Ayurvedic Yogamassage / Core integration
Is a powerful system of meditative bodywork that combines deep touch with yoga stretches. One session can help you gain flexibility, muscle relaxation and restore the flow of energy throughout your whole body. Developed after many years of study and practise, Core Integration restores the body's natural state of balance by means of deep connective tissue manipulation, assisted yoga stretches from ayurvedic origin, jointmobilization and re-educating the body.
Balance is essential in all aspects of life and Core Integration aims to restore the body's natural balance by improving the vertical connection of the main body parts: head, shoulders, chest, pelvis and legs. Poor vertical connection is one of the main reasons for chronic pain and stress in the body-mind complex. A body in balance brings the experience of relaxation and aliveness.
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Training/courses :
A unique combination of ayurvedic deep tissue massage, assisted yoga stretches and energy release techniques. Learn about the functional, structural and emotional holding patterns that keep the body from achieving balance. Learn the art of deep tissue strokes and myofascial manipulation. Discover how assisted yoga stretches integrate the release achieved through deep tissue work, to return full range of motion to the joints. Get hands-on experience working with other class members and models.
The 3 to 5 day course, or the 14-day training is open to all body-therapists, professionals and also people without bodywork experience. At the end of the course/training you will be able to use what you have learned to create full sessions specifically geared to your client's individual needs.
Daily schedule: aprox. 9.30am to 17.00pm. Language: English.
Participation benefits :
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For those who are interested in a career of (meditative) healing bodywork professionally.
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For those who want to begin exploring touch & massage.
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Masseurs and therapists wishing to enhance their skills and widen their experience.
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Development of your intiution and body awareness.
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Anyone wishing to understand the pain & tension in the body and learn ways to release/prevent it.
Course & Training subjects :
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Deep tissue strokes - assisted stretches.
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Sensitivity of touch (conscious touch).
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Manipulation of myo-fascia, superficial and core muscles.
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Relatedness of superficial (sleeve) and core muscles.
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Working with pain (bad backs, stiff necks & aching joints etc.
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Working with release of emotional / traumatic issues - and their connection to myo-fascia.
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Form and presence : being connected to your 'hara', gaining the most effect with the least effort and using your session as a meditation for you and your client.
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How to create a session according to clients primary needs.
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Bodyreading and intuition.
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Trust : allowing your own body to guide you what to do in a session.
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Communication skills : how to relate verbally with your client in the most effective and understanding way.
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How to combine deep strokes with assisted yoga stretches.
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Individual session benefits :
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Profound relaxation, reduced stress.
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Regained sense of wholeness, "a feeling of being 'at home' in the body".
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Greater freedom of movement / increased vitality.
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Relief from (old) chronic pain (back, knee, neck, migraine, sciatica).
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Integration of core-muscles in various physical performances.
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Changes of old holding patterns / habits of the physical body.
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Enhanced efficiency of the visceral organs.
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Calmer, deeper sleep & improved blood circulation.
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Better alignment of the main body-parts / improved posture.
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Release of withheld emotions and possible release of deepseated trauma's.
- Deepening awareness of the body/mind complex / prevention of physical/emotional stress, triggering the climate for silence, meditation and healing.
- More selfacceptance.
Ideally, your body is capable of allowing the free flow of energy and the spontaneous expression of feelings. It is efficient and graceful in its movements. Such a body has bright eyes, breathes freely, is smoothly skinned, has elastic muscle tone and is well coordinated. A sense of vitality and well-being are characteristic feelings of a body in harmony with itself.
It is through the body that we reach the divine. When we allow the body's energy to flow, we become a river of bliss.
The name "Osho" refers to an Indian mystic, who, for thirty eight years taught 'the Secrets of Life' & Love as a Tantric Zen Master in India before leaving his body in 1990.
The ancient art of Ayurvedic yoga massage has been refined and sophisticated in Osho's Meditation Resort through Rebalancing, Jointrelease, Shiatsu, Postural Integration and more, shaped and inspired by Osho and rooted in meditation.
Some of his words:
Massage is to come to a rapport with the aliveness of somebody else's body and to feel where it is missing, to feel where the body is fragmentary and to make it whole...to help the energy of the body so it is no more fragmentary, no more contradictory. When the energies of the body are falling into line and become an orchestra, then you succeed.
So be very respectful about a human body. It is the very shrine of God, the temple of God.
So with deep reverence, prayer, learn your art. It is one of the greatest things to learn.
Excerpted from: Dance Your Way to God, Osho
Bodywork can take us out of compulsive thinking and bring us back into the life of the body - to being more present in the moment. Usually we live at a distance from our bodies, our sexuality, and from the signals that the body is giving. Once our senses are opened, our energy flows through the whole body. We feel vibrant and connected to our environment.
Core Integration brings our body back in a natural state of alignment which enables us to move and balance from our core, from our center of gravity. The body continually relates to the physical force of gravity. If various segments of the body are not more or less aligned, then the external muscles labor to maintain an upright posture. The pelvis, abdomen, chest and head balance easily when their center of gravity are in line. Then the upright balance comes easily from the core muscles.
Ordinarily people are not aligned this way. The easy and natural relationship to gravity can be disorganized by many factors; accidents, misguided habits, or deep psychological and emotional traumas. In this misalignment, we struggle to move, and as the fascial webwork of connective tissue adapts to support our movements, the body gradually changes shape and posture.
With a series of Core Integration sessions, the whole body can be systematically reorganized by proceeding from the outer layers to the deeper ones and bringing all the major segments into an integrated system of balance. Those centers of energy which we call chakras lie along the same central line of gravity.
It is a fact that this core physical balance is directly related to the core feeling of one's own being. The usual sense we have of ourselves and the world is based on our characteristic patterns of tension. When the outer layers of the body release to permit the inner layers to function, a deeper awareness opens up. This is not only a physical experience but also a sensation of inner expansion.
When we release tensions and move into the natural balance of our core. we find trust, balance and a deep sense of who we truly are. Core Integration gives us a dramatic shift in consciousness - a much deeper experience of our own being. Contracted thought patterns release and are replaced by a more expanded viewpoint.
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