Inner Bonding®

Inner Bonding® is a 6-step emotional and spiritual approach to healing developed by Dr. Margaret Paul (author of Do I have to Give up me to be Loved by You?) and Dr. Erika Chopich (co-author of Healing Your Aloneness). It is a transformational method for discovering the origins of shame, anger, fear, and grief, making way for a powerful connection to personal strength and spiritual connection. The tools of Inner Bonding® work to resolve the ground level of unhealed wounds while also aiding in the clearing of daily upsets. This work is also useful for addressing issues around addiction, self-destructive patterns, depression, apathy, and blocks to intimacy.

Rythea Lee’s particular approach uses Inner Bonding® to address the root of belief systems that get programmed into our mind, bodies, and emotions during trauma. This work offers a map towards remembering the children we once were and updating the child’s experience of the world and safety.The spiritual  connection that we foster through Inner Bonding® is an essential resource for  survivors who need to repair their relationship to a dependable source of love.

Rythea brings to her teaching a passion for play, comedy, theatre, and authentic expression. Her lifetime experience as a performance artist informs how she leads this workshop and what modalities are available depending on what the group needs. In other words, we will have fun too!
 

Body-Mind Centering®

Body-Mind Centering® is an emerging discipline in somatic education and therapy developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.  (www.bodymindcentering.com) This work is grounded in anatomy, physiology, and developmental movement. This approach to transformative experience enables a person to learn through the integration of sensing, feeling, and movement. Body Mind Centering® has applications to a broad range of physical, emotional and social issues, including infant development, yoga, pregnancy and post partum care, sports, dance, theater, martial arts, creative process, trauma, and more.  When overwhelmed, we find ways of organizing or crystallizing around events we were not able to resolve. Any pattern in our body-mind is a way we organized ourselves to handle life events. In the Heart of Empathy, we will present information and practices that are critical to understanding how to facilitate the full resolution and healing of shock and overwhelm in the body-mind. This includes tapping into your embryological and cellular origins, widening your range of choices, modulating your responses, and learning to cultivate the mind-states that generate both healing and development.

"I cannot heal anything: I can create a generative field of possibility, within which healing is possible."
Bonnie-Bainbridge Cohen

The Teachers  

Rythea Lee

Rythea Lee, MA, is a certified Inner Bonding® counselor and holds a master's degree in Spiritual Psychology. Rythea has had a private practice working individually with clients and groups for the past 13 years. She works out of her office in Florence, MA, and provides phone support to people all over the United States. She recently published her first book, Trauma into Truth: Gutsy Healing and Why It's Worth It,  which includes prints of her paintings throughout. Trauma Into Truth integrates her experience with clients with her own inspired discoveries of healing. Rythea specializes in working with survivors of trauma and abuse, using therapy and trauma education to support her client's complete recovery. Rythea is also a professional dancer and multidisciplinary artist who gives voice to personal and global stories of healing. She is co-founder and co-director of the Zany Angels Dance Theatre Company and has spent the last several years performing and teaching workshops at colleges, conferences and theatres across the eastern seaboard. Her greatest passion is to inspire full-bodied creativity as a means for becoming whole, both individually and collectively. She uses humor in all her creative endeavors as a serious medicine for heartbreak of any kind. For Rythea, the Heart of Empathy is the culmination of years of dedication, study, and the ambitious need to end abuse in our world. Rythea brings all her faculties and experience to the work of helping people assist others through compassionate, deeply cultivated knowledge. You can read more about her at the Zany Angels Bio page.

Naomi Sparrow

Naomi Sparrow is a certified teacher and practitioner of Body-Mind Centering® and a certified Infant Movement Developmental Educator. She has held a private practice since 1995 and teaches classes and workshops in Body-Mind Centering® in Ottawa, Canada. She brings a unique ability to articulate subtle embodied principles to her practice and teaching. She has a passion for cultivating egalitarian relationships, nurturing the competency and authority inherent in each of her students and clients through their direct embodiment of material. Over the years, her practice has specialized in retrieving and integrating traumatic body-memories. In the last decade, since the birth of her daughter, she has worked with pregnancy, birth, post partum care, and infant movement development. For Naomi, the Heart of Empathy is the culmination of years of research and development of the anatomy and physiology of trauma.  Naomi has a unique ability to bring to light the psychophysical manifestations of how the body-mind organizes itself in order to heal. Her Body-Mind Centering® training and years of teaching and counseling have honed her ability to bring individuals and groups into an intimate experience of their true body-mind selves as they learn. Naomi has studied and taught Modern dance, Contact Improvisation, Voice and Movement Improvisation and fine arts. She has a double major in English Literature and Anthropology, with a specialization in women's studies and medical/psychological anthropology.

Rythea Lee and Naomi Sparrow have been friends, colleagues, collaborators, and peer counselors together for the past 18 years.  Their work has paralleled each other's and shares a clear and demonstrated commitment to promoting paradigms that undo harm. They have worked to educate, empower, and celebrate the innate healing and resilience in each other and the people they work with. Naomi and Rythea's relationship itself has been a most fertile ground for giving birth to new ideas, new insights and new clarity in the field of healing trauma.  It is this shared heart of empathy they will share with you with their training.

Links 

www.innerbonding.com
www.bodymindcentering.com
www.bmcassoc.org
www.ismeta.org

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