These intensive trainings, which are open to therapists, body-workers, yoga teachers, life-coaches, and all healing arts practitioners, will furnish you with a firm understanding of body-centered principles and the tools to incorporate these principles into your own work and life experience. You will have the opportunity to evaluate your work in a positive light, understanding your choices and options. You will be able to discuss challenges in your work, ethics and boundary issues, self-care and your own energy levels, generating business, being selective, and other issues pertinent to the profession. Personal growth opportunities abound as well. Be prepared for some breakthroughs!

In either training you will learn: Creating client safety and trust Honoring client integrity and resistance The fundamentals of somato-emotional release work Advanced communication skills Skill with 'body-reading' and energy work Letting go of doubt and trusting your instincts Voice dialogue techniques and when to use them Inner child work and when to use it In the advanced training, you may also learn to: Support controlled breakdowns/deconstruction and integration The use of meditation and mindfulness as therapeutic tools Dealing with transference issues The effective use of homework Coaching techniques such as purpose, goal-setting, and choice How and when to "graduate" the client (Optional) dynamics of couple's, family, and group work Modeling Love The place of Spirituality in a therapeutic practice Required Reading: Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method by Ron Kurtz Recommended Reading: At the Speed of Life by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks Living As If Your Life Depended In It by Cia Ricco

Please call 518-325-7444 or Email cia@live-life.com for dates and location details.

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