Ancient Healing Ways
with Pip Bondy
Council Ways through the Body
Marrying Heaven and Hell - Initiating through the Body - The Julian Centre, Norwich. March 27th - 29th 2026
Council, Alexander Technique & Nature as a path towards Healing
Between opposites - a coming home.
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For those who long to slow down, to listen deeply, and to rediscover the living intelligence of their body and the Earth.
For practitioners of inner work, seekers of embodied spiritual practice, lovers of nature, and anyone who senses a threshold calling - this course offers a gentle yet powerful initiation into presence.
Why Join This Ceremony?
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In a world filled with noise, urgency, and habitual tension, we often forget that behind our troubles, our pain and inner disharmony, is a quiet wisdom that lives in our bodies.
This weekend invites you to pause … to rest… to soften what you habitually hold… and to open to compassion and acceptance for ourselves from a place of deep listening.
Through the lens of the Alexander Technique and ancient practice of Council, we have the choice to return to a natural state of wholeness - where body, heart, mind, nature, and the unseen are not separate but flowing together in a unified field of aliveness.
This is the Marriage of Heaven and Hell within you:
Behind the contradictions and opposites is a coming-home to the truth already here.
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What You Will Receive - Hidden Deep, Ever Present
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Gentle exploration of your story - what is hidden, what is alive, what seeks your attention.
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Practices that awaken your senses and reveal the connection between mind, body, and nature.
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Hand-on Alexander Technique work bringing movement and awareness practices that cultivate spacious presence and attuned listening.
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A safe, welcoming space to meet your feelings, soften habitual patterns, and be fully present.
What You Will Take Away - Unborn and Ever Living
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A deeper trust in your own inner knowing - body, heart, mind, and spirit aligned.
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Embodied clarity and ease, experiencing the body as a living river of energy.
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Presence that is receptive, open, and intimate - both with yourself and the world.
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The sense of life moving through you from truth rather than habit, and the ability to meet opposites with honesty, compassion and grace.
Let this Council be a place where opposites are spoken, held, and honoured, and where the necessary fire finds its form –
"Moment by moment, things are losing their hardness: now even my body lets the light through" - Virginia Woolf
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Start - Friday, .March 27th at mid-afternoon, Finish, Sunday 29th 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
