What You Don't Know Can Hinder
But why leave it to chance? Attend our 4-Day Intensive Workshop.
The Shadow is the part of your self which you deny and ignore because it's incompatible with your self concept--both the positive and negative aspects. Your anger and irritation, but also your brilliance and vulnerability. When we do not see or accept parts of ourselves, we cannot release the creative energy trapped there. Our failure to integrate these parts limits your fullness, vitality and power. This shadow controls our potency, holding us back, even shouting, "No," as we attempt to take action in our lives.
How would life be if you integrated your shadow and released its creative energy? What would shift if you engaged in deeper development? What if you had a network of support cradling you throughout this challenge? What if you were guided to see what is hidden in your blind spot and supported in your next steps?
The parts of ourselves that we are blind to correspond to places in our bodies where we have shut down. Realizing what lies in shadow isn't enough. Working with our bodies to open up the dense, constricted areas allows us to flow and integrate. Therefore, we'll spend time each day working with the body to give you new tools to sense and change habitual patterns.
This Shadow workshop is unique.
- Most traditional "Shadow" workshops only look at the negative aspects of our selves that we keep in the shadow. This workshop looks at the positive qualities that we also deny and addresses how to bring those forth into your brilliance.
- This workshop will have a strong somatic component based on the belief that cognitive learning is just a piece of the puzzle but to truly shift behavior, you must experience it deeply in your cells.
See Dancing in the Dark for a perspective on how the unconscious influences our decision making.
Topics to be Addressed:
- Triggering - what to do when it happens (& it does!!!)
- Authenticity - how to delve into what's real, again & again
- Courage - how to access it when the going gets rough
Outcomes:
- Explore specific ways your shadow prevents you from being curious and open
- Sense how you close down somatically and practice staying open
- Create more energy and creativity by integrating, rather than fighting, suppressing, repressing, your shadow
- Get unstuck by learning to face into the areas that scare you
Sept. 24th -27th 9:00 - 6:00 pm ( 'til 4:00 pm on Sunday)
call 415.282-2140 for more information
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