Ego to Essence: Introductions to Esalen® Massage, Breathwork, Spiritdance & Touching Essence


Friday June 29 - Sunday July 1, 2012

Santa Barbara, Ca.


Workshop Schedule:

Friday 6/29 | 6:30-9pm - Ellen Watson

Yoga Soup
28 Parker Way
Santa Barbara, CA 93101


Introductions to Esalen® Massage, Breathwork, Spiritdance & Touching Essence

Ellen Watson is celebrating her 28th year on staff at Esalen Institute (www.Esalen.org), where she studies, practices, and teaches various modalities of moving meditation practice. A licensed minister, Ellen believes that the core of all healing begins in the realm of the heart and the Spirit. Among her great pleasures are opening the door for people to dance, to sing and play and pray, to touch and be touched. She is passionate about spreading the good news about how waking up can heal and transform the mind, body and soul. Ellen is a teacher of Esalen® Massage, Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms™, Holotropic™ Breathwork, SpiritDance, The Art of Essential Touch, and Your Body is a Musical Instrument. From 1984 through 2003, Ellen developed and administered the Movement Arts Program at Esalen. In 1996, she founded MovingVentures™  School, a 501c3, whose mission is education in the somatic arts, focusing on women and men in developing countries, and the southern USA. MovingVentures™ faculty offer workshops, retreats, and trainings at Esalen, in Bali, and at other inspiring locations around the globe. Esalen®Massage is a unique form of bodywork developed over the past forty-five years. Known for its long, integrating strokes that create an experience of deep relaxation, the Esalen® Massage approach supports the natural ability of body and mind to self-heal. . Massage study is complemented by daily meditation, yoga, dance, and other movement disciplines, giving participants the experience of aliveness and flowing presence central to Esalen® Massage,. This process of self-exploration is key to grounding the teaching in embodied experience. In so doing, what might simply be a technique is transformed into a healing art. Whether your intent is to explore a change of career, deepen your knowledge of bodywork, or to spend time on a journey of self-exploration and transformation, the skills and knowledge gained may last a lifetime.


Ellen developed/birthed SpiritDance in the 1980’s & early 90’s at Esalen.Deeply influenced by the Native American practices woven into the fabric of Esalen and practiced during the 80’s, Ellen found embodiment of spiritual principles through SweatLodge, Vision Questing, Fire Circles, Teepee Ceremonies,, using the Talking Stick, and ritual and ceremonies that honored Mother Earth. Ellen worked extensively with a group of women who sat in Teepee Ceremonies in Ojai and Sebastapol, CA. Ellen’s work with Stan Grof, from 1984-1995, and his neo shamanic approach to Spiritual Emergency, allowed Ellen to lead SpiritDance classes for all who came to the monthlong programs between 84 and 90.These SpiritDance sessions opened us/prepared us for the Holotropic Breathwork sessions, which use music from around the world to catalyze energy, breathwork, and bodywork, in a safe environment.
Having sat for and been sat for over 1,000 Holotropic Sessions and facilitated the integration of these experiences afforded Ellen personal healing and professional development.
Between 1984 & 2003, Ellen developed and directed the Movement Arts Program at Esalen; during this time she led 1000’s of early AM, PM public classes, work-scholar groups, catalog workshops at Esalen.Working with people from all backgrounds, who ‘walked
through the door’ to the class, has supported her development as a skilled facilitator in support of Spiritual Emergency becoming Grounded Spiritual Emergence.
In addition, during this time, Ellen studied extensively with Gabrielle Roth, certifying as a 5Rhythms teacher in 1995. Ellen also certified, during these years, in Clinical Hypnosis, numerous Yoga Schools/Lineages. www.movingventures.org




Saturday 6/30 1PM - Ellen Watson

Filming of the "Bridging Heaven and Earth" Talk Show with Ellen Watson
http://www.youtube.com/user/bridgingheaven
Free admission
Food/drinks provided
Location: 6332 Lindmar Drive – Santa Barbara (Goleta), CA 93117
for details Email Bianca@healingartscroatia.com or call Bianca at 805-895-8537 (PST)

Sunday 7/1 12:30-3:30PM - Ellen Watson
SpiritDance/Soul Song

Location: Yoga Soup
28 Parker Way
Santa Barbara, CA 93101


Spirit Dance is just that, Embodied Spirit On The Move...in the class you will Wake Up and Roar. Your Spirit will soar and your Heart will Sing.


Spirit Dance - The Oldest Spiritual Practice on our planet

  • Embodiment of the 8 Chakras, the 5 Elements, the 7 directions, the 8 senses
  • Embodiment of thoughts, feelings, emotions
  • Moving Gestalt
  • Metaphysical & physical fitness practice
  • A deep dervish bowing surrender to being present in a body
  • An honoring of ancient wisdom teachings
  • Often challenging to get out of head into the body
  • Foot-stomping, romping good time
  • Embodiment of Fear, Anger, Sadness, Joy, Compassion, Guilt & Shame and all their relatives
  • A cleanse, a detox, for the whole person
  • Ecstatic, Embodied Prayer
  • Stillness on the move
  • A heart opening, letting go of control surrender
  • A shaking of all 206 bones in the body and the flesh that connect them
  • A Moving Meditation Practice
  • Communion with our Creator
  • A letting to of past and moving into presence
  • A Celebration
  • A 30 minute, 3 hour, 3 day, 30 day, 3 week or 30 year practice of diving into yourself as a path inquiry and self knowleder
  • Community Building
  • Group process/clearing
  • Dance For EveryBody
  • The perfect partner for singing
  • Opens the door/portal for adults to become kids again
  • Ground for becoming a spinner or whirling dervish

For pricing and more information please contact: Bianca Childs

 

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