We are like a river

and its water,

forever flowing,

forever resting.

Day-long Meeting
in Oxford

January 19th
& April 27th 2025

Come join us in just outside Oxford in the lovely Witham village hall, near Port Meadow and the Thames River. A day in community of Presence, to resource, dip into our true nature, and allow the spirit of the depth to surface in our open contemplation and express itself through movement.

Welcome.

When we open deeply to our direct experience, we may see that we flow as the ever-flowing movement of experience and that at the very same time we rest as something that never comes and never goes and which saturates every movement of experience with its loving substance.

It is the movement and the rest at the heart of our innermost experience that I explore with you in a group setting and individually.

The Awakening Body

We explore our direct experience and allow it to reveal its essential reality. Our particular focus is the body, allowing it to be our mirror and our pathway, our prayer and our altar, and ultimately the shining expression of this shared identity.

Private Sessions

These sessions offer a safe space and a mirroring presence to dive into the unseen corners of your experience, touch residual trauma, listen to dreams, dialog with the unconscious, and heal a connection with yourself and the world.

Events

Find out when and how to join an informal group of like-minded friends. Online meetings, with webinars or mini-retreats, and live gatherings with long weekends or weeklong residential retreats in peaceful settings in nature.

As a child, I loved to move and dance. I knew without words the joy and limitless transparency that the body dissolved into when it was free and alive.

 

Ellen’s deepest intuition was confirmed when she met her teacher in the non-dual tradition, Francis Lucille.  Hearing his words, she recognised the eternal, limitless and universal nature of our shared reality. Over the years, this understanding has continued to unfold, to deepen and to touch all levels of experience.

At the very same time, Ellen has never ceased to delve into the depths of her human experience, seen and unseen, thirsting for a wholeness and connectedness which seemed to be lost or obscured. This unstoppable quest brought her to therapy, Jungian workshops (and later Jungian analysis), Dream Work, Authentic Movement, creative writing and more.

More and more, she senses that each of our lives is a journey of revelation and integration, (including its darker crossings), through which the face of truth can shine uniquely and anew, wedding us to our direct experience and connecting us to the great family of creation.

 

“For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” ~ Matthew 18-20

Essays and articles.

Blog
A false privilege-
A false privilege-

It is a false privilege to seem to extract ourselves from the messy mosaic of life by reaching for, upholding and hiding behind, spiritual truths that end up serving a sense of entitlement.

Shadow and Non-Duality, a cry from the heart
Shadow and Non-Duality, a cry from the heart

Recently, a contemporary spiritual teacher in the nondual tradition invited me to have a conversation for a video blog on the topic of ‘The Shadow and Its Integration’.

SHE told me…
SHE told me…

SHE told me

in HER unmistakable way.

to dance

RAGE.

so I did

reluctantly.

The Woman In the Basement
The Woman In the Basement

I will take two pens to write this. One can dip into the ink of understanding. Under the reign of the sun. May the other dip into the ink of my body where the known mingles with obscurity, rippling its promises and uncertainties, echoing through my blood, shaping my longing, under the moonlight.

The Dancing Path
The Dancing Path

Come with me, down in the here of the now, through the crack in your language. Descend into the dark silence, before the words you long for, arise, that will shape your experience and give you relief.

The Essence of Yoga
The Essence of Yoga

We all remember or experience blessed moments in which our true nature of pure undivided and universal Awareness, echoes at the emotional, tactile, and sensual levels of experience.

The Awakening Body
The Awakening Body

Many of us resonate with the understanding that what we truly are is universal, infinite, and ever-present Awareness. In those timeless moments of recognition, the conceptual belief in separation and the felt experience of being a physical, solid, limited, and located body are absent.

The Body of Happiness
The Body of Happiness

All of us who come to Awakening Clarity share a great love and interest in our true nature. Our heart and our mind deeply resonate with the understanding that what we are is unlimited, open, universal, infinite, divine, and ever-present awareness.

Authentic Movement: Embodied Witnessing of Transpersonal Experience
Authentic Movement: Embodied Witnessing of Transpersonal Experience

For the past four years, in a group with three other women, I am mentoring under the guidance of Janet Adler, a reputed dance movement therapist, a key figure in the development of Authentic Movement, a film-maker, academic writer, wife and mother.