Wholeness in Twelve • Embodied Earth Movement
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"I wanted to say how moving today’s class was for me. You seem to combine the large patterns of physicality and life, moving into the tiniest parts of us and of the world in a way that feels like a meditation on wholeness connected to the physicality of mind.body.spirit. Wholeness In Motion is such an apt name for your teaching. Lesson by lesson I come in broken on some level—just the anxiety of this insane year—and at the end I leave feeling knit back together. This class has become such a learning about brokenness and wholeness and all of the variations of that" - Marie Anderson
2021 Wholeness in Twelve information
Spring Session Starts April 19th -- Join any time.
Spring Session Starts April 19th -- Join any time.
Wholeness in Twelve • Embodied Earth Movement
Winter Session, January 25 - April 16: My Moving, Breathing, Evolving Being - Foundations for lively, full availability of movement, as we are in this moment. Rooting ourselves in our lineage with evolutionary & embryological explorations. Dancing with Your Lineage, Rooting Your Present, Freeing Your Future
NOW IN SESSION!! Join us.Spring Session, April 19 - July 9: My Communicating Expressive Being building on the Winter Session we lay the Foundation for clear, dynamic communication. We will explore: Expanding Sensory vocabulary to more clearly hear our own compass and work with specific aspects of dynamics of life like: power, energy, force, time, space. The session is designed to inform and support resilience and aliveness in all aspects of your being.
Autumn Session, September-December, Dates TBA: My Perspective Being: My Words show me my perspective. In this session we will look at language and other strategies we use in life and teaching to support whole, thriving living and learning. This is part pedagogy and part how we frame our own life, how we talk to ourselves. It is a reciprocal exchange between looking out and in as away to see both.
Wholeness in Twelve-General(skip below for class details and registration information)
One of the most powerful tools for finding ease in struggle, for addressing pain, and shifting obsolete but lingering patterns, is having a moment of pause in your day. The pause is like dropping a pebble into a pond. The pebble determines the ripple waves that follow. Imagine the ripple effect on your day when you take a few minutes to meet yourself as you are, to flow, spring, jiggle, shake, luxuriate, linger, laugh and sing; a part of your day when you are immersed for a few moments in your own being, your voice, your life-force as part of the life force and beauty of the cosmos and nature.
Wholeness in Twelve offers a way to support the thriving nature of your being through experiencing/embodying:
• Principles in your structure • the spiral flow of blood through your arteries and how you are sprung into uprightness (physical pains begin to fall away).
• Principles of life and movement • support precedes movement, we yield to push and push to reach, time, space, shape and energy, (expressive freedom and emotional resilience flourishes)
• Principles in Nature • how lichen survives in winter, how trees communicate, how breath is earth and lungs, (deep safety in the support of the earth takes root).
Essentially the textbook of Wholeness in Twelve is yourself, your relational self, which is movement and the world itself. Sensation, facts, and metaphor are your guides. As you explore, feel and know each amazing fact of your being and this universe, misconceptions about yourself, your worth, your ways of knowing are shed. Welcome Home!
We dance in wholeness to remember our nature.
This class is delicious, poetic, nourishing. It immerses you in the Language of Wholeness approach that is an alternative to hierarchical and unwittingly oppression based methods of teaching, (see below). This immersion affords you the chance to feel and develop your own access to seeing the wholeness, vibrancy and health of life in you and those around you, even in times of strain and struggle. It naturally translates to your own teaching, leadership methods.
WIT in the context of culture and personal ‘de-colonizing’, personal wholeness.
Do you ever find yourself comparing yourself to others, doubting your opinions or instincts, thinking your body needs improvement, spending time and resources fixing yourself? Perhaps the opposite, you find yourself sensing you are better than another, knowing more or believing your opinion without taking into consideration the world around you. These are expressions of the dominant hierarchy embedded in your being. The primary nourishment for the wheels of oppression is to sow doubt in you about your wisdom, your voice, your access to your internal compass and instead says look to this or that expert who knows better and can evaluate you and your performance.
A fundamental paradigm of oppression is to divide us and create false divisions that then create hierarchy in those divisions like: brain over body, thinking over feeling, men over women, white over black, humans over everything. We unknowingly feed the beast when we tell someone the correct way to stand (posture) or praise another as if we determine their value or when we dismiss our own or an other's voice. WIT helps you identify the hierarchy in you and gives you experience in alternative ways to be full in the world. WIT supports you to see the beauty and health that is already here that isn't determined by comparison or by an expert. Learning how you are made to move, express, feel, change, rage, weep, touch, is a radical act of love.
