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March 2024: Villager Offering - Reimagining the Web of Life with Matthew Heyse-Moore

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Matthew Heyse-Moore

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Reimagining the Web of Life - music and body practice to support collective aliveness with Matthew Heyse-Moore

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This offering is shaped by black feminism, somatic abolitionism and dreams of deep time. A space where what is beneath the surface may sing, or choose to remain hidden, muted or illegible. Multiple pathways to engage or disengage. Space to wander and to wonder what emerges when there is space for radical rest and re-creation. Music and words encoded with elicitations to embody some of the entangled threads of what it means to be alive.

Come with your curiosity and what you are alive with for this experiential offering which will invite you to be with body, breath, impulse and imagination accompanied by a musical soundscape followed by some optional sharing time. Bring a cushion, blanket and anything else to be comfortable in case life calls you to rest or lie down. Ideally wear comfortable flexible clothing in case life is calling you to dance, rock or sway. Bring as much of yourself as you would like to. You may like to have a candle to light, a plant or a stone or a twig around you or something else that makes you feel good.

Matthew's Bio:

I am a teacher, workshop facilitator, coach, musician and composer living in the south-west of the UK. My work brings together the power of music, chant and sound with an embodied and nature-based approach to life. I see embodiment as a way to be more fully present with the full reality of who I am as a human being, and I experience the meeting places of music, nature and embodiment both as crucial personal resources and as powerful and positive tools in creating and strengthening community.

Much of my work seeks to engage with the huge challenges of our time and in particular the marginalization of people, planet and parts of ourselves. I see connecting to the web of life as a daily practice which needs continual remembering amid the many potential pulls to forget this interconnection.

I resonate with the image of a circle as a space for individuals to be empowered as part of a wider community. I’m keen in my teaching and workshops to create space for ways of learning which are experiential, intuitive, embodied, emotional to complement the cognitive.

Much of my work is anchored in the capacity for music to articulate experiences and to heal conflicts within ourselves and beyond in a way that words alone cannot. I aim through music to support a deeper human connection with the natural world, and I find inspiration here for ways to live from a perspective of equality, justice and interconnection.

What I offer emerges from a rich web of interconnected threads. I am grateful to the countless people, places, connections, teachers and wisdom keepers that are making this possible.