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“I could be vulnerable without getting hurt, attacked or rejected,” Male Corporate Trainer
"I found the power of my anger to be a healing force in recovery from incest," Woman Clerical
"A rich, loving, safe environment," Male Student
"I learned how much anger I have and now I know some strategies to deal with it versus stuffing it, numbing out or denying it." Woman
"Just the kick in the butt and unconditional love that I needed." Male
"This is the most responsible work I've ever done. It allowed me to crawl out of a very small box I had myself in. The small box was called 'What it looks like to be with men.' It allowed the Woman to emerge in a new way, finding myself toe-to-toe with caring men." Woman
"The retreat was a loving, encouraging, penetrating, affirmation to be in my life. I want it!" Male
The CTA Experience
About the Work
Healing the Father Wound®
Healing the Mother Wound®
Clearing the Air™ Between Women & Men
Tantrum Yoga® Breathwork
A Message to Graduates
Gatherings
Next GatheringsThe highly acclaimed Clearing the Air Workshop series features various interactive group experiences. It explores the wounds we hold around our family of origin, and how these initial wounds have continued to impact our adult lives. The series is designed to help men and women break through the unresolved issues that impede forgiveness and personal freedom.
The workshops are experiential in nature. There is very little lecture. The intention is to break through barriers and old patterns through movement, express and release work, Tantrum Yoga®, breathwork, psychodrama, meditation, and processes that excavate wounds and ties that keep us stuck. It is an intense and transformational series.
Healing the Father Wound® and Healing the Mother Wound® workshops are four-night, three-day events offered for 12 men or 12 women. Clearing the Air™ Between Women & Men is a six-day, five-night event for 6 men and 6 women (no couples) who have completed both previous workshops. All workshops start at 7pm the first night and go until around 5pm the last night.
Breath work is more than inhaling and exhaling. It’s an opportunity to get in touch with our inherent feelings and release blocks that keep us from experiencing true intimacy (to quote Stan Dale - "in to me you see") with ourselves and others. This is a system, developed over 25 years ago by Gordon Clay, to release stored or pent-up emotions without resorting to any form of violence. There is no need for our children or anyone else to see us hitting pillows to release anger, or to kick or punch a bag, slam doors or phones, or display violent behavior when experincing deeper levels of anger and rage. Tantrum Yoga (i.e., authentic movement for the inner child) is a system that also makes it safe for partners to experience their anger without fearing that either one will become physically violent. In a culture that seems to think that where there is anger, there is violence, Tantrum Yoga provides the tools to dismantle this perception without stuffing your anger or using anything else (drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, work, television, coffee - and the list is endless) to numb out. It supports coming into your real feelings, not those created feelings that you learned in order to be safe, to get what you wanted, or to cover fear, anger, sadness or pain. It allows the clearing of stuck feelings to make for an opening to true intimacy and joy. For as long as you hold anger, blame or resentment toward someone, it is impossible to reach true intimacy with that person. As Carrie Fisher said, "Resentment (and anger and blame) is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."
If you have attended any of our workshops and want to check out our e-mail newsletter and get more information on the Gatherings, contact us here and include your name, address, email, phone number, and the date/s you went through one or more of the workshops in the Cleaering the Air series including Clearing the Air Betwen Wome & Men/Family Reunion . We will email you appropriate access code for this protected community area. Then, click on "Graduates" anywhere on the site to enter.
There is a level of intimacy and safety that is reached in the gender reconciliation workshop Clearing the Air (formerly known as Family Reunion) that many people have longed for. In 1993 a number of the men and women who had participated in the workshop chose to meet again at Harbin Hot Springs for a gathering. Gatherings of graduates of this workshop have been happening ever since. Though the 1993 reunion was limited to the people who had attended the 1993 Family Reunion workshop, every subsequent gathering has been open to anyone who has attended a workshop in the CTA workshop series, and their compatible friends. These gatherings have included dance, guerilla theatre, art projects, rituals, processes, as well as plenty of free time to connect and play. These gatherings have been hosted by various members of the community from California to Minnesota to Oregon. If you wish to attend, please Contact Us for more information and for registration. We look forward to seeing you at the upcoming gathering.
East Coast - The Lodge at Sleepy Creek, Berkeley Springs, WV, starting at 5pm on Friday, November 21-23, 2008. To register, Contact Us
West Coast - Harbin Hot Springs starting at 5pm on Friday, December 19-21, 2008. To register, contact Nik at 530 470-8739.
* * * We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. - Marcel Proust
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers
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