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George is a facilitator of men’s sharing circles and ceremonies whilst also being a student and teacher of yoga, movement and meditation - based in Bristol UK

29/01/2023

Who are my ancestors? 🌿👑

In just over a year, 3 of my grandparents have passed on, leaving me in a deep state of remembering and reflection on who they were, and who was before them.

I’m so many conscious spaces we all speak of ‘the ancestors’ - many of the people in these spaces have a clear ancestry, a lineage and history that has survived (albeit in small parts) from the past to the present.

Previously, I felt shame to say that I am English. The word English seems to hold with it so much weight, so much historical trauma- so much guilt, dishonesty and shame.

I’ve never felt pride over being English, and I feel that part of this is because I don’t actually fully understand what I mean when I say it!

My Grandma was Danish, making me 1/4 Scandinavian, which I seem to be very proud of, coining onto that part of me that has Viking ancestry and Nordic Heritage so that I can dream up a better history of my family.

What about the other 3/4? Am I denying the ancestry of both my northern and southern English roots?

The past year I’ve set out to dream the past, to both read the history of these lands and to spend more time in the wild landscapes of the British isles, dreaming up the footsteps that walked before me.

These lands were colonised by the Romans, history of the Druids almost entire wiped out and lost. The Saxons crossed the sea and took the land for their (our) own. The Danish invaded and settled, they integrated and they left their mark. The Norman army (originally Norse/North men from Norway and Denmark) who were given land in France, then took over the aisles of Britain and started a new era of history. These lands have been chopped and changed, passed on from one to another. Blood, sweat and tears are deep in the soil, yet all driven by a love for these lands. Love for these lands that led a frenzy of land grabbing that still is present today.

The uniting ancestry is the Wild. The landscape, forests and moss. My ancestors are the trees, the lineages of birds and trout. My human ancestry comes with some nasty events, but not everyone who was part of that story was bad. I’m on a journey dreaming up the people who left love as their mark.

22/01/2023

What is ‘Toxic’ Masculinity? 🍂

What part of being a man is toxic? When does our behaviour become harmful, poisonous, untouchable?

Is there ever a point where every action of our being becomes toxic and unable to be healed?

I don’t feel that. 👁️

Let’s reframe our perception of what it means to be a man. Let’s remove the toxicity and recognise the wounds.

The wounded masculine. The man who has no role models, the man who has had to find his way on his own, and got lost on the way. The man who has hurt, yet has not been allowed to cry. The man who has anger, and only knows one way to express it. The man who knows love, yet doesn’t know how to feel it.

Men are hurting, and men inflict hurt. We have wounded others so deeply that we have forgotten our ability to heal.

I am in no way suggesting that we forget the hurt that men have inflicted on the world. I am only suggesting we look ahead to grow, to prevent the patterns from repeating and revive the healthy masculine king.

Generations of unprocessed anger, repressed sadness and unguided fear, passed down through masculine expectations that encourage it all over again.

I’ve been trying to figure it all out for a long time. I was lost for a long time. I’m still figuring it all out.

Yet now I have men beside me who guide me, support me, inspire me and uplift the king within. For that I am so grateful. For that I am blessed.

Thank you to all those that have helped me on my path. I hope I can help others too. Let’s hell each other.

Let’s stop thinking some men are lost for good. We can heal this wound.

If you’re seeking a path, a way to heal, the space is there.

Here is the vision:
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01/01/2023

New Year, same me? 👑

Change is a constant, even when we feel stagnant. Am I different than I used to be? Certainly! But I see myself not as a stagnant object, but the process of change itself.

If we feel we’ve taken steps back, regressed, that’s only because we might not be feeling good in the moment. We are always moving forward. Time binds is that way. We are stuck in the limited frame of life, and every moment we have we change.

Do we have any control over that change? If we do, should we use that control, or surrender to what life provides us with? Somewhere in the middle there is balance.

2022 brought forward Emergent Men into my life. And with that came new friends, new opportunities and deep learnings.

Mens work has impacted me so much, it’s completely changed the way I interact and go about my day to day life. I hold myself better, I understand my emotions better, but more importantly, I feel supported.

Emergent Men has big plans for 2023, starting with a full day immersive event in April. Find the link in bio of .men for tickets 🎟️

Thanks to all@who@support us on this journey as facilitators, as we continue to host events we continue to learn and improve. And I for certain can see more than ever that the reason I do this work is to have brothers to walk alongside on the journey, not to pull people up. We’re all walking the same path and I hope that these events can give glances of a brighter more balanced and wholistic future for men in 2023.

