Following the thread

The idea for this has its roots in an emergent method which rose out of a month spent in the French Alps in 2016, under the guidance of my wilderness mentor Annie Bloom.

An intense fiery dream swept through me on my first evening and during those weeks I found myself in what I can only (crudely) describe as a treasure hunt between dream, art, ritual and land. What emerged during those weeks felt enchanted and tangible, both. And full of meaning.

Over the intervening years I have been very slowly developing, and tentatively facilitating this weave between dream (and other doorways to soul) ritual, land and the wisdom of the body.

Last year I guided three experimental programmes called Following The River Underground which arose from a dream of my Grandmother's garden where I was shown a large earth womb, shaped into the soil.

Following this dream in the body through Focusing, I settled in alongside a vast serpentine being, following her like a river underground. Observing her slow emphatic potent uselessness, in relation to our cultural norms of productivity and effectiveness. At that time I made an small offering in a nearby river where I shaped an earth womb with clay and sang into it as though it were a two-way sounding conch.

Over the years, I’ve come to have profound confidence in what this journey of weaving opens in me. I'm still following this thread. Later this summer I'll be leading a buddhist retreat in Sussex to explore these themes (there are still spaces for men!). For now, I'm re-opening this terrain, to share it with you in this programme.