Feb 25- 27th 2022 In Body We Trust:Supporting the ANS and Healing Trauma through Touch & Movement

$480.00
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9:30 am to 6:00 pm

Class highlights :

This course provides a courageous and compassionate space for exploring the principles of creating safety and stabilization of the ANS through touch and movement- core mechanisms in Massage/Manual Therapy, through the following tools:

  • Understanding why it is critical to have trained practitioners working with trauma, at this time in our world

  • Identifying signs of PTS(Post Traumatic Stress) being expressed/released in the body

  • Understanding Trauma and the educated touch through the lens of Polyvagal Theory

  • Exploring and defining Safety for both- client AND therapist

  • Embracing the critical role of the practitioner as a co-regulator in the process of entrainment and recognize the importance to remain safe, calm and centered for establishing first connection for the client with Self through the body

  • Recognize the emerging quality of a double Neuroception field co-created by the therapist-patient interaction, during session

  • Mind-Body techniques for creating trust and awareness of “ the other” through presence

  • Using the qualities of Touch that transmit Safety to bring a tissue out of “Defensive State “ - why sometimes our Deep-Tissue techniques are not working - lifting the curtain of “you can go deeper” - the road from pain to numbness and the role of the psychomotor functions of the muscles; working with hyper- and hypo - arousal.

  • Understanding Cranial Nerves, muscles of Social Engagement System and the contribution of MT in the regulation of the ANS

  • Engaging the healing power of the Vagus nerve and beyond - manual therapy techniques to access the Vagus nerve in different parts of the body

  • Assessment of different autonomic states - Autonomic System Mapping- Compare and contrast the anatomical features of the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Systems- the signs of Dorsal and Ventral Vagal tone and Sympathetic dominance

  • Exploring the intersection of Bodywork and the concept of embodiment

  • Cross-Assessment of your perception with clients’ interception of their tissues for shifting awareness

  • Acknowledging the process of establishing professional relationships- referral and rapport, with health practitioners working in trauma field.

  • Examining the body as co-creator of the mind - How introducing proper movement, during or at the end of session, sustains the new body/mind awareness

  • The last hour of the class "Dance Life Maps" in an atmosphere of peer support and interaction, is as personally healing as it is educational

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About the instructor:

Elena Stoeva MD, BCTMB, LMT, FFIMM, RYT500 brings the life experience in bodywork from the perspective of : Manual Therapies and Physical Medicine in the European tradition, Cranio-sacral Therapy and Somato-emotional release, Visceral and Neural Manipulation, Lymph Drainage Therapy, BREEMA, Dance Medicine&Science, Yoga and DancingForHealing approach to promoting health and treating different pathological conditions; a lifetime love and appreciation of the infinite authenticity of Bodywork as Medicine.

She can never stop learning, as the human body and her peers never stop teaching her.

Preregistration

9:30 am to 6:00 pm

Class highlights :

This course provides a courageous and compassionate space for exploring the principles of creating safety and stabilization of the ANS through touch and movement- core mechanisms in Massage/Manual Therapy, through the following tools:

  • Understanding why it is critical to have trained practitioners working with trauma, at this time in our world

  • Identifying signs of PTS(Post Traumatic Stress) being expressed/released in the body

  • Understanding Trauma and the educated touch through the lens of Polyvagal Theory

  • Exploring and defining Safety for both- client AND therapist

  • Embracing the critical role of the practitioner as a co-regulator in the process of entrainment and recognize the importance to remain safe, calm and centered for establishing first connection for the client with Self through the body

  • Recognize the emerging quality of a double Neuroception field co-created by the therapist-patient interaction, during session

  • Mind-Body techniques for creating trust and awareness of “ the other” through presence

  • Using the qualities of Touch that transmit Safety to bring a tissue out of “Defensive State “ - why sometimes our Deep-Tissue techniques are not working - lifting the curtain of “you can go deeper” - the road from pain to numbness and the role of the psychomotor functions of the muscles; working with hyper- and hypo - arousal.

  • Understanding Cranial Nerves, muscles of Social Engagement System and the contribution of MT in the regulation of the ANS

  • Engaging the healing power of the Vagus nerve and beyond - manual therapy techniques to access the Vagus nerve in different parts of the body

  • Assessment of different autonomic states - Autonomic System Mapping- Compare and contrast the anatomical features of the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Systems- the signs of Dorsal and Ventral Vagal tone and Sympathetic dominance

  • Exploring the intersection of Bodywork and the concept of embodiment

  • Cross-Assessment of your perception with clients’ interception of their tissues for shifting awareness

  • Acknowledging the process of establishing professional relationships- referral and rapport, with health practitioners working in trauma field.

  • Examining the body as co-creator of the mind - How introducing proper movement, during or at the end of session, sustains the new body/mind awareness

  • The last hour of the class "Dance Life Maps" in an atmosphere of peer support and interaction, is as personally healing as it is educational

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About the instructor:

Elena Stoeva MD, BCTMB, LMT, FFIMM, RYT500 brings the life experience in bodywork from the perspective of : Manual Therapies and Physical Medicine in the European tradition, Cranio-sacral Therapy and Somato-emotional release, Visceral and Neural Manipulation, Lymph Drainage Therapy, BREEMA, Dance Medicine&Science, Yoga and DancingForHealing approach to promoting health and treating different pathological conditions; a lifetime love and appreciation of the infinite authenticity of Bodywork as Medicine.

She can never stop learning, as the human body and her peers never stop teaching her.