Elemental Medicine with ChaNan Bonser
Online courses and circles designed for you to learn how to deepen your relationship with yourself and weave your senses back into your wild parts, bringing you into deeper coherence.
Elemental Medicine is a tailored offering to you, with carefully designed courses to lead you into the the landscape of your body. Discovering more of who you are in relationship to the Elements, Seasons and the stories you carry in your bones and blood
The courses range from a short free introduction to help you create space and resilence, to the 5 week self led, "Reclaiming your Sensitivity" to harness your creativity, to the deep 9 month intensive journey "Dreaming Your DNA, Opening your Potential" Circles.
Courses"I am in love with the imagery that comes with the deep imaginal realms guided meditations that you create, they are so good…. your choice of language and words, your creativity and crafting, it feels really juicy and alive, its wonderful!"
Charlotte Church, Singer, Activist and Founder of The Dreaming Retreat, "Wales, UK
These courses help to bring your sensory system into alignment with your energy body and nervous system. This means that they begin to work in harmony resulting in a coherence deep in your body allowing you to feel more resonant and aligned.
This gives you the opportunity to find more space within so you respond to the world around you, becoming less reactive, reclaiming your sensitivity, creativity and nervous system. They then become trusted allies, a grounded partner to your body; one that you can trust deeply.
Your energy body, sensory body and nervous system are deeply interelated, they are a trinity, one that is interwoven with your whole body, from the depth of yourself, the stories of your bone marrow all the way to the tingles of the hairs on your skin.
These courses have been described as deep ecology for the body and soul, a way of bringing you into the landscape of your body in a direct relationship with Earth, the elements, the seasons. A way of finding your inner map, so you have an inner compass to keep you aligned with the axis that guides you, rooted to earth and conected to stars.
Below is a compilation of pictures that may bring you more of a sense of how I witness the landscape, it is a small body of water I sat, walked and dreamt with. The music is by Alix Thorpe, Offer to the Water
I weave my years of training, teaching, one to one sessions and self development work, and I pay attention listening as we change and grow, taking our cues from the ecology within and around us. I support you in developing deeper nuance and subtlety as you learn to listen to the medicine of the Elements, of Earth and her seasons and how the interactions with your body and the energies around you can bring change, support and balance.
By remaining open to this weaving, I find it brings us into deeper contact with the rhythms of life around us, reminding us that at our core level we are elemental beings, interwoven with the heavens and earth.
For me, this brings hope. It is how I can become more deeply aligned with the web of life, with our potential and evolve or even devolve in harmony, beauty and balance.
Most of my work centres itself around the 5 Elements, this comes with over 3000 years of history, mythology and practice. Its' roots are deeply embedded in seasons, symbology and dreaming the body. I love how this traditional medicine comes alive in our body, through the meridian pathways, holding points and seasonal influences. The slightest touch, vibrational essence, crystal, plant or essential oil combined with the words behind the symbology may bring huge change, and opens us to entirely new lndscapes and potnetial within ourselves
I empower your relationship with your body felt sense, bringing embodied imagination and witnessing the parts of yourself that have been hidden. We may use creative writing practices and other exercises to help listen deeply to what is emerging from the caves, valleys and plains of our body. By drawing these places in closer, listening to them, giving voice to them, we then begin to hear the stories they hold, from the inherited depth of your bone marrow, to your pulsing blood, the sinews and ligaments that may bind you, or set you adrift. We encourage them to step forward to be seen.
This is done in groups and individually, and through my programme of carefully curated courses and circles I offer you the safety of a very well held space, one that opens you to your own wisdom and gives you valuable tools.
I am an innate healer, deeply intuitive, and highly sensitive. I love moments of deep connection with dear humans and the world around me. I have worked hard to bring my body into alignment with Earth, in a way that I can unfold my nervous system into mirroring the trees, deeply anchored and breathing in space.
I am a proud and fierce mother, a parent carer, and have a history of overworking. And I often get things wrong, but I do my best, remember to breathe and know that with every step I am planting flowers
More about me
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Online courses
Reclaim Your Sensitivity
A self guided course to help you become robust and resilient. Bringing your sensitivity home to yourself so it becomes a deep rooted ally, and reweaving it as a vital sense into your nervous system
Dreaming Your DNA - Opening your Potential
Registration is now open for this extraordinary course to journey deeply with these vessels that hold the patterns of your DNA and other unique aspects of your energy body.
Dreaming The Seasons Circle
Come and dream with the 5 Elements and the seasons in a beautifully held space where we journey through the landscape of your body to bring you more space and embodiment
I have been invited onto some amazing podcasts, with some wonderful hosts who hold deep and inspirational spaces; here is the latest with Kate Codrington.
These folk really know how to hold excellent conversation with great questions; Amisha Ghadiali, Charlotte Church, Kate Codrington and Melanie Loizou. To explore our conversations do click through.
"The experience thus far has been profound, exciting and revealing. The course brings clearing, clarity and fresh perspectives on living. The 8 Extraordinary Vessels is a knowledge that I was not aware of and it is contributing to my life in such a positive way, bringing change that I have wanted, deepening my relationship to self, my work and living life as a whole. Being within an international group of participants has also enriched the experience. ChaNan is a wonderful teacher, guide and friend: her knowledge, presence and humanness offer a safe place for our refreshed inner selves to be revealed and acknowledged."
Pamela Platt, New Mexico; Dreaming your DNA, Opening your Potential
As someone freshly navigating their sensitivity and deep childhood trauma and how it holds itself in my body and mind, Reclaiming Sensitivity has been so valuable. ChaNan has curated the course in a way that makes you and those scared and anxious parts of yourself feel safe and held — and empowered when all too often we are taught to resent them. Thank you, ChaNan, for these wonderful resources that are helping me find my way in settling and finding calm and safety in the face of intense overwhelm. Maeve, Aberystwyth; Reclaiming Your Sensitivity
