Body Wisdom

What You'll Take Home

• Practical Tools You Can Apply to Help Regulate Your Nervous System

• The Ability to Apply Simple Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Principles for Health & Wellbeing

• Simple Practices to Help Remember Your Dreams

• The Ability to Help Decode Dreams

• The Ability to Connect With the Natural Environment

• A Deeper Connection to Your Body Wisdom

• Therapeutic Art Practices to Help Access Resources in the Unconscious Mind

Embodiment Practices

This Workshop can achieve these goals by focussing on:

1. Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy

2. Dreamwork from the perspective of Jungian Psychology

3. Art Therapy

4. Meditation

Background to Embodiment Practices:

These workshops will focus on giving you a first hand experience of practices and the possibilities that can have a profound influence on health.

Some background theory will also be given.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy:

We will explore a very gentle but effective style of touch-based bodywork that is profoundly influenced by the art of 'non-doing'. This style of bodywork supports the body to recognise safety and return to health.

We will be exploring a number of practical and easy to engage exercises, breaking up into groups to practice what it feels like to listen to the body and witness the responses.

You're welcome to learn more about Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy you can visit this website

Dreamwork:

"Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They're pure nature, showing us unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature..." C. G. Jung- The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man

While exploring dreams relies very much on our intuition and emotional/body responses to the dreams content, there are a number of guiding principles that Jung recognised can provide some structure to the dream analysis. We will explore these principles and see how they work with real dreams.

If you would like to bring along a dream, there will be a session where we break into smaller groups and you can experience helping other people with their dream - and if you wish having that help with your own dream.

Art Therapy:

In this workshop Art Therapy serves as a creative process to foster self-expression to give voice to non-verbal symbols and messages that will help us explore our dreams and what may be difficult to put into words.

Meditation:

As a prelude to the above processes, we will use a body-centered meditation practice.

Exploring physical sensations will help with:

• Grounding awareness in the present, felt experience of the body as internally perceived.

• Regulating the nervous system by fostering a non-judgmental awareness of internal states, thereby facilitating the gentle release of tension or stored emotional/trauma energy (a shift from reaction to response).

• Enable the body to anchor and deepen awareness of the present moment.

All Materials Provided on the Day

Your Facilitators

Jhana Bowen - Craniosacral Therapist, Artist, Author & Art Therapist

Jhana Bowen is the founder of Quantum Bio Intelligence, with a therapeutic bodywork practice and clinical expertise spanning over two decades. His dedication to healing began early, rooted in Reiki training at age eight. Jhana holds extensive qualifications in modalities including Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (specializing in nervous system regulation), Kahuna Massage, Art Therapy and Yoga.

He has also taught yoga and meditation internationally in various settings, including corporate environments.

Jhana brings a uniquely embodied, intuitive, and compassionate approach, grounded in todays modern world with a background that includes Tibetan monastic studies and a lifelong artistic practice. He is published author and illustrator, dedicated to empowering your body’s innate healing processes and fostering a profound connection to the powers of the creative self.

Peter Fisher - Practitioner of the Jungian Approach to Dream Analysis, Tai Chi Teacher

Peter Fisher is a passionate and devoted practitioner of Jungian Dream Analysis. He has presented on numerous occasions on the power and benefits of Dreamwork to the Carl Jung Society and many other notable places.

He enjoys the hands on facilitation of dream groups where 4 to 6 people share and explore their dreams on a regular basis.

Peter is also a long standing practitioner and teacher of Tai-Chi for over two decades. He currently teaches at the University of the Third Age in Tewantin.

Where is the workshop?

The workshop will take place in both the Wellbeing Centre and The upstairs loft of the Chenrezig institute Art Studio.

33 Johnsons Road, Euldo, 4554, Sunshine Coast.

Drive through the lion archway and its about 200m further on the left hand side.

On the Day

Please Arrive at 9:30am at the Chenrezig Wellbeing Centre for a 10am start.

You're welcome to help yourself to Tea and settle in.

Lunch at the Big Love Cafe?

There is a vegetarian lunch served at the The Big Love Cafe at 12noon until 1pm. If you would like to book for lunch, please do so at least 24 hours ahead using this link-  https://chenrezig.checkfront.com/reserve/#

In ‘Category’ select Big Love Cafe. This will bring up the ‘Big Love Lunch’ option, from which you can click, fill in your details and pay for on the CI website.