Abigail Rose Clarke on slowing down and widening time | Returning Home to Our Bodies

An ecotone is a transitional area where two distinct ecological communities meet and interact. These places teach us about finding ground in times of chaos and transition, to embody the ecotone is to become present not just to our own individual body, but to all the bodies that exist in the context where we are. In times of chaos and discomfort, to be able to reconnect with the ground is incredibly important.
Introducing her upcoming course with advaya, Returning Home to Our Bodies, Abigail speaks on the importance of finding ground within our bodies in times of chaos and transition. If we allow ourselves to consider our lives as inherently part of the poetry of the ecotone, the rigid binaries necessary to sustain supremacies cease to have such a stronghold on our imaginations.
ABOUT THE COURSE: Following the GROW/L Method, imagined by your teacher Abigail Rose Clarke, an acronym for GROUND, RELATE, OBSERVE, WIDEN, and LOVE, you will learn how to use the body as a guide through the complexities we face as a collective society, and as individuals within our own unique constellations of experience.
This is a course taught by a poet with a lifelong obsession with microscopes, and a deep abiding love of magic as well as the scientific method. We will use scientific research to guide our explorations into the miraculous truths of the body, practising deep somatic listening and presence. Resisting a consumerist somatics industry that makes the body into a product, we’ll remember that meaningful embodiment practice nurtures our relationship to self, nature, and community.
The body already exists beyond the reach of extractive systems of domination, and we can turn to the stories offered by the blood and breath to remember. The body understands how opposition can be a healing force - the muscles can tell us this - and the body, above all, understands support and comfort as a constant force. Our mind can remember what the body already knows.
This course is based on this book with the same name, written by Abigail Rose Clarke.