‘Involute Fundamentals’ is a three-part yoga course for women, designed to gradually guide your awareness deeper and deeper inside of yourself to, firstly, help you to fully ground and centre within yourself and begin to hear the quiet voice of your inner wisdom. Then, through deep inner listening, it becomes possible to move towards healing old wounds and traumas, strengthening and re-balancing yourself and, ultimately, unlocking and expanding into your full potential as an authentic, sovereign being.
Each part runs over four weeks and includes four three hour in-person sessions, one each week. In between the immersive sessions you will be given written notes of all the content that we cover, home practice suggestions, journalling prompts and bonus guided practice videos to do at home, plus ongoing support from me throughout the course. There will then be a week off to support integration, before we begin the next part.
In each session we will use various women-centric yoga practices including yin and restorative postures, mudras, mantras, breathwork, kriyas, including hypopressives themed uddiyana bandha and breathing practice, yoga nidra, other guided visualisations and meditation techniques and womb-honouring asana sequences, plus more. The course also guides us towards the level of fascial awareness, whereby we begin to feel our body as an interconnected whole, by understanding and experiencing the lines of fascial connectivity throughout us as we practice. We will start each session with a check-in, to see what has come up in the preceding week, and will finish each session with a sharing circle around the theme(s) that we’ve been exploring that day.
Part 1 – Deep Core Awareness – Grounding and Centering.
Dates: September 3, 1O, 17, 24 2024
Includes the following content and more:
Week 1 – Introduction to Involute and Deep Core Awareness; connecting to our ‘yin’ muscles of postural being versus our ‘yang’ muscles of doing; the importance of deep core awareness for health and vitality.
Week 2 – Cylinder of core control and specific deep core muscles: transverse abdominis, adductors, iliopsoas, internal obliques, multifidus, diaphragm, pelvic floor.
Week 3 – Exploring grounding and centering practices. How grounded and centred are we? What knocks us off centre and ungrounds us and how can we quickly come back to ourselves?
Week 4 – Deep core muscles and fascia as storage for unprocessed emotions and trauma; the wisdom of fascial interconnectivity.
Part 2 – Pelvic Floor Awareness – Building Strength and Opening to Trust.
Dates: October 8, 15, 22, 29 2024
Includes the following content and more:
Week 1 – Introduction to pelvic floor awareness; the pelvic bowl as a container for experience, including ancestral.
Week 2 – The courage and strength of letting go – practices for releasing the pelvic floor; understanding hypertonic/hypotonic muscles and improving muscle tone; pelvic floor physiology and posture.
Week 3 – Exploring strength through the ‘yin’ lens; practices for strengthening the pelvic floor from within; exploring our relationship to trust and boundaries.
Week 4 – Fascial connectivity through the Deep Front Line; foot and pelvic floor connection; the pelvic floor as connector; understanding the triad of postural diaphragms in the body (pelvic floor, diaphragm, throat).
Part 3 – Breath Awareness – Liberation and Expansion
Dates: November 12, 19, 26, December 3 2024
Includes the following content and more:
Week 1 – Importance of breath awareness; anatomy and physiology of breath; breath as life-force; connecting to your unique breath.
Week 2 – Breath and nervous system response; constricted breath patterns and trauma.
Week 3 – Exploring helpful pranayama techniques and understanding which techniques to use when.
Week 4 – Honouring self and opening to expansion through fullness of breath; reclaiming your space; unlocking latent gifts through breath. Where am I shut down or blocking myself? Where does my breath/life-force not reach?
Each Part will be a closed group, to create a safe container that we can relax and expand into, allowing us to explore and gently lean into our edges of trust and intimacy. Sharing circles will form an important part of our sessions, this being precious medicine that our souls are thirsting for – authentic connection with others, supportive community and sisterhood and safe places in which to find our authentic voice and share our truths and vulnerabilities. We cannot begin to heal until we feel safe in ourselves and in our environment.
The course is designed to be a progressive inward journey of involution and I strongly recommend that you sign up for all three Parts from the outset, to demonstrate your commitment to yourself, to this journey and to the other women who choose to come on this journey with you. A price reduction based on up-front payment for all three Parts is therefore offered as encouragement of this. That said, it is possible to just join the Part(s) you are able to join if needed.
