We like to invite you to a NEW series of evenings where we will work deeply with the body. The body is our book of life, all our experiences are imprinted in the body.
To experience our authentic Self we have to be in the body, it is our direct contact with reality.
We are born with a body, and our body is supposed to be blissful in its functioning and in giving us pleasure. Unfortunately because of painful early experiences, maybe hurt, neglect, abandonment, humiliation, rejection, or other types of abuse, we disconnected from our body and developed defences to help ourself survive, since we were helpless as a child. Memories of these hurts and abuses are stored in the body in the muscular structure, our nervous system, our fascia's and other parts of the body. This affects our body greatly. We tense, we become rigid, we close our senses, we feel less. Or we collapse, we have no energy, we become weak.
When we are not connected to our body, we loose our ground and our connection to reality. We feel lost, insecure, and unsafe. We don't have a sense of Self, because we don't feel the Self. We feel the Self via the body. We feel empty or a sense of being incomplete, and avoid this feeling by looking to fill ourselves up from the outside, with what we call narcissistic supplies.
In the Bodywork evenings that we will start in September on Tuesdays, we will use a variety of techniques to work with the body and the breath inspired by among others Reich, Lowen and Marcher, to ground ourselves in the body, become aware and let go of tension so we can re-experience the body of Bliss. From there is where we feel the sense of Self.
We work with our body according to what happened to us developmentally and structurally, bringing corrective experiences and techniques, we work with expression, with safe touch, with the breath, and have space for personal sharing and process in an atmosphere of vulnerability and support.
As we open the body, we become aware of the rigidity, the tensions or the flaccidity, the collapse that we carry. We come in touch with the emotional content that impacts the body, and that we have split off. As we release we begin to let go. Slowly we come back to our natural state as we restore the energy flow in our body, feel our aliveness as well as our solidity, and we reconnect with the sense of Self as we get rooted in the body. We experience once again the body of Bliss, ease and relaxation.
The evenings will be facilitated by Adhira with Imani, facilitator and trainee of the Essential Psychotherapy Institute.
with love,
Adhira ☀️♥️
Adhira de Grip, Essential Therapist, MD, BHST, Facilitator at Essential Psychotherapy Institute
Director of: Life & Care
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