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| Deane Juhan
may be best known as the author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork –
which many consider the essential text on the means, methods, uses, and
deeply personal applications of what has come to be known as "bodywork"
– a vast, sophisticated series of modalities and techniques that take
massage to the level of personal transformation at its greatest
expression, profound emotional release and reintegration at its most
basic core. First trained in Esalen massage, he developed a private practice and led workshops in massage as well as seminars in anatomy and physiology for bodyworkers. In 1976 he met Dr. Milton Trager, founder of the Trager Institute for Psychophysical Integration, and has been a practitioner and instructor of the TRAGERWork® approach ever since. He is on the faculty of the Northern California Trager Institute and has developed a series of workshops in dynamic anatomy and in Trager® Bodywork for bodyworkers and therapists of all kinds, which he conducts all over the United States, in Canada and in Europe. |
If you would like to have a workshop with Deane Juhan in your area please call 925-386-0131, or email to deanejuhan@comcast.net. More information about Deane may be found on his website at www.jobsbody.com
ArizonaASIS Massage Education - Clarkdale, AZ California
IllinoisDebra Hammond - Chicago, IL MassachussetsKripalu Center for Yoga and Health - Stockbridge, MA New HampshireNorth Conway, NH New JerseyPrinceton, NJ New YorkNew York Open Center - New York City, NY North Carolina
Washington
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Dean F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. NCBTMB Provider # 451721-11. |
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Workshops by Date:
2011 Workshops| May 13 - 15 | Connecting the Legs, Pelvic Girdle and Low Back | New Hampshire | ||
| July 15 - 17 | |
Resistance Release and Cellular Empathy | |
Illinois |
| June 25 | |
Reclaiming Our Original Breath | |
New York |
| June 25 | |
Energizing the Body's Core | |
New York |
| June 26 | |
Mind, Body, and Consciousness | |
New York |
| August 13 & 14 | |
Freeing and Deepening Your Client's Breath | |
California |
| August 27 & 28 | |
Assessing and Treating the Shoulder Girdle | |
California |
| September 23 - 25 | |
Resistance Release | |
North Carolina |
| Sept. 30 - Oct. 2 | |
Connective Tissue: Web of Structure, Web of Chi | |
Massachussets |
| October 21 - 23 | |
Freeing the Neck and Shoulder Girdle | |
New Jersey |
| November 19 & 20 | |
Assessing and Treating the Feet and Legs | |
California |
2012 Workshops:
| January 4 | The Future of Bodywork | Nalanda West | ||
| March 5 & 6 | |
Freeing the Neck and Shoulder | |
Sukha Wellness Center |
| March 7 & 8 |
Unwinding the Pelvis, Legs & Low Back |
Sukha Wellness Center |
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| March 17 & 18 |
Resistance & Release |
ASIS Massage Education |
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| April 14 & 15 |
Landscape of Perception |
ASIS Massage Education | ||
ASIS Massage Education
701 S. Broadway
Clarkdale, AZ 86324
928-639-3455 or 866-334-3348
Landscape of Perception
April 14 & 15, 2012
Saturday & Sunday 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
16 CEU's $300
early registration $250 if paid by March 13th
The mind is more than what the brain is up to; the body’s entire physiology, neurology, and habituated responses constitute to a large degree the unconscious substrates of our field of awareness of both the self and the world the self is imbedded in.
To say that the mind & the body are connected is a serious understatement. their mutual processes are inextricable, and each of these domains of our being intimately involves the other in multiple ways. from molecules to cells to organs to our conscious emotional and cognitive experiences.
The mind is far more than what the brain is up to. all of our physiological processes and our neural events form the substrates that result in the completeness and quality of our field of awareness. That field of awareness is, in turn, the foundation of all our experience and behavior.
Both psychotherapies and somatic therapies of all kinds are deeply enriched and made more effective by the therapist’s and the client’s understanding of the many ways that the functions of the body and the mind interpenetrate one another.
Bodyworkers limit the healing effectiveness of their work if they are unable to reach the mind as well as the tissues. Any comprehensive and lasting recovery from trauma, injury, chronic pain and dysfunctional habituated patterns of thought or movement must address both physical and mental processes.
