Breathing In, Self Care - Breathing Out, Earth Care
Saturday, April 4
2:00 - 6:00 pm
WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD ON ZOOM - REGISTER BELOW TO RECEIVE THE LINK TO JOIN
A Journey through Breath, for cells in the body of Gaia (that’s YOU!)
Gaia is a term for the spirit of Mother Earth. This April we celebrate the 50th Earth Day. Here’s a great personal preparation and a way to honor that anniversary and move into deeper Gaia awareness. Deep ecologists like Joanna Macy insist that our environmental awareness - on an emotional and embodied level - is key and does matter for ecological change. We move from ego-conscious to eco-consciousness, she says.
In this time of COVID-19, we are connected to each other and the earth in obvious ways. Rivers and air appreciate the break we are taking from consumption and travel. Many of us are feeling the need to shift to a new normal that's more compassionate to self and earth than going "back to normal". We are affected by culture, and culture is affected by each of us. As we allow old patterns to break away, we evolve. Our personal evolution matters. Our continued awakening naturally progresses the collective awakening. Let us breathe into the new culture, where caring lovingly for our own bodies and the body of Gaia is as natural as breathing.
In this modified workshop for Zoom, you will have the option to sit or lie down during the experiential process, and we will spend some time creating a safe virtual space to start with. The musical part of the journey will be more in the background, and still you will be guided--and self guided-- into cleansing, grieving, perhaps celebrating, empowerment, and collective energy toward healing....our personal and feminine healing and Earth’s healing, which are all of one fabric. I look forward to this deep embodied practice with you.
2:00 - 6:00 pm
WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD ON ZOOM - REGISTER BELOW TO RECEIVE THE LINK TO JOIN
A Journey through Breath, for cells in the body of Gaia (that’s YOU!)
Gaia is a term for the spirit of Mother Earth. This April we celebrate the 50th Earth Day. Here’s a great personal preparation and a way to honor that anniversary and move into deeper Gaia awareness. Deep ecologists like Joanna Macy insist that our environmental awareness - on an emotional and embodied level - is key and does matter for ecological change. We move from ego-conscious to eco-consciousness, she says.
In this time of COVID-19, we are connected to each other and the earth in obvious ways. Rivers and air appreciate the break we are taking from consumption and travel. Many of us are feeling the need to shift to a new normal that's more compassionate to self and earth than going "back to normal". We are affected by culture, and culture is affected by each of us. As we allow old patterns to break away, we evolve. Our personal evolution matters. Our continued awakening naturally progresses the collective awakening. Let us breathe into the new culture, where caring lovingly for our own bodies and the body of Gaia is as natural as breathing.
In this modified workshop for Zoom, you will have the option to sit or lie down during the experiential process, and we will spend some time creating a safe virtual space to start with. The musical part of the journey will be more in the background, and still you will be guided--and self guided-- into cleansing, grieving, perhaps celebrating, empowerment, and collective energy toward healing....our personal and feminine healing and Earth’s healing, which are all of one fabric. I look forward to this deep embodied practice with you.
Registration Info:
10 participants registered in advance will build our collective energy.
Pre-registration is required, along with a phone call if you are new to intensive breathwork, to be sure it’s a good fit for you at this time. Text/call 985.264.8089 to set up a call with Patricia.
Value: $40
Sliding scale suggested: $25-$50
$20 non-refundable deposit, or payment in full, should accompany your registration by mailed check or online, unless other arrangements are made with the presenter.
Bottom line: Pay As Able or Pay It Forward: Be as generous as possible, yet don’t let financial concerns keep you from attending. If possible, pay extra so that the Center can keep providing services to women of all income levels.
10 participants registered in advance will build our collective energy.
Pre-registration is required, along with a phone call if you are new to intensive breathwork, to be sure it’s a good fit for you at this time. Text/call 985.264.8089 to set up a call with Patricia.
Value: $40
Sliding scale suggested: $25-$50
$20 non-refundable deposit, or payment in full, should accompany your registration by mailed check or online, unless other arrangements are made with the presenter.
Bottom line: Pay As Able or Pay It Forward: Be as generous as possible, yet don’t let financial concerns keep you from attending. If possible, pay extra so that the Center can keep providing services to women of all income levels.
