Bodywork for Depression & Anxiety
Bodywork for Depression & Anxiety: Virginia Beach
Learn simple, body-centered practices to help people feel more alive, connected and embodied through breath, bioenergetics, massage and compassionate presence.
Recalibrate & Restore
Depression and anxiety has become an epidemic in our society with more people than ever seeking relief through both conventional and alternative methods. Trauma, loss, and the everyday challenges of daily life can create constriction and loss of connection in the physical and emotional body. From these big and small traumas, our body begins to form in a way that sets in fatigue, exhaustion, distress, difficulty focusing, irritability and physical pain.
The physical toll of depression and anxiety reveals itself in the body through tension, pain, misalignment and discomfort. In this course you will learn specific hands-on massage techniques that unwind targeted areas of the body that have been contracted, bringing more flow and movement into the structure. We will look at the science behind depression and anxiety, what is happening in the brain as well as the importance of understanding conventional treatments. We will explore emotional anatomy, including how the body is shaped by our thoughts, feelings and beliefs, and discuss how mindfulness practices can help free us from negative thought patterns. We will incorporate movement and grounding body-centered practices can help support a distressed emotional body system.
A highly experiential training
You will learn simple body-centered practices to help people feel more alive, connected and embodied through breath, bioenergetics, massage and compassionate presence. Through these embodied practices you will discover the body’s innate ability to recalibrate, reset and restore to its natural flow, beyond depression and anxiety.
This hands-on and highly experiential training is designed with for the massage therapist, mental health professional, nurse, physician, yoga teacher or other health care professional to better understand the tools and latest research available for depression and anxiety. Because depression and anxiety affects a wide population of people, this training is open to anyone with an interest in the topic.
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Unity of Tidewater
Virginia Beach
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