Would you like to experience indigenous methods of healing and learn to incorporate them into your current practice? Join Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Barbara Mainguy, and Bob Vetter for a weekend of embodied healing teachings, practices and techniques that you can put to immediate use.

 

Various indigenous healing disciplines from all over the world use a two-step process: first eliciting a story about what caused a person's imbalance or "dis-ease," and second, hands-on methods of touch that move the person toward balance and wholeness.

In this weekend, we explore practical healing methods including:

 

• Deep sacred listening to uncover the root cause of imbalance that is "storied" in the body

   

• Understanding "susto," or soul fright and learning how to bring back the lost parts of "you" following trauma

   

• Supervised practice with methods of Cherokee Body Work including deep pressure, rocking, shaking, running energy meridians, mobilization and breath work

   

• Connecting with the body through dialogue and imagery

   

• How to uncover and shift underlying disempowering beliefs that keep us "stuck"

   

• Methods to ceremonialize and make sacred the connecting of narrative medicine with body work

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This workshop is suitable for all levels––from experienced bodywork practitioners to psychotherapists with an interest in the body to beginners who want to start down the road of mind-body healing.