I invite you to join this online workshop to learn.
Workshop Title:
Stepping into our hearts: A gentle creative exploration into emotional awareness by connecting with the earth & its healing potential.
We have been taught to hide or suppress our emotions, temporarily it seems to help to function in a world that is driven by agenda’s of capitalistic productivity. But soon we notice fatigue, we notice that our bodies are exhausted, overwhelmed and feeling the pain of everything around us. Our emotionsnever go away.
What is this program about:
The way this hiding of our emotions show for example is how, we train to control our anger or not display anger even when we feel it for fear of ruining relationships. When we are sad or depressed we put up a smiling face because we have learnt that we should never present a droopy face to others. Similarly we are masters in hiding our shame and guilt. We also learn not to worry as it causes stress and to be courageous and never fear or let fear pull you down. We struggle with all these emotions throughout our lives and go through roller-coaster experiences with our relationships both personal and professional. WE can release ourselves from all these by diving deep within and seeking to have an emotional awareness rather than patchwork solutions while staying stuck in our heads and fearing to step into our hearts
Each emotion has a purpose for being present in our energy field. There is no such thing as negative or positive emotions and some emotions bring about negative outcomes for us only because of the way we have been socialised to keep them at bay. In this workshop we will begin to see how each emotion is meant to take us towards our life goals and that each emotion is just a milestone along our life journey and each emotion can take us to a place of gratitude and joy within ourselves.
How will we do that:
This workshop is a novel way of exploring our emotional awareness through creative visualisation, energy psychology and connecting with the earth and its healing potential.
Tools of grounding with the earth, releasing what is not yours and offering yourself healing possibilities will be explored.
Expressive art techniques and movement techniques will be taught to embody this journey of stepping into our hearts
Program details:
When: 13th November 2022
Timing: 10am to 12:30pm
Fee: Rs 1500/- Group discount available. (Rs 1000 per person for a group of two or more)
Facilitators:
Selvan Srinivasan:
Selvan is trained as a mentor and author of Energy Psychology. He ensures indigneous psychology and spiritual practices are incorporated in mental health and well being of an individual. He leads the energy psychology wing at Pause for Perspective where he mentors and guides people in safe practices of Mindfulness and meditation and also provides support and training in Energy Psychology as an adjunct to Pause for Perspective’s offering in psychotherapy and medical management for client’s mental health needs. Given Selvan is deeply grounded in practice, you will see him hold space for practice of stepping into our emotions most powerfully in this workshop.
Aarathi Selvan
Aarathi is a clinical and Counseling psychologist and Mindfulness teacher. They are also a teacher, supervisor and therapist and has over 15+ years of experience in the field. Aarathi integrates a social justice stance to mental health practices. Aarathi believes that Mindfulness and Energy Psychology are ways of connecting with the body and nature in ways that allows us to lean in naturally into practices of embodied social justice. Given so many healing practices are languaged through upper caste, colonised ways of being, in this workshop, you will find Aarathi holding space for language adjustments and art based invitations, that allow our bodies to then feel safe.
Watch this video interview about the program: