Dance Your Bliss™
A Healing System to Change Your Life
October 8 - 13, 2017
Sunday - Friday, 5 nights
$395 Tuition
Plus 5 nights all-inclusive accommodations priced separately
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Faculty Bio
Rachel Fleischman, LCSW, REATPsychotherapist and expressive arts expert
Rachel Fleischman helps people move out of their heads and into their bodies to heal. A licensed psychotherapist, inspirational speaker, movement teacher, and expressive arts expert with 20 years of experience, she is the founder of Dance Your Bliss™ and the Being Bliss™ meditation CDs.
Dance Your Bliss has been featured at the Omega Institute’s Being Yoga Conference, Omega’s Women & Courage Conference, Naropa’s Hakomi Conference, Hollyhock, Sofia University, Rancho La Puerta Spa, Lake Austin Spa, and the International Dance Therapy Conference.
A pioneer in the combination of psychotherapy with movement, body awareness, expressive arts, and holistic healing, Rachel has published writings on mind-body psychotherapy in Elephant Journal and Psychology Today. She teaches Dance Your Bliss throughout the United States and currently maintains a private practice focusing on stress reduction and wellness in San Francisco.
Rachel’s colorful background and profound love of poetry, storytelling, and humor have inspired her Dance Your Bliss program, which combines yoga, world music, and improvisational dance to inspire creativity and encourage presence with ourselves.
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Why Attend
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Deepen clinical knowledge of expressive therapies.
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Develop and hone strategies that fully utilize essential aspects of body-mind therapies.
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Develop tools to help clients understand body-mind connection and use resources to modulate affect dysregulation.
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Learn specific mindfulness tools that clients can utilize when necessary, and also gain mastery in techniques of guided imagery and relaxation to support calm and affect dysregulation for self and clients.
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Learn neurologically based approach to eliminating ineffective habits learned in the body.
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Things to Know
Program Schedule
Sunday, October 8
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
- Welcome to Bliss
- Mindfulness in Body-Mind
- Check-in
- What you need from this retreat
- The four tenets of Dance Your Bliss (DYB):
- Creativity, Connection, Mindfulness, Motion
- Blissful guided imagery; embodiment, and re-regulation practice
- Dance Your Bliss movement sequence
- Somatic expression
- Circle up
Monday, October 9
9:00 pm – 10:15 pm
- Welcome
- Housekeeping
- Embodiment exercises—name game (to experiment with creativity)
10:15 am – 10:30 am
- Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
- Mindfulness in Body-Mind
- Check-in
- Stretches, floorwork—starfish, etc.
- Embodiment—using the 5 Minute Model
- Partner work—writing prompts
12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
- Lunch/free time
2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
- Bliss in action: gathering a toolkit of empowering techniques
- Mindfulness in Body-Mind—learn to educate clients
- Stretch, tone, embodiment practice
- Deepen use of theories with dysregulated clients
- Nature exploration: eco-psychology
- Dance Your Bliss system: learn how to use this every day to awaken, heal, and move through the day with wellness, balance and harmony
- Creativity Explosion: drawing and writing—how to use the expressive arts in the therapy hour—and Introduction to Poetry Therapy
Break for 15 minutes at 3:30 PM
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Dance Your Bliss: Dancing Our Heart Connection—OPEN TO ENTIRE COMMUNITY
Open forum where all in the 1440 community are invited
Tuesday, October 10
9:00 am – 10:15 pm
- Taking the Bliss home with you
- Mindfulness in Body-Mind
- Using Susan Aposhyan’s work
- Learning how to take the work into our life challenges: Techniques for reducing stress, anxiety, and imbalance and improving health
10:15 am – 10:30 am
- Break
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
- Dance Your Bliss movement sequence
- Partner play and work to clear past wounds
- New narratives through drawing and writing and creativity
12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
- Lunch/Free time
2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
- Bliss in Action: Gathering a toolkit of empowering techniques
Wednesday, October 11
9:00 am – 10:15 am
- Summarize somatic expression through starfish—floorwork
- Utilize Halprin method of expressive arts use
- Dyads/Tryads sharing
10:15 am – 10:30 am
- Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
- Stretch, tone, embodiment practice
- Deepen use of theories with dysregulated clients
AFTERNOON OFF
Thursday, October 12
9:00 am – 10:15 am
- Writing prompts
- Summarize expressive arts learning
10:15 am – 10:30 am
- Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
- Assess movement exploration
- Drawing prompts
12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
- Lunch/free time
2:30 pm – 5:00 pm
- Experimenting with toolkit of empowering techniques
- Mindfulness in Body-Mind—learn to educate clients
- Stretch, tone, embodiment practice
- Deepen use of theories with dysregulated clients
Friday, October 13
9:00 am – 10:15 am
- Q&A
10:15 am – 10:30 am
- Break
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
- Goodbye ritual
- Handouts
Prerequisites
None required.
Experience Level
Social workers, MFTs, counselors, substance abuse counselors, occupational therapists, nurses. yoga instructors. All levels.
Things To Bring
Bring a journal.
CEs Available
This course has been approved for 22 CE hours for qualified participants. The cost is $30. To learn how and where to apply, click HERE.
Cancellations and Refunds
If You Cancel
- If you cancel 14 or more days prior to your arrival date, payments made will be refunded in full (less a $50 processing fee).
- If you cancel between 13 days and 1 day prior to your arrival date, a nonrefundable credit (less a $50 processing fee) will be held for one year from the date of issue.
- No credit or refund is available if you cancel on your arrival day, if you do not show up, or if you leave a program or event early.
- No refund will be available if you attend a program and are dissatisfied with its presentation or content.
If 1440 Multiversity Cancels
On rare occasions, due to unforeseen circumstances, 1440 Multiversity may need to cancel a program. Should this circumstance arise, you will receive a full refund.
Grievances
Participants of approved continuing education courses may register complaints with the approval entity with an option to appeal to their licensing Board if displeased with the results of the process.For questions or concerns, please email [email protected], CE Management.
Special Interest To
Helping professionals will learn skills they can use in working with clients.
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About 1440 Multiversity
Beautifully nestled in the California redwoods near Santa Cruz, our 75-acre campus is within easy reach of San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
1440 Multiversity is a place to spend time engaging some of life’s most meaningful personal questions and to enjoy, restore, and reenergize yourself as you do it.
You’ll find new energy through immersion learning—setting aside daily urgencies and dedicating uninterrupted time to focus on important, but often elusive, priorities. Our unique collaboration with world-class faculty coupled with an original, inspirational curriculum and magnificent grounds make this a place like no other. Add in fresh, redwood-scented air, delicious and healthy food, deep reflection, fun exercise, and good sleep and you’ve pretty much captured what you’ll experience here.
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Accommodations
View AccommodationsAt 1440 Multiversity, you’ll find a wide range of accommodations to meet your preferences and budget. All of our rooms have been thoughtfully designed to provide comfort, promote reflection, and foster connection with others.
Accommodation rates include more than just the bed you sleep in.
Per-person per-night rates include:
- nourishing locally sourced, seasonal meals
- daily meditation and yoga classes
- non-ticketed evening events
- use of all facilities, including the Fitness Center, steam rooms, and infinity-edge hot tub.
Guests also enjoy access to woodland trails, cafés, and shops.
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