WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• Explore the neurological nature of pain and the shifts you can make through creative practice.
• Learn energy work, meditation and forgiveness practices to reprogram your mind-body connection
• Learn skills to be able to reconnect with your body and move through your pain
• Exercises to open up pathways for joy
• Learn to address all the factors that affect your perception of pain

SCHEDULE

A Three-Day Workshop
Friday – Sunday, May 21-23, 2021
Fri: 8:00pm – 10:30pm ET | Sat: 12:00pm – 10:00pm ET | Sun: 11:30am – 3:00pm ET

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WHO THIS IS FOR

The workshop can benefit anyone who is experiencing ongoing mental/ physical pain or a chronic disease that is compromising his or her quality of life. Chronic pain can manifest in many other symptoms such as spastic bladder, irritable bowel, skin rashes, burning sensations throughout the body, fibromyalgia, migraine HA’s, tinnitus and others. When the nervous system is over-reactive and out of balance it can create or magnify almost any symptom in your body.

Additionally, physical and mental pains are processed in similar regions of the brain. Anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and obsessive thought patterns, are other symptoms that also will eventually respond to these principles with repetition.

If you are not experiencing significant chronic pain just use the word, “stress”. It is a great set of concepts for processing stress. Stress in life is not the problem as much as your reaction to it.

This approach also benefits family members of those with chronic pain, and health-care professionals who want to implement these strategies in their practices.

THE FORMAT

The approach of the workshop is based on learning to become aware of your body’s reactions to your circumstances and then redirect them in whatever manner you choose. There are many tools to accomplish this. The essence of illness (including chronic pain) is facing ongoing mental and physical threats and the solution lies in learning tools to create safety. Your body’s neurochemical profile is dramatically different in these two states. The following is an overview of the approach.

• Awareness
• Hope
• Anger processing including forgiveness
• Play

You will learn skills to be able to reconnect with your body and move through your pain into a rich and full life. When you are at play, your body is functioning in an optimal range and will be able to regenerate. Jasmine Yohai and Babs Yohai have much expertise in rhythm and somatic tools to bring this energy back into your life.

About a third of the course will be lectures. The rest will be shared activities such as rhythm, drawing, writing, music, meditation, etc. The goal will be to teach you tools you can take home with you. Be prepared to engage. You will be assigned to a small group for the weekend. Lunch and sharing will be with this group of four or five participants.

Disclaimer: The information furnished via the Solving Chronic Pain: An Immersive Weekend Retreat is intended to provide educational information with the perspective of recognizing the dire need for better education in light of the struggle by many with pain. The training is for informational purposes only and shall not be construed as medical advice or psychotherapy, but psychoeducation. The identification or listing of products, services, links or other information on the website(s) or any linked website does not constitute or imply any warranty, endorsement, guarantee, sponsorship, affiliation or medical advice or a psychotherapy relationship by any of the trainers. Any health-related decision you may make on the basis of any information found within this Solving Chronic Pain: An Immersive Weekend Retreat is your sole responsibility. None of these trainers are acting as your personal physician or psychotherapist. Please speak with your personal physician or other health care provider regarding your own health concerns.

Note for Participants of the Chronic Pain Summit: A New Pathway to Relief – (January 2021).

The Chronic Pain Summit was an academic summit where thought leaders in chronic disease shared their basic science and clinical expertise to foster future collaboration. The Solving Chronic Pain: An Immersive Weekend Retreat, brings these evolving concepts into real life practice. It will present practical tools and approaches that can be used indefinitely to calm down and reroute your nervous system. It is for people who have experienced prolonged discomfort from either physical and/or emotional pain.

The tools are presented in a structured setting with a lot of sharing. The result is a sense of feeling safe, which allows a shift in your body’s chemistry. This change often results in rapid decrease in pain and anxiety. Prior participants have described the experience as similar to being in an adult summer camp. The core principles are awareness, hope, forgiveness and play.