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Advanced Rebalancing Training
cancelled for 2006 - sorry
Cost: $2500.00 (USD) (discount $125.00 before January 1, 2006) for
the month-long program, food and accommodation.
We have now added an Advanced Rebalancing
Course to our Rebalancing School program. This course is
designed for Rebalancers who have completed the initial Rebalancing
training.
Course components include (Click
on the links to find out more.:
The initial training offers comprehensive tools for practicing
deep tissue bodywork and joint release. This base is so important
for all bodyworkers to be able to perform excellent hands on work.
The physical work is supported with the study of anatomy, bodyreadings,
emotional work, personal growth work, yoga, feldenkrais,
meditation, craniosacral,
Chinese medicine, Hakomi,
setting up your own business awareness and most important of all
the practice and understanding of meditation which gives the practitioner
presence to be here now.
With this strong base, in the advance course we
will add other layers of healing practice to give the rebalancer
even more tools. These are as follows:
1.  Going
deeper with the 10 session rebalancing base. (Taught by Menlha)
Every stroke that has been learned can be refined to reach deeper
into the client. The tools that have been taught can be used in
stronger ways just by being more present, by being smoother, by
staying with a move longer, by knowing which move to use where.
Every muscle of the body has a certain personality which needs to
be approached in a special way. We will dissect the moves to gain
the ability to master the very powerful rebalancing tools.
2. Craniosacral
...Biodynamic approach
(Taught by Menlha)
This approach of craniosacral is so useful to enhance rebalancing
because it builds the practitioners' awareness of the power of the
clients ' magical ability to heal him/her self. It's all in there...the
system's ability to heal. In this section the student will learn
some basic work which can be included in a rebalancing session or
in a session of craniosacral itself.
One will learn:
1. holding the system
2. Grounding and tuning into the system
3. Information about the anatomy and the principles of craniosacral.
4. The movement of the bones.
5. still points
3.
Hakomi Bodycentred Psychotherapy
Taught by Lorraine
Reaveley)
Lorraine Reaveley, a Certified Rebalancer
studied with Menlha and David in 1988, and then taught at the Kootenay
School of Rebalancing 1990 to 1993. She is also a Hakomi
Therapist and Teacher having studied for 9 years with Ron
Kurtz, creator of the Hakomi Experiential Method, and Donna Martin,
Senior Trainer and Therapist. Find out more about here.
Hakomi provides a new way of working that can be integrated
into the present rebalancing modality. This approach allows the
practitioner to be with the client in a new way, a deeper, more
connected way. The rebalancer can hear more, say more, and be able
to do more for the client.
Hakomi practitioners recognize that touch is a vehicle for transformation
and for the resolution of the somatic effects of trauma. Each client
has a unique history that has formed their bodies. Hakomi is a way
of touching into the client's emotions and belief systems that are
sustained and expressed in the tissue, structure, movements, and
energy of the body.  Hakomi
helps explore how mind, body, heart, and spirit weave together to
form the client's experiential world.
Goals with clients
Hakomi for Bodyworkers involves guiding the client's attention inward
to witness their present experience in their body. Together, therapist
and client explore the type of touch that will best assist the process.
Staying with these physical sensations with an attitude of nonjudgmental
acceptance allows for the emergence of emotions, images, thought,
or memories that relates to the sensations. As the energy of held
emotion or memory is recognized and released, the tissue yield,
structure and alignment is affected, and memories of beliefs will
emerge and integrate with physical shifts.
4. Feldenkrais
 Taught
by David Bruneau)
Moshe Feldenkrais, a mechanical
engineer and physicist, and the first European to earn a black belt
in judo, taught himself to walk without pain after a crippling knee
injury. He then developed in the late 1940's a comprehensive method
of body movement, a kind of natural exploratory learning process,
designed to help people reconnect with their ability to move with
ease and to restore the natural functioning of the body. Feldenkrais'
approach to the body was one of the foundations upon which Rebalancing
was developed in the 1970's. Having some understanding of his vision
and method is very helpful for Rebalancers in embodying the "true
spirit" of the practice. Also, the Feldenkrais method and Somatics,
a version taught by Thomas Hannah, is probably the best way to do
Rebalancing on oneself and to achieve similar results in one's own
posture and functioning. And once the Rebalancer has some experience
of the work he or she can recommend it to clients as a valuable
way to enhance and maintain the benefits of the Rebalancing sessions.
During the Advanced Rebalancing course I, David
Bruneau, will share my understanding of the Feldenkrais approach
gathered from working with Brian Lynn, reading, and practicing the
movements, which has been tremendously helpful in working with my
own back injuries (from ski racing) and generally keeping the body
"young". As a group we will practice Somatics or Feldenkrais movement
for at least half an hour each day in order to gain a significant
experience of what its effects and benefits can be. Find out more
about David Bruneau here.
5. Chinese Medicine
(Taught by Heather
Bury)
 As
part of the Advanced Rebalancing training, we will be offering detailed
information on energy pathways or meridians as envisioned in Oriental
Medicine. This philosophical system has developed over the last
4000 years and is the foundation for today's practices of acupressure
and acupuncture and shiatsu bodywork. A knowledge of key points
where the energy flows come to the surface of the body can greatly
enhance your Rebalancing practice. We will also teach the Five Element
theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine which correlates organ systems,
seasons, colours, tastes, prevalent emotions, and physical vulnerabilities.
This is a thematic approach to understanding people's strengths
and possible issues, and is useful for supporting people's deepest
well-being. Lastly, diagnostic techniques according to Oriental
Medicine will be introduced; namely, tongue diagnosis, facial diagnosis,
and pulse reading, and we will practice these with each other.
6. Meditation
 (Taught
by David Bruneau)
One of the key components to Rebalancing as a bodywork method is
meditative awareness. During the Advanced Course we will explore
in greater depth many of the meditations included in the basic course.
We will continue to develop the curiosity about and sensitivity
to what is going on in the body-mind and the capacity to be lovingly
present with ourselves and with another. We will deepen our exploration
of who we are as "body, mind, and spirit", which is the
larger context of Rebalancing Bodywork. We will also explore our
ability to be with and transmute the "Pain Body" as it
arises in our life and work, and abide ever more fully in Beingness
and Spaciousness.
Another important aspect of self exploration and working with others
is the issue of the inner "void" or "emptiness".
It could be said that all problems arise out of our resistance to
this perceived emptiness and that the resolution to problems resides
in understanding clearly and realizing freedom from habitual unconscious
patterns of the body-mind in relation to it. The Advanced Course
seems an ideal setting to take a look into this core issue so, if
there is the interest, I , David
Bruneau, expect to explore it in some depth. The invitation
and opportunity in general is to go as deeply into and through ourselves
as we are ready to at this time.
7. Breathwork (Taught
by David Bruneau)
During the Advanced course we will devote one day per week to exploring
breathwork. Several Orgodynamic breath sessions will be taught and
practiced as ways to invite and support emotional release and/or nurturing,
meditative experiences which can promote shifts in consciousness,
profound insight, and a deeper "knowing" of who we are as
energetic beings. This will provide Rebalancers with additional tools
which can be use effectively for specific purposes and integrated
into their regular sessions when appropriate.
These sessions provide an opportunity for students to dive deeply
and experientially into their own process and valuable practice
in "being present" with clients who are doing the same.
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