classes & workshops

Sunday Qigong Circle…

A Sunday Somatic Practice to heal in connection and relationship with your wise body

Our Sunday Qigong Circle offers a warm, welcoming circle for you to celebrate your body as a sanctuary for wisdom and healing… to explore being bodyful.

Becoming “Bodyful” with Mindfulness, Meditation & Movement

Each Sunday, we will take time to pause, connect to our wise body and restore whole-body health through the healing practice of Qigong (chee-gong). Somatic Qigong brings together the body wisdom of somatics with gentle, easy-to-learn body movements and breathing of Qigong that still your mind, move your emotions and restore the flow of life-energy or “Qi” to your body. Our circle offers a compassionate, body-oriented and trauma-informed experience.

• Being gently present in your body: noticing its wise cues
• Finding space in your body to feel again, with patience and respect for your limits.
• Discover safety in your body
• Exploring what it means to be compassionate with yourself.
• Discerning the choices that support feeling settled and comfortable in your body.

Benefits of Somatic Qigong

• Supports self-regulation and resilience
• Reduces symptoms of stress
• Enhances our capacity for empathy
• Builds awareness of our body cues
• Helps us feel grounded and think clearer

Dates & Times | Virtual I Drop-In Registration

• Sunday Morrnings I 9:00am-10:00am PST I January 15- March 12, 2023
• $15 +GST
• A sliding scale is open to all. If you want to be part of the circle, simply Get in Touch with Elisa.

Everyone Welcome

An inclusive, warm, welcoming approach makes this a class for everyone to experience. No experience needed… only your presence!

Description

The class is delivered live as an Online Zoom Class. Once registered, you will be sent simple instructions to connect to Zoom and join the class.

Body Speak… 

A weekly somatic practice series for women

Our BodySpeak series offers a warm, welcoming circle for women to celebrate their body as a sanctuary for wisdom and healing… to explore being bodyful.

To build your unique “somatic” or body-centred practice, we will take time to listen and connect with our body using contemplative exercises such a mindfulness, meditation, journaling, body-scanning, breathing & movement … with wonder, curiosity and patience.

Our circle offers an inclusive and trauma-informed approach that respects our body cues and limits as our teacher.

Benefits of Contemplative Exercises

• Supports self-regulation and resilience
• Reduces symptoms of stress
• Enhances our capacity for empathy
• Builds awareness of our body cues
• Helps us feel grounded and think clearer

What Does it Mean to Be Bodyful?

• Being gently present in your body: noticing its wise cues
• Finding space in your body to feel again, with patience and respect for your limits.
• Discover safety in your body
• Exploring what it means to be compassionate with yourself.
• Discerning the choices that support feeling settled and comfortable in your body.

Facilitator: Elisa Peterson, RMT, SEP, MEd Candidate

Dates & Times | In-Person

• Wednesday Evenings I 6:30pm-8:00 PST I January 18- February 22, 2023

Class Investment

• 6 weeks : 105 +GST
• A sliding scale is open to all. If you want to be part of the circle, simply Get in Touch with Elisa.

Everyone Welcome

An inclusive, warm, welcoming approach makes this a class for everyone to experience. No experience needed… only your presence!

Venue

Location: Hollyburn Family Services

Address: 267 Esplanade West, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V7M 1A5

Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) for Massage Therapists

Raise Trauma Awareness | Build Compassionate and Collaborative Practices | Promote Resilience and Regulation

Facilitator: Elisa Peterson, BA, MEd Candidate, SEP

CMTBC Approved for 10 EIP CECs

Dates & Times | Mixed Mode Delivery

• Online: Friday Evening I 6:30pm-8:30pm PST
• In-person: Saturday and Sunday I  9:30am- 4:30pm PST

About Trauma-Informed Practice for Massage Therapists

A Trauma-Informed Practice fosters an environment where the diversity of each patient’s lived experience is met with compassion, safety and awareness to provide care and service effectively, and respectfully. Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) for Massage Therapists is a unique training that integrates cognitive and contemplative learning to support massage therapists in creating a trauma-informed environment for their patients. Prevalence of trauma in all communities makes it such that clinicians are both knowingly and unknowingly treating patients who have experienced trauma.  The goal of the training is to raise awareness of trauma and help massage therapists develop polyvagal-informed communication skills that build safety and trust in the therapeutic relationship.

Integrated Learning Approach

Our training combines foundational, didactic theory with experiential, contemplative practices such as reflection, movement, and sensory self-awareness to build an integrative learning experience for students.

Curriculum At-A-Glance

For a list of Learning Outcomes: Please Contact Elisa.

I. Trauma through the Lens of the Nervous System

• Your Brain and Trauma
• Neuroception
• Threat Response or Self-Protection Cycle
• Neurobiological Safety and Trauma
• Sources of Trauma and Statistics

II. Introduction to Polyvagal Theory:

• Our Evolved Social Engagement System
• Communicating Cues of Safety
• Sensory Cues of Safety in the Body

III. Physiological Symptoms of Stress and Trauma

IV. The Science of Safety in the Therapeutic Relationship

• Neural Regulation and Communication in the Social Engagement System
• Principles of Neurobiological Safety, Building Our Felt Sense of Safety
• Benefits for Therapeutic Relationship and Treatment Efficacy

V. Scope of Practice and Trauma Support Referrals

VI. Neural Regulation Exercises for Massage Therapists

Sliding Scale | Open to Everyone

If you would like to be part of the training,  Get in Touch with Elisa.

Donated Class Fee | Healing As A Community

10% of your registration fees will be donated to support Indigenous Communities of Canada:

• Tsleil-Waututh Nation Residential School Survivors Fund

Details

Location: Hollyburn Family Services

Venue Phone: +1 604-987-8211

Address: 267 Esplanade West, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V7M 1A5