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Complete registration to receive the link to the Zoom event.
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More about the Integrative Breathwork Process:
Integrative Breathwork, similar to Holotropic Breathwork and Conscious Connected Breathing, are intensive breathwork journey methods with energetic and vibrant (and loud!) chakra music.
Note: This type of active breathwork is different and more active than most yogic breathing.
We will have time to share our intentions and insights. This is not a therapy group, though deep personal sharing may occur and is honored. A detailed letter will be sent to all registered participants.
Please call/text Patricia at 985.264.8089 before registering if you are new to this work. Thank you, and may you enjoy each breath of your day as you walk on the miracle of Earth.
Here are some additional comments on the subject if interested, and info about the facilitator follows that.
Integrative Breathwork, similar to Holotropic Breathwork and Conscious Connected Breathing, are intensive breathwork journey methods with energetic and vibrant (and loud!) chakra music.
Note: This type of active breathwork is different and more active than most yogic breathing.
We will have time to share our intentions and insights. This is not a therapy group, though deep personal sharing may occur and is honored. A detailed letter will be sent to all registered participants.
Please call/text Patricia at 985.264.8089 before registering if you are new to this work. Thank you, and may you enjoy each breath of your day as you walk on the miracle of Earth.
Here are some additional comments on the subject if interested, and info about the facilitator follows that.
Additional Comments:
Many sensitive people find it difficult in these times. Self-care can feel like a luxury when there’s so much to do for our planet and its people, with so many species going extinct and people being oppressed. We may find ourselves in constant activity and hyper-vigilance, but perhaps not as effective as we would like. Perhaps burned out. We wonder what the best ways are to make a difference. It might be hard to maintain love for our “enemies” during times of stress.
Or maybe we get overwhelmed, put our heads in the sand and are prone to inaction in the wider world. “I’m just one person, what can I do?” But then there’s the cost of trying to stay in denial. Overeating or over-caretaking others, staying distracted on screens or through consuming more stuff, living a dis-embodied life, perhaps depression and inertia. And the cost to the planet as we continue on as before.
If we have experienced much personal, gender and/or racial trauma, the trauma of witnessing global and local floods, fires and loss of habitat and plants and animals, along with the meanness of people in the news, may affect our central nervous systems as a direct attack.
Whether we are prone to frantic activity or jaded inertia, it can be difficult to stay conscious and loving in the face of so much suffering and threat. Yet that is what sensitive souls are called to do. In fact, our very wounding can be the opening that the rays of a new collective consciousness shine in through.
Let us come together and allow our hearts to break open for healing, rather then walling them off. May we embrace the pangs of birthing a new consciousness. We are women of wisdom in a time when women’s wisdom is needed. The breath helps us reconnect internally to that inner guidance and to the very ground of our being.
Sensitivity, inter-connectedness, vulnerability, loving-kindness, empathy....these are the traditionally feminine qualities (found in all people) that are needed as we shift to a more loving era that is based on interbeing more than competing.
We know intuitively that ignoring that call to consciousness can be perilous, to ourselves and to the collective.
We are woven into the fabric of nature, not separate from it. We cannot take a single breath without the lungs of Gaia.
What if we—all humans—remembered that truth in each moment? How would that change our behavior and our culture in relation to Earth?
We are affected by culture, and culture is affected by each of us. Our personal evolution matters. Our continued awakening naturally progresses the collective awakening. Let us breathe into the new culture, where caring lovingly for our own bodies and the body of Gaia is as natural as breathing.
May it be so.
Many sensitive people find it difficult in these times. Self-care can feel like a luxury when there’s so much to do for our planet and its people, with so many species going extinct and people being oppressed. We may find ourselves in constant activity and hyper-vigilance, but perhaps not as effective as we would like. Perhaps burned out. We wonder what the best ways are to make a difference. It might be hard to maintain love for our “enemies” during times of stress.
Or maybe we get overwhelmed, put our heads in the sand and are prone to inaction in the wider world. “I’m just one person, what can I do?” But then there’s the cost of trying to stay in denial. Overeating or over-caretaking others, staying distracted on screens or through consuming more stuff, living a dis-embodied life, perhaps depression and inertia. And the cost to the planet as we continue on as before.
