Integrated Embodiment with Hayley Price

Hello! I am Hayley.

My work, ‘Integrated Embodiment’ is a fusion of contemplative practice and the expressive arts. It integrates the practices of Gentle Somatic Yoga, Creative Somatic Movement, Storytelling, Vocal Play, Deep Rest, Meditation and Group & Partner Relational Work all as tools for Creative Self Inquiry.

I have been sharing yoga and meditation for 12 years, practicing for almost 20 years, and am a qualified Yoga Therapist. I specialise in yoga therapeutics for women as well as for emotional health and wellbeing.

For me, Yoga is something so much more than just stretching and sweating. Yoga is LIFE brought alive. It is every breath fully inhaled and exhaled without force. It is meeting each moment over and over again in the deepest intimacy and expression of your own truth.

In this way, Yoga is in Everything!

I also facilitate Creative Inquiries throughout the UK for adults and have taught Creative Yoga for children and teens in schools for 8 years. In my work with children I mainly work with pre-teen girls, providing mentorship and practical tools to boost confidence, health and wellbeing. 

I love to drop in to the wisdom of my body and to allow movement to flow through me. My body is an ally on this path. When I listen and allow life force to flow through it, it offers all kinds of insights. Emotion or thought that has become stuck, is able to move and become creative potential.

I began dancing the 5 rhythms when I was 19 and enjoy exploring other dance forms, such as Soul Motion, Movement Medicine, Ecstatic Dance and more. Often, my favourite kind of movement is the movement that flows from stillness and silence. I have been drawn to somatic practices that allow me to explore this space and be attentive to what unfolds from within.

I am influenced by the work of Janet Adler through the Discipline of Authentic Movement and by Emilie Conrad and her work, Continuum. I also love the work that reconnects, shared by Joanna Macy and am drawn to teachers whose very being points towards presence.

I spent 5 years living in India and Thailand where I trained intensively in the Yogic Arts, Healing systems and Yogic & Buddhist forms of Meditation. I have also spent time in Central America and California. I stayed at the Esalen Institute, in California, where I studied gestalt relational therapy, somatic movement practices and intuitive movement. I am currently studying an MA in Dance and Somatic Wellbeing at UCLAN.

I continue to learn through my greatest teacher, Life, and through immersing myself in opportunities for growth on all levels.

This journey into awareness feels vast and unending. I couldn’t tell you exactly when it began – It feels like it’s been living in my cells my whole life! Every moment gets richer and more intimate.

I LOVE what I share and feel ever grateful to do so.

See you on the inside!

With love

Hayley

Trainings and Workshops:

Present: M.A. Dance and Somatic Wellbeing at UCLAN, Preston

Hormone Harmony: Red School

The Pelvic Floor: Keys to lifelong health with Leslie Howard

Authentic Movement: One to One and small group study with Fran Lavendel

Fluid Development Series: Continuum Movement and BMC with Cherionna Menzam Sills.

The Embodied Spirit: Dance Movement with Ellen Watson

The Transformative Power of Emotion with Dorothy Charles: Gestalt Relational Psychotherapy, Group Process and Individual Work

Body Centred Awareness with Patrice Hamilton: An exploration of Hakomi, Cortical Field Reeducation (a somatic movement based body work) and Gestalt.

Hanna Somatics with Eleanor Criswell Hanna

Yoga and Psyche workshop with Mariana Caplan

Diploma in Yoga Therapy: Yogacampus

Well Women Yoga Therapy with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

Yoga Therapy with Aadil Palkhivala

Yoga Therapy with Bo Forbes:
Gateway to prana, Yoga – meditation in motion and stillness, Yoga for insomnia, Softening our armour, Neurobiology of the spine, Yoga for emotional Balance, Integrative Yoga Therapeutics.

Yoga for Children (Yoga Bees)

Diploma of Yoga Teaching (1700 hour training).

Certificate in Thai Massage, Tibetan and Ayurvedic Massage.

Certificate in Yogic Studies and Gurukal Lifestyle (Bihar Yoga Bharati)

Over 700 hours of study under Bhooma Chaitanya, teacher of the Hatha & Advaita traditions.

NC Performing Arts: Edinburgh College

 

Poem by Hayley Price (C)