Join somatic naturalist and embodiment mentor Carl Rabke to work with movement, somatic meditations, soulful poetry and other practices to deepen your presence and intimacy with life.
Depth Workshop: Somatic Foundations for Soul Work
Featuring Carl Rabke, LMT, GCFP, Somatic Naturalist and Embodiment Mentor
Saturday, October 7th
1:00-5:00 pm
Full Circle Yoga & Therapy
1719 S Main St, Salt Lake City, UT 84115
Tickets: $110 in advance | $120 same day / at the door (if available)
Professional Members receive a discount (Promo Code: PROMEMBER)
4 CEUs included for Utah Mental Health Professionals
“We were not meant to live shallow lives, pocked by meaningless routines and the secondary satisfactions of happy hour. We are the inheritors of an amazing lineage, rippling with memories of life lived intimately with bison and gazelle, raven and the night sky. We are designed to encounter this life with amazement and wonder, not resignation and endurance. This is at the very heart of our grief and sorrow. The dream of full-throated living, woven into our very being, has often been forgotten and neglected, replaced by a societal fiction of productivity and material gain. No wonder we seek distractions. Every sorrow we carry extends from the absence of what we require to stay engaged in this one wild and precious life.” – Francis Weller
We live in challenging times. Climate change, natural disasters, deepening cultural divides, species extinction, mass shootings, AI…how do we respond to our circumstances in a soulful way? How do we turn toward the realities of these times without going numb or being completely overwhelmed?
In this workshop we will explore how our bodies can be a refuge in turbulent times.
Michael Meade has described two primary movements of the soul as being slow and down. These are the same movements that can deepen our embodied presence. To slow down from the frenetic, busy, hurried pace of modern life. To drop down into the intelligence, the wisdom, the sensitivity and creative possibilities that exist when we can fully inhabit the soft animals of our bodies, in relation with a living, animate world.
If we are to become large enough to hold, and be touched by the beauty, wonder, magic, and also the grief, loss, despair and disconnection of being alive in these times, we need support. We need our spine, lower belly, our legs, and a felt connection with the Earth and the natural world.
We will work with gentle movement, somatic meditations, soulful poetry and other practices that can deepen our grounded, spacious, embodied presence, and our intimacy with life. Hopefully, you will leave resourced with an essential somatic toolkit that can help you respond to this world in a soulful way.
“Of all the dangers we face, from climate chaos to permanent war, none is so great as this deadening of our response. For psychic numbing impedes our capacity to process and respond to information. The energy expended in pushing down despair is diverted from more crucial uses, depleting the resilience and imagination needed for fresh visions and strategies. Zen poet Thich Nhat Hanh was asked, ‘What do we most need to do to save our world?’ His answer was this: ‘What we most need to do is to hear within us the sounds of the Earth crying.’” -Joanna Macy
About Carl Rabke:
Carl Rabke is Somatic Naturalist, writer, and a tender of soul and living culture. He is a Feldenkrais and Structural Integration practitioner, and co-hosts the Embodiment Matters podcast with his beloved wife, Erin Geesaman Rabke. You can find out more about him here.
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