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THE ART of LIVING
[Recovering our innate spontaneity]
Margaret Davidson B.A (Hons). BWY (Teaching Diploma)
01668 281462
email: abmworks@hotmail.co.uk
An in-depth 1 day workshop addressing the “work-life”
balance.
Suitable for company management and employees at all levels
Course Content
Part
One – Experiential
Intrinsic Yoga - 2 hours
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Deconstruction (Relaxation) and movement to realign and re-integrate
the structure
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We will re-educate the breath
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We will completely undo (release) the spine to allow free movement
within the whole body
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Using the ground, the body and the breath we will sense ourselves
as being alive rather than “having a life”
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Using simple techniques we will realign our structure so that
we stand, sit and move as we did naturally and spontaneously as
children.
Part Two -Experiential
LUNCH - 2 hours
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We will enjoy a freshly prepared organic two-course lunch.
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We will experience the food with all our senses heightened rather
than just the sense of taste.
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We will experience a real sense of satisfaction.
Part
Three - Theoretical
1hour with ½ hour allowed for feedback (1½ hours)
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We will discover the real meaning of nutrition from the concept
of the energetic rather than the physical components of food
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We will discover how to feed ourselves naturally in order to promote
an innate sense of well-being
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We will know how to BE FIT for LIFE as opposed to endlessly searching
for how to fit INTO life
What
Your Company Can Expect to Gain from this Course:
Attitudes that will promote -
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physically fitter workforce
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A more engaged workforce
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A workforce that views “problems” as challenges rather
than obstacles
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A workforce that can rise spontaneously to life’s challenges
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A workforce that works creatively (intelligently)
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A reduction in absenteeism attributed to stress or “bad
back”
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Greater productivity without the perceived need for financial
or indirect inducements
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A workforce that feels it belongs, that it is an integral part
of the company rather than an expendable commodity
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A real sense of community based on a healthy co-operation rather
than a destructive competition. A workforce that can celebrate
the contributions of others
Background to the Course
The
western scientific approach to Life, traditionally, culturally,
and educationally has, during the past 400 years, developed predominantly
out of the sense of Touch, to the virtual exclusion of the other
4 senses – sight, sound, taste and smell. Only what can be
measured and weighed is considered real (object-ive); everything
else is considered unreal (subject-ive) and has been relegated to
the realms of the psyche, as if the psyche is separate from the
body.
One consequence of this one-sided development has been to reduce
the Life Experience to a commodity (a thing) at the expense of feeling
(being). Modern society is mechanistic, habitual, boring/sensational,
stressful and, ultimately, devoid of meaning. We have sacrificed
quality for quantity. In a word we have mislaid our intrinsic sense
of Rhythm (feeling).
When we re-integrate our sense of Touch with our other senses through
Rhythm (Movement) we re-integrate as Human Beings. We re-discover
and experience directly, via the Heart and the Head, that innate
creativity and boundless energy we enjoyed as of right during childhood.
We wake up. We become conscious.
Actually there is no such thing as a “work-life” balance.
The two are not separate. Work is an aspect of our life and, for
most people occupies the major space-time reality of that individual
life. All we have to do is incorporate all our senses, so that we
live with all our senses operating as a whole, and we are balanced,
naturally. The imbalance has materialised out of a false hierarchy
whereby the sense of Touch has assumed predominance. So forget striving
to balance work-life as if there are priorities, choices, –
just come into balance. Movement-led, or Intrinsic, Yoga provides
a means by which we can come back to ourselves as whole entities.
And the benefits are immediate, providing the background for real
as opposed to intellectual Life-long Learning.
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