Body Centered Workshop
Session #1:
Body Centered Somatic Transformation Workshop for Weight Loss
If you’ve been struggling to understand how you feel, Body Centered Work just might be the practice you’ve been waiting for!
Enjoy several body-centered processes to tap into your body’s wisdom in order to lessen your frustrating eating patterns through powerful body work.
Body Centered Work can help you reduce patterns of overeating, emotional eating, binging, and food cravings by strengthening the intimate relationship between your body and your thoughts.
If you find yourself experiencing frustrating patterns of late night overeating, food cravings or out-of-control eating episodes, these experiences are happening both in your mind and your body.
Enjoy learning how to feel into your body and explore its natural wisdom.
Understanding Body Centered Somatic Work
Our body experiences our thoughts and we don’t always know or pay attention to this somatic experience inside of our bodies. But what if your body could hold answers and help you understand how you can lose weight easier and faster?
Over this course, you’re going to have an opportunity to discover what how to get to know your body more. How to understand it’s needs and how to feel into your body and take frustrations you’re having in life – and how to begin releasing it through your body.
Somatic Work – Working Through Frustration
For TODAY’s somatic work – Think of something that you’re frustrated with about your body – it could be your results, overeating, the pain of seeing your body in the mirror. Just pick one that is really bothering you.
12. When complete – feel free to write out any information your body wants you to know.
Body Centered Focus Work for week 1:
1. NOVICE LEVEL ASSIGNMENT: If this work is new to you, spend some time “being” with emotions in your body. Look at it as play, not serious and hard. 3x a week, think of someone you love. See if you can feel where that love is in your body. You can lovingly touch the area, if that sounds appealing. Describe the feeling as much as you can by giving it a color, location, shape, etc. This experience will help you connect to and stay longer with the feeling and your body.
2. INTERMEDIATE LEVEL ASSIGNMENT: When you feel discomfort this week, notice yourself reaching for food without hunger, or find your Inner Two Year Old having a tantrum, STOP! Move to a different room. Sit down. Close your eyes. Look inward.
Breathe into this desire to eat. Identify and visualize the feeling behind the desire. Use your imagination to get as much data on the location, color, and shape of the feeling as possible. This helps to stay with the feeling and let it know you’re paying attention.
Relax your body. Love and nurture the visualized wound or pain. Allow whatever emotion erupts to exist without judgment. Feel, cry, scream, or throw up. Honor the emotion by accepting it and sending it your compassion and protection. Let it know it is SAFE. Whenever possible, allow the wound to decrease in size or release completely from your body, like a splinter that finally finds its way out of your foot by itself.
Attempt the Body Centered Somatic Process at least three times this week. Tell your Marco Polo group how your journey progresses or set up a Zoom and work through the process together. On Friday post in FB or email Kate to declare how the week went.
3. ADVANCED LEVEL ASSIGNMENT: Complete the intermediate assignments above but standing in the moment without leaving the room. Then reread the notes and listen to today’s class again or find another podcast by Marna to inspire you.
Session #2:
Body Centered Work – The Vision of the Body You Crave
You have a vision of a body that you crave.
This vision might be stronger, more toned, lighter, healthier, and/or able to do more.
We often know our goals in our mind – but today we are going to practice taking this mental knowing and give our body the opportunity to FEEL into this desire. We’ll move into this awareness and this way of experiencing thinness (or a healthier weight) in a somatic manner.
- Does it have a color?
- Does it have a particular shape?
- Is it moving or static?
Body Centered Focus Work for week 2:
Session #3:
Body Centered Somatic Transformation for Relaxing and Reducing Food Cravings
Body Centered Somatic Work and Cravings
Today we are talking about cravings.
Before today’s session, grab some food items that you crave or even pull up a picture of it on the internet. We are going to work through these cravings by relaxing and calming your body.
Homework
Session #4
Body Centered Somatic Transformation to Create Naturally Thin Evenings
Transforming Your Evenings with Somatic Work
I know that many of you are still struggling with the evenings, because –
- Your energy is often lower
- You’ve had a full day
- Tired
- Need to relax and rest
- Coming home from work/picking up the kids
- Making Dinner
- After dinner
- Late at night
THE PROCESS:
Homework
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