500 Hour Program Class Outline Form

Class Title: 58a Energetic Healing Processes Course(s) and Hours:

Class Description

Learning Objectives

Time Description Assignment/Resources

9:00 Opening meditation/guitar None of what we’re learning today should VI: 1-8 necessarily be discussed with one’s clients. The learning is meant to help you to mobilize your own body, mind and spirit and to understand your clients better. 9:05-9:15 What is energy? What is structure? – particles, visible, tangible, solid, dense, things

Energy – two different definitions – one is that of physics.

In physics, energy is an indirectly observed quantity which comes in many forms

 Thermal energy  Chemical energy  Electric energy  Radiant energy, the energy of electromagnetic radiation  Nuclear energy  Magnetic energy  Elastic energy  Sound energy  Mechanical energy  Luminous energy  Mass (E=mc²)

Energy is always an indispensable prerequisite for performing mechanical work, and the concept has great importance in natural science.

More generally - Noun 1. The strength and vitality required for sustained

2018 年 5 月 8 日 physical or mental activity. 2. A feeling of possessing such strength and vitality.

1. the capacity for vigorous activity; available power: I eat chocolate to get quick energy. 2. an adequate or abundant amount of such power: I seem to have no energy these days. 3. Often, energies. a feeling of tension caused or seeming to be caused by an excess of such power: to work off one's energies at tennis. 4. an exertion of such power: She plays tennis with great energy. 5. the habit of vigorous activity; vigor as a characteristic: Foreigners both admire and laugh at American energy.

In bodywork, commonly “energy” is understood as anything other than strictly physical: on a continuum (i.e. slippery mental slope!) from physics to metaphyics: Waves, vibration, tension, motion, emotion, thoughts, beliefs, soul, spirit, faith, love, hope, the divine, etc. 9:15-9:20 Orthopedic massage is aimed generally at physical structures Energy work is aimed generally at energy flows in the body. Integrative bodywork is aimed at both. The experience of health is commonly an experience of healthy functioning of body, mind and emotion. That what whole (same root as health and healing) refers to. It is a sense of being ill-at-ease – disruption of health – that brings people to massage therapy. 9:20-9:35 The most important “energy” to mobilize is your own. How do you do that? Here is an exploration of Seven Dimensions you use to mobilize your energy. Teacher introduce brief touch experiments to make that more real. Contact Movement Breath Graceful Verticality Heart Understanding Alchemy 9:35-9:40 Understanding someone better. 1. Accessing your gut. 2. Consciously accessing your knowledge. -- accelerated by psychospiritual readings, study,

2018 年 5 月 8 日 bodywork experiences 3. Using, if helpful, various energy models – chakras, meridians, bioenergetic theory, etc. 9:40-9:50 Discuss chakras and their existential significance: Legs and feet – grounding, survival, sense of security Pelvis – excitement, contributing to birth Belly – guts – intuition, courage, self-support Heart – love and other feelings Throat – self-expression, self-assertion Forehead – mind, understanding Top of the head – “crown” – inspiration from beyond one’s usual self

(Meridians will be covered briefly in upcoming short intro to shiatsu) 9:50-9:55 Neutral questions you can ask that will help you easily get a bit more energetic information without violating boundaries or scope of MT practice: How is your stress level? Any particular sources of stress these days? Is any of your pain or tension seem to get worse when you’re under stress? Any other possibly stress-related symptoms: Insomnia, teeth-grinding at night, headaches, stomach aches, etc. When you fet under stress where do you commonly feel it in your body? How is your energy level these days? How is it usually? 9:55-10:00 How do you facilitate your optimizing your contact with energy simultaneous to contacting structure (i.e. doing integrative bodywork).  By being integrated yourself – refining your presence in the seven dimensions.  By listening well during the history and session  By palpating with sensitivity and knowledge  By working at interface  By using fulcrums  By observing for and being responsive to working signs or the lack thereof.  By getting feedback on your work.

2018 年 5 月 8 日 Past – CO material –

Past: They’re six or so classes into the basic DM curriculum

Present: They now get to see what energetic means and how it’s relevant to dis-ease, disposition and destiny - and clinical work that addresses these three levels of health. MAKE SURE YOU DO THE READING IN DYCHTWALD, ETC. THAT THEY HAVE ASSIGNED. And please enjoy the benefit for you of deepening your learning by doing this! 

Note: Below the Class Outline - I have given suggestions for things they may want to include in their own intake forms.

