Trauma Sensitive Yoga and Meditation for Trauma Release

Join Celia Roberts, Edwina Kempe, and Samantha Lindsay German

Saturday 23 June 2018 & Sunday 24 June 2018
Full Retreat Rate $245

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Much of current societies states of health are determined by ways of nominating illness and treating with pharmaceuticals, rather than by cultivating our bodies internal capacity to naturally bring ourselves back to a homeostatic state of being. In this two-day retreat Celia, Sam and Edwina combine the very best of western knowledge with eastern tradition and wisdom to assist you in cultivating a resilient mind, body, and soul, which can innately attune to its homeostatic state.

If you have ever suffered loss, been struck by a multitude of complex situations that have left you feeling less that whole, or have ever felt the physical or mental pain of a less than ideal life – this retreat is not to be missed.

Celia and Edwina bring together the ultimate weekend in healing that combines both practice and wisdom in order for you to release and begin to regain resilience from that which ails you.

Clinical Yoga Therapy for Mental Health including Anxiety, Addictions and Depression

Saturday 23 June 2018
9:30 – 12:30
Hosted by Celia Roberts
Clinical Yoga Therapy for Mental Health including Anxiety, Addictions and Depression
Session Rate $88
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Celia Roberts begins this day by guiding you through the trauma experience and effects on body and brain. This is designed for those who have suffered or are experiencing trauma. This 3 hour workshop will introduce the theory and research behind this evidence-based yoga. This workshop is for those with an interest in learning about trauma based yoga therapy and how trauma is stored in the body, the face, the breath. This retreat will bring you awareness within in order to open the avenue towards healing and will further your knowledge and informative practice by guiding you through Trauma Release Exercises as well as some clinical meditations for stress, anxiety, trauma and addiction. This session will be a wonderful start to the entire weekend of training and allow you to experience first hand the benefits of trauma release work.

What you will learn:

• The neuroscience of trauma in body and brain
• How to correct areas of trauma in the body
• How to invite yourself to explore a pose and be mindful of sensations, whether you perceive them as pleasant or painful
• Why traditional yoga has always explored this with reference to the sutras and philosophy
• The biological and karmic fate in our genes
• Postural exercises that really work in yoga
• Breathing for heart rate variability and excellent nervous system control (vagal tone)
• Why yoga is one of the best ways of overcoming trauma, anxiety and mental health afflictions.

Meditations for Pacifying the Mind

Saturday 23 June 2018
1:15 – 4:15
Hosted by Celia Roberts
Meditations for Pacifying the Mind
Session Rate $58
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Stillness is an imperative skill within the journey toward an integrated state of being. In recent years there has been much research dedicated to the validity of meditation for pacifying the mind in relation to holistic wellbeing. That is, being in a state of equilibrium and free from suffering involves taking time to learn and understand the practices of soothing and bringing states of peace to the mind as an every day practice.

This afternoon session, hosted by Celia, is designed to offer meditations that can be repeated at home on a regular basis in order to continually come to a place of stillness and a peaceful center.

The topics to be covered include:

• What is yoga and how do we reduce activity of mind (sutras Ch1 V 1-4)
• The link between breath and thoughts - noting the breath and thoughts…Can we steady the breath and thoughts? How can we use breath to pacify the mind?
• How do we reduce this activity of mind? (Patanjali gives us 6 sutras 1.34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 to pacify the mind)
• How to interpret the first three sutras with a gentle asana, pranayama, meditation practice, using long exhales and holding the breath out to quiet the mind.
• Use of the forward bend, exhale pranayama's to pacify the mind.
• Final discussion on the last 3 pacification's of mind as described by Patanjali and practice a meditation for sutra 1.36 - A focus on the light in the heart. This will be a chest opening, inhale focussed practice.

Trauma Sensitive Yoga

Sunday 24 June 2018
9:30 – 12:30
Hosted by Edwina Kempe
Trauma Sensitive Yoga
Day Rate $148 (Combined with afternoon session)
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Edwina Kempe begins this second day by guiding you through a session specifically designed for those who have suffered trauma. Many medical practitioners and researchers are now validating the reality that the body keeps the score. That is, whether there is a lifetime of traumatic events or negative interpersonal relationships, or a single traumatic event, our bodies hold onto the past unless it is attended to in presence and acceptance. As such yoga is a vital mechanism in the release of any trauma – no matter how small or large.

This 3 hour workshop is a taster of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), the clinical yoga program developed by Bessel van der Kolk and David Emerson at the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusets for the treatment of complex trauma and PTSD. You will get to experience a Trauma Sensitive Yoga practice, as well as be introduced to the theory and research behind this evidence-based model of yoga. This workshop is for those with an interest in learning about trauma-informed yoga. Please note that it is not intended as a comprehensive training workshop, nor a therapeutic intervention for those with PTSD or Complex Trauma. Please don't hesitate to contact Edwina on 0468 746 121 or edwinakempe@gmail.com if you would like to know more or to discuss whether this workshop will be useful for you at this time. This retreat will bring you awareness within in order to open the avenue towards healing.

Trauma Release Exercises and Meditations

Sunday 24 June 2018
1:00 – 4:00
Hosted by Samantha Lindsay-German
Trauma Release Exercises and Meditations
Day Rate $148 (Combined with morning session)
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Continuing from the morning session, Samantha will further your knowledge and informative practice by guiding you through Trauma Release Exercises as well as some medical meditations for stress, anxiety, trauma and addiction. This session will compliment the entire weekend of training and allow you to experience first hand the benefits of trauma release work.

This entire weekend is dedicated to releasing and healing suffering that has been entrapped within your body. Holistic health begins in acknowledging that so much of our past pains have been suppressed and is in need of attention, attunement, and care. Begin your healing journey and book your weekend with Celia Roberts, Edwina Kempe, and Samantha Lindsay German now!