BodyMind Healing

11/01/2025

What IS Conscious Connected Breathwork?
Not surprisingly, this is a question I'm often asked because breathwork is a very general term that descibes a whole range of breathing techniques and it can be quite confusing to understand the different approaches. It is NOT the same as pranayama (yogic breathing) or calming breathing techniques (though they are all great in their own way).
It's an activating technique which involves deep breathing through an open mouth and connecting the inhale to the exhale.
This affects the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide in your bloodstream, creating physiological changes in your body and altering your brain activity. CCB can benefit your physical, mental and spiritual health:
On a physical level, it releases undischarged stress and tension held in the body.
On an emotional level, it allows you to get in touch with your feelings and express them fully and safely.
On a mental level, it can help to reduce all the mental chatter and allow the mind to settle.
On a spiritual level, it can induce heightened states of consciousness and be a gateway to the transpersonal.
But don't take my word for it - come and try it for yourself! 🥰
To book/more info: https://www.bodymindhealing.life/breathworkgroups

10/01/2025

Beautiful!

This Is the Time to Be Slow
by John O’Donohue

This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.



Artist: Natalia Polikarpova, Russia
Source: The Other Side of Art
https://charterforcompassion.org

30/12/2024

Come and dance! Whether you're feeling great or really struggling...you are welcome. Exhausted, happy, depressed, relaxed, anxious, peaceful or sad...you are welcome. Come as you are and move with all that you are experiencing in the only precious body you will ever have in this lifetime.

Date: Wednesday 8th January

Times: 6pm – 8.30pm (doors open at 5.45pm for a warm up, please arrive by 6pm. No admission after 6.10pm)

Venue: Findhorn Village Centre, IV36 3YR

Cost: £20 in advance up to 24 hours before the event/£25 cash on the door. Booking advised as venue has limited capacity.

TO BOOK: email [email protected]

For more info: https://www.bodymindhealing.life/doawave

16/12/2024

Next Dance of Awareness Wave (2.5 hr class) in the New Year❤️
Date: 8th January
Times: 6pm-8.30pm (doors open at 5.45pm, please arrive by 6pm.
No admission after 6.10pm)
Venue: Findhorn Village Centre, IV36 3YR
Cost: £20 in advance up to 24 hours before the event/£25 cash on the door. Booking is advised as venue has limited capacity.
To Book email [email protected]
For more info: https://www.bodymindhealing.life/doawave

11/11/2024

Deep gratitude to the 14 beautiful beings who explored how their childhood experiences influenced them at yesterday's Dance of Awareness workshop 'Becoming' in Findhorn village. It was wonderful to have a group made up of local, experienced dancers and people completely new to embodied movement from further afield.

This was the beautiful altar space (thanks to Sara Wilder) on which participants were invited to place photos of themselves as babies/young children and objects from their childhoods. As we moved through the Dance of Awareness cycle (sometimes with photos and teddy bears making their way onto the dance floor), we explored our formative years from pre-birth to 5 years of age.

Thanks too, to Lizzi Grant for so ably assisting me and bringing her wealth of embodied movement experience and psychotherapeutic skills.

Looking forward to the next DoA workshop next Spring: 'Unbecoming'.

01/11/2024

We are all products of our upbringing and it'sa so easy to unconsciously get caught up in reenacting old patterns.

This is why I feel so passionate about Dance of Awareness - an embodied movement practice that can help you understand how your childhood experiences have shaped you and to let go of self-limiting patterns that are no longer serving you.

The Dance of Awareness cycle takes you through a dynamic movement journey that invites you to consciously connect with your body and explore developmental themes from early childhood. When you engage with your unconscious early conditioning - especially at an embodied level - powerful change becomes possible and you start to have more choice about how you are living your life.

If this interests you, come join me for 'BECOMING', a 1-day Dance of Awareness workshop that explores how you became the way you are and who you want to become NOW.

Date: 10th November, 10.30am -5.30pm
Venue: Findhorn Village Centre, IV36 3YR
Cost: £95 (2 concessionary places at £75)
TO BOOK: email [email protected]
For more information: https://www.bodymindhealing.life/becoming

08/10/2024

Come join me for this 1-day dance/movement workshop to explore the early childhood influences that shaped how you became the way you are and your 'becoming'. Understanding how the past has formed you can be very liberating. When you engage with your unconscious early conditioning - especially at an embodied level - powerful change becomes possible and you start to have more choice about how you are living your life ❤️

Date: Sunday 10th November
Times: 10.30am - 5.30p.m
Venue: Findhorn Village Centre, IV36 3YR
Cost: Early bird £85 before 20th October/full price £95. Two concessionary places available at £75.

TO BOOK: email [email protected]

For more info: https://www.bodymindhealing.life/becoming

07/10/2024

I’m delighted to be offering this workshop again after 5 long years! It’s been quite a journey to get here and rather than just jump straight into promoting the workshop, I feel moved to provide some context and say a bit about my personal process.

