simply someone consciously seeking a deeper relationship with your body, this program will help you access the full potential of your somatic attunement.

Sensual Intelligence is a meeting with spirit and eros. The erotic experience is the flow of divine life force through our bodies in its longing and connection.  Our culture tends to compress the erotic into the realm of the sexual, and then shames expression of this intrinsic aliveness. In BraveSpace we treat our bodies’ expression with the respect we might bring to a spiritual text, allowing ourselves to revel in the experience of divine erotic connection beyond the sexual without bypassing it:  We invite sacred erotic aliveness into all elements of our being.  You can certainly expect your sexual experiences to be enhanced by this work, yet our focus will be much wider than the directly sexual aspects of erotic presence.

Through lecture videos, “Body Language” explorations that blend choreographed movement with improvisation, and community Body Temples where you will witness and be witnessed by others, you’ll learn to feel yourself from the inside out. Sensual intelligence will empower you to process emotions and move energy, freeing you from old narratives in relationship, and allowing your joy and presence to blossom.  If you are local to Boise you can do some of these things in-person at SomaWorks studio, and everything is always available online.

This training is ideal for you if you’re seeking a conscious embodiment initiation.  It will also hugely deepen the practice of:

• Ecstatic Dancers who want to go deeper, find greater creativity, and seek more connection  in their dances.
• Yoga teachers and students who want to go beyond asana, explore improvisation, and take a step ‘off the mat’.
• Therapists and counselors seeking more tools with which to hold themselves and assist clients in their body-based emotional processing
• Personal trainers and fitness coaches integrating mind-body awareness and emotional intelligence into their bodies and practice.
• Bodyworkers and massage therapists deepening their ability to sense and release emotions stored in their bodies and their clients’ bodies.
• Movement and dance therapists exploring the healing potential of improvisation and body intelligence.
• Performing artists (actors, dancers, musicians) looking to access deeper emotional expression and presence.
• Tantric teachers and practitioners seeking grounding in specific movement and awareness practices to open undiscovered erotic channels in themselves.
• Lovers and partners longing to be more deeply in touch with their own sovereignty while staying in connection with each other.

This program offers flexible online modules, 1-1 coaching, synchronous group sessions, and an optional 4-day BraveSpace Retreat in Boise at a discounted rate.  Sensual Intelligence is the first module of the full BraveSpace Relational Embodiment Training that you may choose to join.  Each part of the full program will support you to progressively gather and hold community in somatic movement, ecstatic dance, contact improvisation, breathwork, and clothed Tantric practices.  BraveSpace recognizes that our sacred wounds are often communal, and that our individual healing often requires holding and moving with others in theirs.

Outcomes:

• Access the deep well of your creative energy as a belonging in your body.
• Claim your sensual intelligence to process emotions and release tension.
• De-Shame your body to release judgement and increase discernment.
• Balance rest and action to rewrite old traumatic patterns, pains, and stories.
• Become the embodied presence and joy that awakens others around you!

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Here’s what’s included:

The 7-day Body Language Mini Series (Online)

This 7-day course will will set your transformation in motion.  Body Language is both how we communicate with our own bodies and how we communicate with others.  You will be taken through simple, specific, choreographed movements that anybody can practice, and which will gently engage you with the social aspects of your movement.  Each exercise will offer departure points for you to play and explore beyond what’s given, freeing you from expectation and conditioning.  Through the week you will be consciously initiated into the sensual movement you may have been doing all your life, or perhaps left some years ago.

Expect the mini-series to take you 15-30 minutes per day on your own time to complete, finishing with a shared synchronous/live session.  If you have already completed this series it is recommended that you repeat it.

The Body Language Library (Online)

Following the mini-series, there will be a new 15-minute Body Language lesson given each week for you to explore and practice on your own time.  The full library will accumulate and be available throughout the course.

Sensual Intelligence Weekly Lecture Videos (Online)

              These lectures relate the 10 principles of BraveSpace (find them below) to your life and body.  The principles are drawn from across many somatic disciples, from somatic movement, dance, and contact improvisation to Laban movement analysis, Feldenkrais, and somatic psychology.  In essence we’ll use our heads—our intelligent ability to reason—to help you develop a deeper relationship with your body.

              Expect these videos to be approximately 20 minutes long, on your own time.

