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2-yr Advanced Training in Deep Bodywork

with Silke Ziehl

Starts 25-29 September 2009

September

2009

This 2-year course offers a thorough training in Deep Bodywork with specialisation in Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration. It combines intensive personal experience with extensive theoretical and practical training.

The Advanced Training is for people who want to become more skilful at working deeply with bodymind, both their own and their clients'. It follows on from the Foundation in Bodywork, combining hands-on training with process-oriented bodywork and bodypsychotherapeutic techniques.

It can be a powerful supplementary training in Deep Bodywork for practitioners of other modalities wishing to enhance their current practice. It can also lead on to a 1-yr or 2-yr certification course.

Training brochure on request or download details from www.entelia.com


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Bodywork Group Dynamics 2: The interpersonal dimension
(CPD workshop)
November

2009

with Silke Ziehl

7/8 November 2009
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-5.30pm, £120

This second Continuing Professional Development (CPD) workshop in Bodywork Group Dynamics focuses on the interpersonal dimension in group work. It explores the importance of your body in dynamic interactions and relationships in the context of leading a group - either as group facilitator (therapeutic framework) or as teacher (teaching framework).

Learning to use your own body as an effective instrument in recognizing, responding to, and influencing group dynamics and relational processes as they express themselves in interpersonal contact and communication will enhances your skills as group leader. Your body can become your best friend, teacher, and inner supervisor in a group

Body language, character-structure body-interactions, body to body communication, body-transference and body-countertransference in the context of group dynamics will be explored, both theoretically and practically in group and teaching examples. Bring situations from your own experience to enrich your learning!


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Pulsing Intensives with Silke Ziehl
2009

2010

Pulsing Intensive - the Back

with Silke Ziehl

21 - 22 November 2009
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-6pm, £120

PULSING is a style of massage - through soft rotary movements and rhythmic rocking of all parts of the body it gently releases tensions, feelings, and energy, expanding the tissues, nourishing the person, creating spaciousness inside ... It is deep work without being painful, powerfully yet softly affecting the whole body-mind-spirit.

Pulsing is playing with the rhythms of the body and allowing us to reconnect to them : the rhythm of the breath, the heartbeat, peristalsis and movements of the spinal fluid - the in and out of the energy flow in all its many manifestations. It reverberates through all the body rhythms, harmonising them. Gently, we can let go of pain and tension, can expand and open, and reconnect to our inner sources of nourishment and joy.

Each Pulsing Intensive allows time for getting to know the basis of this kind of massage as it applies to either the back or the front, while focusing on expansion and contraction of the energetic wave and on following the natural pulses of the bodymind to reach deeper levels of integration.

Each intensive can count towards a training leading to certification.

Note: after the first of each intensive (The Front, The Back) you can join the next ones in the following 2 years at half the fee.


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Pulsing Master Training Weekends with Silke Ziehl
2010
20/21 February 2010 - The Front
10/11 April 2010 - The Back
10/11 July 2010 - The Sides
18/19 September 2010 – Teaching Skills

Saturday & Sunday, 10am-6pm in each case

I am offering these Pulsing Master Training weekends for people who have already done the Basic Pulsing Training weekends and who want to expand and deepen their skills, understanding and enjoyment of Pulsing.

The first three Master Training weekends in February, April and July 2010 focus on the front / the back / the sides of the body while integrating the work with the whole bodymind perspective. Successful attendance of all three weekends leads to the Master Pulsing Certificate.

Cost is £120 per single weekend or £300 for all three weekends booked together. When booking all 3 weekends together, you may also join the Pulsing Intensives in May and November 2010 at no extra cost.

The fourth weekend in September 2010 is for practitioners who have completed the Master Pulsing Certificate and show interest and aptitude to further develop their Pulsing teaching skills. Cost of this weekend is £130.


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February

2010

Pulsing Master Training Weekend 1 - the Front
with Silke Ziehl

20/21 February 2010
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-6pm, £120


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BodyEnergetics (CPD workshop)

March

2010

with Silke Ziehl

13/14 March 2010
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-5.30pm, £120


This Continuing Professional Development (CPD) workshop explores the energetic processes in the body. The waves and cycles of our energy interweave inseparably with our feelings, thoughts, our actions and intentions, and are an integral part of any therapeutic relationship.

This weekend we focus explicitly on these energetic processes and learn to work directly with the wave of the breath, the wave of excitement and the wave of relating. We’ll explore when and how to go with the possibility of increasing the flow, and when and how to contain it, or to go with the possiblity of decreasing the flow, or of encouraging a different pattern altogether.

Bringing the BodyEnergetics to the fore allows us to perceive more clearly how to work therapeutically in an energetically informed manner. Come prepared to engage!


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Pulsing Master Training Weekend 2 - the Back
April

2010

with Silke Ziehl

10/11 April 2010
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-6pm, £120


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Pulsing Intensive - the Front

May

2010

with Silke Ziehl

1-3 May 2010
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-6pm
Bank Holiday Monday, 10am-6pm, £176

PULSING is a style of massage - through soft rotary movements and rhythmic rocking of all parts of the body it gently releases tensions, feelings, and energy, expanding the tissues, nourishing the person, creating spaciousness inside ... It is deep Reichian work without being painful, powerfully yet softly affecting the whole body-mind-spirit.

Pulsing is playing with the rhythms of the body and allowing us to reconnect to them : the rhythm of the breath, the heartbeat, peristalsis and movements of the spinal fluid - the in and out of the energy flow in all its many manifestations. It reverberates through all the body rhythms, harmonising them. Gently, we can let go of pain and tension, can expand and open, and reconnect to our inner sources of nourishment and joy.

Each Pulsing Intensive allows time for getting to know the basis of this kind of massage as it applies to either the back or the front, while focusing on expansion and contraction of the energetic wave and on following the natural pulses of the bodymind to reach deeper levels of integration.

Each intensive can count towards a training leading to certification.

Note: after the first of each intensive (The Front, The Back) you can join the next ones in the following 2 years at half the fee.


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Pulsing Master Training Weekend 3 - the Sides
July

2010

with Silke Ziehl

10/11 July 2010
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-6pm, £120


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Pulsing Master Training Weekend 4 - Teaching Skills
September

2010

with Silke Ziehl

18/19 September 2010
Saturday & Sunday, 10am-6pm, £130


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