
Ancient Healing Ways
with Pip Bondy


Deepening with Council Ways
Through the Body
The Julian Centre, Norwich, November 7th - 9th 2025

My belief is in the flesh and blood as being wiser than the intellect. The body – consciousness is where life bubbles up in us. Its how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos
D H Lawrence
Deep Listening: A Ceremony of Connection
This course offers a simple yet profound ceremony - an invitation to pause, to rest, and to open into the deepest listening.
Together we will explore a way of being that softens habitual tensions and allows body, heart, mind, and soul to reconnect. By letting go of agendas and expectations, we create the conditions to receive through our whole being. In this openness, we begin to sense our inseparable connection with the living Earth - a unified flow of consciousness where clouds, leaves, sun, moon, rocks, and rivers become our teachers and companions.
Through this practice, the body becomes a map, guiding us into both the inner and outer landscapes of nature and the wider Universe. As our awareness shifts and our senses awaken, we may experience a deepening wholeness and an enlivened clarity - a way of meeting life that is grounded, responsive, and fully alive.
"Moment by moment, things are losing their hardness: now even my body lets the light through"
Virginia Woolf
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This course is an invitation to step into presence, to listen with the whole of yourself, and to allow life to move through you with openness and vitality.

Our time together will include:
Hidden deep, ever present
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An opportunity to gently enter our stories and look at what is hidden and yet always here; becoming aware through our senses and understanding that mind, body and nature are not separate.
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Listening to our feelings and knowing the depth of contraction held in the habits of conditioned reactions. With patience and courage we may enter the expansion of self and the unknown.
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Being present, intimate and welcoming of what arises.
Unborn and ever living
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Exploring moving with spacious awareness, noticing self, each other, and nature without holding fixed mind/body habits.
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Understanding of structure and form and how we can listen through the body without projections and preconceived ideas.
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Seeing our body as silence and still openness and learn to trust in the truth inside our own body/heart/mind/spirit.
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Becoming a non doing vessel and recognise the non dual essence of our being – the sacred in our body.
At the end of the day
There is a deep wisdom in each of us. As we come home to who we truly are, our lives can unfold with grace. Through the old ways of Council and story, and through enquiry with body and senses, we awaken clarity and awareness—our essential essence.
Here, our deepest being resonates with harmony, peace, and welcoming love. We may discover a profound ease, a joyous well-being, and the sense of our bodies as an effortless, timeless flow of energy. From this place, we respond to life not from habit, but from the fullness of what we truly are.
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Start - Friday, November 7th at mid-afternoon,
Finish, Sunday 9th at 5pm
Cost - £295, (including £95.00, non refundable deposit)
Contact: - Pippa@ancienthealingways.co.uk
Tel - + 44 (0) 7814959613
Practical Information - The Council weekend will take place at the Julian Visitors Centre, in Norwich, which is peaceful, light and has a beautiful garden. The Julian Centre has accommodation – for anyone to book - https://julianofnorwich.org/pages/staying-at-the-julian-shrine - For more informations; contact me also; pippa@ancienthealingways.co.uk
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