Movement Medicine Closed Group for Men
1 taster session + 5 week closed group led by Bryn

19th April 2-5pm- Taster session - Donation on the door
3rd May 2-5pm Closed group
17th May 2-5pm Closed group
31st May 2-5pm Closed group
14th June 2-6pm Closed group - closing ceremony
Cost:
£80 – flush & pay it forward
£70 doing ok
£50 skint
If you want to attend but can't afford it please email bryn@karika.co.uk as I don't want anyone left out
Location:
The Albany Centre,
Shaftesbury Road, Montpelier, Bristol, BS6 5LT
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19th April 2-5pm– Taster session by donation on the door – please register your interest on the link below so I can gauge numbers.
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​The taster session is an opportunity to meet Bryn and to get a feel of the work that we will be doing together. To test the waters and find out if it suits you.
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There will be dancing and sharing then more dancing.
Taster Session
5 Week Closed Group
Weekly dances every Sunday 2-5pm (2-6pm on 14 June)
Whilst searching for a suitable image to use for this group I found the one above of the men carrying their dead brothers and it caught my attention and made me wonder is this what male support is all about?
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​Carrying our dead brothers to their funeral pyre?
​One last moment of support.
​One last chance to show up and witness your lifeless brother?
​The women grieving and the father figure as the priest leading the way for the soul to be weighed.
​Ok, so it's not like this today, or is it?
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Is the only time we come to support our friends is when they are dead or dying?
Once it's too late to know how to be different.
How to behave differently, how to be there for your brothers on a soul level not waiting until death.
But if they don't ask how for support then do to I give support?
How do I ask for support?
How do I know what I need to ask for if I've never had it before?
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And as I delved deeper more question arise around support some I can but others I'm left pondering and wondering how do I find the answers? Maybe I don't have the answers and I need help to find them. And if that's true for all of us then we need to come together to help each other find these unknown but common questions.
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Last year I had the privilege of witnessing men at a Movement Medicine workshop supporting each other within the dance and something clicked inside me. I want that. I want to feel that held that seen, that commitment to each other's soul dance and in that moment, I knew I wanted to create a Movement Medicine Men's group.​
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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​My story is:
I come from a home with 3 older brothers and a father who could not cope, had no idea how to deal with his emotions especially anger which could erupt at any time.
I’m now in my fifties and still see the patterns that were created in my childhood still playing out in adult life. There is a lack of trust of men and no way to ask for support or so the story I keep telling myself goes and then finding situations where this is reinforced again and again.
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In the last 10 years I have worked incredible hard to move throw the trauma of my childhood through Shiatsu and Movement Medicine to help me step into the man I am and will be. Learning to find the support of men whether in a professional relationship such as therapist or mentor and building on old and new friendships.
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Having been a dancer in mixed spaces for so many years I wonder what it will feel like to be in just a room with only men dancing. How does it change how we behave; does it give us a chance to go deeper or do we back away from the encounter, what arises in us in the moment, what needs to be witness, what needs to flow into the earth, the waters, the air or the fire to be let go of.
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There is only one way to find out and that to come and dance with us.
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It will be deep, it may cause ripples in your soul or waves crashing upon the shores of your reality that are long overdue, there will be tears, there will be anger, there will be grief and there will be joy because these are the core emotions that we will be working with.
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Movement Medicine is the tool we'll use to explore these landscape to learn more about ourselves and hopefully answer some of the questions.
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Bryn