Future: it’s good to have this class early in the DM segment to remind them people are more than tissues and a good therapist will treat and strive to understand and work with the whole person to help them feel really good, not only relieved from their injury and/or tension.

Summary of Content:

Introduction to Integrative/Clinical Bodywork

Energy anatomy

Instructional Objectives

Discuss what integration (of structure and of energy) means for therapist and client. Show how energy and structure are both necessary for integration and for optimum clinical benefit. Give both an apprehensive (more feeling-oriented) and comprehensive (more mental comprehension/understanding) introduction to energy anatomy especially the chakras. give them a good introduction and new start to the rest of the semester, particularly the energy ideas.

if time - To witness a session design and integrative demonstration by the instructor and/or to practice (injury work, postural work, energetic work integrated)

Format (give lecture and practical content) with time divisions (in 1/2 hours or hours as applicable) HOUR I – What is Energy? (and structure?) How to Mobilize Your Energy (and structure)

9:00 Roll and Meditation/Relaxation / energy exercise. Meditation w/ music?

2018 年 5 月 8 日 9:10 TELL THEM THAT NONE OF WHAT WE LEARN TODAY IS SOMETHING WE EXPECT OR WANT THEM TO TALK WITH THEIR CLIENTS ABOUT. That is not in our scope of practice. It is just about developing your understanding of people so that you can give them more effective massage therapy, more knowledgeable healthcare.

Intro discussion on energy and structure.

Healthcare = Health (whole) + Care – Cure - Curiosity

We are looking at simply being good health care professionals by taking the whole person and not only their tissues into account. Explain how we want to come to an understanding that benefits all students’ work and understanding.

Wholeness - means not just treating a person as a body; not dividing up the various aspects of the person. It requires an understanding of energy and of structure and of how they are integrated – really just two ways to look at the same thing – in life they are unified. In our minds, we can separate them.

Who is interested and believes in the energetic aspect of bodywork? Who is not? Find out growing edges of people’s understanding. e.g. help the fundamentalist Christian or the mechanistic find a way to get that energy isn’t weird - it just is a short-hand language for neuro-endocrine system, emotion, beliefs, etc.

What is Structure? Discussion. Physical, body – muscles, ligaments, bones, organs, etc. Matter, particle, visible, touch-able things, solid, dense, form, nouns, shape, organization, things

What is Energy? Discussion. Non-physical, vibration, wave, invisible, fluid/flow, diffuse, emotion, thought, beliefs, motion, verbs, spirit, soul, faith, hope, love, etc.

You may relate it throughout this class to some of what they will have read in VI – on energy and the seven dimensions of touch, Bodymind ix- 46. YOU MAY WANT TO ASK THEM QUESTION LIKE WHAT DOES DYCHTWARD HAVE TO SAY ABOUT…..? JUST SO THEY REALIZE WE DO EXPECT THEM TO DO THAT READING.

9:30 HOW TO MOBILIZE YOUR OWN ENERGY (AND STRUCTURE). Most important – bring your energy into your touch This is much more important than your “perception” of your client’s energy. Energy work is work that is energetically-empowered. e.g. through breathing,, all seven dimensions. Feel the energy, the communication in your touch; feel the aliveness in your own body, mind and spirit.

2018 年 5 月 8 日 How do you do that? – Take ideas from the class.

Relate to discussion re interface, the fulcrum, etc.

Segue into lecture on and practically explore the seven dimensions –.

If YOU CAN TRY TO INTERWEAVE TOUCH EXPERIMENTS TO CLARIFY THESE DIMENSIONS.

Contact How does it feel to contact well to be contacted well?

Movement How does it feel to move well to be touched by someone moving beautifully?

Breath – really important for them to experience How does it feel to breathe well to be touched by someone breathing freely?

Verticality How does it feel to be gracefully vertical? How does this touch feel?

Heart How does it feel to have an open heart in touch and to be touched that way?

Mind/Understanding - How does it feel to understand someone? And to be understood?

Alchemy/spirit How does it feel to facilitate a big change? How does feel to experience a new sense of your psychophysical self?

GOOD NEWS – touch feels good. The more you touch cultivating quality and skill of contact – the healthier you become (and the more healing it will be for your clients)

RELATE TO PART ONE LECTURES ON AUTONOMIC & ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS. The quality of your therapy relies on your knowledge and the power of the touch associations you evoke.

You can use seated massage to experience the 7 dimensions - Especially the first 5 dimensions – contact, movement, breath, graceful verticality, heart.

Or directly try it out at tables - dimensions 1-5. – if you didn’t interweave practical examples with lecture)

The most important energy is your own.

