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Energy Healing Methods for Trauma

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  • 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
  • 12 hours over 4 sessions

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Class Description

Description

In this 4-week program, Mike Cotayo and Kathryn Carey-Ackermann will teach gentle, easy-to-learn, self-healing practices based on Energy Healing, Gestalt Therapy, Yoga, and Qigong practices and principles that will support you in your journey to wholeness and wellness. Trauma, whether experienced early in life or as an adult, becomes locked in the body and mind. If left unresolved, it can have serious impacts on all aspects of life.

From Energy Healing Traditions you will learn:

  • Basic Energy Healing protocols, how to open to energy, and use it for self-healing
  • How to scan your energy, gain a deeper understanding of imbalances, and what they can teach you
  • What are Chakras (energy centers in and around your body) and how they are accessed for healing
  • Self-healing techniques including Radiant, Chakra, and Color Healings
  • Understanding and rebalancing of the male and female energies

From Gestalt Therapy:

  • Using the ideas of present centeredness, to ground and promote self-sufficiency
  • Embodiment, breath work, visualization, and field theory (the idea of what is in our awareness, affecting the world around us)
  • Promoting greater health and understanding

From the Yoga and Qigong traditions you will learn:

  • Gentle movement and stances that will help release blockages and ground the body. All movement will be appropriate and modified for any age and physical ability.
  • Meditations including seated, standing, and walking variations that will help quiet and calm the mind
  • Visualizations for healing and visioning for your life
  • Breathing techniques including the Ujjayi Breath, 3-Part Breath, and Cooling Breath that will help bring the body and mind into balance
  • Relaxation techniques including the 4-8 Breath and Body Scan that you can use daily

From the Shamanic path and Native American healing arts you will learn:

  • The 4 Directions Sacred Directions and Ceremony
  • Meditation and practices that will help you connect with nature and spirit, and create balance and harmony

Refund Policy

For Single Evening Events, Series, Half-Days and Mini-Workshops, Walking Tours, Single-Event Webinars or O’Cast™ Recordings, there are no refunds or course credits for these offerings.

For Full Workshops, Ongoing Courses and Webinars and Online Courses:

  • Refunds are available minus a processing fee* if you cancel up to 11 business days prior to the first day of the program.
  • Course credits are available, minus a processing fee* if you cancel up to 3 business days prior to the first day of the program.

*The processing fee for cancellation is $15 for programs costing less than $250, and $35 for programs costing $250 and up.

No refunds or credits will be given for cancellations less than 3 business days prior to the first day of a program, or if a student does not attend a program. The estimated refund processing time is two to three weeks.

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New York Open Center

The New York Open Center’s mission is to bring the holistic, ecological and spiritual worldview into the contemporary world. Founded in 1984 in the heart of downtown New York City, The Open Center offers programs, workshops, conferences, lectures and performances that awaken the potential of the human...

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