Genuine Movement : 8 week
SCI Breathwork Course
Feb 1st!
Live community + individual support, and an online learning portal to explore in your own time.
Introducing: SCI Breathwork
An 8 week Course for Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries
What to Expect
INSIDE THE COURSE:
This resource material is 100% virtual, accessed through an online portal and in a community ZOOM setting.
Learn at your own pace, connect with the SCI community and discover new ways of working with your breath.
ONLINE LEARNING PORTAL
GUIDED INSTRUCTION
DOWNLOADS & VIDEOS
LIVE ZOOM WORKSHOPS
Explore Different Ways to Engage with BREATHWORK
Since starting this course I've found that I can use different breath techniques to access more of my bridge in my floorwork. Using an exhale for effort has helped me so much.
Educate, Meditate, Breathe.
The Informational Portal is comprised of 3 sections full of informational resources. You'll learn about the anatomy of breathing, specific exercises for coughing, enhancing volume capacity and have guided meditation to focus on the relationship of your organs and breath.
PART ONE
The Physiology of Breath
You'll learn what muscles and nerves are involved in breathing, how breathing changes after a spinal cord injury and how organ dysfunction can cause pain.
PART TWO
Guided Meditation
Relax and settle deep into your body with Colleen's guided visualization of how your breath and organs pair with each other.
PART THREE
Breathing Exercises
Colleen and Susan (SCI C5/6 30+years) will explain and demonstrate a series of exercises that help support deeper breathing, coughing and balancing the respiratory system.
Gain a Deeper Understanding
Join Our LIVE Online Learning Community
LIVE MONTHLY SUPPORT SCHEDULE
8 Weeks of Support: Feb 1 - March 22, 2023
Each LIVE workshop is intended to support and integrate the information available in the Learning Portal.
This is also an incubating time where questions arise, answers are provided, and tools & support open new ways of accessing breath after a traumatic injury.
Online sessions will be held PST and on ZOOM.
Recordings will be archived in the online learning portal for members of the community.
February 1, 2023
1:00pm - 1:30pm PST
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BREATHING THE MOMENT
Let's start in the moment.A guided meditation and a short breathwork series to assess your breathing.
February 7, 2023
12pm -12:30pm PST
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MONTHLY BREATHWORK
Focusing on percussive breath. When and how to use a faster, more invigorating breath.
February 22, 2023
11:30am - 12pm PST
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INTENTION OF BREATHWORK
Recalibrate your intention with breathwork. We're midway through the course- how is it going?
March 7, 2023
12pm -12:30pm PST
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MONTHLY BREATHWORK
Box Breathing. Using a 4x4 style of breathwork to activate the parasympathetic nervous system and bring us out of a state of stess.
March 11, 2023
10am - 11:30am PST
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B2BREATH WORKSHOP
A movement and breath workshop that invites us to stay present in the moment.
March 22, 2023
10am - 11:30am PST
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BREATHING FORWARD
Wrapping up our 8 week workshop with tools to keep an active breathwork practice moving forward.
Mindful Movement Supports Healing & Strengthening
Meet Your Instructor:
COLLEEN
I'm passionate about movement. It can be a tool for us to stay healthy and active, support healing, and when we find joy in moving- life shines a bit brighter.
Working with spinal cord injuries since 2006, I've focused much of my continuing education and learning around trauma and healing.
My hands-on work in SCI exercise recovery facility deepened my desire to learn more. What was I feeling in my hands in regards to tone, spasticity? How do we organize and integrate the body when paralysis is present?
The body is more than muscles and bones and attachments- what about the organs and the nerves and the brain? In 2016, I dived into studying Visceral and Neural Manipulation through the Barral Institute.
My passion now is combining visceral and neural manipulation with movement practice.
Maintaining a foundation of movement and self-care has allowed me to find balance in each season of life - from my time as a professional dancer in my 30’s, to giving birth and raising two children, to most recently recovering from breast cancer and a double mastectomy.
Our bodies have an amazing capacity to heal, integrate , and learn after injury and trauma. Utilizing movement, breath work, and bodywork to support all stages of healing and integration is a powerful combination.
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