Columbus Center for Movement Studies & Aikido of Columbus

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Winning is Healing: Being In Movement® Mindbody Training with Trauma Survivors	Berlin, Germany ............ May 1- 4, 2008 ............ Paul Linden Trauma survivors commonly contract their posture and attention, which is a result of the natural shock response and is also a coping strategy to reduce awareness of physical and emotional pain. This distress response usually stays stuck in the body until it is deliberately unlearned.
Aikido Seminar with Mary Heiny	Columbus, Ohio ............ May 17-18, 2008 ............ Mary Heiny “The techniques of Aikido are intended as tools for us to use in examining the nature of power, to engage in uncompromising self-scrutiny, and to realize our potential as powerful, compassionate, creative, self-aware human beings.” Mary Heiny Sensei, 6th Dan
Feeling Aikido: Body Awareness Training as a Foundation for Aikido Practice	Columbus, Ohio USA ............ June 14 - 17, 2008 ............ Paul Linden Learning methods for increasing body awareness will improve your Aikido skills and your Aikido teaching, and it will improve your functioning in daily life. Beyond that, it will enable you to teach Aiki ways of living to people who do not practice Aikido.
Body Awareness & Empowerment for Abuse/Assault Survivors: A Workshop for Helping Professionals	Salt Lake City ............ July 18, 2008 ............ Paul Linden This experiential workshop is designed for professionals such as psychotherapists, medical practitioners, massage therapists, somatic educators, and martial artists who work with survivors of abuse and assault.
Embodying Power-- For LGBTQ Individuals	Salt Lake City ............ July 19, 2008 ............ Paul Linden This workshop will focus on body awareness training for achieving calmness, inner strength, and compassion in a world of discrimination, rejection, and conflict. We thank the Utah Pride Center for being a co-sponsor for this workshop. This workshop is part of the Utah Pride Center's Pride in You series.
Body Awareness Training as a Foundation for Aikido Practice.	Salt Lake City, Utah USA ............ July 20, 2008 ............ Paul Linden This Aikido workshop will focus on how to use body awareness exercises drawn from Being In Movement® mindbody training to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Aikido defense techniques and deepen Aikido practice as a meditative process.
Being In Movement® Mindbody Training	Warsaw, Poland ............ October 11 & 12, 2008 ............ Paul Linden Being In Movement® mindbody training is an educational process which uses body awareness instruction to help people increase comfort and improve performance in whatever areas of their lives are important to them.
Winning is Healing: Being In Movement® Mindbody Training with Trauma Survivors	Warsaw, Poland ............ October 13-14, 2008 ............ Paul Linden Trauma survivors commonly contract their posture and attention, which is a result of the natural shock response and is also a coping strategy to reduce awareness of physical and emotional pain. This distress response usually stays stuck in the body until it is deliberately unlearned.
Body Awareness Training as a Foundation for Aikido Practice.	Ireland ............ December 7/8, 2008 ............ Paul Linden This Aikido workshop will focus on how to use body awareness training to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Aikido defense techniques and deepen Aikido practice as a meditative process. You will work with breath, posture, and intention to develop Aikido technique which is open, balanced, powerful, loving, and effective.