Embodied Intimacy : Lorella Ricci in Ocean Shores | Medical and health

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Embodied Intimacy : Lorella Ricci

Locality: Ocean Shores

Phone: +61 409 047 731

Address: Goondooloo Drive 2483 Ocean Shores, NSW, Australia

Website: http://lorellaricci.com/

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24.01.2022 This is the first time I'll be running this workshop for couples only. There are only two spots left, in a small and intimate group. This workshop is really about supporting you to see more deeply into your own experience: into how unconscious beliefs and protective strategies are really influencing your felt experience of intimacy and inhibiting your capacity for true and immediate connection. When you get an embodied experience of this, it gives you an opportunity to find... your way back to where you really are. Meeting your partner in an undefended and effortlessness way is so deeply nourishing. As Rumi says: "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." Getting this experientially (directly in the body) is where insight and change happen without force.

16.01.2022 When it comes to intimacy, the notion of consent is tricky. YES ... the permission to EXPLORE and EXPRESS our boundaries brings insight and is often a turning point that opens and expands our potential for intimacy & pleasure ... BUT if we deepen this exploration, we begin to discover that things are not always what they seem (are they ever?!) If we read the tension and the fear that arises in our bodies as an indication that something is wrong, or that we are "out" of consen...t, or "over" our limits, we potentially enter into a conceptual and adversarial way of navigating our world ... Without knowing it, we might be inadvertently recreating our fear and the deep habits of protection and disconnection. The view from our high-horse can feel expansive and be momentarily relieving, possibly even bringing with it a sense of safety. But as we look around, we might realise we're alone. Neuroscience offer us a VERY important piece of information: The FOUNDATIONS of our emotional beliefs are held in our implicit memory system - which means they are out of conscious awareness. They're held in the body, in our nervous system. They feel SO real and familiar that we don't even realise their influence. That piece of information is CRUCIAL!!!!!! We CAN'T think our way through consent because the thinking mind doesn't really know what's going on!! NORMALLY, at the slightest hint of "potentially" being hurt, a fortress of unconscious protective mechanisms kick into gear. We might pull away, we might grasp or lean forwards, we might step over ourselves, we might not let anyone in! But it all happens in a flash. We get a FEELING, we interpret that feeling at the layer of PERCEPTION "before" it even hits our CONCEPTUAL, thinking mind. And then, we're off ... into a cascade of habitual responses that feel solid and real. THIS = SUFFERING and the recreation of our emotional pain. And we don't even know it's happening. HOWEVER ... IF ... WE .... SLOW ... THINGS ... DOWN ... AND ... LISTEN ... AND STUDY ... IN THE BODY ... Something completely different begins to appear. THIS is where it gets REALLY interesting. When we begin to listen to the FEAR in the body ... This ancient, familiar feeling ... And TURN TOWARDS IT ... And FEEL it ... rather than push it away ... We begin to unlock the information that's held within it. And THAT movement (the turning towards) .. Feels AMAZING ... blissful even. Not only do we come into PRESENCE with something we've been unable to inhabit (or even see) before ... But INSIGHT is illuminated in the body. And INSIGHT has this quality of bliss that opens us INTO existence. Open, undefended and willing. Intimacy, from here, is a very different experience. These feelings are YEARNING for our attention ... But normally, we're too scared to listen. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ There is ONE place (possibly TWO) left on the Embodied Intimacy workshop, starting Sunday 12 May. <3

Embodied Intimacy : Lorella Ricci in Ocean Shores | Medical and health