BodyMind Self-Healing Course

Material is presented in live classes, with small groups. Videos, reading resources, exercises and discussion forum are available via our online portal. Sharing your experiences and journaling is also encouraged.

As a member of the Ihsaas™ Network, you will have access to regular online gatherings and retreats in the tropics to support your process.

Prerequisites include some basic experience of healing work. An openness to change, vulnerability and letting go is essential.

Level 1, What You Learn (through tears & laughter):

• Understanding disconnection and the importance of grounding.
• Holistic paradigms of bioenergy.
• Rumi and the healing path.
• Coming out of your head: the unity of body/mind/heart/spirit.
• Mindful awareness of sensation and emotion.
• Working through difficult experiences with embodied metaphor and movement.
• Expansion and Contraction: the flow of internal states.
• Breathwork exercises.
• States of anxiety, grief and shock.
• Reflexive responses (rooting, flight, fight, freeze, fawn) and the Vagal complex.
• Heart opening and ego de-armouring exercises.
• Developing embodiment practices.

Level 2, What You Learn (through more tears and laughter):

• Deeper exploration of somatic patterns.
• Working with development trauma and the effects of childhood reflexes.
• Importance of instinctual play.
• Noticing intergenerational, cultural and sexual issues.
• ‘What gets stuck where?!’ Exploration of organ, fluid and skeletal systems.
• Pelvic and throat connection: Effect on women’s self-expression.
• Finding your voice and rhythm.
• Brain hemisphere dominance & heart coherence.
• Embodied spiritual practice.
• Systems theory in nature: a sense of natural being (fitrah).
• Developing presence, creativity and intuition.