The Tidal Rhythm of Life: Unlocking the Science of Breath

Replenishing oxygen and eliminating carbon dioxide are our two most pressing and constant needs; they determine the metabolic vitality for every cell in the body.  This is why focus on breathing is at the core of so many somatic disciplines and therapies--yoga, athletics, the work of Wilhelm Reich, meditation, bodywork, and so on. 

Full breathing engages, to one degree or another, almost all of the body’s skeletal muscles, and the distribution of these gasses engages our most extensive group of autonomic muscles, the circulatory system.  The process of breathing also straddles the functions of our conscious and our unconscious minds, voluntary when we choose and involuntary when we are otherwise occupied. 

We repeat this tidal pattern over 4,000 times every 24 hours, making it the most habituated muscular sequence of our entire lives; exactly how we have learned to do this--consciously and unconsciously--sets the foundation for all other movements.  In this workshop we will examine the anatomy and physiology of breath, a primary source of our ch’i.

Join us for this workshop with Deane Juhan, internationally renowned Trager Practitioner and trainer and author of “Job’s Body: A Handbook for Bodywork”.

Designed for all students as well as a movement training program for bodyworkers of all kinds; yoga teachers and students, pilates, yoga and movement instructors.

Deane Juhan eloquently brings alive and makes accessible and intriguing the subjects of anatomy and physiology. These workshops allow us to develop new images and new language in order to more deeply understand the anatomical, physiological, and philosophical aspects of the body-mind.

All webinars will include extensive slides and lecture to illustrate and describe the material in their titles. They are the accumulation and consolidation of knowledge on their subjects that has been gleaned from Deane Juhan’s fifty years of research and practice.

Much of content of these classes is uniquely applied to somatic healing disciplines of all kinds. It offer perspectives that are not found in textbooks, and that in fact often run counter to accepted opinions about the nature of our organisms’ processes of development and healing.

CEUs available with NCBTMB.

Deane Juhan is an Instructor of the Trager approach to movement re-education. Deane was an Esalen Bodyworker for 19 years, and trained in a wide variety of practices and psychological therapy. While there, he met Dr. Milton Trager and was introduced to his innovative therapeutic approach. Deane was personally trained by him over the course of 24 years. As a certified practitioner and teacher of Dr. Trager’s work, Deane became one of his initial students that were entrusted to carry on the lineage of his unique approach to deep mental and physical healing. Deane has been teaching Dr. Trager’s approach around the world for more that 40 years. Visit his website: https://www.jobsbody.com/

Time 2:30pm – 4:30pm PST Check your time zone