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Purpose

The Module Series teach the principles of Body Harmony, which stimulates the innate healing response that resides within everyone. Body Harmony creates a healing environment where optimum health and balance is restored and maintained. Discover the posture and state of mind that enables you to be healthier and happier. From this place of easier posture, your hopes and desires have a more fertile ground in which to grow and flourish, and, instead of dreaming the life you want to lead, you start living it. Simple principles, applied consciously, can achieve big results. These classes are the foundation of the 100 Hour Practitioner Training Programme.

The Art and Science of Body Harmony

The fundamental principles of Body Harmony correlate with findings in the science of Quantum Physics. The technique is a synthesis of touch, breathwork and movement. The Art is applying the techniques and principles in a way that addresses the individuality of every person.

The difference between Body Harmony and other forms of Bodywork

Some forms of bodywork use oils, allowing hands to slide and provide sensory pleasure. Others knead knots out of the muscles. Some use a touch which allows individual muscles to adjust and unwind. Body Harmony isn’t done to you, it is a session with you. In a Body Harmony session, the most benefit is gained by addressing an important issue in your life, now. As you speak, your body illustrates your relationship to the issue, and provides suggestions for more ease in your body, and possibilities for how to create harmony within the issue. The touch used by your practitioner is based on your body’s response. Body Harmony touch can work locally to release and unwind tension in your tissues, while simultaneously provoking a whole body response that encompasses mind, body, emotions and spirit. It’s a touch which triggers your body’s healing response, and can show you unexplored possibilities. Although the application and effects can be very broad, the principles taught are easily learned.

Who is it for?

Classes are open to anyone seeking personal development, relaxation, healing, or as part of a practitioner training. No previous experience is necessary. Bring your willingness and a beginner’s mind and enjoy a journey of self-exploration. Learn skills to help you, your friends, family and others experience an even more fulfilling life. Individual modules can be taken , and whilst completion of all 5 modules is required for Practitioner certification, these can be taken at the time of the participants’ choosing. 

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CONTENT

Each class offers you the chance to learn more about yourself and Body Harmony through experiential education. The content is not is not limited to what is listed below. However, this gives you some idea of what to expect. The application varies according to the needs of each class.

Module 1 - The Healing Equation - Foundation Basics
What are the elements which encourage you, or anyone else, to open up to the healing process? Learn the basic elements of a safe, conscious and enquiring touch. Explore what is conveyed through the way you touch and how to improve the quality of your touch. Integrate a beginner’s mind - regardless of your level of experience. Learn the elements that help you address the individuality of each person.

Module 2 - A Conscious and Accurate Touch
What are the qualities of touch which elevate an experience that feels good to one that feels great - a full-body experience where clients feel heard, met and enlightened about themselves? Learn how to sense, and move with the body’s unique pathway to healing, on and off the body. How do you gain trust and work with consent? Skills like moulding to the client, developing an awareness of the body’s “layers” through touch, the influence of practitioner comfort, and accessing “the zone” where transformation occurs are explored. Discover some of the more subtle, unspoken influences that a practitioner may introduce into a treatment.

Module 3 - Reading the Body
Posture is the mirror of our perceptions. Learn to notice how different thoughts and perceptions influence a person’s posture, structure and the way they function. Learn to locate and address more relevant areas of the body in a Body Harmony treatment. Explore the relationships between one physical area and another. Reconnect the body back to a more functional and comfortable whole. Develop observational skills for clients in movement, standing, walking, sitting and lying down - the reality of how the issue sits in the tissue. Develop observation and communication skills to ensure a problem never overshadows a possibility.

Module 4 - The Art of Embodiment - Getting the Most out of Your Sessions
Suggestions to receive the most benefit from a treatment. Explorations of intention and willingness, control and surrender, pro-activity and choice. Utilise your new experiences of your body, rather than historical ones, to shape the way you think, feel and act (where appropriate. Explore further development of your palpatory skills for accessing “the zone”. Learn how client and practitioner become partners in co-creating the most effective sessions.

Module 5 - Into Action
Find and address the issue as it is expressed in the body. How to structure a Body Harmony session - procedures and progression. Enhance the integrity of your body’s internal structure and the relationship of its parts. Move towards where you want to go, (rather than away from somewhere). Explore post-session procedures to maximise the benefits of a session.

To become a Body Harmony Practitioner you need at least 100 hours of classes, the sponsorship of two teachers as Mentors, and to demonstrate application of principles taught.
You can then become a member of the International Body Harmony Guild. Please approach us during the Module Series for more information.

ABOUT US

Susy Joy
Susy has over 30 year’s experience in the field of personal and spiritual development. She has studied, worked with and practised Body Harmony for twelve years with numerous Body Harmony teachers, both in England and abroad. From her first contact with Body Harmony in 1990, she has been fascinated by its transformative power and thrilled by how easy and enjoyable the process is.  This has led her to spend as much time as she can learning from the founder, Dr. Don McFarland.

Her background includes training in Meditation, Coaching, Counselling, Rebirthing, Emotional Therapy and Energy Medicine. These other disciplines, alongside the experience of parenting 3 now adult sons, inform both her practice and teaching of Body Harmony.

Kit Ford-Young
Passionate about this work from first touch Kit was authorised to practice in 1991, subsequently being formally certified at the first U.K. Body Harmony practitioner certification training in 1992. She has been practising and teaching it ever since, gaining teacher accreditation in 1994.

In the spirit of this ever evolving system she enjoys learning with Don McFarland and many wonderful Body Harmony teachers from around the world. Her classes have been described as stimulating yet peaceful and loving, her body work and intuitive style as gentle and empowering.

A qualified nurse since 1979 Kit is a former nurse teacher with a special interest in therapeutic presence and the emotional and spiritual components of care. She has experience in, and continues to study across a wide range of mind, body and energy disciplines; blending wisdoms from many sources into her work. She has also taught a simple and profound form of Usui Reiki since 1992.

David Webb
During the last 15 years David has become increasingly interested in the principles associated with Body Harmony. In recent years he has spent more and more time pursuing his passion for Body Harmony around the Globe with a variety of people and teachers. He has found that using these principles has led to amazing changes for himself, and is very enthusiastic about them. He believes that absolutely anyone can gain from the principles of Body Harmony, whether they are including them in a different modality or applying them to their lives. His passion is to encourage others to enjoy discovering their potential and to grow into it, whatever it is!

David and Susy also organise Body Harmony classes and seminars regularly for Don and Linda McFarland and other International Body Harmony teachers.

Each module will be taught by one or more of these three teachers.

 

Dates:	Module 1	Friday 23rd - Sunday 25th April
	Module 2	Friday 4th - Sunday 6th June
	Module 3	Friday 23rd - Sunday 25th July
	Module 4	Friday 17th - Sunday 19th September
	Module 5	Friday 19th - Sunday 21st November

Venue: Module 1 will take place in North London, and the subsequent modules will be held in London and Glastonbury; full details to be finalised.

Investment: £1500, with a discount of £300 if all five modules are paid by the start of Module 1. Reviewers half price.