If we have experienced much personal, gender and/or racial trauma, the trauma of witnessing global and local floods, fires and loss of habitat and plants and animals, along with the meanness of people in the news, may affect our central nervous systems as a direct attack.
Whether we are prone to frantic activity or jaded inertia, it can be difficult to stay conscious and loving in the face of so much suffering and threat. Yet that is what sensitive souls are called to do. In fact, our very wounding can be the opening that the rays of a new collective consciousness shine in through.
Let us come together and allow our hearts to break open for healing, rather then walling them off. May we embrace the pangs of birthing a new consciousness. We are women of wisdom in a time when women’s wisdom is needed. The breath helps us reconnect internally to that inner guidance and to the very ground of our being.
Sensitivity, inter-connectedness, vulnerability, loving-kindness, empathy....these are the traditionally feminine qualities (found in all people) that are needed as we shift to a more loving era that is based on interbeing more than competing.
We know intuitively that ignoring that call to consciousness can be perilous, to ourselves and to the collective.
We are woven into the fabric of nature, not separate from it. We cannot take a single breath without the lungs of Gaia.
What if we—all humans—remembered that truth in each moment? How would that change our behavior and our culture in relation to Earth?
We are affected by culture, and culture is affected by each of us. Our personal evolution matters. Our continued awakening naturally progresses the collective awakening. Let us breathe into the new culture, where caring lovingly for our own bodies and the body of Gaia is as natural as breathing.
May it be so.
Patricia Stout, LCSW
About the Facilitator:
Patricia Stout, MSW, LCSW and Board Approved Clinical Supervisor, is certified in Integrative Breathwork with Jacquelyn Small, MSSW and with Conscious Connected Breathing through the School of Spiritual Psychology. She has over 1,200 hours of training in breathwork facilitation.
She has been facilitating breathwork since 1989 for individuals, groups, retreats, and conferences. She presented on this topic at the North American Drug and Alcohol Treatment conference and at Belonging to Mother Earth: Indigenous Wisdom and Healing, an international conference, as well as other Continuing Education Units and breathwork trainings for counselors, social workers, massage therapists and nurses over the past 30 years.
Patricia is married to her loving life partner and has an adult son. Her greatest joy is singing. She has volunteered in program development, intern supervision, and administration at the Women’s Center since its inception in 2012.
Patricia’s private practice, Breath of Life Counseling, LLC, located on site, has openings in a co-ed group for those who are recovering from childhood/youth sexual trauma. She does not currently have individual counseling openings. Occasional breathwork sessions with individuals or groups can be scheduled.
Patricia very much appreciates registration in advance for planning the breathwork day. Your commitment by registering for the timeframe early and putting down your deposit helps the energy of the event grow ahead of time for maximum benefit of all participants.
Patricia Stout, MSW, LCSW and Board Approved Clinical Supervisor, is certified in Integrative Breathwork with Jacquelyn Small, MSSW and with Conscious Connected Breathing through the School of Spiritual Psychology. She has over 1,200 hours of training in breathwork facilitation.
She has been facilitating breathwork since 1989 for individuals, groups, retreats, and conferences. She presented on this topic at the North American Drug and Alcohol Treatment conference and at Belonging to Mother Earth: Indigenous Wisdom and Healing, an international conference, as well as other Continuing Education Units and breathwork trainings for counselors, social workers, massage therapists and nurses over the past 30 years.
Patricia is married to her loving life partner and has an adult son. Her greatest joy is singing. She has volunteered in program development, intern supervision, and administration at the Women’s Center since its inception in 2012.
Patricia’s private practice, Breath of Life Counseling, LLC, located on site, has openings in a co-ed group for those who are recovering from childhood/youth sexual trauma. She does not currently have individual counseling openings. Occasional breathwork sessions with individuals or groups can be scheduled.
Patricia very much appreciates registration in advance for planning the breathwork day. Your commitment by registering for the timeframe early and putting down your deposit helps the energy of the event grow ahead of time for maximum benefit of all participants.
