1 December 2019, 14.00 – 18.00

Partick Burgh Hall, Glasgow

Touch, move and be touched with Srik Narayanan MA (Cantab.), MSci, MSc, RSME In this professional development workshop we will explore the relationship between touch and movement. Touch and movement are the ways we first start to know the world and they remain intertwined throughout our lives. So, how can you bring awareness of movement and touch to your practice and how might this help you support clients? Themes for the workshop include: - experiential anatomy in movement - how we can find greater awareness of anatomy and facilitate that awareness for others through movement - shades of touch - how bringing different qualities and intentions for touch can support tissue awareness and invite movement in different ways - working with touch leading into movement back into into touch - practical research on how hands on work with movement can support clients - experiencing the embryological development of movement and touch We will work experientially by ourselves, in pairs and small groups, and as a whole group, with time to share our experiences and reflect on our own practice. No experience of specific movement practices is required. About Srik Srik is a relational body psychotherapist, educator, trainer and group facilitator, whose work focuses on the developmental, embodied and relational aspects of our collective ways of being. His practice draws on many years of training in dance and somatic practices, post-Reichian body psychotherapy and ecopsychology, as well as his own practice-based research. He is a registered professional member of ISMETA and a member of the Embodied-Relational Therapy Association. More information: www.sriknarayanan.com I locate my work at the confluence of dance/movement and somatic practices, relational body psychotherapy, and ecopsychology. I hold the Advanced Diploma in Embodied-Relational Therapy (ERT), an established, post-graduate training in an approach to relational body psychotherapy. I am certified to practice ERT and am a member of the Embodied-Relational Therapy Association. I am a graduate of the Somatic Movement Education professional programme in Body-Mind Centering® (BMC), having trained in the UK and in France over three years. BMC is an experiential, somatic approach, developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, which emphasises the anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, embryological and developmental basis of our embodiment. I am a Registered Somatic Movement Educator with ISMETA. My practice also draws significantly from my training in Focusing, Authentic Movement, and humanistic and psychodynamic counselling, as well as training and longstanding engagement with contemplative practice, dance, improvisation, drama, performance and creative practice. My approach to practice is that it is always an enquiry. My trainings have, above all, offered me skills that allow me to rest in a position of not knowing, so that I can be curious about the unexpected and receptive to what is emerging. I value the potential for learning through every encounter in life, be that with other humans or the other-than-human. In all aspects of my life I am committed to finding ways to work with nature rather than against it. As well as connecting to my own nature through my body, an important part of my practice is to nurture my connection to the land. It is as though the earth helps me feel more profoundly that I am embodied. Acknowledging this felt connection helps me honour my wholeness, witness my relatedness and celebrate the spontaneous dance of living in all it brings. It offers a path of healing which, for me, is both personal and political – as our bodily experiences are all too easily marginalised, and the land all too easily exploited, embodiment becomes a form of activism. How to get to the venue: Accessible venue, 3 minute walk from Partick Train / Subway station or on Bus routes 17, 2, 3 and 77 from the centre of Glasgow. Driving – if you're coming from the M8 (East) take the exit on to the Clydeside expressway and the exit from there to Partick.