Join Lucy Iredale, Vishwam Gurudas Heckert & friends for a gentle, meditative workshop with an element of experiential, playful and consensual touch.
Touch can be a beautiful, if not always easy, aspect of being human. Learning to have clear boundaries, to notice what we really want and don’t want in our hearts, to honour ourselves and each other — all of these take practice and sometimes healing in different ways.
In this special afternoon workshop, we will enjoy the benefits of heart meditation and relaxation flowing into heart-centred touch. Tuning in to the heart is a wonderful way to experience a peaceful mind, clarity of thought and compassion for all involved — including ourselves. We will be sharing playful tools from the wheel of consent, which is a method of exploring different aspects of giving and receiving touch in a friendly way.
Combined with a bring and share veggie lunch, this workshop is a wonderful opportunity to connect deeply with yourself and others, to share a sacred time exploring touch, connection and the heart of it all.
All welcome!
Benefits of the Practices
In this supportive environment, you will learn tools which you can use in daily life to help you to:
Rebalance your nervous system so that you can enjoy easeful focus and attention.
Release obstacles to intimacy by opening the heart to love and deep connection.
Make friends with your body improving self esteem, confidence and comfort in your own skin.
Rediscover your natural playfulness and joy in daily life.
Reconnect with your Self - the very heart of who you really are.
Meet your Hosts
Lucy Iredale
Lucy is very experienced in relational education and the facilitation of conscious touch. Since 1990, she has worked in prisons, schools and conscious relating gatherings and has offered many diverse workshops. She brings a wealth of embodied knowledge around the many ways touch impacts our lives, and is passionate about our capacity for reclaiming trust in our own body compass.
Through working with groups and individuals, Lucy has honed the skills of presence, play and inquiry into her exploratory workshops.
Lucy also has a long background teaching yoga and somatic education throughout the U.K.
Vishwam Gurudas Heckert
Vishwam has been hosting discussions and workshops around bodies and desires, genders and sexualities, life and love, for the past 30 years or so. Working with many groups and individuals, he is continually learning how to listen ever more deeply from the heart and facilitate transformation.
His background in both scholarly and embodied approaches to movement, meditation and sexuality brings a natural depth of insight and awareness.
Vishwam serves as a Heart Minister and yoga teacher trainer in the Heart Of Living Yoga tradition, founded by Padma Devi, which is also a charity supporting underprivileged children and their families in Sri Lanka, Brasil, India & the U.K. The foundation of the tradition is Heart Practice - a simple way to experience a calm mind and peaceful heart.
Vishwam was also part of the City of Edinburgh Council Sexual Health Team from 1998 to 2007, working in schools to support young people to discuss various aspects of sexual health and wellbeing. It was here he met Lucy and many other amazing people.
Vishwam lives in Shetland with his partner Paul where they are refurbishing an old croft house and developing a permaculture garden. His writings appear in various publications including Bella Caledonia.