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Women’s Anger Salon, DC Edition

Saturday, August 19, 2017
St Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church, 1525 Newton St NW, Washington, DC 20010

Women’s Anger Salon, DC Edition

11am-5pm

Registration Now Open! https://squareup.com/store/light-the-phoenix/

Check out my short video “Why I wanted to offer Anger Salon” here:

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.

We call it the Free Your Joy Salon! Because that is really what we are doing,

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 to 20 participants, so register now and
secure your place!

Special Early Bird rate through August 8th: $137 (save $60)

$197 regular rate. Advance registration required: registration closes August 17th.

Click or cut/paste this link to register:

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A portion of the proceeds will be donated to We Are Family DC. Check out their great work here: http://www.wearefamilydc.org/

So what will we actually be doing in Women’s Anger Salon?

For one, I’ll be sharing about why, after 12 years in
clinical practice as an acupuncturist using Traditional Chinese Medicine, I
became convinced that 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 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 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, register now.

I’ll meet you on the path.

Feedback on Women’s Anger Salon:

“I am glad I participated in today’s Salon. It was a safe space to explore a “taboo” emotion, and the movement exercises were especially helpful. I definitely recommend it.”

“Elijah has so much to teach and give. She is a gift!”

“Elijah’s vast knowledge of Chinese Medicine and her insights into her own personal experience make for an informative, vulnerable, transformative experience. Highly recommended for those who do and don’t want to explore anger.”

“I highly recommend Anger Salon. It was informative and gave me tools to use every day. Elijah is awesome!”

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