“In this workshop, we will use methods from Somatic Expression for effectively transforming the anxiety, fear and depression that accompany chronic health conditions."

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May 14-15, Geneva, Switzerland

English with French Translation
Sponsored by PVA Geneve

For more information, contact secretariat@pvageneve.ch

October 13, Austin, Texas
6-8 pm
The Austin Centre 3809 South 2nd St.
$20.00 - suggested donation
100% of Proceeds to Benefit The Cancer Support Community of Central Texas
Contact Kate Cleary

Movement is the language of life. From the pulsing of the fluid systems to the flow of your breathing, the ecosystem of your body maintains its health and well-being through a coordinated pattern of interrelated rhythms. Illness disrupts the harmony of these natural rhythms and throws your body/mind into chaos. Along with standard medical treatment for illness, there is also the indigenous medicine in your body hardwired by nature for self-regulation. Breath, vocalization, contact, movement and stillness are these five inner technologies. As differing forms of movement, each of these technologies are practical antidotes to the inner incoherence produced by the anxiety, fear and depression that naturally accompany chronic health conditions.

In this workshop, you will be introduced to simple, accessible and pleasurable tools from Jamie McHugh's Somatic Expression method. These tools invite in more harmony, ease and balance, creating new options for collaborating with your body and maximizing your quality of life. This approach to movement and the body is pleasurable, low impact and non-threatening. If you can sit in a chair, you are able to participate!

I have been offering this approach as retreats annually since 1998 through the Swiss AIDS Federation for HIV+ people, and as classes for people with cancer since 1991.

Somatic expression workshop.