Workshops, Classes and Groups
to Enhance Your Well-Being, Creativity and Joy
Cultivating Pleasure, Creativity and Joy
(ongoing long-term transformational group)
This is a group for men and women looking to create more mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic openness to pleasure and joy. We will use play, positive psychology, EFT, mindfulness and art to reduce resistance to pleasure and expand our potential for enjoyment.
Being able to feel and savor pleasure (sensory, emotional, sexual, mental, or spiritual) is a skill that can be developed. Whether you would like to get more enjoyment from your morning walk, your bowl of cereal, your time with a friend, your sensuality, or your meditation practice, come and experiment with a variety of psychological and energetic techniques that can move you closer towards your goal of a joyful, satisfying life.
Tuesday nights, from 7 to 9, next cycle starts in 1/2012.
Location: Candlewood Cottage, Silver Spring
This is an ongoing group that meets biweekly, and requires a minimum of 3 months commitment. Women and men over 18 years of age. It is not recommended for persons in acute crisis.
$240 for a 3-month cycle (6 sessions)
Please register: ekhazanova@gmail.com, or call 240 215-5526
Emotional Freedom Technique: Restoring Natural Flow of Emotions
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique, “tapping”) is sometimes described as “emotional acupuncture without needles”. It uses light tapping on acupuncture points to reduce the intensity of negative emotions (fear, shame, rage, excessive grief or sadness) . EFT will not make you “unfeeling”, but will help you restore a natural ebb and flow of emotion without being “stuck” in any one of them.
EFT can also be used to improve performance, increase your capacity for creativity and joy, deepen your meditation practice, or let go of limiting beliefs.
Though this therapeutic technique was developed relatively recently, it is well researched, has few counter-indications and no known side effects. Because of its effectiveness, it is now being implemented as a treatment of of choice for PTSD and emotional trauma in war veterans.
EFT is easy to learn and practice. In this workshop, you will learn everything you need to know to start using it as an emotional management tool in your daily life.
Time and Location: TBA
Creating Rituals: How to Design a Meaningful, Enjoyable Ritual that Fits Your Beliefs and Lifestyle
It is a practical, hands-on workshop that will empower you to design (and lead) your own celebratory, transformational and healing rituals for yourself, your family or your community. Using the information from this class, you will be able to make your rituals as elaborate or simple, solemn or playful, private or public as you like. We will go over the basics of: sacred space, intent-setting, invocation, use of objects, and other elements, and then perform a "Cultivating Pleasure and Joy" ritual together.
Time and Location: TBA
The Artist's Way
This class is about discovering and recovering your creative Self. It is based on Julia Cameron's classic book that has helped millions of people overcome creative blocks and build their artistic confidence.
Through a variety of easy, inspiring practices, you will learn how to nurture your Inner Artist and reduce self-criticism, procrastination and fear. As creativity is healing to the soul, students often report feeling more joyful, easier on themselves and more enthusiastic about life.
No previous experience required. You don't have to be a practicing artist, or even think of yourself as a creative person, to benefit from this class.
Date and Location TBA
For more information: ekhazanova@gmail.com, or call 240 215-5526
Pleasure Tolerance Workshop
Do you ever wish that you could savor small everyday pleasures of food, rest, nature or friendship more than you do now? What if the great pleasures of life (travel, falling in love, creative or spiritual "highs") left a deep and lasting imprint, instead of fading away quickly?
Discover some of the modern methods that increase your capacity for "tolerating" pleasure and creating more mental, emotional and spiritual openness to joy. This workshop is designed to be both useful and enjoyable. We will use EFT ("tapping"), mindfulness and positive psychology techniques. Grow, learn, work and play with others in a gentle and supportive environment!
Date and Location: TBA
For more information: ekhazanova@gmail.com, or call 240 215-5526
Reconciling Pleasure and Spirituality: Reaffirming Your Belief in a Kinder God
Do you believe in God who wants you to have fun? In this hands-on workshop we will discover some of the outdated thinking that keeps you from enjoying all aspects of your life to the fullest. We will use leading-edge energy psychology techniques to release these thought patterns and consciously choose new, life- and pleasure-affirming beliefs.
Date and Location: TBA
For more information: ekhazanova@gmail.com, or call 240 215-5526
