Safety from Within Workshop

In this workshop, Matthew Thompson of Rise-Up Breathwork and Jessica Allain of Arts to Transcend will guide participants to discover and reconnect with feeling safe within to body. In preparation for breathwork sessions, a tea ceremony will allow participants to meet and set their intention. Jessica will then guide a yin yoga, flow focused on opening the heart, and connecting to the body. This flow will consist of a series of long-held, passive floor poses that mainly work the lower body and open the heart. Yin yoga works deeply in the body and targets the deepest tissues of the body, the connective tissue. Discovering safety within our bodies breathwork piece will teach the 4 Stages of Safety, showcasing several different breathing techniques ranging from a conscious connected breath, halo breathing and breath holds. Feelers will be used to re-ground and have needs met while sharing the space with another. Following the breathwork and feelers, Jessica will guide a Vinyasa flow to reinvigorate and energize you before sitting for a long creation session. This flow will consist of a series of sitting and standing poses and will be at a faster pace, linking one breath to one movement. The continual movement from one pose to another gives an added cardiovascular benefit, creating internal heat and energizing participants. Creation sessions are designed to allow you to express their experiences through free writing, and the creation of an art piece that they will take with you as a souvenir. Guidelines and suggestions will be offered, but this is your time to create what is newly alive within you. There is no artistic experience necessary. These therapeutic art sessions are a means of personal expression, to communicate feelings, rather than aiming at an aesthetically pleasing end products to be judged by external standards. Materials supplied include canvases, paints and all other painting materials, magazines and other materials for collaging, and drawing. Please feel free to bring anything that will support you during meditation e.g. crystals, journal, yoga map, mediation stool, pillow, and/or blanket.

We hope you will journey with us as we discover how to feel into the body to discover wholeness.