Healing Arts Institute
7525 Auburn Blvd. #9Citrus Heights, California 95610
916-725-3999
www.healingartsinstitute.com
Assessing and Treating the Shoulder Girdle
August 27 & 28, 2011
The muscles that empower the arms extend from the skull to the pelvis, attach to every vertebra and encompass the entire rib cage. They include some of the largest muscles of the body, as well as some of those that are the most prone to both occupational and emotional stress. Successful treatment of this ensemble will relieve many typical sites of pain and restriction and open wider possibilities for the development of more effective posture and movement. More than that, the effective softening of the shoulder girdle will bring relief and restore support for a wide variety of difficulties that develop in relation to the holding patterns of this extensive muscular jacket--spinal discomfort, diminished lung capacity, disturbed balance, inefficient locomotion, wasted energy and compromised blood and lymph flow and neural conduction. Your clients lives will be enhanced in many ways by your more effective treatment of the shoulder girdle. And, since the arms are the operative tools of your own trade, learning to maintain their balance and suppleness will contribute a great deal to the prevention of your own pain and burnout.
Deane will provide detailed demonstrations and closely supervised table practice to give you valuable new tools for your practice.
Please bring shorts and bra tops for tablework.
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Dean F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. NCBTMB Provider # 451721-11. |
Click here to register now.
Breath is the bedrock of our vitality. Many somatic, psychological and spiritual practices focus upon the process of breathing because of its central importance to our health and performance on so many levels. If you can expand this capacity for your clients, you will expand their capacity for virtually all of their pursuits.
This workshop will focus on the treatment of the rib cage, the abdomen and the spine for the freeing of the musculature involved in the processes of breathing and circulation that deliver the all-important Ch'i of oxygen throughout the body.
Deane will provide detailed demonstrations and closely supervised table practice to give you valuable new tools for your practice.
Click here to register now.
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Dean F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. NCBTMB Provider # 451721-11. |
The legs are our postural and locomotion foundations, interacting intimately with our feet for support and movement. They are the bridge that connects us through our pelvis to our spine, and their balance and vitality, or the lack of these, is reflected in all of our upper-body functions--digestion, breathing, support of the shoulder girdle and the carriage of our neck and head.
If you clients have happier feet and more supportive legs, these improvements will enhance all of their activities and facilitate all other work you may do with their upper bodies.
Deane will provide detailed demonstrations and closely supervised table practice to give you valuable new tools for your practice.
Bring briefs for the tablework.
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Dean F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. NCBTMB Provider # 451721-11. |
Click here to register now.
Sukha Wellness Center
6615 Bay Laurel Pl.
Avila Beach, CA 93424
(805) 801-8088
www.sukhawellnesscenter.com
Resistance and Release Work
Free Presentation on Sunday March 4, 2012 4 - 6 PM
Session 1: FREEING THE NECK AND SHOULDER Mon-Tues, March 5-6, 2012, $225 before 2/20
Session 2: UNWINDING THE PELVIS, LEGS & LOW BACK Wed-Thurs, March 7-8th, $225 before 2/20
A Dynamic Addition to Your Massage Skills
An extension of Trager PI, Resistance Release Work is a process of re-coordinating whole body muscular functioning. It increases both strength and flexibility, re-programs blocks in restricted areas of movement, relieves both acute and chronic pain, and improves the performance of all activities.
Chicago, Illinois
Debra Hammonddebra@dhammond.com
312-285-4761
"Resistance and Release & Cellular Empathy":
Opening Body Heart and Mind To Your Birthright of Freedom & Growth
A Workshop with Deane Juhan and Kate Rose
July 15 - 17, 2011
Chicago Illinois
450.00/person
150.00 deposit
I can bring a table yes no
Please wear clothing comfortable for movement, bathing suits, briefs ,short ,sports bras for tablework.
This workshop is limited to 24 participants.
When the class is full you will be placed on the waiting list for the next class.
The Universe is infinitely expanding, and all of nature is in movement toward the growth of new forms and new dimensions of consciousness. Because our beings are embedded within these processes of expansion and evolution, the potential of our own possibilities of growth are also boundless. Our lives are an integral part of this ongoing creation, and our participation in our own growth is limited only by our responses in each moment of our life experience--the restrictions that we impose upon our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts and our beliefs and our own self-judgments. In the end, we and only we perpetuate the resistance that blocks our self-development. Release is nothing more nor less than the willingness to experience freedom.
