Anatomy for Energy Workers

Online course – 6 weeks

Discover the science behind how we ‘feel what we feel’ and why this can help you be a more empathic healer, body-worker, psychotherapist, homeopath, yoga teacher or similar.

Raising body awareness and understanding your own sensations helps you to develop your body as a ‘barometer’ to recognise the subtle and non-verbal communication that happens when working with clients. This online course will bring a new level of expertise to enrich your personal and professional practise.

This online course includes:

• Looking at muscle memory and how it holds life stories
• Making links between the body, chakras and meridians
• Finding out if gut instinct is ‘real’ or imagined
• Learning the role of mirror neurons in feeling empathy
• Discovering ways to restore inner balance
• Developing the skill of your body as a barometer of communication
• Finding ways to centre yourself using your skeleton
• Discovering connections between the body and the natural world

Understanding anatomy and physiology helps clarify your intention when working with the body. It also helps to reframe distorted body perceptions so that they become more aligned with reality – a healing in itself.

We begin with an orientation around the body to get a holistic perspective. This provides a foundation from which to appreciate parallels between the microcosm/macrocosm of the human body and planet earth  i.e. ‘stones are the bones of the earth’ (Andrea Olsen). Reference is also made between the physical and subtle energies throughout the course where applicable.

To place the above topics within a context we look primarily at the nervous system – the system of sensation. Aspects of the muscular, skeletal, digestive and endocrine systems will be incorporated to see how the body works as an integrated whole.

Book now to learn an embodied approach that weaves together anatomical concepts with experiential exercises, mindfulness, gentle movement and self-reflection to bring together knowledge and personal experience.

Course topics include:

Week 1:  Microcosom/cell-macrocosom/planet earth, body orientation of physical and subtle energy, epigenetics

Week 2:  Self-regulation, nervous system and touch, the language of sensation

Week 3:  Our kinaesthetic self, how muscle memory holds our ‘life stories’, mirror neurons & empathy

Week 4:  The digestive system, the vagal nerve, gut instinct and the second brain

Week 5:  From stress to rest, the stress response, maintaining balance, endocrine system and chakras

Week 6:  Grounding and centreing through the skeletal system, how we shape ourself   in life, overview of the Chinese meridian energy system

Entry requirements

• This course is open to all.