Category Archives: Workshops/Programs

Relaxation CD

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In the last month I received two great reviews unsolicited from clients on the benefits of my Relaxation CD. One from a long time client and one from a new client of a few months. Both describe how effective the CD has been each and every time they play it. It is different every time and still effective. They put it on when they can’t settle, relax or centre. Or when they can’t get to sleep. One of those clients has been using it now for about three years, and it’s still effective.

So this made me think a little about my humble Relaxation CD. This CD is now eleven years old, and it is still going strong. It was way ahead of its time back then, and still now, to a lesser extent.

I use it myself when I find it hard to centre alone. That’s not too often but it can still happen sometimes. I have it on my iphone and so it’s available anytime I need it.

Does it matter that it’s my voice I’m hearing?
Not in the slightest.
Because it has nothing to do with who is talking but how it’s talking.

I mentioned eleven years ago in the promotional material of this CD on my website (which is still there today)

Quote:
“Remember: For true relaxation – you do not need music, you do not need nice words. If you think it is the music and nice words that does the relaxation then I can almost guarantee you that whatever CDs you have, I bet you will quickly get bored with them and need to change them often. With this CD you do not need to change the words, or change any music. You can play it many, many times. Eventually you will probably not even listen to the words. As I’ve mentioned, the words are not as important.”

So it is nice to know that many people who have purchased the CD over the years, have proven the point, they still use it and it is still effective, not boring. (In fact I’m thinking of doing a survey soon to find out the exact figure from all the people who have purchased the CD.)

Eleven years ago, the term mindfulness was not as commonly used as it is today. Back then the word was ‘relaxation’, and the word ‘meditation’ was just beginning to be used.

Today the word is ‘mindfulness.’ I like this word. It is a far more accurate description as to what is going on or could go on, when you close your eyes.

Even though my relaxation CD is eleven years old now, I am planning to make a follow up to this program. One that goes deeper still, to another level. I will let you know (if you are on my email list) when this becomes available.

Are you a Meditator?: What it says about you…

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The Self Healing Meditation Classes are chugging along nicely at my centre here in Melbourne twice a month. Averaging about 16 people a class.

If you are a person who Meditates, what it says about you is this:
that you know deep down that you are not your thoughts, that you are something greater and deeper than that. That you are a being that thinks, rather than just a thinking robotic machine.

This ‘being’ in you, that resides throughout your entire body holds the key to your fulfillment in life. It is your spirit. The real you. Taking time out to contact this directly is the road to complete freedom. Along that road you will bump up against the road blocks of your past. The blocks you put up to survive but which you then forgot to take down afterwards.

This class gives you the time and space to firstly remember who you truly are, get in contact with the real you again, and then take time to release the old road blocks that are not helping you move forward today.

I look forward to helping you further along your journey.

New Self Healing Meditation Class

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The responses so far to this new class have been very positive. People feelings some real differences and shifts. So much so that I have had to run another class this week to accommodate everyone on the waiting list. And that class is almost full too. So, needless to say, I am very happy with the response so far.

This is a new Healing Meditation type class designed to help you self-heal. It is a combination of all my experience is various therapies and practices over 20+ years. It encompasses your mind, body, emotions and spirit. A holistic approach.

No one can heal you but you. This class provides a space to help you focus silently, deeply, within for an hour at a time. And with some guidance and the group energy, assist yourself to accept and then release deep old habitual blocks that have been holding you back from being more of your real self.

These old holdings are the accumulation of unfinished business that most people have learned to conveniently push aside in order to get on with their lives. Only these issues do not go away, they just fester and build on-top of each other, weighing you down more and more as you live your life.

All anxieties, depression, worry, negativity, reactivity, suffering, most physical problems, even diseases and health, all have an inner component that can be accessed and released and healed. I have seen it many times in my practice over and over, people healing things that have plagued them with no resolution for years.

This is a powerful process to help you get back more of who you truly are, aliven yourself, free yourself and feel lighter freer, happier, healthier and more at peace than ever before.

The class is run at the Elwood Centre for Wellbeing – 1B, 41 Glenhuntly Road, Elwood in Melbourne, Australia.
On the first and third Monday nights of each month. 7.30pm to 9pm+
Each class is limited to 20 people. So booking is essential.

“You’re a Lid Popper!”

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At a recent Women’s Trauma Release group I am co-leading one of the participants after her individual session said with a laugh, “George, you are a lid popper!” We all laughed. And I agreed. What a great phrase I thought. A lid popper.

The Body Psychotherapy work, (especially the Radix Work) is excellent for helping people ‘pop their lids’ (in a  safe way of course.)

What are all the past pains and hurts and emotions that you have put a strong lid over to cover up and not feel ever again? Some people have many lids – and that can get very tiring, draining and create exessive thoughts quizzing around in your head. Not to mention the behavioural limitations and reactions they cause, and long term, if not addressed, disease.

“I never knew that was there!”

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This weekend (August 21/22 2010) I just completed running another Energy Body Psychotherapy Workshop with eight amazing participants. (Plus one fantastic assistant.) The bond, safety and caring created by the whole group was beautiful to be part of and experience. And the releases that each and everyone of them freed up in themselves was powerful and deeply moving.

One of the comments that came up regularly after a deep process was “I never knew that was there”.

I’ve heard this a lot over the years from clients. And it again highlights how well we as human beings are able to suppress and hide deep emotional wounds, from ourselves. So we go about our lives thinking we are okay because we are functional, but deep down the nagging problems, behaviours, dramas, reactions and diseases that we can’t shake off, are still there.

Accessing this core material requires much deeper work, and it requires getting deeply in touch with the body inside. Doing this with just talking doesn’t do it for a lot of people. To get deep inside your body, you must engage it fully. That means adding sound, movement, feeling, touch, energy and contact with the intellect thinking.  Doing this means often, we are awakening the inner child within. Accessing and awakening the younger part of your nervous system so you can finally heal yourself where it counts.

So if you do still have nagging problems after many years of working on yourself. Just know that deep within you there is a layer or two that is still active and still influencing your current behaviour. And it may be time to go much deeper.

Energy Body Psychotherapy Workshop

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Another Energy Body Psychotherapy weekend workshop completed recently that I ran on July 24/25 2010. The workshop was booked out with the maximum of eight people. It went very well. All eight were able to let go and release some very deeply held repressed parts of themselves which stopped them from feeling fully alive and embodied.

The workshop starts with some education on how we block feelings and what happens when we release them. I cover in detail the process the body goes through and why people develop deep unconscious blocks over time which leads to – feeling less authentic in their life and, if left untreated for too long, disease.

This is followed by paired exercises to help participants begin to feel comfortable with each other as well as begin to deepen into themselves. The Sunday is more enlivening and more expressive with more paired work as we go even deeper. The Sunday afternoon I work with each participant individually with the support of the rest of the group.

This is very deep and powerful work and very life transforming. I always feel deeply blessed to be part of a person’s journey as they take the courage to let go and free themselves.

The workshop combines all my background in Radix work, Somatics, Trauma Release Therapy, Energy Healing and other training and techniques brought in as required. Needless to say I highly recommend it!