When: To be announced

Where: Meadow Wind Center for Holistic Arts
100 Gray Rd. Falmouth, Maine

Cost: To be announced

http://meadowwind.org (for directions & registration)

This workshop will help you gain a sense of expanded presence, felt in the mind, but especially in the body. You will use awareness of the body to explore a more “open,” conscious experience.

The body has established, automated patterns of response and behavior. When you are present with these patterns (which are partially unconscious) you can begin to bring intention to their expression. This is the healing intersection and the source of change. The body’s own energy is used, with the focused mind, to influence these patterns as part of the change process.

Workshop description

We will practice developing tools to access and deepen body awareness, and then look at the sensations uncovered in the process. We will talk about the healing process and touch upon how long-term symptoms of stress, illness, and trauma can be helped with body-focused, or somatic therapy. The workshop will be conducted through demonstration and small group experiential.

The basic steps we’ll cover are:

• Cultivating presence in the body

• What you’ll find in the body
  • states that expend body energy
  • states that block the open flow of energy
  • “automated” reactivity to events
• How change happens
  • regulating high energy flow
  • stimulating blocked energy
  • managing reactivity by the use of “change zones”