FayeRay

February… reconnecting and waking up! 🥰💛 Foraging Hazel catkins for the first time, swimming and loving up the luscious lungwort 💚💚 #natureconnection #coldwaterimmersion #isleofjura #temperaterainforest

Here she is! 🌳🍃🌱 It’s been a while since I’ve had a dance and move about in the woods! 🙏🏻 it felt so good to feel the call to do so! 🌳🍃🌱 It was a rainy evening at 9pm and I was getting eaten up by the midges haha… but there was something very alluring about dancing in the woods with the raindrops and the distant sound of leaves and waves 💛 This is a beautiful fragment of forest just by my cottage it’s become a sanctuary and the inhabitants friends. This lovely gnarly oak beside me being one of them! Enjoy… hopefully more will arise! #dancingasnature #wildmovement #embodiednature #natureconnection #temperaterainforest #isleofjura #scotland #creativenature

First of many dips in Inverlussa bay since moving here 💛🌊😊

A beautiful after work stroll, swim and forage… 💛🙏🏻😊 I Love spring! Full of new life and old friends who pop out of the ground this time of year 🥰🥰🥰

I had the wonderful opportunity to guide a Shinrin Yoku session at @east.london.dance for Sensoria: Our House an incredible weekend curated by @wearesensoria full of talks, workshops, artwork, sharings, calming sensory spaces advocating radical accessibility in the arts for the disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent communities. I realise I find it quite hard to explain what Shinrin yoku is…. And find myself a bit stumped and stumbling over my words when trying to introduce it… and so on reflection after this session I think it’s because it’s something that has to be experienced for people to understand. It’s such an immersive practise and is rooted in deep listening, gentle being and full embodied rest. Each time I share I learn so much more 🙏🏻🙏🏻 I used to say “a mindful walk in nature” but now I feel it’s “A restful, curious, creative, playful and embodied time in nature!” It felt like a special thing to cultivate an energy in a space indoors that transported us to the dreamy restful liminal place that being in a forest/natural landscape can do. It taught me and reaffirmed that we can access nature on many different levels and it’s there for everyone! A retuning of intension and focus can bring us in closer relationship with the earth and community, and be an entry point for experiencing the therapy and medicine we can receive from nature. When someone from the group shares that they don’t want to leave the space and that they wish we could hangout in this earthy world all evening…. I think is fair to say we created something special together 🌱🌱🙏🏻🙏🏻💛💛 yay! 🤗

Long overdue cold dip…. March is no joke on the chilly levels 🥶 and I’m no seasoned pro in just a bikini so it was literally a quick dip! 😅😅 I really wanted to make the most of a beautiful morning before the weather turns and whilst I actually have energy and will power to go in! ☀️🌊❄️👙💪🏻

A very chilly dip today…. 💙 🌊 ⛅️

So much life, colour and texture 🍃 From my time spent on Dartmoor. The rain brings a lot of vibrancy to the moss and lichens 💚 #moss #lichen #mist #microworlds #ancientbeing

Observing and weathering 🪶🪨🌳 I was meant to start a course this weekend however it has been postponed and so I spent some solo time on Dartmoor. It was a real combination of thoughts and feelings swirling around pulling me in different directions. Being in our own sanctuary isn’t always peaceful… a lot of frustration and anger came up rooted in fear. Weather plays a big part in the comfortability of an experience…. the physical external weather and the internal. I came to do a medicine walk, which I did, however it wasn’t what I imagined…. It came with a lot of heaviness and reluctancy… as well as some lovely light playful moments. Having walked aimlessly around wet and windy moors I came to this familiar valley which I had visited the day before…. My body instantly relaxed as i stepped into familiarity and somewhat held in its safety… it was an interesting observation. I feel this video is a representation of the weekend… a bit of beauty and mysticism, with hard heavy immovable feelings, a lot of stillness and brain chatter with weather neither here or there… but definitely wet! I feel in one sense like the rock and another sense like a bird of prey weathering the moment and observing from the safety of its perch. The little bird you can hear was actually alarming me for ages but through my stillness it relaxed and began to sing 💛 I had to edit out otherwise it’s just ridiculously long! Thanks for watching and reading 🙏🏻 #dancingasnature #naturedancer #rockdance #stillness #becomingnature #naturemovement #movementmedicine #medicinewalk #dartmoor #weathering #creativenature #becominganimal

A little dance and paint 🎨 💃🏻 - - This song is one of those ones that can pull me out of the shadows… there’s something so spirited and organic about it.. it makes me feel warm and want to smile 😊 First song: Ewe by Fabiano do Nascimento - Dança do Tempo Second song: Baghon Main - Arooj Aftab and Darian Donovan Thomas Feels good to have a little finger paint haha… next I need larger paper and bigger space to get even more involved! 😍 There’s so many different ways to approach painting and dancing together interpreting the music…. The feeling, the rhythm, the melody, what the movement will paint from moving to the music…. I just wanted to go with whatever here… but lots of ideas of exploration have come out of this little playtime! 💛 Anyway enjoy 💛🌿 #dancingasnature #danceandpaint #expressivepainting #embodiedpainting #embodiedart #painteddance #markmakingart #processart #therapeutic #playfulexplorations

I love you Ancient Oak 💛🌿 - - Met this incredible beautiful enchanting oak tree yesterday… I was in absolute awe of all the life it supports and all the wild twists, turns and folds. Growing and Healing over and over creating itself into this magnificent being! I am just a child stood next to it… listening to it’s wise old tales from times gone by! Thank you @tula_therapy for the sneaky snap 💛🌿✨ #dancingasnature #oaktree #treeenergy #grandmothertree #mothertree #treewisdom #iloveyouoak #wildtree #ancientoak

Gently existing 🌿 I sometimes find the idea of just simply existing hard… I always want some kind of magic and whilst seeking those larger dazzling lights I fail to see the magic in the subtle and gentle things in life.. Being in the woods helps me slow down and experience the wonder of just being… it felt really good to have a little barefoot dance around… and let the earth feel my feet and my feet feel the earth between my toes. I can always see a lot of uncertainty in my movement which is no surprise as there’s usually a lot of those feelings inside… I used to be quite embarrassed and frustrated about it and that it would show in my dance especially when I used to enter battles and competitions on the underground dance scene the last thing you want is for your opponent to see your insecurities! 😱 So it’s taken me a lot of healing to come to a place of allowing what’s authentic without too much guilt or shame…. Being in nature helps this process because I realise everything is so imperfect and the world will keep turning and the branches will keep growing 🌿 I hope even just listening to the audio brings a little gentleness to your day xx #dancingasnature #imperfections #naturedance #flow #barefootdancing #earthdance #somatic #freeflow #energyflow #gentle #justbeing #existing #love #selfcare #wellbeing #movementmeditation