Between 2018-20, I created and ran a series of 1-day Dance of Awareness workshops:
BECOMING - exploring the early influences that shaped how you came to be the way you are or your ‘becoming’.
UNBECOMING - Letting go of who you are not by softening the ‘armouring’ or your embodied defences .
BEFRIENDING - learning to be with and accepts the parts of yourself you struggle with.

These workshops were well attended, the feedback was great and I was due to run a residential Dance of Awareness workshop for the Findhorn Foundation in March 2020 when the pandemic hit - and we all know what happened next. In 2021, just as everything was beginning to start up again, I was knocked back by my own serious health issues followed by my son’s life-threatening physical and mental health issues. As a result, this aspect of my work got kicked into the long grass for the next 4 years.

This March, I’d planned to offer ‘Becoming’ but encountered yet another setback due to a family bereavement and had to postpone. All in all, it’s been a long old road to get back on track with where I last left off with Dance of Awareness. I’m totally chuffed that this year I have finally been able to start offering this practice again. Initially with holding three DoA Waves over the Summer, and now I’m looking forward to providing an opportunity for a deeper dive with ‘Becoming’.

So a heartfelt invitation to come and reconnect with Dance of Awareness if you came to past workshops... or experience for the first time what this rich embodied movement practice has to offer.

If you’ve got this far (thank you for your attention), here’s the info at last on the workshop!
Date: Sunday 10th November
Times: 10.30am - 5.30p.m
Venue: Findhorn Village Centre, IV36 3YR
Cost: £95 (early bird £85 before 20th October). Two concessionary places available at £75.

TO BOOK: email [email protected]

For more info: www.bodymindhealing.life/becoming

05/10/2024

05/10/2024

What helps you to be more in touch with your feelings (without doing therapy)? Release physical tension in your body (without doing exercise)? Quiet your mind (without meditating)? Explore non-ordinary states of consciousness (without taking drugs)?
CONSCIOUS CONNECTED BREATHWORK!!! And the next opportunity to join a group session is in 2 weeks time ❤️
For more info: https://www.bodymindhealing.life/breathworkgroups
To BOOK: email [email protected]

19/09/2024

Next Dance of Awareness Wave is on Saturday 28th September. Here's what a participant said of the last class:
'Lucy's presence was welcoming, inclusive and clear throughout the class, which created a sense of safety for creative and deeply felt movement exploration. She led the class through a model for
experiencing and expressing movement based on developmental stages and within that offered specific themes and prompts. Participants were encouraged to respond with movement in their own ways and timing.I would recommend Lucy’s workshops to anyone who wants to experience developmental movement in a deeper way in order to understand themselves better and to increase their movement choices.' Sharon Took Zozaya, Dance Artist and Yoga Therapist...............................................................................................................................
Date: Saturday 28th September
Times: 10am - 12.30pm (doors open at 9.45pm, please arrive by 10am. No admission after 10.10pm)
Venue: Findhorn Village Centre, IV36 3YR
Cost: £15 in advance up to 24 hours before the event/£20 cash on the door (booking advised as venue has limited capacity)
​TO BOOK: email [email protected]
For more info: https://www.bodymindhealing.life/doawave

26/08/2024

Loved holding the Conscious Connected Breathwork group last Friday. Thanks to all who came and went on a deep dive. This was the centrepiece in the room. As I made the playlist, the theme of water kept coming in…tracks about the sea, rivers, water in all its forms…so went with the flow 💦🌊🐳💦

16/08/2024

Happy to be restarting the Conscious Connected Breathwork Groups again in Findhorn soon! 😊Future dates throughout the Autumn:
• 27th September
• 18th October
• 15th November
• 13th December

16/08/2024

I have just come back from Estonia having participated in an amazing 7-day intensive training in Biodynamic Breathwork Trauma Release System (BBTRS). It brings together all the threads I’ve spent many years training in - Connected Breathwork, Reichian bodywork, Somatic Trauma therapy principles, embodied movement, touch and sound - into one of the most powerful approaches I have ever experienced. Despite long days (Osho meditations starting at 7am and sessions finishing at 7pm) I was amazed at how energised and resourced I felt throughout the week and since I got back and started working again. I am very grateful to have been able to do this training which has been on my radar since I read Giten Tonken’s book ‘Feel to Heal’ (highly recommended!) and I’m super excited about intergrating all I have learned into my Breathwork practice ❤️🙏🏻❤️

01/08/2024

***** The monthly breathwork groups are restarting in August! *****
Trauma-informed breathwork in small groups to ensure a safe, well held space. For more info: www.bodymindhealing.life/breathworkgroups
All welcome - whether you have experience of Conscious Connected breathwork or are new to this practice ❤️