Body Commune - Spring Sessions

Body-Led Inquiry into Chronic, Recurring or Unexplained Symptoms.

2 X SESSION TIMES: SUNDAYS 10:00 AM - 12:30PM (26 OCT - 30 NOV) CONSECUTIVE SUNDAYS
OR  THURSDAYS 9:30AM - 12:00PM (16 OCT - 20 NOV) CONSECUTIVE THURSDAYS
LOCATION: THE FIGS BYRON (BRUNSWICK HEADS)

A six-week explorative, body-led, movement immersion for meeting Pain, Symptoms, and Self with new possibility.

Dis-ease is not the enemy — it is the messenger.

Body Commune is an intimate container for those living with chronic pain, recurring illness, or symptoms without clear medical explanation.

Here, the body is not approached as a problem to fix, but as a landscape to be explored with curiosity, respect, and compassion. Through movement, guided inquiry, and creative reflection, Body Commune offers a way to meet your body’s signals differently. With open attention and a compassionate inner witness, we move through the sensory, somatic, symbolic, psychological and transpersonal landscapes — unfolding the meaning, wisdom, and possibility held within our symptoms.

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State-of-being.

  • You may feel as though you’re caught in a cycle of recurring discomfort, exhausted by the endless search for answers. Perhaps you’ve tried countless approaches, only to find yourself back where you started.

    • Feelings of frustration, confusion, hopelessness, or longing.

    • Emotional intensity, restlessness, or fatigue

    • A deep desire for clarity and understanding of your condition.

    • Chronic Fatigue or Tiredness

    • Widespread or Localised Chronic Pain or Fibromyalgia

    • Insomnia

    • Headaches

    • Back/Shoulder or Neck Pain

    • Muscle or Joint Pain

    • Irritable Bowel Syndrome

    • Digestive Issues or Stomach Issues 

    • TMJ Issues

    • Anxiety or Heart Palpitations

    • Skin Issues

    • Weakness or Paralysis

    • Numbness or Tingling

    • Dizziness

  • Within this field, the body is guide, movement the language, and creativity the vessel through which insight becomes visible. Through the Body Commune process, you will experience:

    • Foundational practices to ground, regulate, and attune to your body’s cues.

    • Two weeks exploring key axes of polarity — cultivating skills to notice somatic signals and tend to your own regulation.

    • Four weeks of deeper guided inquiry into symptom, root cause, antidote, and integration through a rich 6-part arc of exploration

    • Movement explorations that weave impulse, sensation, symbol, spirit and meaning.

    • Creative reflection to give shape to experience and discover personal insight.

    • A group field of compassionate witnessing, where you are supported in both expression and presence.

  • You will leave Body Commune with:

    • A deeper, more attuned relationship with your body — and greater understanding of the messages within your symptoms.

      • Personal tools and resources for self-regulation, resilience, and self-management that can be carried into daily life.

      • A greater sense of acceptance, ease, and self-trust in the face of discomfort and uncertainty.

      • A dynamic, compassionate relationship with dis-ease and pain, opening new ways of meeting what arises.

      • A renewed sense of agency — the knowing that you can meet your body, your symptoms, and your life with choice.

      • Clearer pathways toward freedom, creativity, and possibility.

      • The potential for fresh insight, integration, and relationship with pain or recurring symptoms.

Structure.

The Body Commune framework is a six-week process that balances structure with openness. Each step is thoughtfully designed to support safety, regulation, and depth as you move from foundational practices into deeper layers of body-led inquiry.

  • The first 2 weeks are focused on a few key grounding practices that attune you to your body’s somatic cues. These weeks introduce three key axes of polarity — helping you recognise and regulate your nervous system, build awareness of body signals, and strengthen your inner witness.

  • The Body Commune journey is held within a six-part arc of exploration — a framework that provides rhythm, safety, and depth. Within this arc, participants are guided through four central themes: symptom, root, antidote, and integration. These are not rigid steps, but invitations — doorways into seeing and sensing differently.

    Each session is guided by impulse-led movement and creative reflection. From here, participants may open into different landscapes of experience:

    • Sensory — the raw immediacy of experience: touch, temperature, texture, sound, sight, taste, smell. The nervous system’s first layer of communication before thought or meaning arises.

    • Somatic — the way sensations gather into patterns of holding, gestures, impulses to move, and nervous system states.

    • Symbolic — images, metaphors, and creative expressions that give form to inner experience and open meaning beyond words.

    • Psychological — the narratives, beliefs, and inner dialogues that shape how symptoms are understood and lived.

    • Transpersonal — the wider field: archetypal, spiritual, and collective experiences that connect us to more-than-self.

    These landscapes are not destinations, but possibilities. The process does not prescribe what will happen — it simply creates the conditions for what wants to arise.

The framework is inspired by Authentic Movement (Mary Whitehouse, Janet Adler), particularly its devotion to impulse and the cultivation of the inner witness. Within Body Commune, these principles are adapted into a unique six-part arc — one that balances structure with openness, and honours both clinical grounding and soul-led inquiry.


This work is not about performance or diagnosis. It is about cultivating presence, resilience, and a renewed relationship with your body.

Body commune is a space where we invite the body to guide us towards what needs to be known in this moment. This is the shift from fighting the body, to moving with it.

At the heart of Body Commune is a simple truth - The Body holds the Key. Movement is the Map, the Memory and the Medicine.

What ‘s included.

Small intimate group
Hosted by experienced facilitator Kaycie Smith.

Beautiful open-air Shala space @ The Figs Byron, (brunswick Heads) THE FIGS BYRON is a beautiful tropical retreat nestled in an idyllic private garden in the heart of the beautiful Byron Shire. The movement space offers panoramic views of the Nightcap Ranges, Mt Warning and Mt Chincogan and is nestled under four magnificent 350 year old fig trees.

6 x 2.5 hour explorative sessions.
(15hrs total session time)

The Unfolding - Body Commune Process Journal.
Body Commune journal for creative processing and reflectionS, Journey prompts included for further self-led inquiry.

1 x Body Commune Vibrational Remedy
For added support during your 4 week deep-dive.

Art making materials to be supplied.
Paper, pencils and pastels supplied - Please bring anything else specific to your needs.

Post Immersion Care.
Post container check-in with additional support as an optional extra if needed.

Investment.

$300 per person

Payment plans available
ONE x Open-Door place per round.
(this is a gifted offering to those in need)
Apply via normal registration form

All movers apply via the registration form. Places are limited, and you will be notified via email if you are confirmed for this round of Body Commune Immersion