We have no word in our language or conceptual framework in our inherited view of ourselves that adequately expresses the unity of mind and body. Body-mind? Body/mind? Bodymind? No hyphen or slash or artificial fusion can suture together two realms of being that our cultures's traditional concepts have so long regarded as distinct and separate. We have been taught to think of language as words, but there is an altogether different kind of language that is far older, far deeper, more universal and far more imbued with the immediacy of organic meaning in our lives--the language of touch, movement and feeling. We cannot experience a touch or a movement without an immediate shift in attention, and an immediate experience of feeling, an arousal of a complex array of sensations, images, emotions, memories, novelties, associations, streams of thoughts and cascades of responses. And we cannot experience a change in any of these elements of our physical and mental lives without shifting the entire gestalt of our awareness. These interactions cannot be understood in terms of linear chains of causes and effects. They are simultaneous and global in nature.
When the body part of the mind and the mind part of the body are engaged in this wordless dialogue together with awareness, we can then directly perceive that body and mind are indivisibly one, and that we are free to consciously participate in their dynamic interactions.
This unification brings to our awareness the continually existing state of cellular empathy that creates, supports, saturates our beings, and opens the doorway to our choice to feel and our freedom to grow.
This workshop will combine Resistance Release Work developed by Deane Juhan over 38 years of the study and practice of bodywork, and The Choice To Feel /Cellular Empathy Work developed by Kate Rose over 30 years of tracking the delicate but powerful movements of the human heart, soul and spirit. Their approaches intertwine the threads between cells, tissues, sensations, feelings, thoughts, beliefs, the resurrected awareness of your past, and the limitless possibilities of your future. What is this chaos of molecules and symphony of energies that we call our lives?
Join with us and co-create the answers. Release your resistances and experience your cellular empathy within yourself, with others, and with the boundlessness of nature.
Kate Rose teaches her “Choice To Feel “ Workshop Series™ throughout the world. She has been a practitioner of Holistic Healing Arts for over 30 years. She is a Practitioner and Instructor of the TRAGERWork® Approach, Movement Education & Mind/Body Integration and teaches in Italy, Scotland, England, the Netherlands, Egypt, Israel & throughout the US. The focus of her work is Feeling: developing Empathy, Compassion & Trust as the pathway to awareness of our innate interconnectedness as human beings, bringing healing to ourselves and our world. Her teaching embodies the essence of freedom & self empowerment, respect and reverence for all life, emphasizing trust and the rediscovery of our natural wisdom. Her gifts of understanding how each individual learns & her complete faith in each person’s ability to discover themselves in an ever deeper way, along with her patience and humor create a dynamic learning and healing environment of self discovery and inter-connectedness. She is a storyteller, musician & was trained as a classical ballerina for 25 years. She presently resides in the South of France, lived for many years in Italy, & speaks both Italian and French.
Deane Juhan may be best known as the author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork – which many consider the essential text on the means, methods, uses, and deeply personal applications of what has come to be known as "bodywork" – a vast, sophisticated series of modalities and techniques that take massage to the level of personal transformation at its greatest expression, profound emotional release and reintegration at its most basic core.
First trained in Esalen massage, he developed a private practice and led workshops in massage as well as seminars in anatomy and physiology for bodyworkers. In 1976 he met Dr. Milton Trager, founder of the Trager Institute for Psychophysical Integration, and has been a practitioner and instructor of the TRAGERWork® approach ever since. He is on the faculty of the Northern California Trager Institute and has developed a series of workshops in dynamic anatomy and in Trager® Bodywork for bodyworkers and therapists of all kinds, which he conducts all over the United States, in Canada and in Europe.
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Dean F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. NCBTMB Provider # 451721-11. |
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
Stockbridge, MA 866-200-5203
www.kripalu.org
Connective Tissue: Web of Structure, Web of Chi
September 30 - October 2, 2011
Learn to embody and energize one of your most fascinating tissues! Connective tissue, or fascia, is both a primary structural element and a rich source of energy in our organisms. A great deal of recent research has demonstrated that it is not only the stuff that holds us together (and can restrict our freedom of movement), but also a sensitive antenna for perception and a vital source of ch'i. This experiential workshop will use slides, lecture and discussion, and meditation-in-movement to bring this important part of your body-mind to life. Participants will learn the molecular, energetic, and structural elements of connective tissue. They will also go home with a repertoire of movement meditations with which to explore and improve this tissue and its functions in all their activities. This experience will be of great use to massage therapists, movement therapists, dancers, yoga practitioners and teachers, those involved in athletics, anyone who is rehabilitating injuries (or wants to learn how to avoid them), and anyone who wants to feel more vital and alive. Deane Juhan has been teaching this material and using it in his private practice and bodywork trainings for thirty years. Come and enjoy yourself for a weekend with Deane, author of Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork. This workshop is open to all.
