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...
Arlie Mischeaux
Arlie began receiving Breema bodywork sessions in 1994 and soon after became a Certified Breema Practitioner and Instructor. Since then, she has dedicated her efforts to teaching and reaching more people with the essential, transformative method that Breema offers, via classes, workshops, and private sessions. Over the years, she has studied and traveled with a keen interest in expanding her experience and understanding of many traditional healing methods with native peoples, shamans, medicine...
Nakhter Ahad
I’m Nakhter. I am based in Huichin (Oakland) where I work as a somatic psychotherapist, counselor, and experiential educator. After seeing how including the body could help me process my own trauma, I went to grad school to study somatic therapy. There I was introduced to a few Self-Breema exercises, and became charmed by the mix of playfulness and depth. Practicing Breema and Self-Breema help me remember a way of being I knew as a child, before I learned to be so scared of myself and other...
Tsadae Neway
Tsadae Neway: “My first experience receiving Breema was in 1995; it allowed me to rest in my body after a challenging accident and I knew that Breema was connected to Source. I resonated deeply with the teachings and continued to show up to experience in the atmosphere. The Breema principles, sequences and accessible wisdom continues to guide the way I am and the work I do.”
Tsadae is a movement alchemist. She is a Certified Massage Therapist, a Certified Breema Practitioner and Instructor...