Workshops

Awakening the Body

For those of us who work with others to bring ourselves fully into the process of healing that we engage in with our students and clients, we must bring ourselves fully into our somatic being. Within a safe space, moving our bodies and souls from a deep connection with ourselves allows us to bring a more conscious and intuitive presence into our work with others. Through inner work and interactive experience you will:

• Journey into your inner terrain, bringing compassion and warmth to parts of yourself that have been pushed aside, hidden, or neglected and provide a safe place for those presences through movement and/or other somatic expression.
• Learn to balance connection with self and connection with other, finding your center within dyad and group experience.
• Develop and deepen your individual practice for self-connection and preparation for connection with others.

Creating Sacred Space

Trance and ritual touch our deepest core to awaken self-awareness and open us to the realm of the sacred. Moving our bodies and souls within sacred space brings depth to our connection with ourselves and each other and empowers us to move more fully into the world.

How can we open up to the sacred in our own practice and inner work as well as in our work with others? This workshop provides a basic framework for creating sacred space, a structure to return to again and again, building pathways within ourselves to rely on in times of stress. Working with this recipe for ritual, we will explore the many, varied ingredients that you can use for guiding yourself and others into a deeper experience of soul and spirit. Develop and deepen your individual spiritual practice as you learn how to structure rituals for healing, growth, and celebration.

Guiding the Journey

Trance and movement are powerful tools for awakening self-awareness and opening ourselves and others to wider perspectives and profound potential for change. Working within a ritual context, we will create an intensive community within which we can enter a relational field that encourages personal and professional growth.

This workshop provides a basic framework for creating sacred space and guides participants in the use of trance, ritual, and movement to work more deeply with students and clients in a contained and safe way. A balance between inner work and interactive experience will provide opportunities for participants to deepen their own process while they practice using these tools for themselves and their students and clients.

• Explore your inner terrain, touching neglected parts of yourself, as you deepen your understanding and ability to guide others into their inner experience
• Learn to work with group energy, balancing attention to individuals and to the group experience
• Learn and practice techniques for guiding journeys for others individually and in groups
• Develop your ability to structure group movement journeys and rituals for healing, growth, and celebration

Psychology of the Chakras

This training integrates both mind and body within a spiritual context by exploring the Chakra System as a model for transformational healing and personal growth. Designed for healers of all types who wish to learn new skills, as well as laypeople in the process of their own healing journey, we will spend one full day on each chakra, with an extra day for integrating the material, making a total of 8 days of training, with an evening introduction and Sunday morning wrap-up.

• A solid understanding of the chakra system
• Yoga postures for the chakras
• A psycho-spiritual framework for diagnosis and healing
• Body-oriented techniques for healing difficulties
• A deeper understanding of your own issues
• An understanding of chakras and childhood development
• A transformational experience

This workshop is oriented towards, though not limited to, professionals. Professionals will find new skills to use in their practice, laypeople will find new insights to their own healing journey.

Ethical Energies: A Chakra Approach to Professional Ethical Caring

Powerful shared experiences within a therapeutic or teaching relationship can bring to the surface compelling fears, needs, and longings in both client and caregiver. Ethical issues involve longings, feelings, and motivations which resonate at our very core. Our drives toward (and away from) money, sexuality, power, love, truth, inspiration, and oneness are the most powerful forces in our lives. How can we expect that these drives will not influence our relationships with clients? In ethical helping relationships, caregivers support the well-being of those they work with by practicing conscious self-reflection. Understanding our unconscious impulses keeps our fears, desires, or spiritual longings out of the way of our clients’ or students’ paths. Deeply considering our vulnerabilities and how these affect our interactions with others supports us to enter more fully into truly healing relationships with our clients.

The Ethics of Caring by Kylea Taylor provides a unique chakra model with tools to navigate the deep and often confusing relationship between client and caregiver. Through small group discussion of vignettes, guided visualization, and somatic/movement work, this workshop can support medical practitioners, psychotherapists, massage therapists, substance abuse counselors, clergy and meditation teachers, yoga teachers, hypnotherapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, and other healers and teachers in their work, as well as deepening their self-understanding.