STRESS -

• Degrades the overall vitality of one's immune system.
• Leads to various unhealthy compensatory behaviors like cigarette smoking, excessive drinking, drug usage, and overeating.
• Makes it difficult to enjoy even the lighter moments in life.
• Is a contributing factor in most, if not all illnesses.

If stress is a concern for you in regard to your own health, or the health of those that you care for and care about, then you will find the information, experience, and tools this workshop offers you to be of profound value.

Simply stated - Stress is created by our habitual emotional reaction to circumstances and relationships. An overtaxed emotional system degrades our physical system and leads to an inability to think clearly and act compassionately. During the course of this workshop, you will experience a step by step process that helps you to change the habitual emotional reactions you have to people and circumstances, and thus do away with stress before it begins to rear its ugly head.

This groundbreaking workshop draws on the wisdom of the Japanese martial art Aikido, as well as the Japanese health management system "Sei Tai" and melds this knowledge with concepts from Western psychology and Self-Hypnosis. You will learn a system of stress management that is both unique and effective - A remarkable system that merges Oriental philosophy with Western science.

THE PRESENTER

Charlie Badenhop is the originator of Seishindo, a discipline that inspires and supports human potential and well-being in individuals and organizations. Charlie is a fourth degree black belt and licensed instructor of Aikido in Japan, a certified trainer in NLP, and a long term practitioner of the Japanese healing art of sei tai, Self-relations therapy, and Ericksonian Hypnosis. He has been living, working, and studying in Japan for the last eighteen years and has students throughout the world.

If you would like, you can read more about Seishindo.

METHODOLOGY

Charlie works with participants sitting on large rubber physiotherapy balls. He uses the balls to set up a "fluid" environment. This helps make our bodily reactions and balance more palpable, and the numerous somatic shifts that lead to a robust relaxed state, more apparent.

Charlie's workshops are known for their magic, depth of experience, and celebration of life. He weaves together theory, poetry, music, movement, practical applications, and a clear encounter with one's core identity.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

• Gain an experiential understanding of the building blocks of stress.
• Discover how the way you use your body determines your emotions and the thoughts and actions of your rational mind.
• Begin to build the brain-body pathways of communication that set in motion profound transformation.
• Discover how limiting beliefs and habits affect the body in harmful ways.
• Gain insight into how stress effects organizational and family systems.

SPECIFIC SKILLS YOU WILL LEARN

• Learn how to release excess energy trapped in your body (be it pain, sorrow, anger, or fear) and transform this excess energy into fuel for your health, well-being, and creativity.
• Learn how to use the Seishindo Method to relieve pain and other physical symptoms.
• Learn how to deconstruct stress before it gets a full head of steam.
• Learn how to change the way you approach challenging situations and people.
• Learn the basics of presenting stress management techniques to others.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

If you have an interest in Mindbody concepts and would like a first hand experience of how you can create profound, yet simple changes in the way you perceive and act in the world, you will find this workshop transformational. Psychotherapists, physical therapists, body workers, persons with various psychosomatic ailments or chronic pain, martial artists and dancers, will all find this workshop enriching.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT CHARLIE'S WORK

"Charlie Badenhop is a gifted somatic healer with unique skills and intuitive capacities. His deep understanding of mindbody relatedness comes from extensive experience in many areas - e.g., aikido, hypnosis, NLP, and Japanese healing arts-and is especially helpful to all those interested in promoting wellness in self and others."
Stephen Gilligan, Ph,D. Psychologist and author, "The Courage to Love"

"Charlie Badenhop is an extraordinary man. For me, his work offers great insights into the unity of mind and body in clear, simple language that is immediately graspable and at the same time shatters any rigid conceptions one might be holding. I experience Charlie as a deeply honest, direct, open, and humble man. He is both an unforgettable character, and a real inspiration to me."
Mary Ann Giorgio; L. C. S. W.

"The Seishindo workshop "Simple Mind Pure Heart" was the most profound and extraordinary workshop that I have ever attended. Profound because of the miraculous changes that have occurred in me and extraordinary because of the unique methods used to generate those changes."
Angela Scherma; Sales and Service Manager; FOXTEL News Corporation

Please come and savor, in a supportive community, the reintegration of your thoughts and feelings into "a heartfelt experience beyond words." The learning that occurs results in transformation that is often dreamed about, but seldom experienced. And last, but not least, you will have fun!!!