📸: .mcdermidsmith

21/12/2022

Celebrating the life that I’ve carved out for myself and the community that bring me so much joy 🪴

Solstice Blessings to all of you today, and a happy Yuletide. As we dove into the deepest and longest night of the year, I’m reflecting on the year just gone.

My goal was to keep my head above water, process grief and balance work and play with greater ease. I’ve learnt so much in that process, and I’m happy to say that this year has been so much greater than o could have ever expected.

Challenges present opportunity, and with the coming of the winters sun, I welcome back in the light into my life.

I closed myself off a lot, resistance, jealousy, anger and sadness all were present with me. Ive learnt more about how I respond to difficult situations and how I handle emotions, which allows me now to release them as I can identify the roots.

Welcoming in deeper ceremony, expansive learning, wholistic teaching, living community and gentle listening.

Stepping into the depths of night I wonder into the dream space. And dream of the footsteps of my ancestors, and listen for the echos of their voices. They’re calling me home. Deeper into a connection with all that’s around me. I welcome that in now.

Peace.

15/12/2022

Who else finds it hard to speak their feelings? 👀

Sometimes I find it easy, sometimes I have my emotions and feelings so crystal clear that I can articulate them no problem. But often that’s in the moments where it’s least crucial to speak them out loud.

I find it hard to u deets and my own emotions sometimes, to see how I’ve reacted to a situation and then be able to process that and speak my feelings out loud in a short span of times. Especially when the people I’m speaking to are close to me like my close family, partner or best friends.

It’s the crucial moments that matter. The ones where my input is needed so that the situation can move forward. The moments that require healing, speaking about and processing. What do I do? I shut down and isolate.

Men’s work is training me to reach out more in these moments. To call a brother and speak it through; to have a community of brothers who will drop things to listen to a chaotic rant of mixed emotions, and help me reflect and order so that I can move on and understand what’s happening.

But when it comes to the hardest of emotions, when it comes to shame, guilt, embarrassment and sometimes failure- that’s when it’s hardest to reach out.

But it happens to us all. This is what growing up is like I guess. Understanding myself more. Understanding how to communicate better. Understanding relationships better and understanding life as a whole better.

Not all of your friends will reach out to you, yet I know that we are all go through this.

So reach out to a brother, a sister, a friend and offer yourself to hold that space of listening.

If we can stoke the furnace of a culture that communicates and supports, we can grow and move forward.

If we stoke the fire of a culture that suppresses, res presses and hides, doesn’t communicate and does it all alone. Well then we’re doomed.

Call them.

📸: from .mcdermidsmith at Emergent Men] November full day mens work experience event.

🎟️: next Emergent Men] event announcement 21.12.22 so keep updates 👀

05/12/2022

Men are wired to protect and provide ⚔️

I’ve always wanted to be a protector, to feel capable of keeping those I love around me safe, to keep myself self also.

The prerequisite condition of protection that has been associated with ‘manliness’ for thousands of years, is courage.

For a long time I lacked courage. I still do at times. I have an image in my head of being able to protect if anything went wry, but in honesty I don’t know what I’d do.

In the moment, will I have the courage.

I’m hoping I never have to fight to protect the ones I love, but I’m reflecting on how this protection aspect of the masculine shows up in my life elsewhere.

When it’s needed. Do I have the courage to show up? How do I show up with courage for myself? How do I show up to provide and protect myself as an individual. As a man.

What do I fear?

Am I ready to face it? Will I lean into my edge and confront the shadows within.

Protecting others can come from inside yourself. How can I face the dark foes within and see what lies in the shadows, so that they might never negatively effect those I love?

This is why we do the work.

This is why we are Emergent amen .men

📸 from our incredible competition winning photoshoot from the amazing: .photography

16/10/2022

What’s your edge?

This summer I took part in London Immersion and had the honour of committing myself to fight fist to face with my brother ⚔️

Since then so much has unfolded in my life, and I feel like the self-weaved structure of my ego is being unravelled day by day.

As I stepped into this event in London, I was in medic confronted with my edge. My edge of comfort in speaking truth to myself. Why was I there? The spinners had spun this event into my life, and I was standing there confronted with my inner resistance to opening.

As the Autumn is in full swing, I look back to this time of fullness in summer with a strange mist of a time past.

This November, on international men’s day, .men steps into its fullness, at a time where the veil is weak, when the winter is being welcomed and the cold and darkness is consuming. We step into brotherhood together.

A full day of mens work experience, with meditations, songs, breath work, relational communication exercises and an organic kings feast; this will be our biggest event yet.

I hope you can join us. Find your edge, and jump in.

🎟️: .men
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12/10/2022

Why do I do men’s work?

