The Wisdom of the Moving Body
This intensive CPD offers a dynamic expansion of therapeutic practice, exploring how the subtle currents of somatic awareness—joined with movement, dance, and creative embodiment inquiries—can open new doorways in our work with clients. By weaving the transformative potential of conscious movement into our established practice, we cultivate a fluid, embodied agility. This invites us to inhabit the full spectrum of presence—from deep stillness to dynamic expression—allowing us to meet the shifting rhythms of a client’s process with a widened creative range.
The journey begins with our own embodied inquiry. The intention is to deepen awareness of the ways we move, feel, and think—learning to “mind the body and embody the mind.” By turning our attention back toward our bodily homes, we explore movement in a context of self-discovery, relationship, and openness. This personal deepening allows us to access the innate symphony of wisdom waiting just below our skin, revitalising our own relationship with aliveness so that we may better hold that complexity for others.
For practitioners who already recognize that the body holds keys to transformation, this training offers a complementary pathway: moving from static “felt sense” into dynamic expression. We utilize the shared, universal human language of dance to re-awaken and re-connect us, exploring how to safely guide clients from frozen patterns into creative flow. You will develop confidence in tracking somatic narratives and shaping embodied experiences, adding new tools to invite the body into the therapeutic conversation with safety and precision.
Ultimately, this CPD offers a unique bridge between the depth of psychotherapeutic understanding and the power of embodied expression. As a method of healing, it is both simple and profoundly powerful. Whether you work in a small consulting room or a larger movement space, this work empowers you to trust the body’s intelligence, guiding those you support to drop beneath the story and express the aliveness that lives beneath words.
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for professionals and practitioners who wish to integrate embodied approaches into their work. It is suitable for:
• Psychotherapists, Counsellors & Psychologists Wishing to evolve their expertise beyond cognitive approaches to embrace the profound wisdom of the body and movement in clinical practice.
• Coaches, Bodyworkers & Somatic Practitioners Seeking to expand their movement repertoire, deepen their understanding of relational field dynamics, and integrate trauma-informed somatic tools.
• Creative Arts Therapists, Teachers & Facilitators Ready to refine their own embodied presence and learn practical skills for inviting the body to speak its truth in therapeutic settings.
Dates: Sunday 31 May – Friday 5 June 2026
Venue: Karuna Dartmoor, TQ13 7TR
Tutor: Jo Hardy
Costs: £1,390
www.karunadartmoor.co.uk/wisdom-of-the-moving-body
Karuna Dartmoor may be able to offer payment plans to spread the cost of the course over a longer time. If this is something you would be interested in please let us know once you’re accepted onto the course.
All residential retreats and training will include lunch and dinner, prepared by a local chef. There will be a self-serve breakfast. This is all included in the cost.
Member
Jo HardyEvent MemberI have worked with hundreds of wonderful people over the years as a psychotherapist, coach, mentor, supervisor, trainer, conscious dance teacher and group facilitator. Exploring what truly facilitates lasting transformation is my passion and has led me to study many perspectives, philosophies and modalities of transformational work. Having trained extensively in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Body Psychotherapy (Core Process Psychotherapy at the The Karuna Institute), (Biosynthesis Body Psychotherapy and Chiron, UK) my approach is integrative, phenomenological, process oriented, body based, rooted in mindfulness and informed by gestalt, archetypal psychology and dream work, embodied movement alongside Buddhist and Sufi spiritual practice and contemporary paths of awakening. From 1990 I held a private psychotherapy practice for 20 years and was a senior trainer on an MA program in Contemplative Psychotherapy for 12 years (Core Process Psychotherapy at the The Karuna Institute). Since 2009 I have been faculty, coach, mentor and supervisor for the The School of Movement Medicine + offering mentoring, coaching and professional supervision. Approaches I have studied to some depth – Voice Movement Therapy, Transpersonal Supervision, Facilitation for Leaders (CFOR (Process Work). I have explored and taught conscious dance and embodied movement since 2002 teaching workshops in many places, with a focus on regular programs in China (until covid). I am a 5 Rhythm teacher (Waves and Heartbeat Level), an Open Floor Teacher and TIM practitioner (Open Floor International), Movement Medicine teacher and facilitator The School of Movement Medicine. I love each of the practices and have also deeply inspired and influenced by many years of studying with Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto, Amerta Movement) Through engagement in the Transition Town movement (Transition Network) I have offered Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, Personal Resilience training, Conflict Fundamentals, facilitation skills to support groups to effectively self-organise and co-facilitated several International Transition Network conferences. I have had the privilege of being a working member of ICMTA and Open Floor allowing me to gain experience in Dynamic Governance and enjoy working with amazing colleagues. As I gather years on planet earth what matters to me most is the joy and profound healing of movement and dance, the blessings of holding space, collaborations and connection with super amazing colleagues, playing great music for folks to dance to, the endless number of things to learn and be curious about, walking with my dog and specifically at present the potential of movement practice to profoundly enhance the skills of psychotherapists and coaches in the dance of presence, embodiment and relatedness.
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