Sexuality and the Fool
with Christie Animas and Jewels Wingfield

  19-20 October 2024

BOOKING:

Early bird until 29th September: £200

Normal Price: £250

Abundant : £300

Deposit** £130

FeA fooling weekend workshop for women to discover your authentic, playful, natural and effortlessly sexy in our unique way as woman from deep within. Shedding the old skin of superficial performance and skin-deep only value and conventional values. Reclaiming the deep roots of the empowered sexy feminine – whatever age or body shape you are.

This workshop is for womb based women and welcomes all expressions of sexuality, preferences and desires. We will be using a fusion of Fooling, Voice Dialogue and sacred Sexuality teachings to find our way home.

As women, we have been ‘trained’ by society to focus on what is on the surface to be attractive, sexy and desirable. We have been told we ‘should’ behave, move and act in specific ways to pass the test of approved sexiness or to attract a mate or simply to feel valued in society. These ways, however, don’t always bring us into an authentic sense of ourselves as erotic empowered women.

In this workshop, we will explore what it is to be genuinely sexy from deep within, a radiance and energy that is rooted deeply in knowing our worth and power and not being afraid to let that flow with no effort.  To be at ease in our bodies in a way that leaves us feeling that we are in full sovereignty of our sexuality and choices moment to moment. This without ‘giving’ anything of ourselves away or selling or bartering for love and attention.

The weekend will take you on a beautiful and wild journey to find this core in you and we will work from the inside out rather than the outside in. There-by undoing millennia of conditioning, protection, pretending and disconnection to our essential/ natural juiciness. Using the power of deep inner connection, nurturing and the resonant field of the group. We will take time slowly to find the treasure within and ways we can allow this treasure to radiate from there in a way that is owning our own uniqueness and letting go of trying to be like someone else. 

There will be a rich banquet of pathways to explore. A combination of play and humour and honouring of vulnerability, through the Fool Expression practice a healing that lifts shame out it’s shadows and brings our inner radiance front and center. 

All the work is held in a trauma-informed way which creates enough safety to tend to the vulnerable and hurt places in us. Most importantly, the circle of women itself will be offering holding through the resonance, common understanding and collaboration on this collective journey. 

MORE ABOUT FOOL EXPRESSION: 

Fool Expression brings conscious gathering, authenticity and the magic of theatre back into the centre of the community. A place to explore, feel connected, and, most importantly, to just be who we are. It allows us to experience in an embodied way the mystery that links us all together as humans and the potency of transformation we can create together.

In this practice, the Fool archetype is the part in us that can journey from one aspect of ourselves to another, embodying and exploring each of them fully and authentically. It is not at all about being funny or foolish, although this could also happen. But it is about being open, curious and willing to explore known and unknown parts of our psyche. It is about receiving the vast amount of life force available in each part in us and it is also about feeling safe and free within.

This work comes from the lineage of the Fool’s work of Franki Anderson. It is also based on the Voice Dialogue Model of Consciousness and the Psychology of Selves and is Trauma-Informed. It involves aspects of Focusing, Circling, Authentic Movement, Shadow Work, Internal Family System, Parts Work and Theatre. Read more about Fool Expression.

 

 PRACTICALS

TIMINGS: 10 am to 6pm both days

DIRECTION: Dance Studio, St Werbughs primary school Bristol

PRICES: Earlybird £200 until 29th of September

Normal Price: £250

Abundant: £300

Deposit: £130

PRE REQUISITE TO JOIN THE EVENT: Having participated in a Fool Expression Weekend with Christie or joined a taster workshop prior to the event. There are different taster workshop you can choose from: 4th of October in Bristol, 11th October in Sheffield, 18th of October in Bristol.   Contact Christie for more details.

PLACE LIMITED to 16 women

ABOUT CHRISTIE ANIMAS:

Christie, originally from Belgium, is a playful human researcher fascinated by the wealth of experiences in the different parts inside of each one of us that she calls the ‘Inner Villages’. She is a community builder, a musician, a Therapist and Workshop Leader dedicated to the decolonising of our bodies and psyches and to the creation of inclusive and regenerative cultures. She trained as a Voice Dialogue practitioner, in the Fooling practice with Franki Anderson and in Body Informed Leadership UK. She has a degree in Occupational Therapy and a specialization in child psychiatry, Brussels.  She offers her group process called ‘Fool Expression’ in the UK and throughout Europe, which blends aspects of Fooling, Voice Dialogue, Focusing, IFS, Shadow work and Psychodrama. She has created and gathered an expanding, vibrant community of players in the South West of England, and collaborates with the Deep Play Institute, USA.  She also works one-to-one using the Voice Dialogue process and performs and improvises her own music using the Fool’s practice. To find out more about her work, see her website: www.christieanimas.com

ABOUT JEWELS WINGFIELD:

Blessed with a natural gift for creating transformational fields of energy within which people come to deeper awakening and embodied love. She has worked in the field of Sacred sexuality and conscious relating for nearly 25 years. She brings a rich alchemy of embodied earthy wisdom, clarity, creativity, fluid sensuality, maverick humour, fierce love and passion to co-create a world we all want to be a part of. With over 30 years experience supporting thousands of people to make profound shifts in their lives, Jewels is able to meet the wild edges of transformation both personally and collectively – she knows the landscapes that lie on the other side of such a shift. Those who know her work refer to Jewels as a natural group leader, a soul alchemist, an earth steward, a womb-wisdom keeper, high priestess and a wild force of nature. She aspires to be all these things, but above all to be an educator and a catalyst for deep transformation. She offers couple work, intimacy coaching for men, and menopausal sexuality work for women. Jewels is a leading light in her field, using her gifts to create a world of environmental harmony, spiritual alignment and equality. See he website: www.jewelswingfield.com

Art: Thomas Blackshear.

Once you have booked, you will receive a payment confirmation and some more practical information about the weekend closer to the time.

** The deposit is non refundable and the remaining of the payment needs to be paid by the 21st September 2024 to secure your place.

Terms & Conditions:   If you cancel over two weeks before the start of the workshop the amount over and above the deposit is transferable to another workshop within the next 5 months.