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December 2017
Your Body is Your Practice – Monthly Workshop December
Learning to become mindful and familiar with our body sensations and paying attention to our physical reactions can help with stress, pain, and self-acceptance. In this monthly workshop with experienced teacher Dan Cayer, you will learn to activate your body's natural relaxation response through practicing simple techniques. Our body can be a source of joy and confidence, and an instrument for pleasure and connection. But all too often, we experience it as an achy, chubby, worry and tension-filled burden that…
Find out more »January 2018
Don’t Make Pain the Enemy: Freeing Yourself to Heal
Led by Dan Cayer, an experienced Alexander Technique, and meditation teacher, this workshop will teach you how pain relief, sustainable posture, and true healing are not the result of struggle and vigilance. In fact, our efforts to micromanage our pain and body only make things worse. When we battle against our own body, we get stuck and become obsessed with getting better. Creating an attitude of openness and curiosity paves the way for true healing. The Alexander Technique and mindfulness will be…
Find out more »Awakening the Meditator – 4 Week Course Starting January 10th
There are two main parts to establishing a meditation practice: 1) Learning it. 2) Doing it. They are harder than you might expect. For one thing, learning meditation is not quite like learning how to assemble a cabinet. Yes, there are steps to practicing meditation, such as posture, breath, etc. However, we aren’t furniture and we aren’t really constructing anything at all either. Meditation is about being human, not trying to become some idealized version of ourselves. This key component…
Find out more »The Path of Wellbeing Program
Support for Stress, Physical Pain, and Emotional Struggles Begins January 10 | Registration Deadline January 2 with Kimberly Brown and Dan Cayer Wellbeing is available to everyone, no matter what the circumstances. When we are physically or emotionally struggling, we believe our life is on hold until we are cured or our problems are resolved. The Path of Wellbeing is the understanding that despite adverse conditions we can learn to develop compassion, wisdom, and even appreciation for our situation and…
Find out more »February 2018
True Healing – 6 classes over 5 weeks
True Healing – the recognition that well-being can be found in any situation – is available to everyone, no matter what the circumstances. When we are physically or emotionally struggling, we believe our life is on hold until we are cured or our problems are resolved. True Healing is the understanding that despite adverse conditions we can learn to develop compassion, wisdom, and even appreciation for our situation and our lives. With practice we can come to regard our struggles…
Find out more »Awakening the Meditator – 4 Week Course Starting February 21
There are two main parts to establishing a meditation practice: 1) Learning it. 2) Doing it. They are harder than you might expect. For one thing, learning meditation is not quite like learning how to assemble a cabinet. Yes, there are steps to practicing meditation, such as posture, breath, etc. However, we aren’t furniture and we aren’t really constructing anything at all either. Meditation is about being human, not trying to become some idealized version of ourselves. This key component…
Find out more »April 2018
Your Body is Your Practice – Monthly Workshop April
Learning to become mindful and familiar with our body sensations and paying attention to our physical reactions can help with stress, pain, and self-acceptance. In this monthly workshop with experienced teacher Dan Cayer, you will learn to activate your body's natural relaxation response through practicing simple techniques. Our body can be a source of joy and confidence, and an instrument for pleasure and connection. But all too often, we experience it as an achy, chubby, worry and tension-filled burden that…
Find out more »May 2018
Your Body is Your Practice – Monthly Workshop May
Learning to become mindful and familiar with our body sensations and paying attention to our physical reactions can help with stress, pain, and self-acceptance. In this monthly workshop with experienced teacher Dan Cayer, you will learn to activate your body's natural relaxation response through practicing simple techniques. Our body can be a source of joy and confidence, and an instrument for pleasure and connection. But all too often, we experience it as an achy, chubby, worry and tension-filled burden that…
Find out more »June 2018
The Path of Well-Being Program – Three Weekend Course Starting June 15th
The process of healing includes the recognition that well-being can be found in any situation – and is available to everyone, no matter what the circumstances. When we are physically or emotionally struggling, we often believe our life is on hold until we are cured or our problems are resolved. The Path of Well-Being is the understanding that despite adverse conditions we can learn to develop compassion, wisdom, and even appreciation for our situation and our lives. With practice we…
Find out more »Your Body is Your Practice – Monthly Workshop June
Learning to become mindful and familiar with our body sensations and paying attention to our physical reactions can help with stress, pain, and self-acceptance. In this monthly workshop with experienced teacher Dan Cayer, you will learn to activate your body's natural relaxation response through practicing simple techniques. Our body can be a source of joy and confidence, and an instrument for pleasure and connection. But all too often, we experience it as an achy, chubby, worry and tension-filled burden that…
Find out more »July 2018
Your Body Is Your Practice at New Haven Insight Society, Connecticut – July 28
Learning to become mindful and familiar with our body sensations and paying attention to our physical reactions can help with stress, pain, and self-acceptance. In this monthly workshop with experienced teacher Dan Cayer, you will learn to activate your body's natural relaxation response through practicing simple techniques. Our body can be a source of joy and confidence, and an instrument for pleasure and connection. But all too often, we experience it as an achy, chubby, worry and tension-filled burden that…
Find out more »September 2018
Your Body is Your Practice – Monthly Workshop September
Learning to become mindful and familiar with our body sensations and paying attention to our physical reactions can help with stress, pain, and self-acceptance. In this monthly workshop with experienced teacher Dan Cayer, you will learn to activate your body's natural relaxation response through practicing simple techniques. Our body can be a source of joy and confidence, and an instrument for pleasure and connection. But all too often, we experience it as an achy, chubby, worry and tension-filled burden that…
Find out more »October 2018
What Is a Healing Mindset? – Livestream Event
Livestream Only with Dan Cayer “Be positive.” “Hang in there.” “Don’t worry.” In the pantheon of well-intentioned but lame advice, ill people have borne the brunt of it. Whether you’re suffering from chronic pain, stress, or just feeling out of sorts, the underlying message from others tends to be that you aren’t trying hard enough. If only you were more disciplined, rational, or grateful, life would be better. This can lead to an attitude that something is deeply wrong…
Find out more »Friday Night Series: The Path of Wellbeing – October 19
Despite physical or emotional pain, everyone can learn to develop compassion, wisdom, and even appreciation for our situation and our lives. In this three-week series with Kim and Dan, we'll practice and learn how to regard difficulties as opportunities to deepen your relationship with yourself and others. Discover a sense of peace and ease in your life which doesn’t depend on eradicating pain, generating pleasant feelings, or creating ideal circumstances. Our experienced teachers will guide you in a unique blend…
Find out more »What I Do
I teach an innovative approach to dealing with pain and stress drawing on my training as an Alexander Technique teacher and my experience coming back from a life-changing injury. I also provide hands-on instruction and support for adults who wish to learn how to swim without fear or pain. Learn more »
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