MY WORK
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Is a body based Essential Awareness Practice that enables you to find new ways to freely express yourself and experience greater love, joy, presence, self-respect and awareness in your daily life. |
WHAT I OFFER TO YOU
Is a basic practice to live an Open…Loose…Natural…Flowing…way of life where you are fully conscious and connected to your inner wisdom and power.
I offer you these simple tools through workshops, classes and individual sessions. The work combines meditation, conscious dance (Open Floor), Tantra, Learning Love® Institute coaching (for relationships) and Quantum Energy Coaching (QEC)
Is a basic practice to live an Open…Loose…Natural…Flowing…way of life where you are fully conscious and connected to your inner wisdom and power.
I offer you these simple tools through workshops, classes and individual sessions. The work combines meditation, conscious dance (Open Floor), Tantra, Learning Love® Institute coaching (for relationships) and Quantum Energy Coaching (QEC)
CHECK OUT WHAT PEOPLE SAY
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"What Simon does in his dance workshops is very beautiful. For me it’s like magic".
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" I found that the teaching puts you in touch with your soul and the real beauty of life"
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ABOUT MY TEACHING and "Skills for Life " work
My teaching is spontaneous, creative and designed to give people a deeper sense of love and connection towards themselves and others. The classes and workshops are enjoyable and healing with the aim of developing a profound love and consciousness that can extend fully into all aspects of your life. I teach "Skills for Life" that help ease the journey from the wounded emotional child state of immaturity to a state of loving adult maturity, free from old patterns of protective behaviour. Some of these protections may take the from of addiction, reaction and control, expectation and entitlement or compromise.
My teaching is spontaneous, creative and designed to give people a deeper sense of love and connection towards themselves and others. The classes and workshops are enjoyable and healing with the aim of developing a profound love and consciousness that can extend fully into all aspects of your life. I teach "Skills for Life" that help ease the journey from the wounded emotional child state of immaturity to a state of loving adult maturity, free from old patterns of protective behaviour. Some of these protections may take the from of addiction, reaction and control, expectation and entitlement or compromise.
QUINTA DA CORUJA EXPERIENCE PORTUGAL
Come to our 27 hectare farm where my partner and I live just outside of Santa Cruz in Southern Portugal. We are following the principles of permaculture design and hoping to create an oasis for wellbeing for both humans, animals and plants. The farm is in an exceptionally beautiful area of rolling hills with cork oaks and olive trees. We offer you the chance to participate in the projects at the QUINTA on a volunteer basis or to stay for a therapeutic holiday retreat. It is a wonderful opportunity to PAUSE and just “go off grid”. You can book individual or couples retreats for a few days, a week, or even longer where you can enjoy the peace and beauty of the surroundings while taking a powerfully transformational inner journey. Sessions are scheduled and structured according to your needs. You are welcome to stay at the QUINTA or nearby.
Come to our 27 hectare farm where my partner and I live just outside of Santa Cruz in Southern Portugal. We are following the principles of permaculture design and hoping to create an oasis for wellbeing for both humans, animals and plants. The farm is in an exceptionally beautiful area of rolling hills with cork oaks and olive trees. We offer you the chance to participate in the projects at the QUINTA on a volunteer basis or to stay for a therapeutic holiday retreat. It is a wonderful opportunity to PAUSE and just “go off grid”. You can book individual or couples retreats for a few days, a week, or even longer where you can enjoy the peace and beauty of the surroundings while taking a powerfully transformational inner journey. Sessions are scheduled and structured according to your needs. You are welcome to stay at the QUINTA or nearby.
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SUPPORT WITH ADDICTION AND RECOVERY
Dance in Recovery. I use whatever combination of resourcing and empowerment approach best suits a client so that they can get out of their dependency problems. Some of these resources may be dance, emotional embodiment or holding space to grow in awareness through the recovery process. These skills come from more than 30 years of experience with working with people with addiction problems. I teach people to have "Skills for Life" so that they can enjoy greater freedom and balance in their lives once they have stoped using. Many people once they stop using are then faced with the crippling emotional difficulties that arise from trauma, shame and other deep wounded states.
Kick the Habit
Individual Coaching
I offer coaching sessions that are practical and solution focused . The aim is not to enter a costly long term therapeutic process but to offer a caring shorter goal directed approach. For more on coaching and therapy visit https://www.essential-awareness.com
I offer coaching sessions that are practical and solution focused . The aim is not to enter a costly long term therapeutic process but to offer a caring shorter goal directed approach. For more on coaching and therapy visit https://www.essential-awareness.com
Private Coaching
OPEN FLOOR PORTUGAL and WORKSHOPS
Register for a workshop. If a workshop is not on this years calendar and it may not be as I have just moved to Portugal then send me an email and I will contact you with the next scheduled date. These are the current workshops I offer:-
Register for a workshop. If a workshop is not on this years calendar and it may not be as I have just moved to Portugal then send me an email and I will contact you with the next scheduled date. These are the current workshops I offer:-
WILD CHILD: Primal work on your inner child where you find the beauty of your child and receive the blessings you desire
THE LANGUAGES OF LOVE: Exploration into the different languages of love and how to find yours and your partners so you may learn to be in tune with each other at a different depth.
FROM CONNECTION TO LOVE: Understanding connection relating to another person and how this opens the world to greater intermacy and love.
BELONGING, TRUST & RISK: What are the aspects of belonging and when to risk and how to trust so that we can be happy and contented.
SHAME & CO-DEPENDENCY: A playful approach to freeing shame and working with co-dependency. Feeling OK to receive and not ashamed to be yourself.
FIRST THREE STEPS OF RECOVERY: For people in recovery who want to deepen their experience of the first three steps and to embody them in a way that takes the process from the mind to the heart and beyond.
