Returning Home to Our BodiesLearn the GROW/L method
Reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom, using mindful practices to heal, awaken, and integrate deeper embodied awareness into your daily life.
taught by Abigail Rose Clarke
Module 1Seed
In this section we will name our lineage, and our intentions. Like a seed, everything arises from something else, and by acknowledging our beginnings, we can move forward with clarity.
Chapter 1
Course Disclaimer
Chapter 2
What is somatics?
Chapter 3
GROW/L Overview
Chapter 4
Seeds of Hope
Chapter 5
Practice: Seed
Module 2Ground
We will rehydrate our relationship with place, gravity, and the relationship between the body and the earth
Chapter 1
Introduction to Session 2
Chapter 2
We Begin at the Ground
Chapter 3
Be/coming Home
Chapter 4
Gravity As A Relationship
Chapter 5
In The Ecotone
Chapter 6
Practice: Ground
Module 3Relate
Everything is interconnected, everything is in relationship. In this section, we will explore what it means to be changed by, and to change, everything.
Chapter 1
Introduction to Session 3
Chapter 2
We Are Made of Community
Chapter 3
Our Bodies as Forests
Chapter 4
The Skin as an Ecotone
Chapter 5
Practice: Relate
Module 4Observe
When we are relationally observant, then we are able to engage with the world, ourselves, and each other, from a place of patience understanding.
Chapter 1
Introduction to Session 4
Chapter 2
Topography of Feeling
Chapter 3
Practice: Observe
Chapter 4
Sense of Urgency
Chapter 5
Right to Comfort
Module 5Widen
As we increase our capacity to be present, we increase our ability to hold more and more paradoxical truths, and more and more conflicting realities.
Chapter 1
Introduction to Session 5
Chapter 2
The Body is on Our Side
Chapter 3
A Queer Theory of the Mesentery
Chapter 4
The Organ of Intuition
Chapter 5
Finding the Mesentery
Chapter 6
Practice: Widen
Module 6Love
Love, in the way we are exploring it, is embodied, and encompassing. As a result of our time together we will have deepened our capacity to hold desire as a force, to love from our centre, as Audre Lorde writes, to love from the inside.
Chapter 1
Introduction to Session 6
Chapter 2
Love is the Source
Chapter 3
Return Home to the World
Chapter 4
Re/turn to Love
Chapter 5
Practice: Love
Live ConversationsLive Conversations
Explore a collection of live conversations between past students and Abigail Rose Clarke, offering valuable insights and real-world experiences for each module. These discussions provide a deeper understanding of the course material, student perspectives, and practical applications, creating an invaluable resource for those seeking to enhance their learning journey.
Q&A 1
Seed: Q&A
Q&A 2
Ground: Q&A
Q&A 3
Relate: Q&A
Q&A 4
Observe: Q&A
Q&A 5
Widen: Q&A
Q&A 6
Love: Q&A
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.
You are a multicellular organism. Our mainstream culture would have you believe you are an individual, but you are an entire ecosystem, and you are inherently part of the ecosystem that holds you. Our bodies, and the natural world we are a part of, tell stories of collaboration and mutual aid. They tell stories of deep rest and graceful effort, of space and fluidity. Above all, our bodies tell us stories of the awe and curiosity waiting for us as we turn our attention towards the truth of these bodies, and the natural world.
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.
- 6 modules of pre-recorded classes
- Readings & resources
- Community area to discuss and reflect
- Weekly practices
- Learn to harness the vitality of curiosity and experimentation, to better meet a changing and complex world
- Explore how to use nature as a guide to what might exist beyond mainstream systems of domination and mechanisation
- Become able to embrace the necessity of difference and the opportunities available within conflict, deepening your capacity for intimacy and relationship-building
- Develop your capacity for collaboration and cooperation in all your relationships
- Increase your capacity to hold the immensity of our grief while maintaining the practice of hope in a changing world.