(LV - 059834 - NURRIESTEARNS - 2024) 5-Day Yoga and Meditation Retreat: Mindfulness and Mind-Body Approaches for Clinical

Course overview

As clinicians, you know that not all depression and anxiety can be worked through with talk therapy alone. Tools such as mindfulness and mind-body approaches can be exactly the skills your clients need to make progress in their therapeutic goals, cultivate their happiness, and enrich their daily lives. This interactive retreat prepares you to integrate the foundations of mindfulness to address negative thoughts of depression, worrying thoughts of anxiety and thoughts that intensify chronic pain. Join mindfulness expert and certified yoga therapist, Mary NurrieStearns, MSW, LCSW, C-C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, and a group of your colleagues amongst Sedona's scenic backdrop and learn how to: Incorporate breathing practices and meditation, lead simple yoga movements, and utilize Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) with your individual clients and groups Integrate foundations of mindfulness interventions for addressing depression and chronic pain Utilize body/mind interventions to treat anxiety and calm the nervous system Use EFT for emotional regulation, gentle exposure of emotions and to increase self-acceptance Guide clients into present moment awareness and teach them to respond to unworthiness with compassion Highly experiential, you will practice these interventions while you learn their clinical applications. This retreat is rich in immersive and interactive mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and mind/body treatment approaches. You will follow a balanced schedule of gentle yoga movement, chanting meditation, clinical teachings, art expression, group discussion, and deep rest and learn how these tools can help you AND your clients.