COMING ALIVE - The camel the lion the child: This is a workshop based on the metamorphosis of our spirit Nietzsche describes. In simple terms it describes how the camel sais Yes to everyone, the Lion sais No to everyone and the Child sais yes to himself. We use drawing and expression to come alive and take our own journey of the spirit.
WILD & UNTAMED: Find the wild untamed animal in you before it was tamed.
HOSTING AND PRODUCING
It would be an honour to be invited to come to new locations to teach and meet and connect with new friends. Please contact me if this is of interest to you so we can begin to organise workshops. If you wish to bring a group to Portugal this would also be a privilege to support.
It would be an honour to be invited to come to new locations to teach and meet and connect with new friends. Please contact me if this is of interest to you so we can begin to organise workshops. If you wish to bring a group to Portugal this would also be a privilege to support.
VIDEOS ABOUT MY DANCE WORK
OPEN FLOOR CONSCIOUS MOVEMENT PRACTICE
I use the Open Floor curriculum and focus on connection, belonging, solitude and spirit which are a core part of Open Floor.
I call my dance work Essential Movement Practice as it touches and awakens the essence of our beings through our bodies, mind, emotions and spirits.
I use the Open Floor curriculum and focus on connection, belonging, solitude and spirit which are a core part of Open Floor.
I call my dance work Essential Movement Practice as it touches and awakens the essence of our beings through our bodies, mind, emotions and spirits.
Connection to our roots
People have danced for as long as we can remember. Dancing to connect to the spirits in nature or to move into worlds unseen, the reasons for dancing are only limited by our imaginations. Open Floor Classes help us to connect to our roots.
People have danced for as long as we can remember. Dancing to connect to the spirits in nature or to move into worlds unseen, the reasons for dancing are only limited by our imaginations. Open Floor Classes help us to connect to our roots.
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Belonging through our passion to dance
If you love to dance and want to explore and discover more then come and move your feet, shake your body and take a deep breath and plunge into an Open Floor (OF) movement practice and feel what happens. We can dance together in nature finding incredible places where the energy just sings from the rocks and trees. Through our dance we find a sense of belonging. |
Solitude and taking an adventure into the the unknown alone and finding aloneness.
I have found that after many years of journeying through different practices to help me become more embodied, connected and fully present that most of the paths I have taken have led me to the same place. What was important was the journey and the experience that came from opening a new door, entering and exploring, then becoming open to the experience. If you are combining dance with other practices such as meditation, breath work, tantra or sounding then the effect can be extremely powerful and a real catalyst to higher consciousness.
I have found that after many years of journeying through different practices to help me become more embodied, connected and fully present that most of the paths I have taken have led me to the same place. What was important was the journey and the experience that came from opening a new door, entering and exploring, then becoming open to the experience. If you are combining dance with other practices such as meditation, breath work, tantra or sounding then the effect can be extremely powerful and a real catalyst to higher consciousness.
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Spirit words that capture the essence of my practice:-
Consciousness, Love, Bliss, Grace, Silence, Devotion, Desire, Wonder, Ecstasy, Compassion, Freedom, Emptiness, Wisdom, Meditation, Creativity, Passion, Joy, Belonging, Solitude, Spirit, Connection, Essence… may you share them to. These are states of becoming. You can’t manipulate, control or dominate them just dance into them. Surrender to the rhythm of the music and find your spirit words. |
Togetherness and similarities not the differences
For so many of us we started dancing thanks to Gabrielle Roth and her 5 Rhythms® dance movement map. The roots of today's movement practices started with Gabrielle and her 5 Rhythms work which has brought so much too so many. O.F. Movement practice is offering new dancers or experienced dancers or 5 Rhythms® Finland dancers or 5 Rhythms® Portugal dancers just another door through which to explore emotional and physical embodiment. Perhaps a familiar or perhaps new space will emerge from the Open Floor movement map for you. Thanks to the work of Andrea Juhan and her movement therapy work, O.F. offers a richness that I have found never stops to amaze me. Rooted in the principles of Gestalt therapy O.F. works with core movement principles common to all practices that are also found to be part of our daily living, like relating and loving. I believe that as dancers we have a unique way to bring about change by coming together and creating a wider field for love and community through our practice. On the dance floor the energy we create heals and changes even if we do not intent it. It just happens. Many transformations happen in this way which is why in my work I always say "sound it, breath it and move it" as these are powerful methods to release and transform.
OPEN FLOOR CLASSES
See the Open Floor Classes and Workshops page
For so many of us we started dancing thanks to Gabrielle Roth and her 5 Rhythms® dance movement map. The roots of today's movement practices started with Gabrielle and her 5 Rhythms work which has brought so much too so many. O.F. Movement practice is offering new dancers or experienced dancers or 5 Rhythms® Finland dancers or 5 Rhythms® Portugal dancers just another door through which to explore emotional and physical embodiment. Perhaps a familiar or perhaps new space will emerge from the Open Floor movement map for you. Thanks to the work of Andrea Juhan and her movement therapy work, O.F. offers a richness that I have found never stops to amaze me. Rooted in the principles of Gestalt therapy O.F. works with core movement principles common to all practices that are also found to be part of our daily living, like relating and loving. I believe that as dancers we have a unique way to bring about change by coming together and creating a wider field for love and community through our practice. On the dance floor the energy we create heals and changes even if we do not intent it. It just happens. Many transformations happen in this way which is why in my work I always say "sound it, breath it and move it" as these are powerful methods to release and transform.
OPEN FLOOR CLASSES
See the Open Floor Classes and Workshops page
Open Floor Dance
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Open Floor Classes
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Public events and Festivals
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Open Floor Dance Practice in Nature
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Art in Motion
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