Farm Videos

James Long in Conversation with Matt Dunwell


This is an hour long interview with Matt Dunwell recorded in June 2020 as part of the Pacific Change series of interviews started at the beginning of 'lockdown'.   Pacific Change run by James Long, an ex BBC correspondent, looks for people who are involved in positive change engaging them in a relaxed conversation that has time and space to explore ideas in depth. Here, Matt Dunwell talks about the journey that led him to Ragmans Lane, the Global Alliance and down deep into the microbial underworld. 

 

Permaculture on the Farm

This video was filmed in May 2019 by Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture Magazine and her partner Tim Harland.

They interview Matt about the development of the farm over the years, broad-scale permaculture and explore the landscape.

Sit back and enjoy!

 

This is a nice short video filmed by Hannah Steenbergen from the Sustainable Food Trust that captures a bit of Ragmans.  Filmed in the summer of 2016, it is a brief tour of the farm with commentry from Matt Dunwell.  Some of the activities have changed since then - we have stopped selling mushroom logs and are making less apple juice in order to focus on our teaching programme.  Two local farmers, James and Will lived in the farmhouse and mob grazed their sheep on the farm for 2 years (2017-2019).

Ragmans is always changing, but we still think the video gives a flavour of what we are about.

 

 

 

  • Ecstatic Awakening Dance Teacher Training

    1 - 6th August 2017

    Ecstatic Awakening Dance is a 5 stage guided method, warm-up, shake, energy dance, grounding & Heart meditation. This is a 9 month ON-LINE Teacher Training with a fully inclusive 6 day residential module.

    Which will:

    • Inspire you to be passionate about teaching;
    • Empower you with confidence to be a group leader;
    • Enable you to take a quantum leap in your own process of personal transformation.
    • Give you all the tools you need to become a successful teacher of Ecstatic Awakening Dance.

    This course is packed full of theoretical knowledge, bang up to date, scientific research and of course many practical exercises that will have you feeling all the benefits of following your own Bliss and then leading others to follow theirs.

    A Map of the Training

    Module 1: The building blocks and history of the Ecstatic Awakening Dance Method.
    Module 2: Coming Home to Your Body.
    Module 3: Shake awake!Module 4: Ecstatic Awakening Dance.
    Module 5: Grounding
    Module 6: Shamanic Techniques to Ecstasy
    Module 7 Residential 6 Day training with practical assessment.
    Module 8: Marketing & Running a transformational business
    Module 9: Certification

    Rebecca Hanscombe is Shamanic Practitioner, Director and Lead Trainer at the School of Ecstatic Movement She is also co-founder of the Wild Chocolate Club & Womb Wisdom Keepers. She draws from a deep pool of experience in varying body-mind systems, Her path into holding group space started in 1996, where she co- facilitated a pioneering path with Dance & Movement Therapy in Holloway Prison She loved the daily challenge of working in this intense environment, with the diverse and often opposite needs of the staff and the inmates giving her an opportunity to really harness and hone her skills of communicating with & encouraging all people no matter what has gone before assisting them to heal & empower themselves. She remained working within the Criminal Justice sector until 2010, developing and facilitating many diverse groups such as movement and relaxation, mindfulness, relapse prevention, health and well-being & safeguarding Children. While having an extensive 1:1 client list as a substance abuse counsellor.

    In 2006 she qualified as a Shamanic Practitioner with the Sacred Trust and has continued to develop and deliver many workshops weaving together all the knowledge gained from the last 20 years of holding space. She also holds space at the Sacred Trust with Simon & Naomi on occasion within their core syllabus.

    For further information or to book a space please click here 


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