Meeting Trauma and Finding Balance: A Somatic Approach to Spiritual Practice (Apr/GGF)

Meeting Trauma and Finding Balance: A Somatic Approach to Spiritual Practice
Sunday, April 22 10 am - 5 pm With Jiko Jane Lazar and Patricia Meadows (6 CE credits available - see below * ) Both in our meditation practice and in our daily lives, we may encounter situations or internal states that are difficult to meet with compassionate presence. This could be the result of accumulated stress or trauma, which may leave our physiology in a habitual or easily triggered state of fight, flight or freeze. We may experience this as constriction in the body, emotional reactivity, or intrusive thinking. Even those who don't identify with trauma may touch upon layers of overwhelm or distress in their systems as they practice and may benefit from the skills taught in this workshop. In this one-day workshop, we will use mindfulness of the body to develop our capacity to be gently present with stuck survival energies. These then tend to release, restoring our physiology to a more balanced state. Some of the skills taught in this workshop are based on Somatic Experiencing