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Bodywork Training
This deeply enjoyable and gentle form of bodywork combines movements of stretching, lifting and rotating with a continuous rhythmic rocking. The regularity of the background rhythm creates a sense of ease and flow, support and permission. Whatever is present is allowed to surface without in any way forcing or breaking down resistances. There is a developmental basis for the sense of relief and security that Pulsing provides: the rocking of a foetus in the womb, the rocking of a baby in her parents’ arms, the rocking of the cradle and the self-rocking that children (and people of all ages thereafter) readily slip into. Rocking maintains the sense of relatedness. Like the pulse of music, touch can set a bodymind dancing. The effects of Pulsing occur below the level of conscious awareness and will continue to be felt for some while after the session. It is a joy to give and a treat to receive.
The core of each weekend will be short demonstration sessions followed by supervised practice in pairs. There will be time for sharing experiences arising out of the work together and encouragement to relate these experiences to your personal and/or professional background. The weekends feature plentiful hands-on practice, interspersed with feedback processes that enhance your learning. You will learn a basic thirty three moves with which: 1) You can give a whole body session for an hour. This repertoire is expandable and the sequencing variable. Course participants on the qualifying track learn extra moves on their third and fourth weekends. 2) You can give short form sessions focusing on one or more of the mini-sessions within the long form (head and neck, arms, legs from the front, legs from the back, torso from the front, torso from the back) 3) You can introduce single moves or short sequences into your existing mode of bodywork. Additionally – course members on the 4 w/e qualifying track can expect by its completion to take away whatever is personally relevant to their learning curve and future application of Pulsing from amongst the following nine more advanced practitioner skills: 4) Deep relearning in your own body, how it feels to be fluid, connected and whole, the necessary basis for communicating this to others 5) Developing good habits of posture and positioning for effortless working 6) Utilising different qualities of touch and engaging with the different types of body tissue -ecto, meso- and endoderm 7) Supporting the emergence of core body impulses; healing through respecting involuntary movements 8) Discovering body images & enhancing bodily aspects of self-image 9) Combining the moves with a focus on breathing to coax ripe feelings towards expression, (especially for the overbounded person) 10) Maintaining contact without merging, managing your own body boundaries and supporting the formation of boundaries (especially for the underbounded person) 11) Choosing a progressive or regressive approach and balancing the pleasure and reality principles 12) Combining pulsing with verbal facilitation (six models – bioenergetic, biosynthesis, biodynamic, gestalt, psychomotor and psychodynamic).
Besides being a Certified Practitioner of Bodywork (A.H.P.P.), Massage (I.T.E.C.) and Postural Integration, I trained with Curtis Turchin, the originator of Pulsing. I am a Full Member of the International Guild of Professional Practitioners (I.G.P.P.), and have served on the Advisory Council of The Association of Massage Practitioners (A.M.P.). For me teaching Pulsing is a way of contributing to the tradition of deep body-centred therapy that was begun by Wilhelm Reich in the 1920s. I greatly enjoy sharing the values and vision of this formative and foundational approach to bodywork. I also have a particular interest in the development of a contemporary synthesis of bodywork and analytical therapy. The annual cycle of three Pulsing weekends is the hands-on element of my broader personal development programme, Bodyspace.
"I was fairly new to bodywork, but now feel drawn to using Pulsing with most of my clients on various parts of the body. Thank you so much for the course. I think it’s a great technique and I feel very glad to be able to call upon it often in my work." "I have greatly enjoyed the whole course and feel it was very well taught and conceived. Thank you. I also really appreciated the opportunity to work with and get to know such great co-students and bodyworkers. All in all very enjoyable, educational and definitely to be used!" "I really think Pulsing is one of the most effective and enjoyable therapies that I have come across. The one or two days that I give massage at my place of work it is mostly Pulsing now." "I think I have grown from this experience in mind and body. Pulsing has opened new doors, it has made me feel comfortable with myself. My breathing has improved." "My whole body feels different and I found a perceptible change in my ability to heal myself. Also just feeling more lively and lighter and feeling spontaneously like dancing a lot." "There are no obvious transition phases, and my practitioner moved catlike around my body, without one being aware of a new area being worked on. I was soon mesmerised by the movements, and quickly relaxed with the swaying motion." "It seems to go down from my head to my feet and come back up from my feet to my head. It feels that I’m contacting something very important. I have a sense of communion. What event is going to happen, a hint of Eureka? I feel more powerful, taller, stronger, people tell me how amazingly beautiful I look. I still feel the wave as I walk. I can easily internalise the movement. Not only that the experience seems to continue on its own."
Whether your interest is in a single weekend or the qualifying track of four weekends you may like to have a preview of Pulsing by arranging a private session. Weekend Courses
A single w/e costs £120. A deposit of £60 secures a place. The balance is payable no later than 10 days before the w/e. The 4 w/e qualifying track costs £420 (£105 per w/e). A deposit of £210 secures a place on the first 2 weekends of your choice. The balance is payable not later than ten days before your 2nd w/e. Notes 1) Attendance at 4 weekends gives the required minimum number of hours to qualify for the Certificate issued by Pulsing Associates. 2) You may book for a single w/e which is your first and then decide to switch to the qualifying track. You would then need to decide on the date of your second w/e and pay a further £90 to achieve the initial payment of £210 at the conclusion of your first w/e. 3) Qualifying track weekends need not be consecutive. 4) The qualifying track must be completed within 2 years of your 1st w/e, ie you may choose any 4 weekends out of the 7 available in any 2 year period. 5) You may still qualify for the Certificate by attending on a single w/e basis provided 4 are completed within a 2 year period. But in this instance there is no discounted fee. 6) Weekends almost invariably take place in March, May and October. In the event the above calendar shows less than 6 current w/e dates and you need to plan future weekends in advance please ring to obtain future dates scheduled. 020 7272 6672.
The venue is The British School of Shiatsu-Do, a quality environment for the practice and teaching of a spectrum of complementary health therapies - treatment - exercise. It is one of the largest centres of its kind in North London, approximately a 7 minute walk from Finsbury Park Underground and British Rail mainline. There are frequent bus services and off street parking is available at the weekends. Massage tables and covers will be provided. Each course member is asked to bring their own sheet. Hot drinks and pure water are available on the premises, lunch may be brought or easily purchased nearby. It is not necessary to be unclothed to receive a Pulsing session, provided clothing is comfortable and does not restrict movement. Otherwise course members may wear as little or as much as they are comfortable with. No admission to the course is possible without prior registration.
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grounded in-the-body experience of wonder and ‘good wombing’
I
am a body-oriented psychotherapist and member since 1984 of The Open Centre,
the longest established independent personal growth centre in Britain. I have
been teaching Pulsing since 1985, mainly in London, also in Oslo, Dublin and
Spain. I have trained extensively in various forms of therapeutic bodywork
and co-organised six Massage Fairs in the 1980’s.