10:00 break

2018 年 5 月 8 日 10:15 OBSERVING THE ENERGY (AND STRUCTURE ) OF THE CLIENT.

Discuss what integration is for therapist and client. Disease – Disposition – Destiny = Three Levels of Health

Disease is the immediate complaint they come in with. This can be physical, psychospiritual or both. Injury, disease or dis-ease (ill at ease).

Dis-position is more their constitutional issues or chronic physical or psychological patterns – e.g. chronic postural misalignment, dysfunctional attitudes (self-defeatist, etc.). They may not be aware of these, but as therapists often we are. Our knowledge of their dispositional challenges can help us help them better. Again we generally would not discuss these with clients – just use our knowledge to help them more effectively through our bodywork.

Destiny – We help the client be more self-fulfilling when we facilitate release of dis-ease and dis-position - tensions that no longer serve them. That is, they are in a better position to grow and to optimize their health and life.

Show how energy and structure are both necessary for integration and for the experience of health.

Explain how dimension six – understanding - takes time and dimension seven - alchemy – depends on all the previous six dimensions being embodied by the therapist and, honestly, it takes fortuitous timing (when the client happens to be ready for a new step in life or personal transformation, big learning, etc.). The seventh dimension is the one therefore most out of our control.

UNDERSTANDING - how can you better understand someone else - physically and psychologically?

discussion of students' integration & practice DM sessions (homework)

discuss importance of being able to

1. ACCESSING YOUR GUT is always most important. secondarily feel free to get other ideas from different models for understanding and technique (postural, chakras, meridians, psychological, spiritual models, etc. etc.). Feel free to switch” lenses” to see and understand the person better. AND ALWAYS RETURN TO YOURSELF AS YOUR BEST RESOURCE.

2. CONSCIOUSLY ACCESSING YOUR KNOWLDEGE

You could mention that in Asian Bodywork they may use the “4 Shins” to get a feeling for the client and their needs:  Looking  Actively listening  Asking regarding what you’ve heard  Touching

2018 年 5 月 8 日 How can you observe energy’s effect(s) ? or observe it directly.

10:25 explicitly expressed mood, emotion, sensation, thought, belief, recounting of recent or more distant past event, energetic symptom, spiritual (e.g. kundalini) experience implicit mood, emotion, thought, belief tension structural characteristics/dysfunction resulting from chronic freedom/tension - posture, movement quality, freedom or lack of movement chronic emotion pain that great structural work doesn’t effect as much as you think it ought - - pleasure that sustains the person through challenges on the basis of subjective and objective info come up with working assumptions/session plan for integrative work

10:35 language – cover briefly the chakra model as giving some easy anatomically based language for energy.

10:45 Briefly review, if needed – Working State and Working signs (V-22) - part of Objective observations that may be energetically (as well as possibly structurally) relevant objective signs during tablework of energy (and possibly structural) changes

How can you know if a client has been energetically and structurally contacted well - so that they themselves accomplish their own inner work of relaxation and, ideally, learning and growth. Remember living in balance, calmness and equanimity is a skill not just a transient state of mind!

Breath Eyes Facial Expression Client reports Voice vitality kriyas swallowing borborisms local change environmental shift your bodily felt of change (to be certain needs to be confirmed in other ways - (e.g. client report) OMIT this for this class: Begin discussing the final project and particularly explain energy assignment (Energy observations being part of the rest of this semester and the final project)

See Packet VI-34 and earlier description of Final Project assignment.

2018 年 5 月 8 日 Note simple questions you can ask during an interview/history that may easily allow the client to give you energetic info without it seeming weird or invasive:

Your discussion may naturally allow such questions as these to flow in:  How is your stress level?  Any particular sources of stress in your life these days?  Any tension related to stress? Or other symptoms (e.g. stomach aches, headaches, insomnia)?  When you get under stress where do you feel it in your body?  How’s your energy level these days?  How is it usually?

Neat quote from the book General Theory of Love , by Lewis, Amini and Lannon. “The limbic brain is another delicate physical apparatus that specializes in detecting and analyzing just one part of the physical world - the internal state of other mammals.” Possible exercise: Energy line-up 1 person or as many as 3 people / assistant list observations in 3 columns on board

11:00 break

11:15 Deeper Re-introduction to Feedback

11:30 Do touch refinement / structural-energetic observation as giver, receiver and observer in group of 3. So each person can speak to 2 different experiences.

Person on table choose where you want to receive. Givers do the fulcrums you’ve learned already for that place.

Give really succinct clear and compassionate feedback. And feedback on the feedback.