This course leans more towards a yin rather than yang style of practice, as it is designed to help us reconnect to and allow the gifts of our feminine energy to be acknowledged, understood and allowed to blossom. This course is designed for women, due to our different anatomy and particular experiences (for example menstrual cycle, childbirth, miscarriage, abortion, menopause), especially at this potent time on the planet, where a rise in feminine energy is required for balance. It is a big question of mine: ‘What is it to be an empowered woman at this time?‘, and I will be encouraging us all to hold this as an ongoing enquiry throughout the course. That said, one of the key themes throughout the course is finding the complementary balance between our personal unique blend of yin and yang energies. When we polarise into the feminine mysteries, the masculine energy within us must rise too, in order to support our deep dive into what can sometimes feel dark, chaotic and confusing, and provide a safe way back to the light and to order, structure and the deep peace of embodied understanding that can follow. Therefore, we will be acknowledging, exploring and honouring the complementary nature of the masculine energy within us and around us too.
I bring to this course over twenty years experience of being a dedicated student and teacher of yoga as well as being a more recent student (five to ten years) of other ancient modalities of healing and transformation, including shamanic practices (especially within the Celtic and Toltec traditions) and Chinese energy systems such as Tai Chi, Chi Gong and Taoist practices. This course represents my passion and life-work and I draw upon my own embodied experience to bring to you a carefully crafted journey of involution, gently spiralling in towards the deepest, most mysterious layers of our being. The course content will be primarily but not exclusively drawn from the huge body of wisdom held within the ancient yet ever-evolving yoga tradition.
If you are unsure whether this course is for you or not, please get in touch to arrange a free Zoom chat with me so you can find out more and ask any questions you have. You can also contact me to receive the recording of the ‘Involute’ taster class that I ran online a while back, as a gift.
Please get in touch to book on – advance booking is essential. I do hope to sit in circle with you and support you on a precious journey of inner connection to your beautiful body and beingness and unique magic this autumn!
Involute Testimonials
“I think the biggest change for me has been that I am even more aware of myself – my physical body, and the inner workings of my mind, then I was before. I know myself better.”
“By taking the time to explore the workings of the body in a relaxing meaningful way I’ve finally learned to appreciate that it’s OK to relax, it’s OK to delve deep not to be scared of what I might unearth for each small movement provides greater appreciation for my body. I feel more accepting & in tune with my body.”
“The journalling was an unexpected favourite. I have never really got into journalling before with much success but the prompts were so incredibly thoughtful and really helped me take the involute journey to another level. It has also been fundamental in the healing journey I have been on in the last 6 months and something I will absolutely keep in my life.”
“I loved all of it to be honest, every part was learning and delving deeper into the workings of the body. It re-ignited my love for the human body is its intricate workings.”
“Becky created such a nurturing space where I felt completely held. The 1:1 check ins were incredibly valuable for me too.”
“I genuinely felt so held and supported and had absolute trust in Becky and the Involute container she created. I quickly learnt that everything was working out perfectly for me and to trust the process. I really valued the ‘container’ it felt like I knew and my body knew we were in a safe space to ‘go deep’ and really start to explore things that I haven’t before.”
“Becky – I do not have the words to fully express my gratitude to you for creating this course. It’s been absolutely wonderful and I am gutted that it has come to an end. You are such a wonderful teacher/guide – so humble, and kind, and you offer such a bright light to follow. You are a true example of living what you teach and an absolute inspiration.”
“I can recognise parts of self that were under-acknowledged and neglected. I am using knowledge of self, discovered on the ‘Involute’ journey to nurture the neglected parts and develop all of self.”
“Becky you are such a wonderful teacher! Thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart for sharing your wisdom.”
“Becky is such an incredible teacher, her wisdom and knowledge flows at a steady pace. I could listen to Becky’s voice all day!”
“I honestly feel that during the Involute process I have changed from a girl into a woman. I have begun healthy, pain free menstrual cycles for the first time without hormonal contraception. I have felt able to begin therapy and address trauma. I have a genuinely loving, kind relationship to my body, particularly to my reproductive system which less than 2 years ago was at the point of wanting to get a hysterectomy at age 28, now I feel like I’m learning to listen and respect and send love. I have had significant revelations about how I see myself, how strong I am and I feel like I have regained my health after so many years of not feeling myself. I have also started to have better boundaries in many different situations and take better care of myself. I have more trust in myself to look after myself. I now have better control over my pelvic floor and an understanding of how to ‘breathe with it’ and I have learnt how to release. I have the confidence to practice some intuitive movement/ yoga and do what I feel my body needs.”
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