come drink from the hum of the murmuring deep
Upcoming Workshops
Body Songs: Movement For Therapists
May 27-31, 2026; at Hollyhock Retreat Center, Cortes Island , British Columbia
Come explore the playfulness of Eco-Somatic Movement Psychotherapy with Katriona Ilsedóttir Curry: a workshop specifically designed for therapists, social workers and counselors. As therapists, we also need time and space for renewal and restoration in community.
This five day program offers enlivening care for therapists and somatic movement therapy training. We will rest together in movement, somatics, and creative expression. Deepen into nourishment and experiential learning methods to support your well-being and sustenance for ongoing practice. We will practice with rivers of wisdom and specific techniques to support you to expand and strengthen your embodied practice as a therapist, while resting into creative community.
Unclench, unwind, untangle, release, empty, restore, pulse, rise, unfurl, and wiggle, expand, swoop, release in all directions, and rest. Come drink the Sky and ground into Earth—care for your heart, mind and your wild and magical spirit….
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Learn a gentle, enlivening approach for homecoming with the body and nervous system modulation, while deepening resilience and confidence.
Learn how to create the conditions that help clients feel safer to explore embodied inquiries, and how to ease into movement conversation in a way that reduces anxiety and fear, shame and self consciousness.
Learn how to weave somatic resources through movement inquiries, in a way that supports healing from traumatic injuries gently and potently.
Learn how to play with somatic movement inquiries collaboratively and improvisationally together with clients through embodied methodology that rests in attuned curiosity.
Discover movement as personal and collective liberation practice.
Learn a myriad of pathways to revitalize your relationship with Earth and Body; discover somatic experience as a reliable homeland for belonging, courage, and creative aliveness in Life.
Body As Earth Song: Vitality, Voice, and Vision
We all carry embers of inspiration: come fan the flame…
August 18-23, 2026, at Stowel Lake Farm, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
“….each body a lion of courage and something
precious to the earth….” (Mary Oliver)
In this time of immensity, when fear, grief, and uncertainty ripple, we all need a place to land and be received. Come gather this August for a stoking of the inner fire, a ceremonial emptying and refilling of our cups, improvisational movement, the nuance of somatics, meaningful and joyful nature play, art, and song, based at a biodynamic organic farm nestled in a healing valley.
Our vitality is a nourishable center of aliveness and this center of aliveness is a place where wisdom and voice come through. Come free that current that runs through you.
The stress of polycrisis can make it challenging to care well for this ember of life force, and can make it challenging to respond to that call. Sometimes we loose contact with this river of aliveness. Grief and worry for all the sorrows of the world - for climate unravelling, wars, gun violence, and poverty - and for our own personal experiences of loss and heartbreak - can overshadow our relationship with our aliveness. Many of us are in caregiving roles, which can make it hard to find time to nourish ourslves. Our vitality may feel watered down, weighed down, stagnated, buried, lost. Sometimes forces from our relational lives, imprints from early family life, or contemporary entanglements, can impact our connection with our life force. We may have experienced ridicule, humiliation, rejection, when we dared to show an authentic aspect of ourselves; painful experiences such as this can make us feel protective and guarded of our voice, can make us lose confidence in ourselves and our offerings.
Given conditions that allow us time and space and curiosity to feel into that center of life force, conditions that collectively and personally stimulate this well spring, we can support renewal and flourishing of this center of vitality, inspiration, and voice.
It is wisdom to empty and fill our cups, so that we can be skillful in our movements with those we move with in this life.
our vitality is a nourishable center of aliveness, an ember that is inextinquishable. Given conditions that allow us time and space and curiosity to feel into that center of life force, conditions that collectively and personally stimulate this well spring, we can support renewal and flourishing of this center of vitality, inspiration, and voice.
If this spark calls to you, I encourage you to step forward into this circle of warm and spacious tending of aliveness, tending vitality, inspiration, and voice