Spend five special weeks Listening in the Dark with Adam Barley
Nov 17–Dec 15

Listening in the Dark is a 5-week course designed with embodiment, enquiry and encouragement practices for when you’re on the edge.

You’ll find resources to help you stay true to yourself when deep in the unknown, to be with the fear, grief and pain in ways that are beneficial for your nervous system, and to have the good company of others going through similar experiences.

If you’re in a healing crisis of some kind, this course is a reach-out to you.

Maybe you’re seriously ill. Maybe you’re in recovery, where everyone thinks you’re ‘better’, but you feel shaken to the core and incredibly vulnerable.

Maybe you’re simply a human on earth in 2026, and overwhelmed by life to such an extent that it’s hard to function.

Let me tell you a bit about where this course has come from. . . the photo below is from early in 2025…

I’m now emerging from over two years of a cancer journey. Death came close. A tsunami of pain, fear and grief broke over me, shocking in its intensity and speed. In three weeks, I went from being fine to unable to walk. And that was just the beginning.

The dance and movement practices I’d used for my sanity, healing and awakening for 35 years were no longer suitable because I was too weak, in too much pain. So I adapted, taking the essence of everything I knew and making it work for the state I was in.

My definition of ‘dance’ expanded way further:

Often subtle. Mostly quiet. Long periods of complete stillness. Dedicated listening to my breath, and simply being present. Above all, a willingness to feel.

To lean into my fear, being with its disturbing darkness, sensing its direction, knowing that it’s not the whole truth but allowing myself to be touched, moved, informed.

To surrender to the grief — at losing my way of life and the capacity for ordinary pleasures like walking, cooking, sleeping soundly. Of potentially losing life altogether, losing everyone and everything I love.

Sometimes, when able and when needed, I used movement to help my body open to the intensity of experience I was going through, and give physical expression to all those feelings.

All the way along, I had a vivid sense that this illness was a gift, even if a terribly difficult one. It’s made me a better person, and I’ve learnt a lot. The resources I had from all the years of training in embodiment, dance and meditation were absolutely vital, and I leaned into them very heavily, day after day. This course is my way of sharing this with you.