Healing Trauma; Unblocking the Stream of Life

Giovanni Felicioni’s professional career spans more than 30 years as a bodyworker, movement instructor and therapist in London and Europe. He studied yoga with visionary and pioneer Mary Stewart (Vanda Scaravelli) and regularly taught on her London-based Yoga Teacher Training. He is a certified Advanced Rolfer®, a Rolf Movement™ practitioner and has served on the faculty of the Rolf Institute since 2000. Over many years, Giovanni taught for Independent Dance, founded in London by Siobhan Davies, Gill Clarke and Fiona Milward. He taught the Masters in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban, run by Independent Dance and Siobhan Davies Dance. He was also a contributor at the government-funded PAL, Movement and Meaning Laboratories, led by Gill Clark and Susan Benn. In 2012 he founded the British Academy of Rolfing in London. Most importantly, these 30 years of personal research into the relationship between touch, movement, awareness and contemplation led him to over two decades of study with movement scientist Hubert Godard during Hubert's development of Tonic Function. Giovanni’s work is Polyvagaly informed. Giovanni is a Benedictine Oblate. He was instrumental in the founding of Bonnevaux Centre for Peace, (France, 2018), the international home of the WCCM. He has been involved with the WCCM since its inception, has served on its Guiding Board and in other capacities over the years.

Laurence Freeman is a monk of the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto. He is the Director of Bonnevaux and of The World Community for Christian Meditation.