Our visual perception is busy staring at screens

We communicate through a screen, surf the Internet, read texts, and watch broadcasts for a variety of purposes. Devices that display visual information are at the center of the field of perception for many. We are so involved in the context that we often fail to notice that much of what is so important to us would be inaccessible without the intense work of our visual perception.

Eyes get tired.

Enhance the quality of presence using this simple practice

This practice will help keep resources available, restore the state of your vision, and relieve feelings of increased tension. If performed regularly throughout the day, the practice will enhance the quality of presence in daily activities.

Note: The immediate effect may be a decrease in visual acuity: as the eye muscles relax, vision may become more blurred. Some time after the practice is completed, visual acuity will fully recover.

More practice: Stress Relief. Working With Head and Face

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When the state of our nervous system is a bit elevated, we act with less flexibility. The scope of available options narrows. This exercise helps to fully return into the body with a short guided meditation. Somatic component, particular hands placement during the process, will release excessive tensions and bring back bodily sensations that often fade during stress.

Gradual return to calm, relaxed state will help to feel the body. It will also increase awareness and widen up the capacity to act from a more grounded, realistic inner disposition.

Please refrain from practicing if you feel weakened or unwell. Choose rest instead.

More practices: Full Body Tapping

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Proprioceptive signals that our nervous system sends from our skin, muscles and internal organs to our brain allow us to notice what happens to the body. When we are highly agitated or anxious, we literally stop feeling it. The exercise will help to return to a state of presence, calm the mind and somewhat pacify excessive emotionality. It will allow to physically feel the boundaries of the body and facilitate return to a normal sense of self.

Many people have certain issues with maintaining healthy boundaries nowadays. If done regularly this practice can help restore a more balanced present state, reduce the intensity of bodily impulses and reactions.

Recommendation: exercise everyday in the morning before entering into the daily routine. The effects will gradually increase after approximately 10-14 days of regular practice. Add more practice during the periods of acute stress or other situations when the feeling of center is lost or when feeling less grounded than usually.

Please refrain from practicing if you feel weakened or unwell. Choose rest instead.

More practices: Working With Head and Face

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We use face to maintain or avoid contact with others. When we are in a fight/flight or freeze state, our capacity to engage in meaningful communication, to comfortably accept the presence of others reduces significantly. By working with head and face we improve the sense of presence and feel more grounded, we facilitate the connection with ourselves and the outside world, as well as other people.

Recommendation: Practice once or twice a day for 10-15 days to make the body remember the process. After this period of learning the practice can be especially effective if used to cope with excessive activation or moments of distress. Practicing when you feel relatively well will help develop the positive feedback loop that facilitates the much needed change in the moments when you feel out of balance.

Please refrain from practicing if you feel unwell. Choose rest instead.

Read more: What’s Grounding?

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This event that took place in the past

Many of us find it difficult to balance productivity, success, and having good life overall. The huge amount of burnout cases in North America indicates some deficit in the area of harmony and balance in a number of people. 

Events that we label as negative and try to avoid often come from a lack of inner resources. Conflicts, arguments, attempts to resolve by force what can be alleviated through reasonable compromise – much of this would not happen at all if we felt fully resourced. A lack of internal resources makes us less flexible, more susceptible to outside influences, our actions and decisions happen to become more stereotypical and, in some cases, automatic.

We need good access to inner resources if we want to live our lives, to be conscious and responsible in our decisions, and to be able to feel empathy and love – for ourselves and for others.

For Whom is This Event

This program is suitable for almost anyone. It will help participants to understand the causes of excessive fatigue or emotional instability, provide practical tools for balancing inner states in various contexts: from ordinary day-to-day circumstances to difficult and extreme situations. Participation in the program will give the opportunity to organize professional and personal tasks more consciously, and perhaps even help to rethink various aspects of life. After all, not only the professional environment but also personal relationships and family is also a space where we lose, spend, and find, replenish resources. The program provides keys to difficult circumstances and helps to manage aspects of our states, so that challenges can be overcome with confidence and in a conscious way.

Eight Weeks of the Program

What the Program Includes

Weekly meetings include elements of theory and practice. 

Each of the 8 meetings is aimed at in-depth study of a specific topic. 

Participants will be able to “take away with them” a set of practical skills for working with resource states.

Potential Results

• Understanding your own strengths
• Greater presence in the body
• Better capacity for emotional containment
• Deeper interpersonal connections
• New ways of handling sensitive situations
• Energy management and understanding of limitations in everyday situations: at work, at home, in relationships
• A shift to more effective ways of self-regulation and enhanced ability to manage difficult circumstances

We often have difficulty putting into words what is going on with our internal resources. The program helps to shape the language so necessary for this purpose.

