unfurl

I hope this finds you well and settling into the New Year. It’s been a rocky start for me health-wise, but I’m thankfully starting to feel better. I am enjoying the process of selecting a photo for each week of the course - Rachel captured my vision for Morning Song so perfectly back in September, and now I have a beautiful library of images that I can draw on continuously - this one seemed especially perfect for the theme of this newsletter. If you live on the island of Ireland, please book her for your biz/family/wedding shoots, she is the best.

“More Alive in 2025” begins 12 days from today and I couldn’t be more excited to bring this 6-week course into the world. It’s been a labour of love to create, combining my Holosomatic Body Therapy training with techniques that have helped me on my own healing journey over the last eleven years. If you’re ready to join, please click here to enrol. Use the code 33OFF to receive £33 off until January 11th. As of today, there are FOUR spaces left! Payment plans are available - please fill in the contact form here.

WEEK 3 - UNFURL

Unfurl - to loosen, to expand, to open to the possibilities of life beyond your current state of being. Are you ready!? Here’s some Mary Oliver to help us begin…

Walking To Oak-Head Pond,
And Thinking Of The Ponds I Will Visit
In The Next Days And Weeks

by Mary Oliver

What is so utterly invisible
as tomorrow?
Not love,
not the wind,

not the inside of a stone.
Not anything.
And yet, how often I’m fooled–
I’m wading along

in the sunlight–
and I’m sure I can see the fields and the ponds shining
days ahead–
I can see the light spilling

like a shower of meteors
into next week’s trees,
and I plan to be there soon–
and, so far, I am

just that lucky,
my legs splashing
over the edge of darkness,
my heart on fire.

I don’t know where
such certainty comes from–
the brave flesh
or the theater of the mind–

but if I had to guess
I would say that only
what the soul is supposed to be
could send us forth

with such cheer
as even the leaf must wear
as it unfurls
its fragrant body, and shines

against the hard possibility of stoppage–
which, day after day,
before such brisk, corpuscular belief,
shudders, and gives way.

Unfurling isn’t easy—it’s part trust, part bravery, part wild abandon. When we visualise how we’d like to feel instead of how we’ve always felt, we’re unfurling a new version of ourselves. That might feel scary, but it starts very simply—and we’re not alone in the process. There’s a certain magic in undertaking this work within a group, especially when it’s held in a safe, trauma-informed space. You can fully surrender and allow your body to speak its true desires. The possibilities become magnified by the energy of the other bodies around you. The changes you’re dreaming of might inspire someone else or vice versa, and the collective energy can accelerate your personal growth.

In this session, I’ll bring you into a deeply relaxed state through meditation and use a Future Pacing exercise from 3 Step Rewind to bring us into our future bodies, envisioning how we would like to feel. I’ll give everyone time to journal afterwards to reflect on how that future self felt, and then we’ll move into a short and gentle session of Holosomatic Body Therapy, followed by more journalling and finally time to share (which is always optional).

As always, if you have any questions, I am happy to facilitate a free 15-minute intro call, or you can press the button below to connect to my website, where there is a breakdown of each week of the course and booking.

Thank you for reading. I’ll be back soon with Week 5 - grounding.

Lorna x