Special Evening Seminars

Please click on the titles below for more information on these great seminars

Seminars to be held 5762 27th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105

Note from Jack: These lectures will be held at my home - limited to 20 students!

$40 one student / $60 two students- bring a friend! / $60 two classes- package discount

ALL SEMINARS ARE 3 CEUS

 

Personal Presencing

 

Taming the Tiger

 

Long-Term Client Relationships

 

 

 

Supervision in Bodywork

 

 

 

Energy Medicine & Healing Touch

Many bodyworkers and clients do not realize the value of energy medicine because we have not learned to feel and understand the energy fields and life forces within and around us. Life is energy, energy is life.

If you are interested in further energy work training, please see our Reiki training schedule

 

 

Enneagram Types & Self Development

The Enneagram is a tool for self-discovery and personal empowerment whose origins are shrouded in mystery. Learning and practicing the Enneagram helps free us from unconscious patterns and fears.

 

 

The Power of Touch

How do clients view touch? How do practitioners view touch? What are acceptable expressions of touch? Why do we fear touch? Why do caregivers restrict touch? What are the new potentials of touch?

 

 

 Presencing Pain 

 

PowerPoint presentation and group discussion of pain, pathology, and suffering. We will explore pain from the standpoint of markers for developing client somatic awareness. pain as a body signal is not pathological per se. When we go into the pain rather than avoiding or anesthetizing the pain we are joining the body's healing systems and developing deeper conscious awareness.

Please also check out the Presencing Somatics Introduction workshop September 10th - 11th, 2011

 

 

Sensitive Body Parts- Neck, Jaw, Face, and Hands

We will explore the head, neck, throat, eyes, face, jaw, and hands. Many bodyworkers avoid these parts of the body because they are highly ennervated and because they are highly charged with client's sense of personal identity. We will explore our own energetic and emotional charge about these parts of the body and how much we subconciously inhibit their functioning.

We offer an excellent Intraoral Massage Workshop that is approved for State of Washington Endorsement

 

Healing and Wholeness

Healing and Wholeness mean the same thing linguistically. Yet both terms cause problems in our understanding because we associate  "healing" with being symmptom free and "wholeness" with a sense of connection with all of creation. How could I be "healed" or "whole" if I know that my body and mind will start to lose agility and ability as I grow older? There must be something else we are referring to...

 

 

 

Implications of Presencing for Bodyworkers

This seminar has grown out of an article Cynthia Price and I wrote for the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapy and presented to the National AMTA Conference in 2008. We will explore how the applications of presencing affect the ways we work with clients.

Please also check out the Presencing Somatics Introduction workshop

 

The Issue of Service
with Genjo Marinello

Thursday, June 23, 2011; 6pm-9pm

Genjo is back again! We have scheduled another seminar on long-term client relationships with Zen teacher Genjo Marinello.The theme this time is the Issue of Service. What does Service mean to you and your practice? What does it mean to your clients and their healing path?

 

 

 

Introduction to Table Talking

 

 

 

Practical Presencing

Work through Practical Presencing exercises for staying present in different situations
6pm - 9:30pm
3 CEUs, $40 one student/ $60 two students

 

 

 

 

Meditation for Bodyworkers Review Seminar

 

Due to the depth of the discussion at the Meditation for Bodyworkers  workshop, an evening seminar has been added to the class calendar, as well as a new workshop: Meditation in Action.

 

Signs and Gifts of Presence

 

 

A lecture, PowerPoint presentation and group discussion of the special qualities that accompany inner work

 

Attending Body, Psyche and Soul
with Genjo Marinello

Genjo is back again! We have scheduled another seminar on long-term client relationships with Zen teacher Genjo Marinello.The theme this time is looking at how we as bodyworkers can attend to the various aspects of our clients development over time. The means is a change from our orientation of symptomatic relief and fixing to a much deeper way of supporting the person on the table. In this seminar we will look at aspects of the Zen practice of attention in relation to a fuller and more well rounded approach to our own practice. It is not about becoming a Zen practitioner, but about refining the ways we approach our own practice. I believe that bodywork is a path that can be used for spiritual development as well as understanding the psyche.

 

 

Introduction to Spiritual Development

 

I was concerned that the spiritual development grows out of the client's own experience. I had worked with various spiritual teachers over the years who had imposed their beliefs and practice on students. I was convinced that all persons have their own internal spiritual guidance towards awakening.

My quest for a reputable method led me to graduate school three years. During that time I worked further with clients to develop this internal connection. My teachers and supervisors were immensely helpful as I reported these client sessions and my own understanding of spiritual awakening. Finally I settled on presencing, bringing clients consciously into the present moment, as the learning tool for client self development. I had ample evidence from my own experience that as inner guidance grows, external interactions reflect that growth.

 

 

Click here for other workshops on Spiritual Development and Bodywork

 

 

 

Bodywork and End of Life Care

with Meg Robsahm

 

If you would like further training in the field of hospice massage,
please see the workshop:

End of Life Care: Being Present Without an Agenda