Zen Mindfulness - Sei Ki HeartTouch - Tai Chi Qi Gong

Anthony teaching HeartTouch in London March 2023

Sei Ki HeartTouch

Working with Anxiety Disorders, Trauma & Psychosis

Sei Ki HeartTouch is rooted in the Shiatsu and Shinto traditions of Japan and framed within Western Mindfulness science & Polyvagal Theory.

As well as facilitating personal transformation and self learning, this workshop explores the embodied foundations of co-regulation and care suitable for assisting people experiencing any level of distress including serious anxiety based disorders, complex trauma and psychosis.

In this workshop I will also spend some time taking participants on a narrated journey of what it feels like to be in a psychosis. I will share some strategies to help any clients you may meet 'on the edge' or within this human experience whether medicated or not.

Course content

Sei Ki, founded by the late Akinobu Kishi is both a practical Ki Therapy and a Way, a path of spiritual development through compassionately meeting others in resonance, usually, though not exclusively through bodywork.

Our journey together will be one of returning to simplicity, to our original nature. Finding our relationship to the ground, our centre, our heart and opening the raw energy of the Hara.

As we recover our life feeling and resonance with all that is, our capacity to share this with others through our simple presence & touch will come naturally and joyfully, and in doing so whether as a therapist or simply 'life enthusiast', we nourish our deeper selves and celebrate the gift of life.

Anthony teaching Sei Ki HeartTouch in Piemonte

Course objectives

Participants will enhance their capacity / be able:

• to enter resonance with those they touch
• to rest in empty presence and be there for others
• to feel their own Ki and that of the other
• to take care of themselves while 'giving' to others
• to strengthen and harmonise their Ki with daily practice
• to share Sei Ki HeartTouch Treatments with friends and family

Therapist participants will be able to integrate Sei Ki HeartTouch into their professional therapy work in a way sensitive for people experiencing trauma & emotional distress including psychosis.

Non-bodyworkers will be able to integrate the emotional regulation practices into their work with their clients, will enhance their capacity to co-regulate with them and potentially make use of some simple non-intrusive touch to offer emotionally support when it is obviously needed.

Our final goal is simply to come to a good feeling within ourselves, to open our hearts and share this warm feeling with those we meet in our lives.

For more information on Sei Ki please see this pdf: What happens in a Sei Ki Session?

Course Language

English with Italian translation

Target Group

Shiatsu practitioners and other bodywork therapists are welcome as are mental health practitioners / psychotherapists / health workers seeking to better support their clients or patients.

'Life Enthusiasts' unfamiliar with therapeutic or compassionate touch are also very welcome. What we need most is a warm heart and a desire to connect more deeply with ourselves, along with a desire to meet with others through compassion based touch.

People presently experiencing distress of their own including reasonably stable 'psychosis' are also very welcome to join us.

About Anthony:

Anthony Fidler

I had my own journey first with 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, where I experienced chronic stress and then as a software programmer where I went into a meltdown of physical and mental fatigue. A serious breakdown / burnout.

Despite massive efforts to heal myself, this journey continued in 2001, with me entering non-ordinary states, we can say spiritual psychosis perhaps.

After an 8 month period in the psychiatric system, I came off anti-psychotic medications and took personal responsibility for my own well-being. This journey continued for the next 8 years with me going in an out of challenging non-ordinary states until I stabilised in 2010.

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 and misery.

Click here for more on Anthony's background and experience

Details:

The event is being hosted by Anthony Fidler with support from Manuela Perardi & Serena Trotti.

Venue: Colla di Netro, Biella, Piemonte

Date & Time: 29th November - 1st December 2024

This will be a Sei Ki HeartTouch workshop focused on supporting Shiatsu and mental health therapists to enhance their capacity to work with their clients, especially one's experiencing trauma and emotional distress including psychosis.

At the same time the workshop is open to anyone interested in exploring themselves in more depth and their relationship with others especially those with lived experience of psychosis.

Pricing:

• Course Fee: Please Contact Manuela.
• Accommodation & Food: €60 (shared room) / €75 (private room)

Registration Process:

Contact Manuela on +39 347 313 4466 to book.