This November is .men Kings Feast, our biggest and best event yet, held in a beautiful renovated church in Bristol.

Men’s work changed my life, and I’m forever grateful for my brothers and .hampshire who co facilitate these incredible events with.

I still have resistance to show up, to go to these kind of events, to sit in circle with men, to share, heal and grow. Sometimes I cannot be bothered to do all that ‘healing’ and want to curl back into my bed, hide myself in the mundane routine of everyday life.

Resistance builds and habits form, I step further away from my edge and become comfortable.

I ask myself in the darkness of early morning, “what kind of man do I wish to be today”.

The answer is a void, the answer is a knowing, not an understanding- it’s space.

My journey with understanding what masculinity actually is started when I was 13. I’ve been questioning what it means to be a man since I was just a young boy, looking for role models and mentors to guide me.

I’m still enquiring, and I’m learning so much about myself. But the biggest step in acceptance has been standing in front of other men in circle as saying loud and clear, “I AM A MAN” and needing no validity, no acceptance, no qualifications.

I struggle with confidence, anger, anxiety, lust, regret, purpose, laziness and all the things that come with life and being with a man.

Being in brotherhood helps.

Are you wanting to explore this?

NOVEMBER 19th

🎟️: link in bio

04/10/2022

I’ve been stepping back recently…

I have now stopped teaching yoga in my evenings and since festival season has now ended, there is only one more wellness event left to facilitate.

This autumn my body is calling for rest, focus and precision. Learning and growing in this darkening time, balancing and uplifting myself financially, spiritually, physically and intellectually so that I may enter 2023 with new visions.

At the moment I’m just tired, but grateful.

A summer FULL of festival workshops, but lacking in integration and silence.

I’m processing a lot.

Yet I’m also not giving myself the time and space to process.

Im seeking space.

Seeking natural space.

Letting Autumn unfold as we approach the winter solstice and the coming of a new year.

21/09/2022

WOLF CALL 🐺 CALLING ALL WHO IDENTIFY AS MALE ⚔️

Emergent Men’s Hero’s Journey Series starts in October with a two hour event at in Bristol on themes of sexuality, desire and power.

I’m so happy and proud to announce that our biggest event yet will be in November at for a full day immersion experience focusing on themes of anger, fear and joy 💪🏼

Lastly, to interstate the year past, and to grieve all we have lost and leave behind as we enter 2023, we have our December circle in for a 2 hour morning event.

Im so excited for these events, and hope that many of you can join - follow the link in .men bio for details and tickets 🎟️

📸: .earth

02/09/2022

Embodied Play 🌀

Playful explorations of movement with men London Immerson in July ⚔️

Building us gradually through play and touch/contact towards the penultimate ritual combat experience was empowering and EXHAUSING🍃

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01/09/2022

Will you take the hero’s journey? ⚔️

We are all faced with a choice.

Presented with an invitation to journey into the unknown and dangerous.

One that offers to take you deep into the cave of the self and witness the shadows within, to find the jewel of the heart.

Many of us deny this journey for a long time.

Avoid all thoughts and ideas of it, and deny its existence entirely.

But if we choose to take this journey, we will find edge after edge of our comfort. Are presented with our deepest internal and external fears and called to face them.

We will meet friends, enemies, guides and most of all - ourselves.

And after all this? - we face the part of ourself hardest to look at, and have to learn to witness it with a loving awareness.

Returning home from this journey you will not be the same, but that change will be one of a greater human being.

We take these journeys continuously in our lives.

This is the work.

Do you identify as male and want to dive deeper into WHO YOU ARE? Both as a man and as a human being, friend, brother, son, lover and colleague- who will you be?

Join .men this winter for a series of events in Bristol (Soon to be announced) and take the hero’s journey in brotherhood.

📸: immense gratitude to .earth for this incredible photo from 2022 🍃

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Guiding students through a perpetual deepening of inner experience. George teaches The Art of Evolution & Yin Yoga with a passion to imbue the student with the magic he feels for everyday. From a young age he committed to the path of true fulfillment, leading him through many stages of self-experimentation and play. His style of teaching is rooted in ancient philosophical knowledge paired with years of playful exploration of the body & mind. George teaches with love and compassion for every student in his class, and creates a welcoming and open space for all to reach their full potential.

George teaches at UWE Bristol for the Yoga Society and MOVE program. He also is an ambassador and teacher at the new studio in Bristol “Adona Centre for Evolutionary Arts”.

Adona is a centre dedicated to the evolution of humanity through artful transformation of body, mind and soul. This new space is Bristol's focal point for aspiring human beings who wish to expand their consciousness, connect with like-intended individuals and live a life defined by a playful sincerity...