Greeting Health Newsletter
Fall 2023
Reconciling Trauma by Coming Home to the Body
A holistic approach offering new possibilities for living life in balance and harmony
Traumatic events can result in imbalances and suffering that affect the body, mind, and feelings, disrupting our capacity to experience life as it is. What allows accidents, injuries, and painful events to continue affecting us over time? How can we transform our relationship to these events, to reduce their traumatic impact?
One reason it is so difficult to heal from trauma is that we don’t know how to relate to it without associative fear from the mind. But there is a part of us that is whole and undamaged, and can access comfort and support in any moment of our lives.
Reconciling traumatic events is much less about “fixing” ourselves, and much more about discovering who we really are, beyond the impact of these events.
In these workshops, we will examine fundamental concepts and misconceptions that feed trauma and increase its detrimental influence, and introduce new perspectives that support a revolutionary approach to healing and a return to health, harmony, and vitality. We will practice a variety of somatic movement and partner bodywork exercises that nurture connection between body, mind, and feelings, and open possibilities to process events in a new way that strengthens our capacity to assimilate, heal, and live fully and vibrantly.
The workshops are appropriate for practitioners in the fields of mental, physical, and emotional health, and for anyone who is interested in understanding how to work with trauma.
Instructed by Jon Schreiber, DC, Angela Porter, LMFT, and Alexandra Johnson, MD
Detoxifying Baths
Saunas and baths can be a powerful support for detoxifying from your day, supporting your immune system, and lifting your spirits. Like all of the protocols we offer at Greeting Health, they are simple, practical, and something you can integrate easily into your life!
During a period of cleansing through fasting, bathe daily and brush skin with a loofah or brush with natural bristles. Brush before and after when the skin is dry.
Epsom Salts
Good cleanser for radiation, chemicals, medications. Supports with balancing emotions and for sore muscles and tired nerves.
2-4 lbs. in a tub of warm water
Can add essential oils
Soak 15-20 minutes
Apple Cider Vinegar
Oxygenates the body and can acidify the system to inhibit bacterial growth, good for genito-urinary tract infections and large intestinal upset. Has an energizing effect.
1 quart vinegar in a tub of warm water
Soak 25-40 minutes
Baking Soda & Sea Salt
Good for cleansing radiation and is soothing and relaxing.
2 lbs. of each in a tub of warm water
Soak 15-20 minutes
Rinse with a shower of plain water
Don't Search—You Are in This Moment
Stand comfortably.
Raise the right arm overhead, arm and hand stretching upward.
Raise the left arm overhead and bring the left hand to hold around the right thumb in a loose fist. Close the right hand over the left.
Begin hopping from foot to foot, maintaining and even increasing the stretch overhead, while keeping the tempo of the hopping the same.
Continue for three breaths.
Bring the hopping to a stop.
Inhale, stretching upward even more, then exhale, quickly bending the body forward (from the waist) and down, as the hands disengage and the arms swing down lateral to the legs.
Slowly stand upright, the head coming up last.
Stand comfortably
Judgment and self-criticism separate us from ourselves and cut us off from life.
This is where the mind and feelings function in separation from each other and from the body.
When the mind is separate from the body, we react to everything we see from this place of separation according to like and dislike. We unconsciously cling to fearful, inflated self-images that move us further into isolation instead of toward essential and honest connection with ourselves and an open-hearted relationship with life.
This can be remedied by unifying the energies of body, mind, and feelings.
By helping you develop a direct and natural connection between your body, mind, and feelings, Breema creates a foundation of safety and security, which becomes a constant support in life. Breema bodywork and self-care exercises, practiced with Breema's Nine Principles of Harmony, lead us to discover the aspect of ourselves that is always whole, healthy, undamaged, and in harmony with life.
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