12:15 Whole class discussion and feedback

12:30 end of class

Assignments

Media/Supplies to Be Used: Source Material:

2018 年 5 月 8 日 Some perhaps helpful notes from earlier versions of this class – food for thought

Miracle - our energy/mind/spirit and the structural miracles we embody. Doing bodywork is doing art with the most miraculous object (subject) (instrument) in the known universe.

Energy - synonyms: wave, vibration, movement, tension, feeling, emotion, thought, belief, soul, spirit,

energetic insight - non-verbal and verbal understandings of the more than physical side of the person.

Thoughts and feelings give rise to understanding. Best is your intuitive sense and common sense language for your understanding of others. Energy models (along with structural knowledge) can help focus your intuition, give you more conceptual options/lenses, help you understand people in flexible, not just one way. You may need here as elsewhere in the semester to switch gears from intuition, to chakras and back or to meridians in order to cultivate useful insight and touch with respect to your individual client on any given day/moment.

we/life is a pressure cooker/energy within a container

Energy anatomy - Discuss Energy Model ULF/kundalini, chakras, - energy flowing between heaven and earth take them a little more systematically through “Psychsomatic Anatomy of the Core” in their handout packet

Internal Flows - figure 8;

middle layer - myofascial system, organs, fluids

cover this as another way of describing the middle layer refer to, but do not cover in full detail: The 5 Elements of DM Specific pathways between heaven and earth - meridians yin mother earth originates in earth going up toward the heavens, yang father sky originates in heavens going down toward the earth where they meet is where we are

metal - large intestine/lungs - grief, smell, breathing, skin, white water - bladder/kidney - fear, hearing, bone, blue/black wood - gall bladder/liver - anger, sight/eyes, sinews (tendon/lig.), green fire - triple heater/pericardium - passion/joy, communication; red

2018 年 5 月 8 日 small intestine/heart - passion/joy/blood; speech earth - stomach/spleen - compassion/sympathy, taste, muscles; yellow

metal and fire through arms water down back (and up inside of legs/front torso) wood down sides (and up inside of legs, etc.) earth down front (and up inside of legs, etc.)

skin/superficial fascia/wei chi

background energy field

Show relationship of energy and musculoskeletal anatomy. Tension will manifest as dysfunction structurally and compromised energy flow at the level of bone, muscle/organ/meridian, skin, background field. Dis-ease often begins in the background field and, if sustained or traumatic enough, can go to a deeper level. Healing usually takes place from inside out. It does make sense to address the middle and, eventually, the deeper levels of the body/mind.

Energy manifests visibly as structure. If you don’t touch structure precisely you won’t be able to touch energy fully either.

In other words, a just structural approach leaves important aspects of us out and so does a just energetic approach. It is common sense to say the best health care will address all aspects of us - health care means Whole Care. It is simply not healthcare unless it is care for the whole. The best approach will come from and facilitate a unified vision and experience of self.

Explain that we are today going to show today how the energy model (as well as the structural one) helps design sessions of optimum therapeutic impact (facilitations). Explain the “how to do an energy reading handout”. if time -- Show applications of SB, DM and growing energy model for integrative bodywork.

Session design/Integrative demo - get permission from demo person to talk throughout the session about what’s going through mind, heart, body, energy of therapist re client while doing the session/ making decisions re strokes, etc. stress importance of anatomy knowledge being second nature look at proportion and tension not just alignment note how who someone is is evident naturally and obviously as their structure and their energy

discussion + closing meditation

Essential elements of session design

Creation of an appropriate image(s) (Maupin's article) - "what you imagine is what you touch"

2018 年 5 月 8 日 Each person is like a language (Erickson article). A good therapist learns to speak in each individual's language/world with their hands, body, mind and spirit. Wanting to get to know the other person - curiosity. Listening to their story - attentiveness. Hearing (and seeing and feeling) what they want - learning ability (let your picture of them begin to develop)

Giving them what they want.

Session design, like therapy generally, is not a science, in which there is supposedly one right answer. There is no one right thing to do. There is no right and wrong. There are a variety of responses which might be appropriate and, hopefully, some of these responses will be of therapeutic benefit. "Nothing like a little nonsense in life, is there, Doctor?"

Session design just begins with the interview. It begin and continues throughout the session until the closing because you want as therapist to stay open and present (allowing for further developing, even 180 degree turns, as the session moves along) Sometimes the most information you receive is from your feeling the tensions in the person or their unique verbal and non-verbal responses during the table work.

2018 年 5 月 8 日