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Dean F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. NCBTMB Provider # 451721-11. |
North Conway, New Hampshire
Marlana O'Hara Buzzell(207) 647-3521
(207) 212-7721
kmbuzzell 'at' roadrunner.com
These three areas and their muscle groups function as an integrated unit in our posture, locomotion and many psychological and physiological processes. Approaching them in our client assessments, tablework and Mentastics as a unified whole greatly enhances the effectiveness of our work with their individual parts and with the vitality of our organisms.
In this workshop we will utilize anatomy reviews with slides and discussion, demonstrations and supervised Trager and Reflex/Response-Resistance/Release table work, and Mentastics. Particular attention will be focused on the piriformis and other hip rotators, the hamstrings, quadriceps and patella, erector spinae, quadratus lumborum and the sacrum.
Relaxation and stress relief are certainly two main goals of bodywork. But there is an important addition to your clients’ somatic well-being that more directly addresses the patterns of muscular habituation, posture, compensations due to injury and the restoring of freedom of movement and freedom from pain: the active re-education and re-coordination of the overall sensory motor patterns that have accumulated over time and have become entrenched through habituation.
Functionally, we are really one muscle that is divided up by the connective tissue structures into different compartments in order to provide specific vectors of motion and coordinated groups of motor units. We are not robots with hinges, cables and pulleys, but shape-changers, and any gesture involves the participation of wide-spread muscular supports and motivators. Reflex/Response, or Resistance/Release work is designed to re-coordinate our musculature as a whole and to train more efficient and effective recruitments of muscular contractions and lengthenings involved in any position or movement, from feet to head and from sleeve to core. The result is dramatically improved muscular coordination, adding both ease and strength to all of our activities.
Trager and non-Trager students are all welcome in this class.
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Dean F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. NCBTMB Provider # 451721-11. |
Princeton, New Jersey
THE TRAGER® APPROACHTrager® Elective With Deane Juhan
Freeing the Neck and Shoulder Girdle
Resistance and Release Work
Princeton, NJ October 21-23, 2011
24 Credit hours through NCBTMB
In my experience as an early student, as a practitioner and as an instructor, both the neck and the shoulder girdle have presented special challenges--the neck because it is so vulnerable and complex, and the shoulder girdle because it involves so many extensive muscle groups. We will use slides for
anatomy review, questions and discussion, and the fruits of my 35 years of practice and growing repertoire of approaches to these areas to augment your effectiveness in these functionally interdependent areas.
RESISTANCE/RELEASE WORK
The work that will be presented in this workshop is an innovative addition to the scope of your practice, developed by Deane Juhan based upon his direct observation of the rehabilitative techniques of Dr. Milton Trager.
Functionally, we are really one muscle that is divided up by the connective tissue structures into different compartments in order to provide specific vectors of motion and coordination among extensive groups of muscles. It is difficult for individuals to free up and re-coordinate restricted movement patterns without actively engaging the muscle groups that have become stuck in habituated patterns and that are causing discomforts and limitations. This engagement is not simply a matter of “relaxing,” but of lengthening some muscle cells, contracting others, more effectively recruiting motor nerves and their motor units for coordinated action, and establishing both increased strength and ease.
The resulting reorganization provides a more evenly distributed action throughout extensive muscle groups and an immediate experience of less effortful and more effective movement.
Resistance/Release work is designed to re-coordinate our musculature as a whole and to train more efficient and effective recruitments of muscular contractions and lengthenings involved in any position or movement, from feet to head and from sleeve to core.
The work also bridges the gap, felt by many practitioners and clients, between the active giver and the passive receiver, the "expert" and the "problem." It establishes a dynamic relationship in which both parties are participating and learning together. No two repetitions of resistance and movement, and no two sessions are ever alike, opening the door to a fertile and creative exchange and an ever-evolving mutual growth for both parties involved. It is the end to repetitive protocols and routines for the practitioner, and an opening of never-ending possibilities of exploration and self-development for the client.
Deane Juhan is the author of the classic Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork, and Touched by the Goddess: The physical, Psychological and Spiritual Powers of Bodywork. He was a practitioner and teacher in residence at Esalen Institute from 1974-1992, and practitioner and instructor of the work of Dr. Milton Trager for the past 28 years. He has developed his own Resistance-Release Technique, and has taught workshops and lectured in the U.S., Canda , Europe and Japan. www.jobsbody.com
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Dean F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. NCBTMB Provider # 451721-11. |
Tuition fee: $375.
