WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
WORKSHOP: MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR)
DATES & TIMES:
EVENING Series: Tuesdays, January 30 - March 19, 6:00pm - 8:30pm (in person)
MORNING Series: Thursdays, February 1 - March 21, 9:30am - noon
Included in both series is a Silent RETREAT: Sat. March 16th, 9:30am - 4:00pm
TEACHER Kita Mehaffy, MA, MFA
INFO:
If you are dealing with stress, anxiety or overwhelm and would like to cultivate a way to manage life's challenges, MBSR is an evidence-based practice that can help you. Part of the extraordinary package of living is stress and we can't stop that. But we can learn to manage our response to stressors, cultivating a sense of control and calm, expanding our personal choices, building connections to a greater sense of inner balance and joy, and enhancing overall well-being. Through MBSR you will learn practical techniques that promote relaxation and build resilience to life’s challenges.
COST: $350 for one 8 week series and all-day retreat
Further info on the upcoming 8-week series can be found at: www.TheMindfulnessClasses.com
EVENT: ACUPUNCTURE SOUND BATH
DATE & TIME:
Saturday, March 16, 5pm-6pm
FACILITATORS: Melissa Brock, DOM, and Adrienne Smith, Sound Healer
INFO:
Melissa's and Adrienne's acupuncture sound baths combine an intuitive needle protocol with the beautiful vibrations of crystal bowls. The sounds of the bowls, beautiful and transforming in their own right, help vibrate the acupuncture needles for maximum healing. New to either modality? This is a fantastic way to try them.
Third Saturday of each month from 5-6pm.
We will have yoga mats, blankets and eye pillows. Please bring anything else you need to be comfy. Doors open 10 minutes before the start of the event.
COST: $40 +tax
WORKSHOP: SOUND HEALING WITH TUNING FORKS
DATES & TIMES:
June 1 -2, 9:00am - 6:00pm daily
TEACHER: Adrienne Smith, Sound Healer
INFO:
This 2-day transformational workshop will teach you skills and techniques for working with Tuning Forks for healing. Learn to work with both weighted and unweighted forks, and bring it all together for a 1-on-1 session. Use these skills on family, friends, for your own self-care, or add Tuning Forks to a modality you already practice. No experience needed.
COST: $555 (Early bird discounts available)
WORKSHOP: Ortho-Bionomy® Basics: Focus on the Spine
DATES: Friday-Saturday, July 14-15, 2023
TIMES: 9:30-5:30
TEACHER Christina Montes de Oca, BA, LMT
INFO:
Ortho-Bionomy happens from the inside out by accessing the person’s innate self-corrective responses. How does this happen?
By using a range of comfortable, non-force methods including gentle contact, body positioning and movement a practitioner learns to notice, and a client can feel, a response occurring Tension can be released and patterns can change. And because a change happens from within, results can be long lasting.
This class presents the history and principles of Ortho-Bionomy and basic techniques for the neck, thoracic spine, ribs, sternum, lumbar spine, psoas, sacrum and pelvis. Also: basic anatomy and functions of the joints, palpatory sensitivity, presence, grounding and communication skills.
Ortho-Bionomy is easy on the therapist’s body as well as the client’s!
No pre-requisite.
Class cost $300 if registered by June 23rd ; $350 thereafter
Credit: 14 NCBTMB CEs 16 Ortho-Bionomy program credits
TO REGISTER: contact Christina 505-986-9939 or christinaobsf@gmail.com
About the Instructor:
Christina Montes de Oca, BA, LMT, is a Registered Advanced Instructor and Advanced Practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy®. She learned the work with the Founder Dr. Arthur Lincoln Pauls, DO and many of Ortho-Bionomy’s most experienced Instructors over the course of her 35-year career. Christina has traveled both nationally and internationally to teach Ortho-Bionomy. She maintains a private practice in Santa Fe, NM
WORKSHOP: Ortho-Bionomy® Basics: Focus on the Spine
DATE Friday March 31 & Saturday April 1, 2023 9:30-5:30
TEACHER Christina Montes de Oca, BA, LMT
INFO:
This class presents the history and principles of Ortho-Bionomy and basic techniques for the neck, thoracic spine, ribs, sternum, lumbar spine, psoas, sacrum and pelvis. Also: basic anatomy and functions of the joints, palpatory sensitivity, presence, grounding and communication skills.
Ortho-Bionomy is easy on the therapist’s body as well as the client’s!
No pre-requisite.
