Bio-Energetics For Pleasure

How to release locked-up energy and use it to get on with life.

From Saturday Jul 31, 2010 to Saturday Aug 07, 2010
Cost: £578.00
Availability: YES

In expressions such as 'uptight', 'laid-back', 'stiff-necked', 'a push-over', we recognise that mental states are often also physical ones. Indeed, much energy is unconsciously used to lock our muscles (and hence emotions), so that we are unable to relax, and often feel tired. Or, energy may be dissipated by being 'limp' or 'all-over-the-place'.

Bio-energetics uses special exercises to release locked muscles and to get your feet on the ground (literally). Energy flows again, often accompanied by emotions both positive and negative. Feelings of relief and excitement are common. You can then deal with underlying issues and resume a normal free-flowing state. Interactive exercises, drawings, dreamwork, enactment, voicing and group processes help clarify and resolve issues. You can then 'try on for size' any changes you desire.

There will also be daily light 'tasters', including life-size art, to explore your body image; Pulsing (a rhythmic rocking massage); Authentic Movement in the garden and Watsu (bodywork in the pool).

Course Leader

Guy Gladstone
Guy Gladstone has over 20 years experience in a very wide range of methods, specialising in bioenergetics, other bodymind approaches to growth, and psychodrama. He has been a member for 24 years of The Open Centre in London, which is the longest established independent personal growth centre in Britain. His work is all about the capacity for pleasurable self-regulation.