Return to Your Senses

Body-centered trauma-care training for bodyworkers

Adult enrichment classes

Return to your senses for bodyworkers

Do some of your clients need help to work with post traumatic issues in their tissues?

Trauma overwhelms sensory perception. It scrambles the brain’s memory-making ability and it impairs communication. Specialized communication and contact are among the skills that make body-centered trauma care safer and more effective for clients and practitioners.

Any event that overwhelms the ordinary human capacity to cope can be traumatic.

Even after the event seems forgotten, the body remembers.

Did you know that accidents, illness, abuse, war and natural disasters make trauma our greatest public health issue?

Subconsciously, trauma affects how people live, and that affects the lives of those with whom they interact.

It ain’t all grim!

You will learn to be present, to protect yourself, to help clients re-embody when flashes pull them into the past. Embodied people often connect with their joy, humor and spontaneity, so we will explore ways to engage those latent expressions.

Return to Your Senses Level 1 - for bodyworkers

• introduces body workers, occupational and physical therapists to body-centered trauma-care;
• replaces “fix-me” expectations by engaging information from client’s body;
• explores integrating the work into any type of bodywork session;
• covers essentials for safe, inter-active, creative work with clients who contract for body-centered trauma care;
• provides handbook to guide clients through body-centered healing and interfacing with
  psychotherapeutic process
• Small classes; 8 - 12 participants
• 25 Continuing Education Hours
• Training Tuition $75 - 145 per student, depending on class size, plus:
  • cost of venue
  • cost of meals / lodging for retreats
  • transportation costs

Return to Your Senses - adult education enrichment classes

for LGBT seniors

Nov. 1 - Dec. 20

The Village at Ed Gould Plaza

1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038

For information call 323-860-7322

Presenter: Carol Springer

• massage therapist since 1983.
• former massage instructor at CT Center for Massage Therapy
• former Trauma Touch Therapy^TM instructor at Colorado School of Healing Arts