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Awakening the Unbound Body (Six-week Course)
November 11, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EST
$30 – $240
Mon, Nov 11 – Mon, Dec 16; Mondays and Thursdays @ 1-2:30pm Eastern. See below for detailed schedule and syllabus.
Instructor: Michael Lydon, LCSW
Realization Process Senior Teacher & Trauma Repair Therapist
This class will be a study course for Judith Blackstone’s newest book: Trauma and the Unbound Body: The Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness. Purchasing Trauma and the Unbound Body is a pre-requisite for taking this course. Each class module will explore one chapter of the text. Class modules will go for 1.5 hours each, structured as per the following: ~30 minutes: theory and Q&A, ~60 minutes: guided practices that demonstrate concepts explored in various chapters, along with final Q&A.
Although it is encouraged that the course is taken sequentially as a whole, students may also drop in on any class they wish to. If you would like to take this class and have financial constraints, please email michael@realizationconsulting.com. Between classes, consultation via email will be available for any challenging emotional material that may arise for students, or for other questions.
Pricing options:
Option 1: Complete program, 10 classes: $240 ($60 savings)
Option 2: 5-class bundle: $130 ($20 savings)
Option 3: Single class drop-in $30
To sign up: Pay via www.paypal.me/michaellydon and specify Awakening the Unbound Body (Option 1, 2, or 3).
Schedule:
- Mon, Nov 11, 1pm-2:30pm EST – How We Organize Ourselves
- Thu, Nov 14, 1pm-2:30pm EST – Fundamental Consciousness
- Mon, Nov 18, 1pm-2:30pm EST – Inhabiting the Body
- Thu, Nov 21, 1pm-2:30pm EST – The Qualities of the Body
- Mon, Nov 25, 1pm-2:30pm EST – Healing Trauma from the Core of the Body
Thu, Nov 28: No Class; Thanksgiving day.
- Mon, Dec 2, 1pm-2:30pm EST – Freeing the Senses from Trauma
- Thu, Dec 5, 1pm-2:30pm EST – Relationships: Oneness and Separateness
- Mon, Dec 9, 1pm-2:30pm EST – The Realization Process Release Technique
- Thu, Dec 12, 1pm-2:30pm EST – Toward Healing Anxiety and Depression
- Mon, Dec 16, 1pm-2:30pm EST – Trauma and Spiritual Teachings
Syllabus:
- How We Organize Ourselves
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- Trauma and the fascia system
- Why we constrict
- Protection
- Mirroring
- Nurture
- Compliance
- Compensation
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- Exercises:
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- “Awareness of the body” vs “Awareness as the body”
- Attunement to fundamental consciousness
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- Fundamental Consciousness
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- Awareness
- Emotion
- Physical sensation
- Exercise: Attuning to fundamental consciousness as awareness, emotion, and physical sensation
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- Inhabiting the Body
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- Inhabiting the body and attuning to fundamental consciousness
- The gifts of inhabiting the body
- Becoming present and receptive
- Regaining agency
- Restoring resilience
- Developing self-love
- Grounding in our foundation
- Exercises: Foundational grounding
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- The Qualities in the Body
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- Intelligence
- Voice
- Love
- Power
- Gender
- Sexuality
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- Attuning to the qualities of fundamental consciousness
- Attuning to the qualities within the body
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- Healing Trauma from the Core of the Body
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- Our entranceway into wholeness and oneness
- Increasing Perspective
- Refining and Integrating our Breath and Energy
- Exercises:
- Core Breath with Subtle Circuitry
- Opening to the Upward Current of Energy
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- Freeing the Senses from Trauma
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- Increasing our sensory experience
- Expanding our perception
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- Exercises:
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- Perception as fundamental consciousness
- Vision
- Hearing
- Touch
- Perception of another person
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- Relationships: Oneness and Separateness
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- Fundamental Consciousness and Contact
- The link between contact and trauma
- Balancing Inward and Outward Connection
- Healing Our capacity for contact from our core
- Healing Intimate relationships
- Healing Relationships with groups
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- Exercises:
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- Attuning to the qualities within the body, with a partner
- Attuning to core points in groups
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- The Realization Process Release Technique
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- How the Release technique works
- Understanding our psychological history
- An illustration of the release technique
- The importance of patience and kindness
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- The Realization Process release technique
- Finding and releasing constrictions in relation to a parent
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- Healing Anxiety and Depression
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- Releasing the pattern of anxiety
- Releasing the pattern of depression
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- Advanced Attunement to Fundamental Consciousness
- Three attunements to fundamental consciousness: emptiness, luminosity, and bliss
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- Trauma and Spiritual teachings
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- Abusive teachers
- The question of personal identity
- Free will
- Thinking and feeling
- Therapeutic presence
- Exercise: Releasing from the core into fundamental consciousness