History

The first internal resources management program was created and delivered by me in 2016. Up until 2020 multiple groups took place in different languages, several long-term online programs were organized, as well as a number of in-person events. Some programs involved working with professionals: middle and senior managers in the fields of banking, energy, education, petrochemical industry and transport in Russia, others were open for everyone. There were also specialized workshops on internal resources management, such as a workshop for teachers and educators in Bogota, Colombia.

Between 2021 and 2024, I was mainly engaged in the individual practice, and did not conduct internal resource management programs. 

The current program, in addition to the materials from previous years, incorporates what has been developed by me over the period focused on individual therapeutic work, including aspects related to trauma and its impact on internal resources and our capacity to manage them.

Format of Work

Online, once a week. Meetings length: 1h 40min

Every Wednesday 7pm-8.40pm Eastern Time

Dates:

January 29,

February 5, 12, 19, 26,

March 5, 12, 19.

Meetings recordings will be available for participants during the program and for a limited amount of time after the program.

Pricing

Participation in the complete program can be paid in full or divided into 2 parts.

Means of payment:  e-transfer, PayPal or Wise

PayPal payments

The service charges commission on every transfer, which affects the price. 

PayPal price: Full Payment: CA$260 or US$198; Payment in 2 installments: CA$146 or US$110 each, Participation in the first meeting only: CA$26 or US$21

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When it becomes too much, survival responses are to be triggered. We become reactive, we rush for action rather than observing the variety of available options. Through the lens of the ‘survival mode’ we perceive the world as an unfriendly or unpleasant place. Our stress response systems are organized wisely, but there’s too much pressure, so the resources are to be mobilized. Conscience is not involved into this process, it’s merely a sequence of reactive responses that build up a particular state. Sometimes we find ourself losing our inherent qualities, such as generosity and kindness. It happens often as a reaction to stress that has reached it’s max capacity.

What to do

It’s always good to give your body some more rest. To sleep for an extra couple hours when you feel you need to. To enjoy your time with the loved ones, or even with yourself. Find out which activities do calm you down, and let yourself be lazy sometimes. It’s the darkest time of the year, after all. Preparing for holidays as well as celebrating may help get some peace of mind, but only if the process is seen as a source of joy, not as a pool of obligations.

When stress continues, everything that’s been piled up in the darker parts of our internal rooms gets more and more activated. If you feel that your reactions are getting a bit out of normal, are you in the state of permanent fatigue, or constant arousal, – please don’t hesitate to contact me. Whether an advice on how to make it through the holidays with batteries at full, or how to manage the internal resources, whether a request to calm the state of the nervous system with a sequence of bodywork sessions, or find a good practice that might bring peace to the body and mind. I work online and receive clients in person as well.

Have a wonderful rest of the month and let us look at the future year as calm and resourceful.

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29th March 2020 @ 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Due to the unusual circumstances related to the spread of coronavirus the event is postponed. New date will be announced later.

Both parts of the event follow the methodology of Family and Systemic Constellations, an approach introduced by german psychotherapist Bert Hellinger.

Systemic and Family Constellations Workshop / starts at 5pm

Constellation is a way to receive an answer to an existing personal question, to see a disturbing situation differently, to find a source of a symptom or illness, or a conflict, new or lasting for several generations. 

Classic Systemic Constellations approach is based on the idea that an issue that client faces in his or her individual life might have the roots in the events of the family system of the client, past or present. These issues could be settled effectively through this type of work. 

Requests for systemic work vary from physical or mental symptoms to rather minor but for some reason significant issues.

 Resources Lab / starts at 2pm

Sometimes we say: “I become angry just like my father”, “oh, you smile like your grandmother!”. May the history of your ancestors influence the state of yours today? The resources that we have: emotional, mental, physical, could they be connected to the past? Is it possible to detach the burden of family and ancestral luggage from what we consider our personality?

Through joint work, and practice of Constellations, it will become visible. In relatively short practical exercises, we will immerse ourselves in the subject step by step, to receive certain clarity in understanding of our own patterns and views.

Please note:

If you have an experience with the Constellation work, or have attended any of my earlier events, I invite you to come to both the Lab and the Workshop. 

If this will be your first acquaintance with Systemic and Family Constellations, I suggest you register for the Workshop, it starts after the Lab ends, at 5pm.

Date and Time:

Sunday 29 March 2020

2pm-5pm Resource Lab 

5pm-8pm Systemic and Family Constellations Workshop

Snacks and tea breaks will be available for participants, you can also bring something for yourself or to share with others.

Pricing:

The whole event (includes the Lab and the Workshop) – 65CAD

Participation in the Workshop part (5pm – 8pm) as an observer or as a representative – 20CAD

To receive a constellation during the Workshop – 100CAD. 

Participation in the Lab + receive a Constellation during the Workshop – 110CAD. 

Note: If you need a Constellation done, please request in advance: there is only time for one or two Constellation works.

The event will be held in English

Venue

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