Our Bodies and Body of the Earth
September 5-7, 2025
Eco-somatics are embodiment practices that celebrate wholeness and belonging. They seek to heal our cultural split of mind from body and from the body of the Earth and guide us into a richer relationship with each other and the natural world.
This weekend teaching immersion is for you if you are looking to:
- Integrate eco-somatics into your yoga teaching or therapy practice, through experiential teachings and simple, yet powerful practices.
- Learn about polyvagal theory and yoga practice as a way of stabilising and grounding. Bringing mind, body and ecological nervous system together in co-regulatory relationships.
- Deepen your sensory and perceptual skills.
- Reclaim your innate connection to nature through a series of practices that encourage a sense of rewilding, enchantment and wholeness.
- Learn fresh ways of attuning to your home-place, enriching your experience of the local earth wherever you live.
This immersion weekend is suitable for:
- all those looking to deep dive into working in an earth-centric way, for self-healing or within a therapeutic setting.
- those simply wanting to explore eco-somatics for the first time or for self-development.
- Yoga teachers, Counsellors, Therapists and Group facilitators.
Whilst there is no specific pre-requisite training required, some understanding of working with the body / mind is helpful and therefore, applications will be invited for those looking to expand this into an existing practice or training, that sits within eco somatic and therapeutic work.
You will experience three days of outdoor and classroom-based training, where you can fully immerse yourself in intentional and experiential practices that include:
- Sacred walking & outdoor yoga.
- Working with plant allies
- Breathwork and Somatic meditation
- Polyvagal Theory and practices
- Shamanic journeying
- Group discussion
- Deep rest
It is important to make a commitment to arrive in time for the first group meeting and to attend all the days.
Costs:
- £395 Early Bird*, thereafter £420 – Shared twin room, full-board.
- £475 Early Bird*, thereafter £500 – Stable block bay room, single occupancy, full-board (limited availability).
- £350 – non-residential option (includes lunch and tea & cake)
There will be a maximum of 14 trainees on this training immersion.
*Early Bird booking on residential places only, if payment is received by May 1st 2025.
What’s included?
- Three days training, Fri 11.30am – 5pm, Sat 10am to 5pm and Sunday 10am to 4pm. Some additional evening and early morning sessions will be offered to residential students before breakfast and after dinner.
- One online follow-up session will be offered, date TBA.
- Accommodation for Friday and Saturday night for residential students and the following meals: Friday lunch & dinner, Saturday breakfast, lunch & dinner, Sunday breakfast & lunch as well as snacks, tea & cake.
- Non-residential students will be provided with lunch, snacks, tea & cake.
- We provide simple, delicious vegetarian food. Some help with washing up and breakfast set up will be shared amongst students as Karma Yoga.
- Example menu: Carrot soup, salad & home baked bread for lunch and dal & rice for dinner. Fruit, date slices or poppy seed cake for tea breaks.
- Special, essential, dietary requirements can be catered for with advanced notice.
- You can immerser yourself fully or if you need more rest, you can opt out of sessions as needed. There is free space everyday to journal and rest or to chat and socialise.
Tutors:
Mona Baur is a Senior Yoga Teacher, experienced Yoga Teacher Trainer and Outdoor Educator.
She holds a master’s degree in Movement, Mind and Ecology from Schumacher College.
She is passionate about community living and living sustainably and runs regular classes and workshops at Redfield Community, both indoors in the classroom and outdoors in the extensive grounds. Her teachings of post-lineal yoga and eco-somatics are inpired by connection to place and seasons and cycles of nature, seeking a reconnection with Wild mind and our earthly home.
Her recent workshops have focused on working with plant allies, expanded views of kinship, nature encounters and enchantment. She is also an experienced teacher of somatic breathwork and embodiment meditations as pathways to becoming whole and integrated into the web of life.
Tracy Gaillie is a Somatic Psychotherapeutic Counsellor (MBACP), Senior Yoga Therapist and Tutor.
She has a strong interest in working holistically and has spent over 20 years developing an approach that integrates the body / mind connection.
She often facilitates groups that explores this work in the context of the wider world around us. Honouring the natural world, its rhythms and our place within it, to encourage self healing and increased wellbeing.
More recently, her passion for working somatically has been inspired by the Polyvagal Institute’s work and she often teaches Polyvagal Workshops and Vagal toning classes.
Tracy is also the owner of The Yoga Shed, a place that reflects her love for this integrated somatic work and offers a dedicated space for deep exploration, regulation and change.
The Venue:
The Redfield Centre is a residential course venue sited in the converted stable and coach house at Redfield Community in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, with 17 acres of gardens, beautiful woodland, orchards and pasture.
Training sessions will take place outdoors in the open sided, canvas yoga tent, in the surrounding woodlands, as well as indoors in the beautiful, converted barn studio space adjacent to the accommodation in the Redfield Centre.
Accommodation
The Accommodation at the Redfield Centre is simple, rustic and clean in a beautiful rural setting. All rooms offered are double occupancy, either in the converted stable bays or the 4 rooms in the former cottages. Single occupancy can be booked in the stable bays at a premium. There’s also a large lounge and dining area, which we share for the weekend as well as benches, tables and a fire bowl in the courtyard for evening campfires. Toilets and bathrooms are shared.
The Venue:
The Redfield Centre is a residential course venue sited in the converted stable and coach house at Redfield Community in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, with 17 acres of gardens, beautiful woodland, orchards and pasture.
Training sessions will take place outdoors in the open sided, canvas yoga tent, in the surrounding woodlands, as well as indoors in the beautiful, converted barn studio space adjacent to the accommodation in the Redfield Centre.
Accommodation
The Accommodation at the Redfield Centre is simple, rustic and clean in a beautiful rural setting. All rooms offered are double occupancy, either in the converted stable bays or the 4 rooms in the former cottages. Single occupancy can be booked in the stable bays at a premium. There’s also a large lounge and dining area, which we share for the weekend as well as benches, tables and a fire bowl in the courtyard for evening campfires. Toilets and bathrooms are shared.
