💆🏽♀️The West Coast Zenthai Team is offering a Zenthai Shiatsu intro workshop!💆🏽♂️Join us for 3 hours of moving our bodies, playing and both giving and receiving bodywork. This will be a nourishing and connective evening where we will be spending time with new friends and dipping our toes into this gentle and powerful therapeutic practice.
Come alone or bring a partner to practice with
What to expect 😁
We will start with a game and movement practice to get our bodies warmed up and to meet each other. From there, we find partners (or find the partner we came with) and learn a clothes on, floor based bodywork sequence. We will have a chance to both offer and receive, in a fully guided flow. We will move slowly as a group in order to listen deeply in presence with our partners and provide a heartful space for therapy to arise. We wish for you to walk away from this experience feeling more deeply connected to your body and the others in the room, as well as feeling refreshed and revitalized after receiving a session! You are fully encouraged to practice what you learned with the people you love when you get home as well!
If you want to learn more with us, on August 8-11 we’ll be offering a 4-day Zenthai Shiatsu training. Check it out here
👉🏽 https://fb.me/e/3rBvccoBD 👈🏽
A few words about Zenthai Shaitsu 🗣
On the surface Zenthai is a creative form of bodywork integrating techniques and philosophy from Zen Shiatsu, Thai massage and Osteopathy. However, at its core, it is an invitation to freedom. Freedom not only of the structural and energetic bodies but also, if we are adventurous enough, on the mental and emotional levels. Experiencing true freedom is not about ‘taking on’ anything new but more-so about letting go of the traps and blockages within our body/mind that prevent us from experiencing our true nature – joyful and free. It becomes the focused intention for both giver and receiver using tools such as touch, breath, movement, awareness and honest self inquiry.
Learn more about Zenthai here
👉🏽 https://zenthaishiatsu.com/ 👈🏽
Cost of the Workshop 💸
As a gesture towards economic equity we’ll be offering a sliding scale for our workshop. A sliding scale allows us to serve people from a wider range of economic groups.
The success of a sliding scale requires community collaboration. Ideally, it allows everyone to pay what they’re able to, while honoring the time and resources invested into the course.
Our sliding scale range is $15-$65
Knowing how to rate your capacity requires a moment of honest self-assessment. A complex web of income, wealth, class, race and other factors make up the realities of our ability to pay.
*Pre-registration is essential as we will cap this event at 24 participants*
Pay via the eventbrite link above or e-transfer your chosen payment amount to [email protected] (this will eliminate nay extra fees for you)
Consider paying the higher side of the scale if you:
– own the home you live in
– have investments, retirement accounts or inherited wealth
– travel recreationally
– have access to family resources in times of need
– work part time by choice
– have a relatively high degree of earning power due to your level of education (or gender and racial privilege, class background, etc.).
Consider paying on the lower side if you:
– are supporting children or have other dependents
– have significant debt
– have significant medical expenses not covered by insurance
– have educational expenses
– receive public assistance
Who are your Instructors? 👨🏽🏫
CLARA ROSE
Clara is a full-time Zenthai Shiatsu Therapist, Facilitator, and Acupuncturist, with 7 years experience in the field. She completed her Zenthai Therapist training and Zenthai Flow teacher training in 2017 with founder Gwyn Williams. In 2022, Clara assistant-taught the full 9-month Zenthai Shiatsu Therapist program alongside Gwyn and is proud to have been given permission to bring this program back to North America for the first time (coming soon!). Clara's teaching style weaves together softness, strength, and playfulness. She is known to have clear instruction, a calm demeanor, and contagious enthusiasm. As well as her experience teaching Zenthai workshops, classes, and 4-day trainings, Clara is also a qualified Acro Yoga teacher and Traditional QiGong instructor. She draws inspiration from her love of all things movement, from the changing seasons of the natural world, and from all the beloved teachers and friends that have blessed her life. Clara believes that healing together as a community is fundamental to health and is so grateful for the foundation of togetherness that Zenthai Shiatsu has brought into her life.
BODHI SAMUEL
Bodhi is a psychonaut, community builder, bodyworker, and facilitator and a grateful guest here on planet earth. After many years of studying the multi-faceted practice of yoga and meditation, Bodhi came into contact with Thai massage (in 2014, during his first yoga teacher training in india) and immediately fell in love. After some years of developing his practice and sharing with others, he came across a school Thaivedic, which brings the traditional methods of thai massage and yoga therapy together through the lens of the vedic sciences. He then discovered and fell in love with the heartful practice of zenthai shiatsu, another floor based bodywork practice that mixes thai massage, zen shiatsu and osteopathic techniques based on chinese medicine. From then on, he was hooked, putting “miles on his hands” giving sessions, assisting and teaching internationally, and dedicating his life to cultivating bodyworker collectives and spreading therapeutic loving touch to communities, festivals, and living rooms throughout the world.
We are excited to share a therapeutic space with you!
West Coast Zenthai Team
Event Venue
Church of Truth, 111 Superior St, Victoria, BC V8V 1T2, Canada,Victoria, British Columbia
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