Sample classes below - see what it is like. Read below how participant's describe the experience.
Two ways to experience Wholeness in Twelve • Embodied Earth Movement:
1. Become a member for a year of Wholeness.
2. A Twelve week session.
1. Become a member for a year of Wholeness.
2. A Twelve week session.
1. Membership Option Starts January 1st 2021
Recommended for depth of experience
A Year long (calendar year) 'Membership' gives you:
Please Join me in Wholeness in Twelve 2021
Discover your own Radical Wholeness ∞ Be a Voice for Life-Giving Work in the World
Payment - Support: There are many ways to support this work. Here are a few:
- 3 - 12 week Wholeness in Twelve sessions - 12 minutes (sometimes longer), 3 times a week for 12 weeks
- Class day short orienting, inspiring or simply beautiful readings are sent in the email with the class link.
For each class you receive an email with the zoom link and support writing. The class email gives you: 1. The anchoring topic of the week – the meta-pattern, the root in our body, and other info and facts. 2. The Poetry, prose or image to evoke the material from a heartfull place. 3. (NEW) Resonances – From your contribution thru chat during class or texts or email to me of what resonates with you – key lines or experiences and also any material you suggest that applies to what we are exploring. - Periodic theory class. (Live or play recording at your own time), Two community discussion classes and Almost every other week full length hour classes.
- 2 - One hour individual sessions
- Access to the videos of classes and supplemental material all year long which includes preparatory and subject specific more in-depth tutorials - even when no live session is in place.
- Supporting articles
- A $50 discount toward a Living of Language of Wholeness Retreat.
- Winter - January 25th to April 16th
- Spring: April 19th to July 9th
- Autumn: September to December - dates TBA
Please Join me in Wholeness in Twelve 2021
Discover your own Radical Wholeness ∞ Be a Voice for Life-Giving Work in the World
Payment - Support: There are many ways to support this work. Here are a few:
- Participate and engage: Join live or recorded classes, do the theory classes, read the emails, do the supplemental informational ‘youtubes’ and take advantage of resources.
- Share your insights and responses: respond in chat, write email reflections, send related materials, poetry, resources
- Explore the material in your work, life and teaching.
- Acknowledge the work aloud like teach a Wholeness in Motion class or list Wholeness in Motion as part of your training
- Invite others to participate
- Contribute financially to support the cost of: services needed to deliver the work like zoom, vimeo, website fees, materials, books, studies, the future dreams like a retreat building and expanding access of this material into the world. Suggested yearly fee is $600 or $50 a month or any amount possible for you from $0 to $100,000 :)
2. Twelve Week Session Package Option
- 12 week Wholeness in Twelve session - 12 minutes (some time longer), 3 times a week for 12 weeks
- Class day short orienting, inspiring or simply beautiful readings are sent in the email with the class link.
- Periodic theory class. (Live or play recording at your own time), Two community discussion classes and Almost every other week full length hour classes.
- One hour individual session
- Supporting articles
2021 Session Dates:
- Winter - January 25th to April 16th
- Spring: April 19th to July 9th
- Autumn: September to December - dates TBA
Cost and payment options: Suggested contribution $250 total for the 12-week session and individual lesson or in three $ 85 installments. Your presence is more important than your payment. Please contact me if you would like to work with me to create another option for participating and contributing.
Wholeness in Twelve • Embodied Earth Movement information:
Times: Usually 12-minute classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Live: 7:15 AM Central time/8:15 AM Eastern time or recording whenever you want.
There are two twelve-minute classes on Mondays and Wednesdays and a thirty minute class or hour class every other Friday. You can join live or use a recording of the class any time you want. Flexibility to do the class where and when you want to is a key part of the work. Being in community via the live class and the website classroom platform can be invaluable support.
Your Individual lesson will be scheduled with me at your convenience. It must be scheduled before the end of the series.
Recordings will be available for two weeks after the last session of the series.
Times: Usually 12-minute classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Live: 7:15 AM Central time/8:15 AM Eastern time or recording whenever you want.
There are two twelve-minute classes on Mondays and Wednesdays and a thirty minute class or hour class every other Friday. You can join live or use a recording of the class any time you want. Flexibility to do the class where and when you want to is a key part of the work. Being in community via the live class and the website classroom platform can be invaluable support.
