Power and Passion: Cradling Our Anger - Transforming Destructive Energy into Creative Power – a One Day Retreat for Women
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Unity on Greenville, 3425 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX 75206
11:00am-5:00pm
Do you want more joy and less stress in your life? Do you wish your relationships flowed more easily? Have a desire to be a better parent? Do you seek freedom from chronic pain? Addressing anger can reduce pain & stress, increase immunity, foster healthy relationships, and allow us to move through life with more grace.
Join us for an intimate afternoon in which we create a safe
space to explore that taboo subject: anger. How did it get its bad rap? What
angers us? What does it physically feel like? How do we react or not react? How
do we individually experience anger - do we swing wildly from repression to
rage, live constantly in one or the other, or are we disconnected and blind to
any feelings of anger at all? How might we move toward a middle ground, and how
do we begin to make peace with our anger? How might we understand the purpose
and benefits of allowing and honoring this powerful emotion, and shift our
relationship with anger?
Certified Life Coach and Licensed Acupuncturist Ms. Elijah
Hawken will discuss how anger is viewed under the lens of Traditional Chinese
Medicine, and lead the group in exploring anger through discussion prompts,
creativity, movement, sound, and ritual.
Group size is limited and advance registration is required, so act now to secure your place!
What Will We Be Doing in Power and Passion: Cradling Our Anger?
clinical practice as an acupuncturist and herbalist using Traditional Chinese
Medicine, I became convinced it was necessary to offer workshops on anger.
I’ll explain how emotions are seen in Traditional Chinese
Medicine.
We’ll talk about the many faces of anger: acute anger, old
anger, buried anger, resentment.
We’ll look at these aspects of anger (and more), and explore
how we might navigate each of them in a healthy and supportive way.
We’ll expose some of the names we call our own anger, in
order to avoid saying we’re angry.
We’ll talk about setting clear boundaries for ourselves.
You’ll learn meditation techniques and self healing
techniques.
We’ll employ the principles of Mindfulness to buoy us in our
explorations.
We will observe how we use our voices, and play with using
them in new and different ways.
We’ll allow our bodies to echo our anger – what shapes and
movements might that anger suggest?
We’ll experiment with ways we might move our physical forms
to start to shift and move any stuck anger inside of us.
We’ll start growing our emotional vocabulary – helping us to
understand and accept what we’re feeling.
We will discuss compassion, and the F word: forgiveness (and
I promise to tell you why I hate this word so much).
We will draw our anger, write our anger, seek it out so that
we might stop being controlled by it.
We will do visualizations together and participate in
ceremony with the intention of releasing what is stuck.
Most importantly, we will create safe space, a sharing
space, and we’ll practice holding ourselves and all our foibles with
gentleness. We will be taking, together, a step forward – a step toward our own
health, and a step toward love.
If this sounds like what you might need, click here to register now.
I’ll meet you on the path.
What People Are Saying About Power & Passion: Cradling Our Anger
-“Elijah’s vast knowledge of Chinese Medicine and her
insights into her own personal experience make for an informative, vulnerable,
transformative experience. Highly recommend for those who do and don’t want to explore anger.” – Anne
“Power & Passion: Cradling Our Anger allowed me to visualize elements of my anger that are holding me hostage…and then provided me several tools I need to break free.” –Jenn Fox
“Thank you for creating a brave safe space for women to
openly talk about anger, this emotion which feels taboo for us to have in this
culture and is so often suppressed rather than healthily expressed.” – Melissa
“What an important experience. Gaining insight to issues
that we all experience daily, and positive ways to deal with them while caring
for yourself.” – Christine
“I enjoyed the opportunity to be among other women discussing issues that we all share
but are socially TABOO to talk about. It provided a safe house for that. So glad I came.” – Linda Tobin
“Elijah has so much to teach and give. She is a gift!” – L.B.
“I am glad I participated in today’s event. It was a safe
space to explore a ‘taboo’ emotion, and the movement exercises were especially
helpful. I definitely recommend it.” – R.C.
“Highly recommend Power & Passion. It was informative
and gave me tools to use every day. Elijah is awesome! - Cindy
Trans and gender non-conforming people are welcome, and may choose the event that will be best suited to their needs. If you would like more info to help you decide which day is the best fit for you, please call Elijah at 972-804-9113
For those needing disabled access, please call Unity on Greenville at 214-826-5863 so that accommodations can be arranged.
A portion of proceeds will be donated to Genesis Women’s Shelter, in Dallas, providing safety, shelter and support for women who have experienced domestic violence. Check out their good work here: www.genesisshelter.org