Events »»» HeartTouch for Well-being & Vitality 2nd October 2024 11.00-14.00, Ibiza, Spain
HeartTouch
Embodied Mindfulness & Compassionate Touch for Well-being & Vitality.
An experiential & transformative workshop for people seeking to connect with themselves and others in deeper more authentic ways.
We will explore together how embodied mindfulness & compassionate touch practices can help us regulate our own nervous systems at the same time as co-regulating with those around us.
Couples seeking tools to enhance their capacity to support each other in times of stress are also very welcome as are therapists seeking to enhance their capacity to work with trauma and distress.
People with other backgrounds i.e. therapists, social workers, family carers, people with lived experience of mental health issues are also welcome. Please get in touch with me to discuss your interest in attending.
Testimonials from previous participants:
- “Anthony's teaching was exceptional and this short course was wholly transformative both personally and professionally”.
- In a world where we are constantly trying to adhere to a variety of societal rules, we end up withdrawing and becoming lonely in a room full of people. Remember, when you were children, and our mother would hug us, and all your problems and worries would disappear? This is how I felt in the heart touch class.
- What I appreciated about the training was experiencing a way to connect, communicate and meet the other from meeting myself first. His work opens up a different way of connecting to ourselves and others; it's down-to-earth, interactive, skillful;
- The technique that Anthony Fidler shared with us felt an essential in the took kit for self care and for authentic relating to one self and to others, as well as a potential to build more conscious community.
- I never thought I could slow down my body, breathing and movements in just one workshop!
- Anthony really opened my eyes to the reality that I was living - too driven by fear, feeling trapped in my life, in my body, and living without touch. His way of explaining was very authentic and straight from the heart, and it made me feel very secure.
Embodied Mindfulness
Embodied Mindfulness is a way of being in which you are fully connected with your body and you feel safe.
Your mind is quiet and present to your experience of life happening that moment and your heart feels warm and open to yourself and to those around you.
This is a state of well-being and good feeling.
We will explore together how mindfulness & touch based connection practices can help us to move closer towards this state.
Along the way everyone involved will enhance their capacity to hold safe space for others.
And this will touch everything we do in life from then on...
About Anthony:
I have passed through extreme physical and mental health issues through my life, yet somehow have always managed to find amazing tools to heal myself.
I first experienced anxiety, panic attacks and mild depression while in my final year at Cambridge University in 1991.
This continued during my work as a financial auditor and software programmer, where I experienced chronic stress and then went into a meltdown of physical and mental fatigue. A serious breakdown / burnout. The breakdown eventually brought me into the psychiatric system for a while.
In response to these difficulties, from 1997, I chose to spend extensive periods of time both in India learning yoga & meditation and China learning Tai Chi and Qi Gong. The practices helped enormously and became a cornerstone of my life.
Over time I've become a qualified Mindfulness teacher, Tai Chi & Qi Gong teacher and have been teaching since 2015. I am also an experienced student of the late Akinobu Kishi , the founder of Sei Ki and teach his amazing touch therapy in my own way. I've spent twenty-five years exploring these fields with total dedication.
I found my own ways to recover and live a full life and now share what I learnt with others experiencing extreme states, trauma, broken nervous systems or simply chronic stress situations, along with therapists seeking to enhance their capacity to support others.
Click here for more on Anthony's background and experience
Details:
The event is being hosted Anthony Fidler.
When: 2nd October 2024 11.00-14.00
Where: Carrer de Vicent Serra i Orvay, 20, 07800 Eivissa, Illes Balears, Spain - visit Budoka Ibiza
Workshop size: 10 places.
Pricing:
- Course Fee: 35Eur.
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