This class is designed to help you develop ease with your client's emotions and expand your comfort zone when emotional content arises as a result of the bodywork. Due to lack of training, many bodyworkers are fearful and at a loss when this happens. You will study different psychological concepts and their historical development to gain a framework for understanding the psyche. You will also develop skills for dialoguing with your clients and learn to support the flow of information from inside our clients when they are in an altered state of consciousness. In addition, you will study the need for integration of this information and learn how to facilitate it. This class will help you overcome any resistance or fears you might experience when clients exhibit strong emotions and enable you to offer your clients a more holistic and complete healing process.

You will acquire:

• The ability to establish your resources for working with client's emotions.
• The ability to establish and make available the resources your client has for working with their emotions.
• The ability to skillfully monitor your client's experience of their emotions.
• An understanding of different schools of psychology and your relationship to them. Your common, everyday knowledge about psychology will be reframed and expanded into a professional understanding.
• The knowledge and skills to work with the relationship you have with your client.
• The skills for assisting your clients in articulating the wisdom of their disease ("cell talk").

Deposits and Registration Options: Payments can be made to the Therapeutic Training Center by cash, check or credit card (click HERE to learn more). A deposit of $100 may be made on any of the Introductory Workshops or Advanced Bodywork Classes to guarantee a spot as long as full payment is made by the first day of class. To make a deposit on the class, please call 206.853.6875 or follow the instructions for mailing in a check payment. Unfortunately, the website will not handle partial payments so deposits cannot be made online.

Student Contract: Please print out the Cranio-Sacral Introductory Workshop and Advanced Bodywork Contract and fill it out. Either fax it to 206.243.5185 or mail the contract to: Therapeutic Training Center, PO Box 66864, Seattle, WA 98166. Registrations are complete when the Therapeutic Training Center receives the contract and full payment. The student will be mailed back a copy of their contract.

(Satisfies NCBTMB's 6-hour ethics requirement.)

What to Bring: meditation cushion/pad; a flower; writing utensils and a journal/notebook; a sheet and a blanket (can be used as meditation pad); wear loose clothing

Instructor: Ursula Popp, L.AC., VCST, RC; NCBTMB #322123-00

Class Date: August 25-28, 2010
Class Times: Wednesday-Saturday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Natural Health Resource Center (click location for details)
Cost: $545
Cost/Hour: $19.46/hr
Hours: 28

Other Coursework by Instructor:

• Advanced Bodywork Class -- The Brain and 12 Cranial Nerves (May 19-22, 2010) - 28 hours
• Cranio-Sacral Introductory Workshop (September 16-19, 2010) - 28 hours
• Advanced Bodywork Class - Visceral Work: The Missing Link (January 26-29, 2011) - 28 hours
• Advanced Bodywork Class - Unwinding: The Key in Moving from Trauma to Health (April 13-16, 2011) - 28 hours
• Advanced Bodywork Class - Heart-Centered Approaches to Healing (May 11-14, 2011) - 28 hours