To register: Please send a $100 deposit before September 15, 2011 to
P.O. Box 234, Princeton Jct., NJ 08550.
Make check payable to Betty Post.
For additional information, please call or e-mail:
Betty Post 609-275-3802
bettypost@msn.com
Limited low-cost housing is available to students.
Open to Trager Students and Practitioners.
Open to experienced massage therapists.
New York Open Center
NY, NY 10016
212-219-2527
Reclaiming Our Original Breath
June 25, 2011 10 am - 1 pmOur first breath after birth sets the stage for the journey of individuation we embark upon for the rest of our lives. Evolution’s extraordinary design has gifted us with expansive lung capacity and a sublimely natural, automatic tidal rhythm of inhalation and exhalation that brings energy and vitality to every living cell in our bodies. Unfortunately, though, it’s not easy negotiating gravity, coordinating our movements and learning to use our bodies, and, as we age, physical and emotional traumas, the demands of our environments and occupations, and habitual postures and movements all contribute to interfering with the perfect reflex of breathing, hampering our vitality, well being and sense of ease. In this workshop, bodywork pioneer Deane Juhan will use demonstrations, discussion and exercises to share his highly effective approach to reclaiming our “original” mode of deep, unblocked breathing to rejuvenate our bodies and minds.
Click here for more information and to register.
Energizing the Body's Core
Freedom of Movement and Freedom From Pain in the Spine
June 25, 2011
2:30 - 5:30 pm
The spine is the central axis of our organism. It is the housing for our spinal cord and the distribution point for our peripheral nervous system. It is the serpent of our kundalini. It is supported and animated by the most complex layering of muscles of any other structure of our bodies. The core muscles of the spine are the first to respond to any initiation of movement, and they are the anchors around which all movements are organized. And unhappily the spine is one of the most common sources of pain and restriction of movement. Designed to be freely mobile in all its possible anatomical ranges of movement and support, its complexity and vulnerability are so often compromised by our postures, our habitually limited repertoires of movement, injuries, and the strains of our physical endeavors. Deane will use practical demonstration with participants, and an articulation of his work developed over 38 years of study and practice, along with group questions and discussion to present his approach to strengthening and freeing the snake at our core, and to re-coordinating it with the sleeve structures of our thorax and limbs.
Click here for more information and to register.Mind, Body, and Consciousness
June 26 , 2011 2 pm - 5 PM
Deane Juhan and Jason W. Brown
Jason Brown’s philosophy of mind, firmly rooted in neuropsychology and cultivated over 30 years of clinical study, was, for Deane Juhan, “the missing link,” the only theory of consciousness that helped him to understand the continual, dynamic interplay between body and mind that he witnessed during the 38 years of his own pioneering bodywork. Brown’s exquisite, painstaking analysis of the continually unfolding brain state reveals how the world is an extension of mind, not its independent content. According to Brown, mind unfolds from depth to surface, the formations of consciousness pouring out, like a fountain, from a subconscious core to a perceptual surface of objects and ideas, with the arising of each present moment issuing out of the waves of a preceding state that is receding in decay. Juhan has taught many workshops based on Brown’s research and writing and their profound therapeutic implications; he also wrote the foreword to a re-issue of Brown’s classic text, The Self-Embodying Mind. But they are meeting this afternoon for the first time: our foremost philosopher/practitioner of the body, in dialogue with our foremost philosopher/practitioner of the mind.
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Dean F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. NCBTMB Provider # 451721-11. |
Dynamic Equilibrium
Youngville, North Carolina(Raleigh area)
Contact:
Nancy Toner Weinberger
weinberger 'at' mindspring.com
dynamicequilibrium.com
(919) 562-1548
Resistance Release Work
September 23 - 25, 2011Relaxation and stress relief are certainly two main goals of bodywork. But there is an important addition to your clients’ somatic well-being that more directly addresses the patterns of muscular habituation, posture, compensations due to injury and the restoring of freedom of movement and freedom from pain: the re-education of the overall sensory motor patterns that have accumulated over time. The work that will be presented in this workshop is an innovative approach developed by Deane Juhan, based upon the rehabilitative techniques of Dr. Milton Trager.
