Playing Itself Out: Bodying as a New Direction for WBF & FOT

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          Playing Itself Out: Bodying as a New Direction for WBF & FOT               An online training program for Focusing oriented therapists, trainers and partners *[Bodying]… is my own way of being… Bodying-forth always co-participates in the experience of what is present. Heidegger *Spirits are released not by banishing them mentally or muting them with drugs (more…)

  • Module 1
    March 14, 2019 - June 27, 2019
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    - Two modules: 8 weeks each. Module 2 requires completion of Module 1, although you can take Module 1 only. All classes are on Thursdays, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific time. They are held via Zoom. All classes are recorded and recordings are made available to all participants. Because of the experiential nature of the course, and for group cohesion, it is important that you be able to attend all classes “live.”
  • Module 2
    May 9, 2019
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    - Two modules: 8 weeks each. Module 2 requires completion of Module 1, although you can take Module 1 only. All classes are on Thursdays, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific time. They are held via Zoom. All classes are recorded and recordings are made available to all participants. Because of the experiential nature of the course, and for group cohesion, it is important that you be able to attend all classes “live.”

Wholebody Focusing Retreat (2nd Annual)

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Event Phone: 707- 315-2370

2nd Annual WHOLEBODY FOCUSING RETREAT in Northern California: Playing it out together: soma-dramas as unfolding the body’s spirit  with Glenn Fleisch In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. Friedrich Nietzsche If you are sorcerer, life is art, poetry, and madness. You perform a script that is written as you act… (more…)

  • Wholebody Focusing Retreat (2nd Annual)
    October 7, 2018 - October 12, 2018
    5:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Playing it Out: the Experiential Process of Soma-Drama Work in WBF & FOT

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Event Phone: 707-315-2370

This 8 week seminar will offer an experiential introduction to soma-drama work in WBF and FOT. We will be invoking the spirit of play, of Eros, to create a “play space,” a “theater of the living body,” that enables us to safely and playfully experience the awakening of our life-force and creative energy. The performative model of soma-drama is one that encourages us to play it out. All felt sensing is a field of energy, of vibrancies, tonalities, sensualities, as well as the body’s potential energy for movement and expressive action. Thus, in order to harness this deeper dimension of felt sensing requires whole body engagement, with the same energy, devotion and spirit as the child at play.

  • Playing it Out - Week 1
    July 12, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Playing it Out - Week 2
    July 19, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Playing it Out - Week 3
    July 26, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Playing it Out - Week 4
    August 2, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Playing it Out - Week 5
    August 9, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Playing it Out - Week 6
    August 16, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Playing it Out - Week 7
    August 30, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  • Playing it Out - Week 8
    September 6, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Awakening Eros with Wholebody Focusing

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Event Phone: 707-315-2370

Join me for a special two-hour Wholebody Focusing circle. We will be using the WBF method as a means of inviting the spirit of Eros to awaken- and to flow through our embodied self. This practice will be a taste of the inner, spiritual alchemy of WBF- allowing us to begin to recover the openness, playfulness sensuality and connectedness of Eros, the vital energy of love.

  • Awakening Eros
    March 29, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Wholebody Focusing Circles

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Event Phone: 1 (707) 315-2370

These circles provide an opportunity to practice WBF in a small group setting. What is unique and special about Circles is that the format and agenda are open. Thus, someone may wish to have an individual WBF with me while the group holds space. Or there may be a specific request to practice or explore (more…)

  • Week 1 Thursday
    October 26, 2017
    11:00 am - 12:30 pm
  • Week 2 Thursday
    November 9, 2017
    11:00 am - 12:30 pm
  • Week 3 Thursday
    November 30, 2017
    11:00 am - 12:30 pm
  • Week 4 Thursday
    December 14, 2017
    11:00 am - 12:30 pm
  • Week 1 Tuesday
    October 24, 2017
    5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
  • Week 2 Tuesday
    November 7, 2017
    5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
  • Week 3 Tuesday
    November 28, 2017
    5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
  • Week 4 Tuesday
    December 12, 2017
    5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Coming More to Life: Restoring the Body’s Spirit With Wholebody Focusing

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Event Phone: +1 (707) 315-2370

Most of what we call our personal life is bound by conditioned patterns and routines. These bodily patterns are so ingrained and automatic that they seem to have a life of their own. As such, we are often cut off from the depths and breadth of life, its richness, fullness and meaningfulness. Yet the deeper (more…)

  • Module 1 (day) - New Foundation: Whole-body as portal into & container of the body’s life
    January 4, 2018 - January 25, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    - Elements: Grounded Presence; WB Awareness; 5 Spaces of body’s life-force; Co-Presence

