Somatic Meditation

BODY AND HEART PROGRAMME
Body-Based Meditation and Therapy Coming Together
with Dan Lupton

Free Online Taster Sessions:
Wednesdays 17th July and 11th September 2024, 7-9.30 pm
11-Session Online Course - Programme Dates:
Autumn 2024 Term: Fortnightly Wednesdays 2nd October - 4th December 2024, 7-9.30 pm;
Spring 2025 Term: Fortnightly Wednesdays 8th January - 5th March 2025, 7-9.30 pm
Online Retreat Sessions: Sundays 1st December 2024 & 2nd March 2025 11am - 3 pm
Plus 4 Individual Enquiry Sessions - by appointment
Programme Fee: £485 / Concessions available

"I loved the course and benefitted so much more than I could have imagined!"

Introduction
Overview of Course
Programme details and booking
About the trainer
Follow-up Classes

Introduction

This Course bridges a commonly experienced disconnect between meditation and therapy. By focusing on bodily felt-experience, the boundary between meditation and therapy dissolves. Through Body-based Meditation we train our awareness to dwell in body experience and focus on opening our heart. Through Therapeutic Enquiry into body sensations, we experience self-limiting emotional patterns from earlier life, and allow our open heart to meet and heal them.

Two components deepen throughout the course, as participants become more familiar with them:

1. Bodybased Meditation Path and Stages:

Training attention to stay in the present moment, in our body;
Methodically reconnecting with our body and finding safe refuge in it;
Opening awareness to experience the flow of life in our body;
Meeting the felt experience of our heart through heartopening practices;
Bringing loving kindness to damaged and suffering parts of ourselves and others.

2. Therapeutic Enquiry Path and Stages:

Connecting directly, naming and reflecting on felt, emotional experience in our body;
Learning to remain connected with these patterns rather than jumping away;
Meeting historical, conditioned messages and tracking these back to their earlier origins;
Bringing kindness and healing within our hearts, to these damaged parts of ourselves.

Overview of Course

Group Sessions: The course runs in 11 fortnightly, online 2½-hour sessions, over two terms, with 2 extended Sunday 4-hour ‘retreat’ sessions. Group sessions include: check-in; body-based guided meditation practice; therapeutic enquiry at increasing depth through the course; short talks on theory; group-building exercises; use of breakout rooms; buddy listening and responding exercises.

Therapeutic Enquiry Sessions: Each participant has a total of 4x1-hour Therapeutic Enquiry sessions (2 each term) with Dan Lupton, to further explore our historical patterns and their origins (these sessions are intended to complement existing therapy; please discuss the course with your therapist, if appropriate). These sessions can be online or in person, and extra sessions with Dan can be arranged at a cost of £40phr (concessions available).

Home Practice: Daily 30 minute meditation practice is required, with guided Body-Based Meditations provided.

Buddy System: Buddy connections encourage participants to connect and talk with other group members between sessions; listening and responding exercises in group sessions help structure buddy conversations; buddy contacts rotate, so each participant buddies with each of the other participants through the course.

Writing/Journaling: Participants are encouraged to write/journal about their experiences; the invitation is to write without plan, and let words write themselves from body and heart, rather than our thinking minds.

“The more I grow into my body, the more directly I feel my emotions and the more I feel alive”

Programme details and booking
Free Online Taster Sessions: Wednesdays 17th July and 11th September 2024, 7-9.30 pm - Email Dan to book a place: dan.lupton@hotmail.co.uk
Group Sessions: Autumn 2024 Term: Fortnightly Wednesday 7-9.30 pm - 2nd, 16th & 30th October, 13th & 27th November, 4th December 2024;
Spring 2025 Term: Fortnightly Wednesdays 7-9.30 pm- 8th & 22nd January, 5th & 19th February, 5th March 2025.
Retreat Sessions: Sundays 1st December 2024 & 2nd March 2025 11am - 3 pm.
Individual enquiry sessions: 4 by appointment; with Dan Lupton online or in person in Chapmanslade, Wiltshire.
Course Delivery: On-line via Zoom, you don’t need an account.
Programme Fee: £485 / Concessions available (speak to Dan about this). Fee includes all 11 group sessions, 2 retreat sessions, 4 individual sessions, and guided meditation recordings. Payments can be made in instalments by arrangement.
Teacher: Dan Lupton
Info and Booking: To arrange an initial course interview and for further information, please contact contact Dan Lupton: E. dan.lupton@hotmail.co.uk / Mob. 07968 729090.

Disclaimer: Working with embodied emotions can be powerful and, at times, painful. While the intention of the course is to heal ourselves, Dan Lupton cannot be held responsible for the psychological wellbeing of participants, and you should seek appropriate psychological support if needed (Dan may suggest you start or return to therapy, if things get intense for you).

"Dan was always interested and caring, with a compassionate response with theory woven into it."

About the trainer

Dan has over 35 years meditation and yoga experience, has taught Mindfulness-Based Approaches for 11 years, and followed the Somatic Meditation teachings of Reggie Ray for the last 8 years. He also works as a Body-oriented Therapist near Frome. Read more about Dan here.

SOMATIC MEDITATION FOLLOW-UP CLASSES
These classes are for people who have completed one of Dan's Somatic Meditation courses.Please contact Dan if you want to take part.
Dates: TBC