Gentle Healing Techniques for Therapists

During the course we will cover:

• The importance of touch
  o Therapeutic touch o Non-verbal communication o Making contact with client before the first physical touch
• Grounding and protection techniques
  o How to help yourself to not absorb or hold on to your clients emotional and mental state, whilst remaining attentive and empathic
• Breathing techniques
  o the importance of our own balanced state when working with clients o learning to breathe and achieve relaxation o how to encourage your client to use their breath throughout their day and particularly at time of need
• Focus and intention
  o Working with our client, staying in the moment o Focusing on specific areas in the body whist holding the feet or shoulders o Intention of touch
• Listening and sensing
  o Listening with your hands and fingers – sensing o Listening to and interpreting what you feel o listening to your inner voice o listen to what the client isn’t saying o sensing the rhythms of the body o sensing balance and harmony in the body o sensing disharmony and blocked pathways
• Understanding energy pathways and centres of the body
  o Explaining the unseen o Sensing the main chakras of the body and their importance
• Understanding your own feelings and sensations when you are working – such as tiredness, emotions, tingling, heat, vibrations, seeing colour and even pain and discomfort during a treatment sessions
• Intuition
  o Trusting your intuition o Recognising your senses and developing intuition o Why we feel the need to place our hands in a particular area
• The importance of your working environment
  o creating a safe space – wherever you are o techniques for creating stillness - environment / focus / breath / letting go / visualisation / centring / using your voice o ambience o harmony within the environment
• Understanding an emotional release in clients
  o what an emotional release is o how may it present o understanding the benefit to the client o techniques to use to help your client through the process and staying centred as a therapist and how to deal with it for yourself

Join us for this day of practical interactive exercises and techniques and take your therapies to another level.