relaxed – connected – creative

MY UPCOMING COURSE:
Wednesdays, Nov 20, 2024 to April 9, 2025

You may be familiar with a habitual background atmosphere of restlessness, anxiousness, agitation, or something like that.
At times when this happens, you may know that this inner activation is counter-productive and somehow out of place, but how to find your way to a more relaxed, easy-going state of being?

After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or difficult emotional incidents, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck in repetitive patterns and overreact to specific cues. This affects our health, well-being, our sense of safety and connection, and creative potential.

We can invite our autonomic nervous system and brain to gradually build new pathways and thus modify our physical, emotional, and mental responses to life’s happenings.

How does this course support you in this process?

You will experience and learn a variety of tools for regulating your nervous system. With this variety, you can find the ones that work best for you. Focusing exchanges will help you to hold and welcome your experiences and find your own unique way of incorporating neuro-regulating practices into your everyday life. Theoretical discourses will put everything in a larger context.

Basic experience in Focusing and listening is required to join this 21-week course. If you have no Focusing experience, please contact me as soon as possible.

Each class consists of a variety of different elements:

• Neuro-regulating exercises are gentle, good for everyone, and extremely simple once mastered. These practices involve breath, movement, (self)-touch, sound, and always sensory self-awareness.

• Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lessons based on the Feldenkrais Method help you discover new, beneficial ways of acting and of attending to yourself.
  These ATM lessons will make neuro-regulating exercises easier and more effective. You will explore adaptive breathing, freeing the neck and jaw, eye movements to calm the nervous system, finding ways to balance the flexors and extensors expressed in fight and flight patterns…

• Focusing exchanges offer you a shared space to be curious about your needs and the perceived obstacles to meeting those needs. They help you to be present with all experiences, including potentially self-critical voices, and support you to envision the next do-able steps in your unique learning process.

• Theoretical discourses give you a basic understanding of why we do what we do and the benefits of these exercises. The talks offer you an understanding of why your body/nervous system does what it does. This can open a completely different perspective and allow you to embrace your reactions and behaviors.
  (Polyvagal theory, neuro-regulation, brain plasticity, vagus nerve, and other supportive modalities…).

• The art of building new habits to support a balanced lifestyle/a balanced nervous system

• Shared silence allows you to let go of all doing, all roles, and goals. Simply allowing space for what is.

This course not only teaches you neuro-regulating techniques, but it also provides a safe space for you to engage in your very personal process with “the whole thing around nervous system regulation”.
Both self-regulating and co-regulating exercises will be practiced.

You can use what you have learned for your own well-being and/or to offer more informed support to your (Focusing) clients who wish to improve their physical and emotional balance.

Course format:

• Maximum 8 students

• Twelve online classes of 3 hours each, a total of 36 hours class-time

• Two one-on-one meetings with me (60 min. at the beginning + 30 min. at the end of the course)

• Exercise instructions are recorded and can be viewed/listened to while the course lasts and up to six months after completion. (The sharing of personal experiences will only be recorded when participants agree.)

• Handouts contain a summary of the class content

• Optional one-on-one sessions at a 20% discount for as long as the course lasts (see below)

Your additional commitment:

• You will have a weekly buddy (Focusing partner) for mutual encouragement and inspiration. (~ 60 min.)
• Optional but highly recommended: 1.5-hour peer practice during class-break weeks (during the same time frame as the classes)
• Optional but highly recommended: Your daily self-care practice of about 15 to 30 minutes.

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Practicalities:

Requirement:

Basic Focusing and listening experience.
If you are new to Focusing, please contact me as soon as possible, so we can consider how to make your participation possible. For example, a few one-on-one Focusing sessions before the course might be sufficient.

Where:

Online, Zoom

When:

Wednesdays, Nov 20, 2024 to April 9, 2025
21 weeks for learning and integration

PT: 7:00 am to 10:00 am
EST: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
GMT: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
CET: 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Class dates:

Fees: 

The fee includes:

• Maximum 8 participants
• A weekly class for 12 weeks (3 hours each, a total of 36 class-hours)
• Two one-on-one meetings with me (60 min. in the beginning + 30 min. at the end of the course)
• Nine weeks for deepening your practice (20% discounted one-on-one sessions with me for as long as the course lasts)
• Weekly buddy (Focusing) -time (~ 60 min.)
• Setup of peer practice during no-class weeks (~ 1.5 hours recommended)
• Your own daily practice of what’s has been introduced in the course (~15 to 30 min. recommended)
• You will own the handouts
• You will be able to listen to the recordings for six more months after the course ends
• Follow-up meetings are possible for a small fee after the course is completed, and student practice/support groups are encouraged

Regular
€590
$650

Bring a friend discount
€545 (save €45)
$600 (save $50)

If you have joined this course before
€408 (25% discount)
$450 (25% discount)

Not sure yet?

Ask me for a free 15-minute meeting:
Let’s meet, so we can get to know each other. This is an opportunity for you to let me know what you are looking for and what might be particularly important to you.
Contact me here

Focusing Session one-on-one
The fee will be offset against the course fee if you decide to join.
Register here €70       1-hour session
Register here $75        1-hour session

Sign Up:

Attention:
Basic Focusing and Listening skills are required to join this course.

I offer a one-on-one informal/Focusing session with anyone who wants to join the course. This is for both of us to see if this course is a good fit for you at this time. This one-on-one meeting is required and will be offset against the course fee.
If you are interested, please contact me here.

Student’s Feedback:

The road to finding the core practices that help rebalance oneself has many stops along the way.  I definitely benefited from ‘stopping by’ to visit your course along the way.  Your calm and deep listening, which was the vehicle for transmitting the practices, was perhaps the most important aspect of the course for me.

October 2024, half a year after the course ended, Diane S.

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I so appreciated the attention Amona gave to each one of us in the class. I appreciated Amona’s commitment to helping us find the ways that worked best for each individual to find a path to “reset” our nervous systems through regular practices.
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Another aspect that I found helpful was the focusing partnerships where I could share my challenges with working on a desired habit change in a one-to-one setting.

April 2023, Dorothy Marks, Psychotherapist

Cancelation Policy:

Up to one month prior to the start of the course: Euro 40/Dollar 45 processing fee

Within the last month before the course begins: If another participant fills your spot, your course fee will be refunded minus a 40 Euro/Dollar 45 processing fee.

Disclaimer:

The self-help tips offered in this course are of a general nature and may not be tailored to your individual health or mental needs. Every physical and mental condition is unique, and only a doctor or therapist can provide appropriate advice based on your specific situation.

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