The Art of Attuning
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Introduction Mairéad Vaughan holds a PhD in the field of Contemporary Dance, Somatic Arts Practice & Creative Process. She works as an artist, teacher, therapist, researcher and writer. Arising out of her 30 year dance & choreographic practice, Attuning continues to inform all strands of Mairéad’s work. Attuning is informed by principles from: Psycho-Somatic Enquiry, Release Technique, Iyengar Yoga, Craniosacral Biodynamics and Somatic Practice.
The Art of Attuning is a living embodied enquiry. The bodymind becomes our living conduit of experience. We cultivate a practice of ‘tuning in’ & ‘listening’ inwardly inside our self. And making direct contact to our living intelligence - our cellular consciousness of our living system.
Attuning supports us to inhabit our bodymind more fully. So that we may remain here and now, in our present moment experience. We allow our bodymind to become our living conduit, our unique vessel of living conscious expression.
Cultivating our ever deepening capacity to sense, to feel the aliveness of our system. And to learn how to be clearly guided by our own unique inner impulse, which reveals our higher intuition. We begin to embody. We become aware. We sense our fullness. And our inherent empty spacious. All essential qualities residing and expressing through our bodymind.
Attuning is a practice of returning home, over and over again, into the simplicity & immediacy of this pure living moment. And in time progressively, we begin to remember, re-cog-nise & to re-embody our natural state.
Patterning Awareness remains largely in the background of our life experience. Our habitual or conditioned patterning simply prohibits our natural state. Habitual patterning keeping us stuck in a loop of automatic nervous system responses through our repetitive sensations, emotions, thoughts, beliefs, behaviours and relational interactions.
While our conditioned patterning served us in our lives, during important stages of development, survival and growth, it becomes maladaptive, just like outdated programming - as it is no longer required for our survival, yet we get stuck in our habitual states. Inertial patterning may create symptoms such as chronic pain (fight), dissociation (flight) or stagnation (freeze). Maladaptive patterning keeps us constrained in an unconscious loop of habitual life responses, fixations, behaviours and relationships. Thus limiting our evolution and our return back home to our spacious, open, peaceful nature.
Orchestration of 3’s Attuning comprises of 3 generative actions - ‘tuning in’, ‘listening’ & ‘enquiring’. Tuning in to the immediacy of our present moment experience. Listening through our Head, Heart & Belly centres. And enquiring into all aspects of our experience - sensations, emotions, thoughts, questions, experiences as they arises right here and now. We learn to stay in the presence of here and now.
Attuning cultivates our 3 living embodied intelligences, our sensory, kinaesthetic and energetic awareness. These embodied intelligences cultivate our capacity to sense & to feel into our restrictive patterning - so that we may soften, digest, metabolise, integrate and embody or live life as our True Nature.
We learn how to inhabit, anchor and ground into our 3 living centres of intelligence : Head - Awareness (Sat), Heart - Bliss (Ananda), Belly - Being (Chit). Our living centres act as anchors that radiate ‘essential support’. ‘Essential support’ illuminates and provides potency or energy that fuels our living enquiry.
What informs Attuning Attuning engages specific practices, principles & sensibilities - all unfold in an intuitive, creative & spontaneous manner.
Stillness - Learning to self-regulate, to settle, to drop into our belly centre, to contact our Being - our living Presence.
Attention - How to become Aware through listening with open attention and receptivity.
Breathwork - Pranayama supports a direct pathway into our body creating balance, regulation, stabilty. And is an ancient method for purification, generating flow and life force.
Somatic Movement & Yogic Asana - Grounding, Softening, Opening, Expanding, Flowing, Yielding, Radiating, Pendulating, Titrating - all expressions that support sensory awareness. Allowing trapped, frozen, stuck energies to be felt once again so they can soften, move, release & integrate. As our sensory awareness develops we access more of our expansion and simultaneously our stillness. Our nervous system settles and learns the felt sense of neutrality, balance, equanimity and inner equilibrium.
Self-Touch - Understanding our structure, our malleability, our boundaries, through touch is vital for embodiment. This supports our individuation process & provides us with a felt sense of our body as a container that provides stability - while also softening and allowing us to remain open to life - to live from our truth, our creativity and our authenticity.
Biodynamic Cransiosacral Therapy - Engaging with ‘the breath of life’ as a formative force that generates our living expressions of tissues, fluids, potencies, while also accessing our deep states of underlying restorative stillness - please see my page dedicated to this trauma-based therapeutic practice.
Artistic & Authentic Expression - Learning to express our Truth as our unfolding experience here and now. discovering how to cultivate our own unique voice & creative capacity.
For more information, or to book session, please email Mairéad - maireadmv@gmail.com