In this workshop you’ll learn the key structures involved in trauma patterns within the body and why we can end up feelings so stuck in life and unable to change certain thinking and behavioural patterns.
Tension patterns start in the nervous system but certainly don’t end there. Repeated stress & trauma will cause muscles to tense and shorten over long periods of time, or weaken and become flaccid. This will then develop a particular posture & behavioural pattern that will include beliefs about self and the world…eventually concluding with a fixed identify, for example, “I’m such a negative person” “I’ve always been anxious”
The structures we’ll be taking a deep dive into are:
- the facia
- the diaphragm
- the psoas muscle
These structures hold tension patterns of trauma & chronic stress and can perpetuate poor posture, stress, anxiety, depression, poor sleep, digestion, fertility and weight.
The great news is that tension can be release from these structures and strength can be increased. Getting to know these parts of the body more and learning how to befriend and work them will:
- help you back into the flow of life
- unblock unhelpful patterns
- step into new behaviours and beliefs
- feel freer within your body
- feel more connected to self and others
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Learn how fascia is essential to health and wellbeing – it’s role, function and how tension patterns are created.
- Learn how tension builds within the diaphragm and how this keeps us stuck, and can lead to poor mental & physical health
- Learn how the psoas muscle perpetuates stress
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Everyone who is invested in their mental and physical health and that of others. Practitioners will develop another dimension to their work
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Learning how the body perpetuates stress and trauma responses will support your clients to develop body awareness
Course Content
Presenter
Kate Williams has been in therapeutic practice since 2009 with a background in counselling in further education. She currently runs a busy private practice, works with NHS clients and enjoys running workshops for onlinevents and staff wellbeing workshops for NHS Hull & Humberside.
Kate is centre manager for the Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies where she teaches on the CPCAB L5 in Somatic Trauma Therapy course & L2 Award in Breathwork Coaching as well as the Level 4 in Therapeutic Counselling.
Kate has a passion for bringing the body into her practice supporting clients to release the trauma that is held within their bodies. Kate is know for her relaxed teaching style, experiential somatic practices and skill of bringing theory to life and making it applicable.
