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How Good is Your SPATIAL AWARENESS?
Come practice your sense of SPATIAL AWARENESS through meditation and movement with Open Floor! What you practice on the dance floor builds awareness and skills for navigating life off the dance floor.
When’s the Last Time You Felt Free? Alive? Expansive?
That aliveness, I touch that when I practice Open Floor Dance. That’s the main reason, I’m called to become an Open Floor Teacher. To guide you into experiencing that freedom too, on any old day of the week.
Approach Life with More Ease, Creativity, and Flexibility! Welcome to Open Floor 101!
You’re invited! Sign up for Open Floor 101! During this 3-week series, you will be introduced through instruction and experiential exercises to the mindful movement, conscious dance practice of Open Floor International.
FREE Therapy: Bibliotherapy!
It’s not out of the ordinary for me to recommend certain titles to clients that I think will enrich their therapy. Using books to support the therapy process is termed, BIBLIOTHERAPY. It’s also not uncommon for me to find myself reading books that clients have recommended! That’s why I share about certain books on my BLOG. It’s all in the hopes of helping people out and growing together!
Do You Have a Healthy ACTIVATE & SETTLE Response?
Come try a FREE Open Floor Moving Meditation class on Saturday, May 21st, 2022 from 8-9am at Inspiring Actions Yoga in River Falls, WI. We will be exploring the Open Floor Core Movement Resource of ACTIVATING & SETTLING.
Stress Can Be Toxic and Cause Brain Damage!
The brain can get stuck in an unconscious state of emergency that creates inflammation and illness. Brain injuries can lead to disorganization and cross-wiring in the nervous system. Meaning distorted messages can be sent that are no longer the truth resulting in symptoms such as those found in post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, environmental/sensory/food sensitives, irritable bowel syndrome, and fibromyalgia.
Music + Meditation + Movement = Regulation/Creativity/Connection
Open Floor classes use music, meditation, and movement to cultivate and foster whole body-mind regulation, creativity, and connection. What we practice on the dance floor builds neural pathways, skills, and resiliency for life off the dance floor.
Come try a FREE Open Floor Moving Meditation class on Saturday, May 21st, 2022 from 8-9am at Inspiring Actions Yoga in River Falls, WI. Register on www.inspiringactions.com
What Are You PAYING For When You Private Pay for Mental Health Treatment?
Coriander Living Collective is designed as a private pay for services business accepting credit, debit, HSA, or FLEX funds. We believe as a provider this offers you the highest level of care. For you as the client, this affords you certain advantages over using health insurance or a third party payer: greater privacy, no required mental health diagnosis, and complete control over treatment.
Life is Movement
From before birth, until our last breath, we are moving. Movement might look like our heart beating, walking, or the choices we make. We are constantly moving towards or away, with or against, and in so many other ways. Our bodies and movement are one of our greatest resources as human beings. There is a reason that throughout history and across cultures people move, people dance. It is how we live. It is how we communicate. It is how we meet needs. Emotions are energy moving in our bodies. Movement is one of our birth rights. We get to grow and change. Why not practice movement with “intention and purpose?”
Bibliotherapy: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté
In his book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction Gabor Maté discusses how “addiction is neither a choice nor primarily a disease,” instead it is a human being’s “desperate attempt to solve a problem: the problem of emotional pain, of overwhelming stress, of lost connection, of loss of control, of deep discomfort with the self.”
Nightmares Haunting You or Someone You Love?
Coriander Living Collective uses the brain-body based interventions of Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) and BRAINSPOTTING to treat nightmares caused by trauma/stress reactions. Time to get that good sleep! Reach out today.
Bibliotherapy: Attached. THE NEW SCIENCE OF ADULT ATTACHMENT AND HOW IT CAN HELP YOU FIND- AND KEEP- LOVE
Attached. THE NEW SCIENCE OF ADULT ATTACHMENT AND HOW IT CAN HELP YOU FIND- AND KEEP- LOVE by Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel S.F. Heller is a must read for all adults! Understand your attachment style to get and keep the relationships you desire!
Boost Your Mental Health with Experiential Diversity!
Feeling stuck? Bored? Lonely? Like you’re the star in the movie Groundhog Day? A simple way to boost your mental mood is to try something new!
Hope Can Change the World: Here’s How!
At times, the state of our world can feel hopeless: war, natural disasters, and pandemics. We as people can feel hopeless. Hope is not an emotion, but a cognitive process.
“The power to access the belief that things can get better, no matter the challenges, can quite literally change the world.” HERE ARE 7 WAYS TO PRACTICE HOPE.
The Meaning Is in the Search
“I know that you will one day be able to answer, “Who am I who sits here? What is it that I want?” Never stop asking, never stop searching, until you know the answers; the honor and the meaning is in the search.”
Why “Let’s Begin to Heal” in Relation to the Pandemic Won’t Work and 9 Practices That Will Help!
I keep hearing in relation to the pandemic, and especially in educational settings, let’s begin to heal, or let’s start the healing process. It strikes me as odd given that in the therapy world, it’s known that we are not able to heal trauma if we are still in it. And unfortunately, for us and our children, we are still in the pandemic. The uncertainty and loss of control continue as we do not know what is ahead?
Times have been tough. We all need each other more than ever. Our children are counting on us, watching us, learning how to navigate hard times. Here are 9 things to practice during this extended stressful time.
“Resource the Self/Revive the World”
Moving Meditation + Beer Flight Tasting @ Swinging Bridge! Saturday, February 26th, 2022 from 6-8pm
We’ll be practicing an Open Floor variation of Osho’s Kundalini Mediation. We will cycle through sitting, traveling, dancing, and resting meditations supported by a soundscape. Come connect with your body, spirit, and others. It’s what our brokenhearted world needs.
OUR LIFESTYLES ARE KILLING US + CREATING UNWELL CHILDREN
How come we continue to do so many things that are not good for us and our children? Our lifestyles are killing us and making our children unwell.
For some of us, that’s a literal statement. Mental and physical illnesses are on the rise in this country. High levels of stress, busyness, materialist and autonomous values, a lack of interpersonal connection, climate change, a toxic food system, high electronics use, and disconnection from nature. We are amid a spiritual and cultural crisis.
Coriander Living Collective encourages life satisfaction through connection to self, others, and the world by embracing one’s humanity and lifestyle with insight, intention, and action through psychotherapy & counseling, workshops & retreats, and collective growth practices. Join us!
7 Strategies for Dealing with Panic Attacks
If you’ve had a panic attack, you know it is NOT a pleasant experience! A panic attack is a physiological experience, your nervous system is literally sounding off alarms! Alert, alert, danger, system overload!
Coriander Living Collective specializes in treating anxiety and panic. Reach out!
The Gift of Fear + Simple Strategies to Manage It
As humans we are complex, thinking, feeling, and acting beings. Many people seek out therapy when their emotions feel overwhelming. Fear and its variations are a common reason people show up in therapy.