Essential Somatics Fundamentals Immersion

RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER

Spend the weekend learning how to move without pain and feel good in your body again. Chronic pain is not inevitable. Learn how to move freely for the rest of your life. This immersive weekend is for anyone who wants to live a pain-free full and active life.

“Gena is a gentle, caring and present teacher. Her practices were easy to embrace and very effective. I found the learning through movement awareness to be very powerful.”

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Often, chronic pain can be traced back to stress, which creates chronic muscle tension, ultimately leading to limited movement. But that can be reversed. This comprehensive weekend program will teach you movements that release your stress and free your muscles. You will leave with a range of tools you can use at home, and a daily practice tailored to your specific needs, so you can lead a more vibrant life of awareness, movement and self-agency.

• Understand how somatics, the method of pandiculation, and sensory motor amnesia have profound benefits for living pain free
• Experience the benefits of nature’s reset button (pandiculation)
• Uncover how your brain develops habits
• Connect with a new awareness of your body and your habits
• Identify principles and strategies for self-care
• Create your personal daily practice
• Discover how personal responses contribute to stress and muscle tension
• Identify your own patterns of holding tension that inhibit your functioning

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Intimate setting with personal access to the teacher
• Interactive sessions with question and answer periods
• Group sharing that leads to learning moments
• Shamatha meditation
• Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients
• Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat
• Extensive library of dharma books
• Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful paths, flora and fauna

OPEN TO ALL

There are no prerequisites for this program; it is appropriate for all.

SCHEDULE

(subject to change)

Friday, September 22

Saturday, September 23

Sunday, September 24