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SUMMARY:Somatic Approaches to Mindfulness with Justine Dawson
DESCRIPTION:MMTCP Mentor Justine Dawson will lead this experiential dive into the fundamentals of nervous system regulation and its application to our mindfulness practice and teaching.  In this 3 hour workshop: \n\n\nDiscover the principles of nervous system regulation and directly experience how it can enhance your mindfulness teaching and practice \n\n\nDetect signs of hyper- and hypo-arousal – and the threat responses of fight\, flight\, freeze\, fawn – in you and your students  \n\n\nGain practical tools for supporting a return from activation to balance\, on and off the cushion \n\n\nUnderstand the place and importance of embodied pleasure as a foundation for healing and mindful awakening  \n\n\nLearn to balance invitations of equanimity with healthy aggression – for the liberation\, rather than suppression\, of life force energy \n\n\nHelp students build resilience inside of challenging experiences\, including meditative ones \n\n\nLeave with simple somatic inquiry practices you can immediately apply to your work with students to deepen their embodied awareness \n\n\nThis workshop will include lecture\, dialog\, supportive experiential exercises\, and simple take-home practices to use in your teaching. \n \nThis session is from 12:30 – 3:30 pm ET; the Zoom link is here  \nMore about Justine  \nJustine Dawson is a teacher and guide of intimacy and awakening. A 27 year practitioner of Buddhist meditation\, she completed training as a dharma teacher under Jack Kornfield in 2012. \nIn addition to her training and practice in traditional meditation and Buddhist psychology\, Justine is a board-certified Sexologist and fully qualified Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner. \nFrom the inside out Justine works with individuals and couples to unburden the trauma\, fear\, shame and judgment that prevents them from intimacy with all aspects of life. The therapeutic modalities of SE\, Internal Family Systems and relational mindfulness are foundational to her liberating\, embodied approach. \nJustine currently keeps it real in Los Angeles\, CA where she mentors new teachers through the MMTCP\, assists at Somatic Experiencing professional trainings\, and maintains a private practice working with individuals and couples around the world.
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