Functionally, we are really one muscle that is divided up by the connective tissue structures into different compartments in order to provide specific vectors of motion and coordinated groups of muscles. We are not robots with hinges, cables and pulleys, but shape-changers, and any gesture involves the participation of wide-spread muscular supports and motivators.
It is difficult for individuals to free up and re-coordinate restricted movement patterns without actively engaging the muscle groups that have become stuck in habituated patterns and that are causing discomforts and limitations. This engagement is not simply a matter of “relaxing,” but of lengthening some muscle cells, contracting others, more effectively recruiting motor nerves and their motor units for coordinated action, and establishing both increased strength and ease. Resistance/Release is a process of providing traction and/or compression to muscle groups, asking the client to pull or push against the resistance applied, and guiding them through the process of refining the coordination of their efforts. The resulting reorganization provides a more evenly distributed action throughout extensive muscle groups and an immediate experience of less effortful and more effective movement. Restrictions of movement and the discomforts of the resulting strain disappear, and both ranges of motion along and the minimization of over-all effort are dramatically enhanced.
Resistance/Release work is designed to re-coordinate our musculature as a whole and to train more efficient and effective recruitments of muscular contractions and lengthenings involved in any position or movement, from feet to head and from sleeve to core. The result is dramatically improved muscular coordination, adding both ease and strength to all physical activities.
The work also bridges the gap, felt by many practitioners and clients, between the active giver and the passive receiver, the "expert" and the "problem." It establishes a dynamic relationship in which both parties are participating and learning together. No two repetitions of resistance and movement, and no two sessions are ever alike, opening the door to a fertile and creative exchange and an ever-evolving mutual growth for both parties involved. It is the end to repetitive protocols and routines for the practitioner, and an opening of never-ending possibilities of exploration and self-development for the client.
This work is a powerful adjunct to any bodyworker's previous training and focus.
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Dean F. Juhan is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. NCBTMB Provider # 451721-11. |
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Nalanda West
Seattle, Washington
5762 - 27th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98105
206-527-0908
888-755-4558
The Future of Bodywork
The Role of the Client in Bodywork
Panel: Deane Juhan, Dave Campbell, Diana Thompson, BJ Erkan,
Jack Blackburn, Alison Day, with Michael Hamm as Moderator
Wednesday night January 4th 2012 at Nalanda West, 6 to 9:30PM
3CEUs. ***Earn up to two extra CEUs for case studies from your practice***
Cost $40 for one person. Discount package: $60 for two persons.
Information and registration at:
http://presencingsource.com/workshops-for-body-workers/Future-of-Bodywork.html
This special symposium is the third in our series: The Future of Bodywork. As before, the evening will include a panel of bodywork practitioners and educators. One of the reasons for these symposiums is to create a forum where bodyworkers to become more active in determining the future of the profession. Our experiences with clients call for broader paradigms and deeper understandings of the training it takes to accompany clients through different stages of their lives. There will be breakout groups and formed around certain issues and much opportunity for discussion. The theme for this evening will center around the question: “What part does the client play in his/her own therapy?” We will look at different possible activations of client physical, verbal, and somatic interactions. We will also look at less interactive client responses like sleeping, chatting, dissociation, flashbacks, and panic attacks. We will also look at client self-care approaches away from the sessions. Are there ways of improving our therapeutic effectiveness that involve revising and expanding our scope of practice and paradigm of treatment by directly involving clients in their own healing?
Issues Affecting the Client’s Role:
- Third Party payments and treatment proscriptions overlook client participation
- Client expectations and practitioner perceptions of clients
- Prevailing treatment paradigms in bodywork, symptomatic relief and relaxation
- Somatic approaches and facilitation of client awareness
- Prevailing training limits lacking psychological understanding and counseling skills
- Lack of paradigm defining practitioner/client interaction and teamwork
- Lack of rigorous model for Body Mind Spirit approaches
- What approaches work best in recruiting client into their own processes?
- How do we discover what is happening inside the client during the session?
At least 50 percent of what is happening during sessions is determined by the client. And 100 percent of what is happening between sessions is determined by the client. We know that many factors in clients’ lives determine how they progress in bodywork sessions. Some clients become very involved in their own process and some clients leave everything up to the practitioner and the insurance company. Many clients do not really know why we do what we do and many clients assume that we get paid our regular rates by third party payers. Clients do not know how much their attitude about their bodies, their emotional state and their external lives affect their body state and vice versa. How can we work with clients and involve these factors in their process legitimately?