Dec 11, 2019
Carly Mountain is a teacher and
writer who works with poetry, yoga, breathwork and voice as
transformational practice that can liberate us in ways we never
anticipated. She is the creatrix of the Butterfly Mystery School
which is home to circles of women who wish to deepen relationship
with themselves and their natural abundant expression. Carly is
also author of Jouissance ~ poetry of the deep feminine. She is
based in Sheffield, UK where she lives with her husband and two
daughters.
- Carly
started dancing at 4 years old. She trained at the Laban
Centre
- She
pursued yoga and went from her first class to teaching within 18
months
- Graham technique had helped to release
stuckness in the pelvis. Created by Martha Graham, the approach was
inspired by Kundalini yoga, moving energy through the
body
- Yoga
is very much about the practice, compared with dance as a
performance
- Pregnancy yoga with Uma
Dinsmore-Tuli
- The
Butterfly School includes yoga, poetry, breathwork and creative
enquiry
- Butterfly - mudra practice
- Searching for a place where emotional work
could exist alongside the physical expression
- Craving female support and recognising other
women must be craving it too
- The
perception that we “should be looking for a calm place inside
ourselves”
- Kim
Rosen uses free movement, breathwork, poetry and freeing the voice
to give rise to whatever is there
- Being
able to be with all the realms of expression
- Without fully expressing, we’re lidding an
essential part of our being
- All
emotion is welcome, all emotion is valuable
- Grief
and rage are huge connectors
- Saying yes and no from the body
- Consent ripples through our lives - being
programmed to respond quickly. Taking a pause
- Permission to rest
- Listening to our cyclical wisdom
- The
Autumn (less tolerance for putting up with things) and Winter
(hibernating and resting, going inwards) phases of the cycle. How
easy it is to push these phases away, but there’s a renewal that
comes from dropping in to resting
- Women
supporting women is nourishing
- Often
we don’t know we’re safe until we’ve taken a risk
- Remembering who you are and letting go of what
you’re not
- Oxytocin is released when sitting with other
women in circle
- Poetry as a powerful tool
- Intimacy as “going into the unknown
together”
- ‘Blurt write’ to allow the pen to flow on the
page
- Moonbox for a young girl before she has her
menarche to celebrate and share this stage instead of shame and
fear
- Jouissance, Carly’s book of poetry to celebrate
the fullness of womanhood
- Extinction Rebellion is calling people into
their eldership
- A new
intake of The Butterfly School starts in January 2020
http://carlymountain.com/sheffield-yoga/womens-health-sheffield/
What
If...?
What if it had been the Mother, the Daughter, and the Holy
Spirit?
How different might things of be then,
if women only had their natural limits?
Blood revered as a super power,
as beautiful and welcomed and earthly as a flower.
Childbirth, if chosen, a sacred rite of passage.
Midwives as holy women.
Crones as the wisdom cup.
A sisterhood, a sisterhood.
Nature as Queen and ageing as a privilege.
What if it had been the Mother, the Daughter, and the Holy
Spirit?
How different might things be then.
- Carly Mountain
Resources:
Twitter
@carly_mountain
Instagram
@carly_mountain
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/Practice-and-Poetry-with-Carly-Mountain
http://carlymountain.com/
The Butterfly School:
http://carlymountain.com/sheffield-yoga/womens-health-sheffield/
Jouissance poetry
book http://carlymountain.com/2019/08/08/jouissance/