Class cost $300 if registered by March 17th ; $350 thereafter
Credit: 14 NCBTMB CEs 16 Ortho-Bionomy program credits
TO REGISTER: contact Christina 505-986-9939 or christinaobsf@gmail.com
WORKSHOP: Ortho-Bionomy® Phase 5
DATE: Friday, June 9 & Saturday June 10, 2023 9:30 – 5:30
TEACHER Christina Montes de Oca, BA, LMT
INFO:
This class focuses on learning to notice the subtle activity of self-correction as it is happening, and to further develop a practitioner's skill set to facilitate and support a client's self-corrective processWe learn to sense both physical and energetic aspects of held tension patterns and their capacity to change from within. Phase 5 reflex techniques evolve the approach presented in a Basics class. In this class we will practice Phase 5 with different bony structures , tissues and fluids and learn about the combined use of different O-B techniques in a session.
Prerequisite : 1 Ortho-Bionomy Basic class
Class cost $300 if registered by May 19th ; $350 thereafter
Credit: 14 NCBTMB CEs 16 Ortho-Bionomy program credits
TO REGISTER: contact Christina 505-986-9939 or christinaobsf@gmail.com
WORKSHOP: Pre-Thanksgiving Reiki & Sound Bath
DATE Sunday November 21: 3:00pm
TEACHER Margo Landon, LMT
INFO: Would you like to enter this holiday season embodying peace and gratitude? Before baking the pies and making the stuffing,
let's gather for a beautiful shamanic journey infused with Reiki. We will set our intentions for our lives, relationships and community. A soundbath follows, encouraging us to deeply integrate our experiences. Allow the gong, crystal singing bowls, antique bronze bowls, tuning forks and more entrain to your nervous system, bringing deep peace.
$25.00
TO REGISTER: https://square.link/u/3dQioClc
WORKSHOP: Pregnancy Massage Workshop, 16-Hour CEUs (approved by NCBTMB)
DATE Thursday, April 29th - Friday, April 30th, 2021
TIME 9am-6pm
TEACHER Julianna Santillanes, LMT, RMTI, NCBTMB Approved Instructor #650
INFO: This two-day training will prepare you to give safe and effective massages for women in all stages of pregnancy. We will cover an overview of physiology and anatomy of pregnancy through each trimester. Topics include common discomforts, applications and benefits of massage, as well as contraindications and pathologies during pregnancy. Each student will receive a resource-based pregnancy massage manual and a 16-hour CEU certificate in prenatal massage. $280,00
TO REGISTER: please contact Julianna, email: julianna@sant-wellness.com or call: 505-310-5501
WORKSHOP: Side-Lying Massage Workshop, 8-Hour CEUs (approved by NCBTMB)
DATE Friday, May 7th, 2021
TIME 9am-6pm
TEACHER Julianna Santillanes, LMT, RMTI, NCBTMB Approved Instructor #650
TO REGISTER: please contact Julianna, email: julianna@sant-wellness.com or call: 505-310-5501
WORKSHOP Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing Through the Human Energy Field.
DATE Mar 21 10:00-5:00 & Mar 22 10:00-4:00, 2020
TIME
TEACHER Annette Gates
INFO Optimize Your Health and Well-Being and Overcome Disease in yourself and your relationships. For more information or to register
Cost: $275 if registered by Feb 14; $300 thereafter
WORKSHOP Ancestry & Other Lifetimes Practitioner Training
DATE Friday, March 27, 5:30 – 8:30 PM, Saturday, March 28, 10:30 – 4:30 , Sunday, March 29, 10:30 – 4:30
Friday, April 3, 5:30 – 8:30 PM, Sunday, April 5, 10:30 – 4:30
TIME
TEACHER Liz Koumantzelis
INFO Identify and heal ancestral and other lifetime patterns that may be negatively influencing and affecting you in this the lifetime so that you are free to be happier and more effective in the world. For more information or to register
$720/$75 for the manual
WORKSHOP Disconnection from the Collective Shadow & Cellular Activation Practitioner Training
DATE Saturday Feb 29: 9:00-6:00 & Sunday Mar 1: 1:00-5:00-
TIME
TEACHER Maureen Higgins assisted by Emily Graves & Lisa Howard
INFO Spend the weekend immersed in bright, light healing energy. Leave having learned effective healing techniques to detach yourself and others from heavy collective or familial patterns and more informed and connected to your unique gifts and life path work. For more information or to register
$375/$75 for the manual
WORKSHOP Planting Below Ground
DATE Feb 9, 2020
TIME 1:00-4:30
TEACHER Judy Herzl
INFO Through writing, reflection, discussion drop into a deeper source of inspiration and intention setting to winnow out the unnecessary and to plant the seeds of your own personal growth in fertile ground
To register, please email, call: 505.577.0175, or register online.
Sliding Scale: $75 Investing • $60 Valuing • $45 Honoring