Embodied First Aid
4-Week Wellbeing Course

Learn Body-based practices & Frameworks
for mental & physical Health

Are you looking for:

• an opportunity to learn how body-based practices can support you and your clients/staff/students/family?

• sensory strategies to support neuro-diverse people in their learning and daily lives?

• somatic strategies to self-sooth and cultivate resilience?

• experiential tools for coping with difficulties and re-patterning responses to things?

• arts-based interventions that inspire positivity and creativity?

• ways to sense into your natural environments and feel your connection with them?

6hrs Live Classes + 25 Body-based Practices + Online Resources + Professional Support
Delivered in-person onsite / in our Preston studio / online
Pricing negotiable

We’d love to work with you

Embodied First Aid Course Description

Angela, as an educator and Camilla, as a therapist have combined their years of experience in embodiment and creative arts to design a dynamic course that can positively shift your mood and change your state. The knowledge and skills you gain during this course will support you to to actively bring your sensing, moving body into your wellbeing.

Grow your embodied awareness and kick start a personalised embodied practice. Explore the foundational principles and theories that underpin embodied practice and its benefits. Learn 25 foundational body-based skills over the course of four weeks and weave these into your daily life. Feel better with our Embodied First Aid Course.

This course is for people with little or no prior experience as well as for health and education practitioners who would like to complement their current practice.

Why choose Embodied first aid?

This course introduces you to the transformative power of embodied practice. You will learn evidence-based strategies and processes that have positive mental and physical health benefits and how to pepper these throughout your day. The course offers a range of therapeutic embodied techniques (movement, touch and sound) that are trauma informed, experiential and playful.

Research shows that moving helps to process emotions, improve states of mind, boost the immune system, lubricate joints, and strengthen bones which brings balance and health to your life. Tactile engagement can positively affect mood, create states of calm, soften tissue tone, mobilise posture, brighten eyes and inspire creativity - touch is a human nutrient. Vocalising and vocal toning has been shown to improve breathing and posture, stimulate muscle and organ tone and improve sleep. When you’re feeling stressed about things, moving and sounding will invite and balance the ‘feel-good hormones’ such as dopamine, endorphins and serotonin which enhance social engagement and refresh focus.

Embodied Practice emerges from. . .

Embodied Practice emerges from fields including experiential anatomy, somatic & creative arts therapies, neurophysiology and body-mind philosophy. The practice utilises body-oriented, awareness-based strategies that include Body-Mind Centering©, yoga, performance practices, Alexander Technique, mindfulness meditation, improvisation, martial arts, extended vocal technique, Focussing, Contact Improvisation and Social Presencing Theatre to name but a few.

What people are saying about the Course:

“I’m feeling calmer than I have in days, if not weeks”

“Camilla and Angela have such a wealth of experience between them about the body and movement, somatic and cellular knowing - you can go as deep as you like. Also great take away strategies to improve sleep, wellbeing and mobility. Highly recommend!”

“It’s as though you have captured my favourite parts of yoga and meditation!”

“I have the biggest smile :) feeling so nourished and warm”

“Thank you both so much. Really great to have the website to follow up on this very beneficial session”

“I found the exercises give an experience of body awareness that I would not notice in usual movement”

“I had a duet with a blackbird”