The Art of Choice, Communication and Connection

– Understanding the Somatic mind/body link in relation to Consent

You are invited to join an exploration into a system of engagement which guides you to engage with yourself and others on a richer, deeper level.
Practising the engagement system brings you into connection with your feelings and the sensations derived from your sense of touch in a transformative way.
It provides a neurological upgrade of your cognitive and emotional intelligence, somatic capacity, ability to feel and be authentically you.
This practice is both personal and collective, both scientific and spiritual. It allows you to become present and attentive in a deeper way than ever before. Somatic Consent guides you to consciously connect to yourself, others, and the world you live in. This is truly life changing work.

The Human Need for Intimacy

As human beings, we all need intimacy. We all want meaningful connection with those that are dear to us. But how many of us are actually keeping ourselves from this because of our conditioned ways of relating?

Shadows and Programmed Beliefs

We all developed unconscious survival strategies in order to feel accepted.
Most of us have the neurological patterning that, “I do something to make you feel happy, so that you’ll love me and I’ll belong”.
We’ve been conditioned to believe we’re better people if our actions focus on giving for the sake of others—and that receiving through our own action is connected to selfishness, violation, abuse or other shadow behaviour.
But what if we’re also allowed to go into action for our own benefit—to receive pleasure—and that this isn’t at all selfish but greatly adds to the benefit of all involved?

Communication – The Pathway to Freedom

Somatic Consent offers engagement and communication tools to break old patterns, and learn how to respond to the world around in authentic ways. It helps you to establish the organic balance between desire and boundaries. You learn how to ask for what you really want, and how to go into an authentic action for your own benefit while respecting the limits of others.

The core embodiment of Somatic Consent is making empowered choices and communicating consent.

These foundational teachings will guide you into the base of Somatic Consent, where the main focus will be to activate your hands, improve the quality of your touch, explore consensual touch, and learn how to separate doing from giving and discover deeper layers of receiving. This workshop will teach you how to embody the Somatic Consent Engagement System.

This workshop includes many interactive games and exercises offered to help you learn in an easy, playful, and conscious way. These exercises can then be taken outside of the course structure and applied in your personal or professional life. No prior experience is necessary for this workshop. Both beginners and professionals are welcome, as we can always find new levels of awareness.

What you will learn:

~ The difference between giving and receiving, in relation to who is doing the action
~ How to activate your somatic inflow
~ Follow a step-by-step process for waking up the hands and playing the 3-minute game
~ To gain access to and give permission for your own physical joy and pleasure, and learn the ability to take action towards the experience of these states
~ Radical self-ownership and self-responsibility
~ The structure of the Somatic Consent Engagement System, and how to use it in daily life
~ How to enhance all relationships, stop bypassing yourself, and communicate with more awareness and personal responsibility
~ To be present with and communicate vulnerable feelings
~ To stop relating in old survival strategies like manipulations and shadow games, and how to enhance your capacity for authentic connection with friends, partners, lovers, family and colleagues.

Participating in this training is creating the foundational groundwork for an empowering journey into yourself and your personal integrity. It helps you to remember that your pleasure is your birthright. This training invites a new paradigm in personal choice and ways of authentic relating that will keep deepening as you practice your embodiment of it. As we learn to take radical responsibility for ourselves and what we take action to create in our lives and our relationships, then we can also remember we can have choice in and impact in what we choose to participate in, what we choose to go along with, and what we choose to create in the world at large. This is essential during the current times we are living in!
If you are in any doubt as to whether this training could be helpful for you, I invite you to read the testimonials of previous participants of this training at the bottom of this page 😀

Dublin or West Cork option for in-person weekend immersion this November (residential and non-residential options):

DUBLIN:
Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th November –
Howth, Co Dublin (non-residential, meals not included)

Times:
Friday 3rd: – 7 to 10pm
Saturday 4th: 10am to 6pm (lunch break around 1 to 2pm)
(possible evening session 7.30 to 10pm – TBC)
Sunday 5th: 10am to 6pm (lunch break around 1 to 2pm)
(non-residential)

Price:
€297

This is a small venue so spaces are very limited – early booking is highly recommended. The venue is a 7minute walk from Howth Dart station, so there is easy access to Dublin city centre and surrounding areas. If you don’t live locally and require accommodation, there are many Airbnb’s, B&B’s, and a few hotels in this beautiful seaside town that you can choose to stay at 🙂

Alternatively:…..

