YogaSOMATICS Online Journey

The Body as Home

Aura Space (formerly Living Room Yoga)are delighted to present a 12-week body-oriented self-care and exploratory onlinejourney. 

Theseexperiential practices will be a nourishing blend of restorative and grounding yoga gestures and somatic movement practices sensing and shapingfrom the inside. Each class is a sensory experience and will offer an invitation to return to one’s own energetic field and “felt sense”of the body.

YogaSOMATICS is a contemporary perspective of yoga that is immediate, fluid and experiential. It bridges traditional yoga, modern somatics, meditative techniques and inquiry towards conciousness. YogaSOMATICS encourages sensing and deep listening to make inner contact with oneself and the energetic body.

The practice was founded by Ateeka whose work has been inspired by Continuum Movement founder, the late Emily Conrad, Gestalt psychotherapist Ruella Frank, Danish spiritual teachers, Jes Bertelsen and Madhurima Rigtrup and is currently a student of Helen Gamborg, author of the “Invisible Aspects of Healing”, inspired by Bob Moor’s teachings about the subtle body, energy medicine and healing.

YogaSOMATICS offers spaces of containment and exploration through aware movements, breathing, relaxation, mindfulness, meditation and contact bodywork. It is a return to connect to one’s own bio energy, through slow and subtle movement in a first-person relational experience. It may appeal to those who are new to yoga or as a self-care body practice.

Previous participants have described the practice as “transcendent”, “an exploratory space” and “a sensitive body practice”. 

Mondays 22^nd, 29^thJanuary, 5^th, 12^th, 19^th, 26^thFebruary4^th, 11^th, 25^th March & 1^st, 8^th & 15^thApril 2024

Time: 6.30-7.30pm UK and Ireland / 7.30-8.30pm Spain via Zoom

INVESTMENT:

€180 for 12 weeks

Zoom link and practicalities will be sent the day before the first class of the journey.Each class Zoom recordingwill be available for a 7-day playback. 

SUITABILITY: 

These classes are open to all levels. If you have any injuries/illnesses that may affect you practicing or if you are pregnant, please let me know before booking, and contact Deirdre directly in advance to discuss at auraspacespain@gmail.comThere is no prerequisite required to attend previous classes.

CPD: An attendance certificate will be provided after the 12 weeks. 

BOOKING:

Please visit link below to reserve your place:

https://auraspace.es/book-a-class-VmPFq/p/thesensitivebody

If you have any questions, please contact Deirdre at auraspacespain@gmail.com 

PRIVATE SESSIONS:

Deirdre is also available for Private 1:1 YogaSOMATICS sessions online from 29^th January 2024. Please enquire via email auraspacespain@gmail.com

BIO:

Deirdre Madden is a qualified psychotherapist and YogaSOMATICS teacher; originallyfrom Dublin and now living in Mallorca, Spain. She believes this is an excellent practice for self-healing, energy protection and self-care. Deirdre is also qualified in Vinyasa Flow, Yin and Yoga Nidra, has been a practitioner of yoga for almost 20 years and has a growinginterest in body work and psychic development. 

‘THE DREAM TAROT’

Seven-Day Residential Experiential Workshop

February 10TH – 16TH 2024

Slí An Chroí, Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow

with Members of The Fool’s Dance Gestalt Company –
Paul Rebillot Group In Ireland

Do you sometimes wake up puzzled by strange or haunting
images from a dream that you have just had? Do these images
nag at you during the waking day, hinting that they have
something important to tell you .... if only you could find a
way to decode them?

If so, you are not alone. Our fascination with our dreams has a
very long history. The first known examples of recorded
dreams were written down about 5,000 years ago in
Mesopotamia using cuneiform (one of the earliest known
writing systems) on baked clay tablets.

‘The Dream Tarot’ is a workshop on dreams – how to listen to them, how to express them, how to
work with them, how to play with them, and how to use them as guides. Even people who normally
‘don’t dream’ can learn ways to remember and explore their own dream landscapes.

