Open Centre Weekend & Day Groups

November 2008

November

2008

Bioenergetics Weekend

with Guy Gladstone

Saturday & Sunday 8/9 November 08
10am-6pm, £105

How does my body respond to stress? How does my body help or hinder my self-assertion? Can I be spontaneous in an appropriate way? Whether or not you ask these or similar questions bioenergetics is about your capacity for pleasure and your available energy. Energy flows or doesn't within our bodies. we need to move downwards in ourselves to discover the involuntary core impulses of good feeling and how these have been interrupted by physical tension and emotional blocks.

Energizing exercises, massage, and work with posture and body image will be used in pairs and in small groups. Otherwise members' needs and their interactions will decide the specific emphases of this group. An overall aim for the weekend is embodiment of balanced functioning between head heart and gut.

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November

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Primal Integration Weekend

with Juliana Brown & Richard Mowbray

14-16 November 08
Friday evening 7-10pm
Saturday & Sunday 11am-8pm, £114

For a basic description of Primal Integration please see our 'Who we are and what we do' page. The format of the group will alternate between a structured phase and a free-form phase during which what takes place is determined by what you choose to explore and what you allow to happen. The physical and psychological safety of the group is provided for by a set of basic ground rules. If you have not worked with us before, please contact us on (020) 8341 7226 (M-F 9am-9pm) to arrange an interview before booking.

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Pulsing - the Back

with Silke Ziehl

22/23 November 08
Saturday & Sunday
10am - 6pm, £120

November

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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 bodywork 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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November

2008

Core Mobility!
Feldenkrais Method Workshop

with Scott Clark

Saturday 22 November 08
10.30am-4.30pm, £40

‘Core Stability’ is a phrase that you hear everywhere these days — something that it is assumed we should all work toward. From the Feldenkrais point of view, this concept puts means before ends. Yes, we need core stability, but for what? Not as an end in itself, but as a means toward ... what?

In this workshop, we will explore the deep connections of the centre to the extremities, in order to move our whole self with harmonized power, without undermining ourselves by internal fighting.

Suitable for beginners, as well as those with prior experience of Feldenkrais.

(Phone Scott on 020 8469 0245 for venue.)

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