EP#003 | CLARE OSBOND & TIM BROWN | DANCE OF AWARENESS Today’s conversation is with two of Marcela’s teachers, Clare Osbond & Tim Brown of the Brighton School for Embodied Therapy, here in our home county of Sussex in the UK. Clare is a body psychotherapist with specific experience in working with trauma, movement and mindfulness. She also has an MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, and offers body-centred, movement, and sensorimotor psychotherapy, as well as an ongoing women's movement therapy group. Tim is a body psychotherapist with a background in Deep Bodywork, Embodied Relational Therapy, Postural Integration, Authentic Movement and trauma work. He brings a gentle curiosity, creativity, and warm humour to his work. He believes in taking the body seriously as it holds deep wisdom – and that we just need to listen to it, and trust what it tells us. Together they developed Dance of Awareness, a group movement practice that aims to increase self-awareness and self- acceptance. They both have such knowledge and experience that we could have easily just spoken to them about their individual practices, however our focus for the podcast was their work with Dance of Awareness. They explain the therapeutic value of movement, developmental psychology, and the affirming effect of being witnessed and witnessing ourselves. We also discussed how Dance of Awareness can help with trauma, what this means, and how it is realised in the body. They have said that ‘the moving body is the form in which consciousness grows and explores its self’, and when that movement is done there’s a return to the ‘ground of awareness’. Seen in this light, their teaching connects participants with mind, body and spirit though movement and is spiritual in nature. Clare leads a beautiful couples exercise to explore our feeling and relationship towards Support at the end of the interview that we loved participating in. We hope you do too. LINKS - You can find out more about Brighton School for Embodied Therapyon their official site here. - Dance of Awareness can be found on Facebook too. SPONSORED BY MADE BY COOPERS We sponsored by Made by Coopers, a modern Apothecary, crafting natural and organic products for your skin and soul. Head on over to their shop at madebycoopers.com and use BODY20 at checkout for a discount. LAUNCH COMPETITION We’re running a competition to win Made by Cooper products, as well as some ceremonial grade cacao to take part in an online cacao ceremony run by Marcela, all to celebrate our launch. To enter please subscribe on your favourite platform, download the first three episodes, rate and leave a review, then send us a screenshot of your review to [email protected]. Closing date Nov 30, 2020. Also, please share this conversation with someone who you think it would be of value to. If you share on social media, remember to tag us. You can follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy it, we’ll be back every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month from Nov 2020, and remember, listen to your body because your body knows.