25 September 2010 – 13-00-16:30
Slough, Berkshire

Open to 10 participants of all ages

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Chronic pain is commonly known as “pain that extends beyond the expected period of healing.” It’s almost as if the body is continuously on high, there is no low setting enabling the body and mind rest or peace from your pain caused by an injury or illness. Drugs/medicines are helpful though many pharmaceuticals simply tell the brain there is no more pain. These drugs may help in the short term but often not long term (some with unwanted side effects).

While this workshop is not about getting off your medicines, it is about managing the chronic pain in a different manner that may lead to less dependency on drugs or the need to increase dosages.

Continual pain in a holistic sense is when the body stores the energy created by pain in the body, giving it nowhere to release, to move out of the body. In this workshop we will explore meditation and movements for more mobility, and managing your breath to help.

Meditation

Some believe that meditation may cause acute awareness of the pain, causing even more distress and discomfort in aiding solutions to their pain. In this workshop we will discover a balance between awareness and calming the mind and body by easing the direct effects of this pain through meditation. We will learn a meditation technique in where we concentrate our mind away from the pain, in which we can learn to direct the pain outwards of the body. Pain is energy and when we learn to move energy through our body and outwards, we help not store up this energy, hence lessening chronic pain.

Breathing

Controlling our breath through pain is often not thought about when we hurt. Often when we hurt or are in emotional pain, we stop or hold our breath. This momentarily helps, but the pain is just felt again when we breathe again. Learn various breathing techniques to help ease your pain and lengthen your life.

Movement

Gaining back mobility lost from chronic pain is important if we want to remain healthy. Learn small to large movements specific for your body in this workshop, to regain or maintain your mobility, flexibility and strength.

Cilica, Facilitator of this Workshop

£35 Children £45 Adults

25 September 2010 – 13:00-16:30
Slough, Berkshire