Our Emotional Selves – A Somatic Mind/Body Exploration – 8 Week Series

What is an emotion? Is an emotion different than a feeling?

Through the somatic understanding that your mind affects your body while your body affects your mind, we’ll dive into how our emotions show up in often unexpected ways, affecting who you are and how you physically and emotionally feel and experience the world.

Picking up on the many lessons covered in Rich’s prior courses we’ll review and explore how we can use both our bodies and minds in open, caring, relaxed, and powerful ways to better understand our emotions and also travel safely down their many paths.

Through experimentation and play we’ll explore the connections between your body and mind, as well as the many rapidly shifting emotions and feelings you may experience.

You’ll learn practical BodyMind healing approaches that are designed to be used throughout your day, including gentle movement experiments, body awareness techniques, breathing, meditation, embodiment, the principles of aikido, mindfulness, as well as many other somatic movement & education skills.

Presented by: Richard Sims, MSME, MSMT, CTP

Richard E Sims – Relief from Stress | Fear | Anxiety | Pain | Trauma

Program Dates: Thursdays, September 12, 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17, 24, November 7.

Attendance at all sessions is recommended but not an absolute necessity.

RSVP below to attend in-person.

Limit of 15 participants.

If registration is full, please call 847-509-9595 to be placed on the waitlist.

Participants will have the voluntary option to participate in an ongoing self-reporting study, run in conjunction with Dr. John Lothes, M.A. LPA, Ed.D. of the UNCW College of Health and Applied Human Science that will look into the impact Rich and this program have on those affected by Cancer. This is aimed at helping with the continued development and research into the Somatic approaches that have helped so many at the Cancer Wellness Center and other places where Rich shares his work. (Your involvement in the study is kindly requested but not mandatory to attend)