Momentum - Somatic Programme

Growing agency and understanding

Momentum 2027 will have a different format to make it more accessible to those that travel from further away, and more sustainable for members of the team. It will be 3 modules of 5 days instead of 5 modules of 2.5 days. This next programme will begin in Spring 2027, we are still finalising dates and costs. Please email rosie@dance-scapes.com if you would like advance notification once dates and costs are confirmed.

Programme overview
Come join us for this exploration into movement and systemic understanding. An opportunity to land deep inside your dancing being and somatic intelligence, while gaining a greater understanding of how your system speaks to itself and the external world.

A 6 month dive into resource and support for our individual agency in conversation with others and the environment we move through. We will work with Movement Medicine combined with Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Processwork, a particular somatic and systemic weave that supports kindness and understanding alongside expression and integration.

We will create enough safety to give space for the fiery edges as well as the tender softening and lightness of breath. Landing deep inside somatic practices and the resource of the body in motion, from here leaning into IFS and Processwork. So we can explore and expand into both the resource and challenge, to find a relational place of greater choice and health. Enabling us to allow the tides and rhythms of our own nature while meeting the rhythms of life around us.

Constantly returning to movement and dance as the ground of holding and connection, we will also work with IFS to meet and understand our inner world better. Bringing inclusion and appreciation, so parts of us that maybe haven’t had much care are seen in their goodness and supported in their activation. Thereby enabled to move from compulsion to choice, from overwhelm and overstretch to agency and capacity. We will use Processwork tools to support our internal systems, as well as this, to explore the collective parts or roles we get dreamt into. So we can do the same between us, welcoming the roles and bringing them into more understanding and relationship with each other. Be more ‘for’ each role and what it is trying to bring attention to, so collectively we can move from activation and othering to agency and understanding.

This 6 month programme will be an opportunity for deepening and developing your personal practice and understanding of this particular combination of modalities as Rosie brings them. So you can gain perspective and bring care to your own somatic and systemic being. It also creates a strong personal ground for deeper study and future professional development trainings with Rosie and colleagues.

Supporting Team
This course has been long in Rosie’s dreaming and will be led by her. An important part of the support and holding you will receive is from the team of highly experienced individuals assisting on the programme. David Ellis, Sharon Ellis Furr and Ilaria Franchi will be on the teaching support team and will be mentoring on the programme. We will also be supported by Lies Van Hee with her visual art and in the room care and Emilio Mula with his creativity, in the background support and technical know-how.
Read about them here

Rosie talks here about her intention for the programme and the modalities we will be exploring:

2027 Programme Information

Dates:
To be confimed but the programme will run between Spring and late Autumn 2027:
3 modules of 5 days (11am Friday - 5pm Tuesday)
2x online practice meets between each module (4 in total) 

In person venue:
To be confimered but pobably Lower Close Studios, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EN, UK

Mentoring
You will also receive 5 one to one mentoring support sessions. 4 of which will be with with one of the course movement mentors, this is an opportunity to discuss how things are going with a mentor and get 1:1 support for your process on the programme. The other will be a creative mentoring session with one of the creativity mentors to get support to make the most use of the art/making creativity element of the programme.

The programme will include:
100 in person hours
4x inter-module online sessions (these will be 2 hour long evening sessions on zoom)
5x60 minute mentoring sessions
Free (and ongoing) access to over 60 hours of online home practice recordings
Peer practice support

Cost
Costs for the 2027 programme are being finalised but will be in the region of £1600 - £2000 with tiered pricing.
There will also be some bursary places available. Extra support for those on low cost or bursary places will also be available through the Movement Medicine Sponsorship fund to help with travel and accomodation costs. Anyone inspired to make this programme and others like it more accessible to all can also contribute to this charity here mm-sf.org

Places will be limited to 22 on the programme.

To register your interest or if you have any questions please contact Rosie:
rosie@dance-scapes.com  | +44 (0)7813 018567