Penelope Easten

Arriving bum first into the world I made an immediate statement about the importance of moving from the pelvic floor! While doing a Ph.D. in zoology I felt let down by the reductionist approach of science and left to train in the Alexander technique. Since 2004 I’ve run international workshops for Alexander technique teachers exploring the state of quiet embodiment, natural breathing, and spatial awareness that allows the body to move from self-organizing forces. Along the way, I had a 30-year battle with chronic fatigue syndrome, which taught me about finding the processes of trust and connection with the embodied self and the world.

I have been working with Phillip Shepherd’s work since 2014, and in 2015 began hosting exploratory Sandboxes monthly co-led with Stuart and later also Sinéad. I was part of the TEPP facilitators training in Ireland in 2017 – 2018.

My book The Alexander Technique, Twelve Fundamentals of Integrated Movement was published earlier this year by Handspring publishing. I am looking forward to this retreat as an opportunity to deepen further into living from the intelligence of the pelvic bowl and to eat wonderful Boghill meals together after 18 months of covid isolation.

Sinéad Duignan

My initial training was in the Social Care field where for 10 years I worked with adolescents, women and children in the Leinster region. A tendency to burn-out led to an exploration of more holistic care and a part-time practise of Reflexology and Metamorphic Technique while I raised my two children.

I have a deep interest in women’s health, particularly how, in our culture, the stories we are told and not told affect a woman and a man’s relationship with an unacknowledged gift: the innate healing embedded within the menstrual cycle itself.

Presently, I am doing a Masters in Art, Psyche and the Creative Imagination (Jungian based) and offer Rhythm of Life mentoring and s for women of all ages. The practise of Radical Wholeness invites me to remember, to surrender, to merge more and more with the source of my being, animating all that I do. It has been an honour to give Radical Wholeness workshops locally. I look forward to this new collaboration and many more into the future!