Momentum - 2025 Somatic Year Programme

Growing agency and understanding

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 10 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 10 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.
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Rosie talks here about her intention for the programme and the modalities we will be exploring:

Programme Information - dates, cost, what's included

Dates:

Initial Weekend:
7 - 9 February (7pm Friday - 4.30pm Sunday)
It is possible to attend this as a stand alone weekend and to then sign up to the full programme provided there are still places.

Modules and inter-module meetings:
21 - 23 March (5pm Friday - 5pm Sunday)
2x online practice meets
13 - 15 June (5pm Friday - 5pm Sunday)
2x online practice meets
19 - 21 September (5pm Friday - 5pm Sunday)
1x online practice meet
28 -30 November (5pm Friday - 5pm Sunday)

You will also receive 3 one to one mentoring support sessions with one of the course mentors.

In person venue:
Lower Close Studios, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EN, UK

The programme includes:
100 in person hours
5x inter-module online sessions (these will be 2 hour long evening sessions on zoom - dates and times to be confirmed)
3x60 minute mentoring sessions (this is an opportunity to discuss how things are going with a mentor and get 1:1 support on the programme)
Free access to online home practice recordings
Peer practice support

Cost
Initial weekend only: £155 if booked by 07.01.25 £185 thereafter
Full programme including initial weekend: £1250 if booked by 07.12.24, £1375 thereafter

Bursary support
If you would like to support our bursary system by paying an additional 10%/£125 (or another amount that seems right to you) into the bursary fund please let us know when you register. The programme is costed at the minimum amount we believe is needed per place to cover expenses and income to run it. We would like to be able to offer several bursary places for those that need it and any support to do so would be welcomed. Equally if you wish to apply for a bursary place please contact Rosie.

How to book
To secure your place we ask you to fill in a registration form and pay a £375 non-refundable deposit. Full payment is due by 07.12.24 for the £1250 early booking cost. It is also possible to pay for the programme in instalments by prior agreement, contact Rosie to discuss. 
Cancellation policy
If you cancel your place before 07.12.24 we will refund the fee minus the £375 deposit. After 07.12.24 we unfortunately cannot refund any monies.

Places are limited to 18 on the programme.

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