WEST CORK:
Friday 10th to Sunday 12th November
– Goleen, West Cork – Residential and non-residential options available

Times:
Friday 10th: arrive 4pm for residential participants, 5.30pm for non-residential participants – till 10pm
Saturday 11th: 10am to 10pm (breakfast 8.30am. Lunch and dinner breaks included)
Sunday 12th: 10am to 6pm (breakfast 8.30am. Lunch break included)

Price:
Non-residential (meals included): €370
Residential Option, meals included: €450 (shared dormitory accommodation price)

(Camping option available. And limited private room option, for an additional fee)

NOTE: We have policy for not turning anyone away for financial reasons. If you are unemployed/low waged and unable to afford to participate, please email info@teerthaordish.com to discuss payment plans/concessions/exchanges/flexible payment options.

Bookings:

Places are limited – early booking is advised!
Email: info@teerthaordish.com

Want to experience this content in your area? Reach out and we can bring this training to you 🙂

What some previous participants have to say after participating in this training:

Rebecca, Cork:
“I have been on a healing journey for the past 10 years and this workshop has definitely been one of the best decisions I have made in my quest to understand myself more, release trauma, learned conditioning, and heal. I was a bit nervous about attending the workshop but was immediately put at ease by Teertha’s presence. She is a beautiful woman and a kind soul who has an innate ability to understand and help others reach their true potential and embody their light.

The principles of the workshop were brought to life in many fun and engaging practices that Teertha seemed to organise on an intuitive level. It made me realise how out of touch I have been in my body over the past while. I felt stimulated and energised as I explored myself and the environment in a way I would have never thought of doing before this beautiful weekend. I felt feelings and sensations that I have not felt for some time but have been longing for. The exercises encouraged me to challenge myself, connect to my desires, and ask for what I truly want. I also learned to truly listen to and respect the boundaries of others without taking it personally or feeling like I was somehow at fault.

This workshop has made me realise how much I have been missing human connection and touch and has been a catalyst for me to invite more fun and love into my life. It has brought my attention to old patterns and worn-out ways of being that are no longer serving me or anyone else. Despite all the education I have received and the books I have read, nothing has topped the learning I have gained from this weekend. It is a teaching that has been ingrained and one that I am sure will stay with me forevermore. I can already see a change in my communication and connection with others, and I am pleased to notice how challenging relationships in my life are beginning to heal. The only thing I regret is that I did not do this sooner so thank you Teertha, and thank you also to all the other beautiful souls who I had the pleasure to meet and work with over the weekend. 10/10!“

Joyce, Dublin:
“I recently took part in a training in Cork with Teertha, the art of consent choice and communication. As always with Teertha, from the word go I felt very comfortable and safe, even though it was a content I felt a bit unsure about at the beginning. But I have to say, it was amazing and so empowering! Teertha is a wonderful teacher and makes the space feel very safe and is always at hand to help and to make sure that everything is explained in a way that when we leave and go home, we can carry the training with us and simply apply the tools into life. With Teertha teaching it, I would not hesitate to recommend this training to everyone I meet. I look forward to going deeper in the future with my amazing teacher Teertha. Thank you. Yours sincerely, Joyce.

Daithi, West Cork:
“Working with Teertha has been some of the most important personal development I’ve done to date and the most beautiful gift I could have ever given myself. Although I recognise I’m a work in progress, I remain on the pathway to becoming the man I want to be and look forward to beginning a new journey with her this May. Le Grá, DaithaÍ”

Jonelle, Cork:
“The somatic consent weekend workshop with Teertha was ostensibly about creating safe space to explore consensual, platonic touch – and it was this. The exercises in touch exploration were playful, challenging, delightful, deep and nourishing. The room was frequently flooded in oxytocin… But, in combination with the theory that was offered and very clearly articulated by Teertha throughout, touch became the playground for exploring and embodying the basic principles of self-responsibility and sovereignty, healthy relating and communicating, connecting with and expressing personal truth, desire and boundaries – and for experiencing each of these as part of the inextricably woven web of being a human in healthy, reciprocal, and pleasurable relationship and community with other humans.
This should be basic life learning from very early childhood, but our culture is so far from this reality. I experienced a deep grief, at the end of the workshop, for the tragedy of this, especially having witnessed throughout the weekend how quickly and profoundly this work sets in for people, when safety is cultivated and the invitation is present.
On top of this grief, I also felt an even deeper relief for having experienced how it might all be possible. I have no doubt that this work has the potential to transform culture.
Teertha is a skilled facilitator. She lives what she teaches, communicates crystal clearly, and cultivates an extraordinarily safe space for the exploration that this work requires. I plan on delving deeper into this work, and would highly recommend this workshop to literally anybody (needless to say!)”.