USABP On The Move Featuring Dan Leven
Embody Your Heart: Increase Your Vagal Tone
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This course will not include CEs. Our upcoming recorded live events will be available here, free for members and non-members who register for them, as is the case here. Members and event registrants can use their discount code to watch this event free.
Description
Embody Your Heart
Toning the Vagus Nerve through Mindful and Heartful Movement
Our embodied heart is a profound source of quieting the brain and nervous system as well as energizing our sense of safety and connectedness with others. In this webinar we enliven this inner resource through mindfully moving the heart towards openness and freedom.
As Dan Leven leads you in a series of mindful movements that focus on the heart and lungs (where our ventral vagus nerve communicates to and from), you will have the opportunity to cultivate a deeper sense of your heart’s presence within you. Additionally, specific qigong practices will engage your heart energy and strengthen your vagal tone.
This heartful & mindful movement practice is inspired by elements of Body-Mind Centering® and Qi Gong that inform part of Dan Leven’s work at the Leven Institute for Expressive Movement.
Experiential Flow:
• Somatic lovingkindness meditation to enhance interoception and vagal tone
• Mindful movements of the heart and lungs inspired by elements of Body-Mind Centering®
• Qigong exercises to awaken heart energy
• Healing and intuitive movements that organically emerge from your heart
Your Instructor
Dan is the Founder and Director of LIFE Movement, Leven Institute for Expressive Movement. Drawing from 40 years of experience, Dan created integrative approaches to body-mind healing and wellness: Shake Your Soul® and SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy. As a former professional dancer and Program Director at the Kripalu Center where he co-founded Kripalu Danskinetics™ (now Kripalu YogaDance), Dan has led numerous workshops and professional certification trainings at the Omega Institute and Kripalu. Dan holds a Master’s in Pastoral Counseling and served as a faculty member of Hartford Family Institute’s Body-Centered Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Program, training psychotherapists and healers in this work.