Please pre-register, as this workshop is not open to the general public.
In this workshop we will move, breathe, jump, stretch, roll on the floor and be still; playfully finding our natural rhythm with ourselves and each other; letting go of extra.
Together we will practice tangibly caring for ourselves and for others using touch, movement, and simple bodywork exchange grounded in Breema's principles of harmony: no judgment, full participation, firmness and gentleness, mutual support, body comfortable..
Breema helps create flexibility in body, mind, and feelings, so that we can open up and connect with our natural joy and passion for life. A profound feeling of unity, compassion, and respect arise when we allow the mind to become receptive to rather than direct our experience. With Breema, the essence of caring begins with one's self. By coming to the body and bringing body, mind, and feelings to work together in harmony, we discover ourselves anew in the taste of Being Present.
This taste can support a new relationship with our body where defensiveness, anxiety, and fear naturally move to the background and we experience the confidence of who we really are, unhindered by societally-conditioned thoughts, emotions, and sensations.
When we care for ourselves, we naturally care for everything around us; the sun by its nature shines, nurturing all.
No previous experience necessary. Please be comfortable sitting on and working on a well padded floor.
$25-$50 sliding scale
For more information please contact: 510-859-8970 or angelap.breema@gmail.com
Please come in comfortable clothing and socks, prepared to move around and exchange bodywork on a padded floor.
Course meets the qualifications for 2.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs,LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
The Breema Center is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT #128568) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. The Breema Center maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
Instructors
Angela Porter
I have been a somatic therapist and professional counselor providing individual, couples, family, and group therapy since 1991. I was introduced to BREEMA in 1996 as the result of a profound injury/accident, and began studying in 1997. Now almost 30 years later, this wholistic, inclusive, common sense, principled practice and philosophy has become the foundation of my psychotherapeutic work. BREEMA is simple, practical, universal yet rudimentarily human, and offers us nothing less than...
Nakhter Ahad
I’m Nakhter. I am based in Huichin (Oakland) where I work as a somatic psychotherapist, counselor, and experiential educator. After many years of exploring body-mind connection to deal with pain, I was introduced to Breema and have yet to come across a method as simple, practical, and nourishing. Breema invites me into relationship with my self in a way that is deeply nurturing while reminding me to enjoy every moment along the way. Through Breema bodywork, I learn more and more how to treat...
Alexis Mulhauser
Alexis Mulhauser has over 25 years of experience studying and teaching movement, including Breema, Yoga, martial arts, and dance. She is a Breema Instructor and Self-Breema Instructor at the Breema Center in Oakland, CA, and Certified Massage Therapist. Alexis also teaches dance in Berkeley and gives private bodywork sessions at the Breema Clinic and Worthy Self-Care Studio in Berkeley. By applying Breema and the 9 Principles of Harmony in her professional path as a movement educator, Alexis...