This is a one -day workshop exploring presence, contact and pulsation from a Radix  and Chinese medicine framework and will be experiential, with a combination of teaching, groupwork, pair work, sharing and listening, bodywork, feeling work, breath work and movement, promoting self-contact, and self-expression.

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This workshop and the other Alive workshops run throughout the year, and can be brought into colleges, universities and places of study and work. They provide opportunity for deepening  understanding of embodiment, awareness and presentness, for the individual and what this allows for in turn in therapeutic spaces. Awareness about character our own tendencies, what each bring in strength and challenge, the workshops can be used to help promote authentic relating and knowing in the workplace, or as part of self, development and growth in students, who will be working in a therapeutic way with people and the need when working with other people in therapeutic settings to be trauma informed and to process trauma within our own bodies. The Alive workshops can be taken singularly or part of a series of workshops and can be tailored to your setting and requirements.

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Tessa has over 20 years’ experience as a Chinese medicine practitioner. She is a somatic bodyworker and is a certified Radix practitioner the only currently practicing in the Uk, which is a body psychotherapy that specialises in trauma and developmental interruptions, specialising in feeling and purpose. She is experienced in holding groups that focus on feeling, embodiment, and aliveness of the human being.

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In this one-day workshop we will be exploring what contact, pulsation and presence are within a Radix and Chinese medicine framework, and the emphasis placed on the functioning on the ocular/eyes segment of the body as the segment of integration and in the qualities of fire and water in the body.

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Radix is an educational personal growth process, both individually and group orientated, that frees the capacity for feeling and aliveness. It is particularly useful in freeing emotional blocks. Like many therapies the main goal of Radix is to help the person become fully in contact with themselves and in contact with others and the world around them, and to have choice of experiencing their feeling and aliveness, this is the same in Chinese medicine, more than the absence of disease. We help by bringing conscious chronic tensions and of their pulsatory habits that inhibit their contact with themselves or their self-expression in the world. We work with pulsation, which is the rhythmic contraction and expansion of all living things, we observe pulsations of breath, movement, contact and emotion, in doing this we notice that people develop particular pulsating patterns that limit the full expression of their life force. Pulsation has two aspects the instroke, the charging, going inside and connecting with self and the outstroke, going outside, and connecting with the outside world.

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This is an experiential workshop offered to both health professionals, as well as those who work with people to promote personal growth or can be taken as part of personal professional development. The workshop will incorporate core principles of Radix and Chinese medicine philosophy in both understanding of and experience of embodiment to look at ways of becoming more present, in contact and alive to the moment.

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The workshop will look at the ability to identify internal body signals and recognise our desire to be in contact or our inability and uncomfortableness to be in contact and present and alive to the moment, with ourselves or and to another. We will explore what being in contact means for us, are we able to be in contact and present with ourselves at the same time as being in contact with another, in feeling, thinking and action.

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I am looking forward to sharing this day with you. Please feel you can contact me to enquire when the next workshop will take place and to  book a place or and to ask any questions that might facilitate your decision to participate or book my workshops.

 

With warmth Tessa