In creating the ‘Dream Tarot’ workshop, Paul Rebillot’s inspiration was to combine structural elements
of a classical Tarot ‘Life Reading’ with his own powerfully original approach – a fusion of Gestalt
Process with ritual, drama, art, movement, music and meditation – offering us a new, creative way of
bringing our dreams to life, and life to our dreams.
As a participant in this workshop, you will –

Design a series of ‘personal tarot’ cards with images that come from your dreams rather than from the traditional Tarot deck.

Learn an expanded form of Gestalt Process that you can apply to reading your personal dream cards and, if you wish, the classic Tarot as well.
Bring your dreams alive, staging them as you would a play, with yourself and other members of the group playing the roles.

Dance your dreams to completion, discovering what they are telling you in relation to the most important questions in your life.

This workshop is open to psychotherapists and others, for CPD, for personal growth and expansion...

What previous participants said about their experience of the workshop:
“..a particularly gentle powerful experience; deep, meaningful and connecting to self and spirit”

“Excellent, very powerful and transformative. Had a lovely flow and dreamlike quality which complemented the subject matter.”

“Nourishing, fun, enlightening, wonderfully creative, safely held.”

Find out more: http://foolsdancegestaltcompany.ie/workshops/the-dream-tarot/

Apply at: http://foolsdancegestaltcompany.ie/next-workshop/

We’ll be discussing: "The Agony And The Ecstasy... Bringing Couples Into Your Practice"

Come along and learn more about the training we offer here at the Institute of Couples Therapy!

2 CPD Hours 
IACP Approved

Further Information: [Click here>>>]

Email:
info@instituteofcouplestherapy.com
To sign up and get the Zoom Link.

The Global Legacy of the Great Famine in Ireland
Healing the Wounds of An Gorta Mór & Exploring What it Means to be Irish Online | English

What will we be exploring in this Lab?
Our lab will explore the legacy of the Great Famine (1845-52), in which more than 1 million Irish died. More than 1 million emigrated during this time, and there were successive waves of emigration that created an Irish diaspora that today numbers more than 44 million. The lab is not so much about the history but about people’s experience of that history. What did the Irish have to do to survive the Famine? How does the Famine echo into our lives in the present? How is legacy of the famine different for those who left and those who remained?

Who is invited to participate?
The lab is intended for people of Irish descent, whether in Ireland or in the Irish diaspora. Some understanding of trauma is necessary, as is the willingness to look deeply into our individual lives and our ancestry. But most important is the desire to uncover and heal what our Irish ancestors couldn't heal in their own time.

More about the journey of the Lab
The lab will follow Thomas Hübl's Collective Trauma Integration Process (CTIP). We will create a safe container for exploring how the Famine trauma response still lives in us and how it affects our very being. Painful moments will certainly arise in this work but the process will be guided with compassion, care, and respect. And with a deeper understanding of the legacy of the Famine, we can begin individually and collectively to form a new sense of Irishness.

When will we be meeting?
The lab will meet on the Zoom platform. The first meeting will be on Tuesday, Jan. 16. Thereafter, the meetings will be on the second Tuesday of the month: Feb. 13, Mar. 12, Apr. 9, May 14, June 11, July 9, Aug. 13, Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Nov. 12, and Dec. 10. All meetings are for two hours, starting at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern/7pm Ireland.

Link to webpage for registration: https://pocketproject.org/international-labs/the-global-legacy-of-the-great-famine-in-ireland/

Lab Team

 BILL MCCART has been studying with Thomas since 2011. He has taken many of his online courses, completed the Timeless Wisdom Training in 2017, and been in Core Group since then. He completed the Practice Group Leader Training in 2021 and has been co-facilitating a group starting later that year. Thomas’s work has had a profound impact on his life, how he relates to life and its challenges, and how he contributes to life. He is deeply grateful for this and happy to support others on their spiritual and healing journeys.

 SIMON COURTNEY is a trauma-informed psychotherapist from Ireland. His initial curiosity and calling to explore collective trauma, and an embodied spirituality, brought him to the first Pocket Project training with Thomas Hübl in 2017. An increasing awareness for the need to turn towards our undigested past individually has been greatly influenced by his interest in the ancestral and collective dimensions of healing, using a somatic-based and relational approach in his work, where he is following the inner impulse to work more with smaller and emergent group processes.

