A Four Day Workshop with Lael Katharine Keen
Free, fluid breathing is one of the ways that life and the life force expresses itself within each one of us. Free fluid breathing is also a mark of vitality and well-being.
Each time that we are traumatized, our breathing undergoes an alteration, and often this changed pattern of breath will continue to be active for many years, reactivating the trauma and limiting our self expression, movement and vitality.
In this four day workshop, we will explore how trauma affects breathing, and how we, as therapists who work with trauma, can help our clients to restore and reconnect with a way of breathing that is freer, more fluid and spontaneous.
Students will learn more about
Anatomy and Physiology of the breath and how it is affected by trauma.
Hyper-ventilation Syndrome - what it is, how to recognize it, and how to work with it.
How to recognize and work with different breathing patterns.
How to work with specific breathing traumas – asthma, suffocation, drowning, etc.
Each day of the workshop will have a lecture, a demonstration and a practicum. In the demonstrations and practice, we will learn techniques for working with specific altered breathing patterns. We will use touch work to track the breath and to offer new options to the client for a freer way of breathing. We will use tracking to work with the stored trauma energies that may emerge when the client's system makes the switch to a fuller, more alive breathing pattern.
Lael Keen Talks with Giselle Genillard about Laels work with Trauma and Beathing
To read an article that Lael wrote about working with Breathing in the Dr. Ida Rolf Institute Journal of Structural Integration go to this link: Dancing with the Breath
Pre-requisites for participation: The student needs to have completed a 2-day Introduction to SE workshop.
Lael Katharine Keen is an Advanced level Instructor of Somatic Experiencing® for the Somatic Experiencing® International Institute and a founding member of the A.B.T. (Associacao Brasileira do Trauma—the Brazilian Somatic Experiencing® Association).
She has been a Rolfer since 1984 and is an instructor of Rolfing® at all levels, Beginning through Advanced and Rolf Movement® for the Rolf Institute.
Lael holds a 5th degree black belt in Ki-Aikido and is a teacher of both Ki-Aikido and Shin Shin Toitsu Do - Mind and Body Coordination, certified by the Ki Society International in Tokyo Japan.
She teaches in the US, Brazil and internationally, for both the Rolf Institute and the SE Trauma Institute.
She is an Anthroposophic Art Therapist and a Bates Method of Vision Educator.
Cost & Booking
The cost of the four-day workshop is £790. (£710 if booked and paid before 29th February) . To book click on the button below. Places are limited and if the workshop is full you will be able to be added to the waiting list.