Body Temple Weekly Live/Synchronous Community Practice Sessions (Online or in-person in Boise)

The Body Temples are a guided practice holding space for your individual exploration and expression to emerge in a group context.  There will be quiet music and continued prompts will guide your engagement.  You will have the opportunity to witness and be witnessed by others, de-shaming the experience of moving in our bodies.  The power of community is palpable in these sessions.  They are called temples because the spiritual nature of the body is called in and honored, yet there is no religious symbolism or required set of beliefs.

Recordings will be made of these sessions and will be available to participants.

              Every other Monday at 6pm PST/12pm MST/9pm EST

                            Beginning Jan 27^th, 2024, and excluding Feb 24th

              Offered every other Sunday at 1pm PST/2pm MST/4pm EST

                            Beginning Feb 2nd , 2024

Somatic Seminar (Online or in-person in Boise):

              This will be a monthly discussion time to engage with what’s happening in your body and life through the program, to speak about the weekly lecture videos, and to address optional readings that will be supplied as well.  While virtual, we will imagine ourselves sitting in a circle together where we can meet the community with a sense that each person’s experience is in some way a reflection of our own.  Questions and stories will be welcomed and engaged in community.

Recordings will be made of these sessions and will be available to participants.

              3 sessions offered the 1st, 3rd , and 5th Sunday for 90 min following the Temple.

              Suggested readings will be offered in advance.

Individual Coaching Sessions (Online or in-person in Boise):

Three, 50 minute, monthly individual coaching sessions with Matthew via zoom are included.  Together we will address your body and life.  I will help you work through issues that arise and ways that you wish to uniquely apply the course, such as conditioning that you wish to resolve/integrate into new patterns, connections to other somatic disciplines and practices, or in some cases application of this work to your own teaching and community holding.  If you’re in person touch based teaching/bodywork is an option.

Expectations and requirements:

To succeed in this course you will need to practice 15 minutes/day.  You will optimally want somewhere to be on the ground that is clean and free of pets and children.  Solitude for your practice is not needed, but may be advantageous at times for your focus.

You will need a device that can run zoom and connect to the internet.  A screen larger than your phone is recommended but not required.

It is strongly recommended that you have a pair of wireless earbuds that can connect with your device.

Price: 

There are a few options depending on your needs.  We will cover this in the discovery call.  I recognize that it can be challenging and frustrating to not to know the price in advance.  I guarantee the discovery call on it’s own will be supportive of your journey and not just a sales call.  If you are genuinely calling in the results this training offers the financial cost will serve your commitment and be of great value to you without breaking your bank.

Guarantee:

If you practice at least 3x/week, attend 50% of the temple calls and 2 seminars, receive the coaching sessions, and do not feel you have experienced a significant shift in your relationship with your body, I will work with you until you do up to 6 months total.

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Made it this far and want more?  Go ahead and watch this video that will give you additional background and take you on an experiential journey into your sensual intelligence.

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Here are the fundamental principles around which BraveSpace is organized.

• Somatic Research: Notice the sensations, emotions, images, and movements that arise in your body.  The truth of your body cannot be manipulated away by your mind.
• De-shaming: You are nature, both wild and civilized.  Bear witness to the divine light and darkness that comes through yourself and others by holding your stories and judgements lightly.
• Trans-formation: You are comprised of patterns.  Be willing to change your form, face your trauma, and invite discomfort so you can grow in alignment with your joy, purpose, and truth in community.
• Improvisation: True power is the ability to stay present with what is.  Invite awe and wonder as you inhabit the mysterious gap between the little bit that you know and the infinite unknown.
• Response-ability: Reposition yourself in relation to others and the world to find where you belong in each moment.  Communicate your truth, yet do not attempt to control others’ actions in order to avoid your own shifts.
• Heart-Centeredness: Approach your heart as a gateway to spirit and communal consciousness so that you may function and serve beyond the limitations of your mind and individual identity.
• Tensegrity: Tensional integrity is fundamental to the wholeness of living systems.  Practice holding the tension of opposites physically and metaphysically to build greater range and capacity in your being.
• Risk: You are going to die:  Everything has a beginning, middle, and end.  Embrace fear without being led by it.
• Eros: Follow your joy, pleasure, vitality, and longing to develop loving fullness within yourself.  Connect your sexual essence first to spirit within so that you have capacity to love and attune with others generously.
• Interbeing: You are simultaneously an individual and a part of this collectively animate world. Speak, listen, move, feel, and be willing to change your mind.