KATHY SCOTT is a cultural activist and creative entrepreneur dedicated to creating provocative experiences that animate the spirit of our times. Her greatest mission is to nudge humanity forward by inspiring people to rise and lift each other up along the way. She is creative director of The Trailblazery, which was founded as a response to a need for deeper human connection and belonging in our world. She is also founder of The Hedge School – an award-winning cultural project rooted in Ireland that invites people on a collective (un)learning experience to find our shared humanity.

Places in on-line supervision groups will become available from January 2024.

Four members per group and other criteria for supervision hours, reports etc for your accreditation in IAHIP and IACP will be met.

At the moment availability of places exist on Monday evening 7pm; Thursday morning at 8am and Friday morning at 10am.

My fee is 60 euros per two hour session with an average of 11 sessions per year.

If you are interested in please contact me:

Jim FitzGibbon SIAHIP
jamesfotzgibbon57@gmail.com
087 755 05680

RESEARCH – Burnout in counsellors and psychotherapists from the perspective of psychotherapy supervisors in Ireland.

Are you a practicing accredited supervisor in psychotherapy in Ireland with at least three years providing supervision?

You are invited to participate in a research study, undertaken as part of an MSc inPsychotherapy, Dublin City University.

The purpose of the study is to explore the experiences of practicing psychotherapist supervisors surrounding the area of burnout in their supervisee therapists in Ireland. If you have an interest in this area or have experience of this with supervisees you may wish to participate in this study. This study will be an exploratory, in-depth study of the experiences of supervisors dealing with burnout in supervisee therapists and trainee therapists. Participants will be required to partake in a semi-structured interview lasting approximately one hour on the subject of burnout. You will be asked to meet with the researcher for a one hour face to face interview. However the option to use zoom for interviews if this is more suitable is available. DCU protocol will be followed with regard to the use of zoom.

If you are interested in taking part in this study, or have any questions about what is involved, please contact me.

Neil Brady.
neil.brady32@mail.dcu.ie
085 210 7409

Cavendish Conference Centre, London

The London International Eating Disorders Conference (LEDC)

08:15 – 09:15 Registration and refreshments
09:15 – 09:30 Welcome by the conference chairs

Neuro Diversity in Eating Disorders

09:30 – 10:00 ARFID & ASD
10:00 – 10:30 Lived experience: Autism & ED
10:30 – 11:10 Discussion and questions

11:10 – 11:40 Refreshment and exhibition viewing

11:40 – 12:40 Practical Session: PEACE Pathway Implementation

12:40 – 13:40 Lunch and exhibition viewing

Patient Diversity

13:40 – 14:10 Racism/Fatphobia
14:10 – 14:40 Male eating disorders and binge-eating
14:40 – 15:10 BAME challenges in eating disorders

15:10 -15:30 Refreshment and exhibition viewing

15:30 – 16:30 Panel discussion: are we doing enough for our diverse patients?

16:30 – 16:45 Summary and close of conference

For full information, please visit: www.EatingDisordersConference.com

Research: How can the combined knowledge of the Polyvagal Theory and Practice of Yoga support the psychotherapist in self-regulation and co-regulation?

I am a final year student undertaking a Masters in Creative Psychotherapy with children and adolescents with Children’s Therapy Centre.

I am currently conducting research for my thesis study.

The title of my research study is: How can the combined knowledge of the Polyvagal Theory and practice of Yoga support the psychotherapist in self-regulation and co-regulation?

The study will comprise of two focus groups over zoom to discuss the topic. One focus group will include psychotherapists that are also trained yoga teachers. The second group will comprise of psychotherapists that practice yoga.

Participants for either focus group may comprise of psychotherapists that are accredited or pre-accredited.

Participation will involve a focus group meeting over zoom of an hour and fifteen minutes.

If you would like any further information regarding the research or would like to participate in either focus group, please do not hesitate to contact me by email at:

finnertyann@yahoo.ie
Phone: 086 885 3966

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Bronagh Starrs
Winter-Spring Workshop Series

Anxiety, Autism & Gender (Dublin, Limerick Cork)
Sandspace (Galway, Dublin)
Professional Certificate in Adolescent Studies (Online)

For more information, please email Bronagh directly bronaghstarrs@gmail.com