    Classes: January 4; 11; 18; 25, 2018

  • Module 1 (evening) - New Foundation: Whole-body as portal into & container of the body’s life
    January 4, 2018 - January 25, 2018
    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    - Elements: Grounded Presence; WB Awareness; 5 Spaces of body’s life-force; Co-Presence

    Classes: January 4; 11; 18; 25, 2018

  • Module 2 (day) - Further awakening: the body’s energy comes more to life & expands/deepens
    February 1, 2018 - February 22, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    - Elements: letting go & letting be; Stirring of body’s energy & feelings; inner-directed movement;

    Classes: February 1, 8, 15 22, 2018

  • Module 2 (evening) - Further awakening: the body’s energy comes more to life & expands/deepens
    February 1, 2018 - February 22, 2018
    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    - Elements: letting go & letting be; Stirring of body’s energy & feelings; inner-directed movement;

    Classes: February 1, 8, 15 22, 2018

  • Module 3 (day) - Returning & Dwelling: the body calls us back to explore inner places & patterns
    March 8, 2018 - March 29, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    - Elements: Letting come & letting show; Immersing in body’s life; holding both; staying-with

    Classes: March 8, 15, 22, 29, 2018

  • Module 3 (evening) - Returning & Dwelling: the body calls us back to explore inner places & patterns
    March 8, 2018 - March 29, 2018
    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    - Elements: Letting come & letting show; Immersing in body’s life; holding both; staying-with

    Classes: March 8, 15, 22, 29, 2018

  • Module 4 (day) - Reemerging: the body’s life more fully unfolds to transform & re-integrate itself
    April 5, 2018 - April 26, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    - Elements: Letting arise & unfold; embodying & expressing new life; holding embodied moments. Classes: April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2018
  • Module 4 (evening) - Reemerging: the body’s life more fully unfolds to transform & re-integrate itself
    April 5, 2018 - April 26, 2018
    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    - Elements: Letting arise & unfold; embodying & expressing new life; holding embodied moments. Classes: April 8, 15, 22, 29, 2018

Recovering Our Natural Spirit with Wholebody Focusing

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Event Phone: +1 (707) 315-2370

Recovering Our Natural Spirit with Wholebody Focusing: Letting the body come alive and show the way A Four Module Series of Online WBF Training Programs with Glenn Fleisch, Ph.D. Focusing is a practice of connecting with and listening to the body, i.e. the body as felt inside. Wholebody Focusing takes this practice further into the (more…)

  • Module 1 (day) - Preparation: Wholebody-in-environment as aware container of the body’s life
    January 9, 2018 - January 30, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    - Elements: Grounded Presence; WB Awareness; 5 Spaces of body’s life-force; Co-Presence.

    Classes: January 9; 16; 23; 30, 2018

  • Module 1 (evening) - Preparation: Wholebody-in-environment as aware container of the body’s life
    January 9, 2018 - January 30, 2018
    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    - Elements: Grounded Presence; WB Awareness; 5 Spaces of body’s life-force; Co-Presence.

    Classes: January 9; 16; 23; 30, 2018

  • Module 2 (day) - Awakening: the body’s life-energy comes alive & begins to open
    February 6, 2018 - February 27, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    - Elements: letting go & letting be; Stirring of body’s energy & feelings; inner-directed movement;

    Classes - February 6, 13, 20 27, 2018

  • Module 2 (evening) - Awakening: the body’s life-energy comes alive & begins to open
    February 6, 2018 - February 27, 2018
    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    - Elements: letting go & letting be; Stirring of body’s energy & feelings; inner-directed movement;

    Classes - February 6, 13, 20 27, 2018

  • Module 3 (day) - Returning: the body calls us back to something that wants attention
    March 6, 2018 - March 27, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    - Elements: Letting come & letting show; Immersing in body’s life; holding both; staying-with

    Classes: March 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018

  • Module 3 (evening) - Returning: the body calls us back to something that wants attention
    March 6, 2018 - March 27, 2018
    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    - Elements: Letting come & letting show; Immersing in body’s life; holding both; staying-with

    Classes: March 6, 13, 20, 27, 2018

  • Module 4 (day) - Reemerging: the body’s life unfolds to re-form & trans-form itself
    April 3, 2018 - April 24, 2018
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
    - Elements: Letting arise & unfold; embodying & expressing new life; holding embodied moments.

    Classes: April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018

  • Module 4 (evening) - Reemerging: the body’s life unfolds to re-form & trans-form itself
    April 3, 2018 - April 24, 2018
    5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
    - Elements: Letting arise & unfold; embodying & expressing new life; holding embodied moments.

    Classes: April 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018