The BISO map rests on the poetry that the body and all the systems that run through it – emotional, mental, imaginal and energetic – are moving through the vast and boundless landscape of Soul. Whilst we’re here, alive and breathing, we are passing through the Soul matrix in a particular, unique and evolving form – our selves. Our moving body is the main pathway we use in BISO to explore our unique essence and our capacity for gratitude at being alive.
. BISO is essentially a movement path. Think of it like a River Delta, a nutrient rich landscape pooled into from several practices and traditions including conscious movement, meditation, shamanism, Bodyspirit – the intelligence of the living anatomy – therapeutic modalities and the arts There are movement portals to enter, emotional maps to follow, Soul maps. We work with the FABRR’s Method; focus, breath, rhythm, movement, space and time, as qualities that are brought into awareness. There are simple rituals to explore and engage in, creative and imaginative journeys to take.
We like to think of BISO as the Art of Becoming. The Art of Becoming is an attunement to the nature of existence, where everything is constantly moving and fluctuating. Everything is in a state of change and transformation, a place of movement.
We also are movement and like music, like a dance, we have so many possibilities of being, so many shapes and notes. Becoming is not a linear process, not something to achieve outside of ourselves or to radically change who we are, it’s the unfolding of who we are, our true nature. BISO’s main path is through the intelligence of the body, community and the joy of music and movement, the awakening of the cool, delicious, hot shock of being alive…
The body moves, for a moment in time, in the crucible of the Soul, a boundless space of being. Born into a human body, we breathe, we move, we are creativity in motion.
Exploring and inhabiting these three essential qualities of being alive – breath, movement and creativity – we can unfold towards our essential nature of being. We have the possibility of accessing our creativity, as an expression of connection to others, of waking our whole intelligence through the kinaesthetic movement of our system, in order to unknot ourselves, spiral back towards the centre of our own medicine wheel.
This can lead to a sense of alignment with our own sense of place, here in a body, a sense of connection to the wider Soul field and an innate understanding of how and what we can offer as we become who we are. We are all here somehow to help each other become – whatever that looks like.
Our two year training programme equips you to hold a clear and well defined space for conscious movement practice and community building. You will learn how to invite people into movement and an increased awareness of their sense of presence and aliveness – or indeed, lack of it. The training is an intense and deep dive into your own style of leadership, how your innate piece of Soul and creativity is the very essence of you as facilitator. We train you in facilitating classes through a study of 6 movement portals, how to facilitate the awareness of focus, breath, movement, rhythm and space, the first layers of working with music, how to hold groups and much more. You will be in peer groups, supervision groups and will be assigned a buddy through the magic of being pulled out of a hat!
There is an underlying component of the Northern American Medicine wheel map and a layer of it that you can use for your own growth as a leader and to underpin your classes and sessions. We also introduce you to the work of Bodyspirit – a study of the energetics of the body’s anatomy developed by Kurt Pattyn and Nele Vandezande. Our trainings will never be more than 20 people as we really value getting to know and support each person to the best of our abilities.
You will be in an ongoing supervision group with Nele and Cathy throughout the training and have two external mentor sessions with an experienced mentor over the two years.
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Nele and Cathy were both born in 1971. They followed their passion and curiosity for life and both fell in love with movement as a pathway to presence and awareness, a map to follow in order to keep deepening into what it means to be human. They met many years ago and shared dance-floors, rooms, trainings as well as teaching and working together regularly. They became very close friends.
Nele, along with her husband Kurt Pattyn are the founders and creators of Souldance www.souldance.be and Cathy of https://www.humans-being.co.uk. Both are long standing 5 Rhythms teachers and founding members and faculty of Open Floor International. They are both homemakers and seekers – always open to new possibilities. So much in common and so very different in certain aspects of who they are.
Now they bring their expertise and experience together and offer their wisdom and work in the creation of BISO. After teaching and working in the conscious movement field for so long, they are excited and passionate about what they can offer to colleagues and the training skills they can bring to a whole new generation of movement facilitators.