- Invigorating Monday
- Well-being Wednesday
- Recuperative Fridays
- Theory Classes gives more depth to some topic we are addressing in the shorter classes.
- Tutorials are practical application videos on topics like rushing, gardening, bending.
- Individual lesson gives you crucial personalized material
Your Individual lesson will be scheduled with me at your convenience. It must be scheduled before the end of the series.
Recordings will be available for two weeks after the last session of the series.
To Register please:
Email me at babette@wim.life and with your interest and we can make a specific plan for you. Also, please complete registration and waiver forms below.
For financial transactions you are welcome to use payments buttons below (the button amount reflects the Paypal charge) or mail a check to me (preferred). Please email me so I can send you my mailing address. Please do not use the public address on this website for mailing.
Email me at babette@wim.life and with your interest and we can make a specific plan for you. Also, please complete registration and waiver forms below.
For financial transactions you are welcome to use payments buttons below (the button amount reflects the Paypal charge) or mail a check to me (preferred). Please email me so I can send you my mailing address. Please do not use the public address on this website for mailing.
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The ripple effect of Wholeness in Twelve as spoken by participants:
- I ended the class free of pain, alert and at peace with the day.
- Makes me way WAY more playful, more light in my self, and more curious and happy, so happy, to have a new way to relate to the beings and elements around me, wild and otherwise.
- I’ve been noticing more of the moments in daily life when I’ve been in strain and how to get back to a sense of spring and energy through the central channel.
- Your sessions are helping me come back to a sense of the whole of me, rather than the uncomfortable 'problem' bits.
- It’s bringing me a greater sense of play into daily life and just being able to be at ease in the moments that are not always pleasant.
- .I really appreciated the clear instruction and the ease of use of the Zoom meeting. I was hesitant at first about this because I am not always comfortable with technology. I am glad it was so easy to use and the sound and picture were fine!
- Babette’s teachings are unique, intuitive and playful. I enjoyed every session of the course and take away a new understanding of my own system, its innate ability to be free, and its connectedness to the greater web of life.
- I feel that my system knows now when it functions freely and when I limit or restrain it. The earth to sky sequence is so deeply restorative that I go back to it whenever I feel like my “batteries" need some fresh charge.
- Oh my, it’s life changing. It feels like I’ve come home. It feels like the missing piece - as though my understanding of what it means to be embodied is finally in sync with what I know to be true in all other realms of my life and experience.
- There was something in each class that I could either meditate on throughout the day or use with my students in class or rehearsal.
- The approach is so joy-filled for me, it resonates with the natural world of physics and wild nature — I don’t even know where to start.
- It is the healing of decades of compensatory compressive habits.
- This new paradigm resonates so deeply with me, I just tear up. It flies in the face of my first 50 years of living, and is glorious new information that I can actually find my wild wholeness.
- I wanted to tell you that I used your “body prayer” to open a worship I led last week at a small interfaith group. People found it SO helpful.
- I would never have known that such "simple" movement could have such a deep effect on my body and my mind. I am very glad to know this so that when I need it, I can do some simple moves and know it will be useful for me. I have also used some of these moves with my choir for warm up and focus.
- As always, doing the class sets me up for a more calm, centered day. Even if I have a lot on in a particular day, I find that class gives me more resilience to approach the day as I choose, to look at it in a more objective, "interested" sense, and have the reactions that I intend.
- The most awesome thing I have noticed with your class is that every time I have done it, I feel very peaceful, happy and centered for the start of the day and it carries on through the day. I find this quite magical! I don't feel like I am "doing" much but it sure is effective!!!
- This format is working very well for me. It allows me to experience the material and then experiment with it throughout the day…I used the Monday invigorating exercise on a Wednesday afternoon break when I was feeling sleepy and it worked like a charm! I was alert and present for my marathon teaching schedule
The Wholeness in Twelve tracker tool or Field-notes book is in the file below. Please print out to use to deepen the experience of this work.
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Below are samples classes. These are actual classes in the midst of the 12 week series. If certain aspects go by fast or you don't understand a concept, please know it is introduced earlier in the session or in tutorials
Sample of a theory class with a Monday class and a Wednesday class
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As part of Wholeness in Twelve you have access to Tutorials which give more in-depth content of the material that underlies the short classes. Below is an example of a tutorial about the arm- structure.
Here is an example of a tutorial application video. This is about rushing. This is recipe for rushing and how to understand the impact of a rushed life. Your choice but useful to know what you feel is how you go about your life.,
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