Bill Palmer • Hands On Tao

BILL PALMER WITH: “WORKING WITH STAGES OF LIFE”

Masterclass with Bill Palmer
in Wageningen, 15, 16 and 17 of November 2024

MASTERCLASS “WORKING WITH STAGES OF LIFE” WITH BILL PALMER AND TERESA HADLAND

Much of Oriental Medicine focuses on working with the Qi, activating and balancing the homeostatic functions of the body. This often means trying to change old patterns that resist change. But there is a deeper way of working that recognises constitutional patterns and loosens them rather than trying to change them. This facilitates archetypal developmental processes, which spontaneously find new ways of being and acting that are consistent your nature.

Human Development progresses through eight recognised stages. In each stage, the person faces an archetypal challenge and meeting it successfully develops a human capacity. So development can be seen as a course where you learn lessons that build on each other. Many long term problems can be caused by being stuck in a developmental stage or by missing out on a lesson which is needed for facing the challenge of a later stage.

Movement Shiatsu gives specific tools for helping people to meet the challenge of their current phase or identifying what has been missed in previous lessons. We work with both of these through drama processes which bring psycho-social issues into the body and then use movement, voice and touch to work with the problems physically.

FOR WHOM

The course is open to everyone. We will be working with Wolfson voicework, breathwork, movement and touch. It will be fun, challenging, profound and transform the way you work with yourself and others.

THE TEACHER

BILL PALMER

Bill Palmer was one of the pioneers of oriental bodywork and Qigong in Europe in the 1970s. He saw that the basis of the oriental approach was to “facilitate the communication within”.

He began to investigate how people could access suppressed parts of their personality through their bodies and through movement. He worked for ten years with teachers in the voice work tradition of Alfred Wolfson and Roy Hart. He studied Qigong, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Developmental Movement Therapy and Drama Therapy and founded the School for Experiential Education. Within this school the emphasis is on learning through exploration and improvisation.

Bill is the initiator of the shiatsu style “Movement Shiatsu”. He teaches Movement Shiatsu around the world. He is also regularly involved in music improvisations, which he sees mainly as a way to let go of the dominant mind in order to be able to be together in a spontaneous way.

My central belief is that we, as individuals, are not wise enough to know what is best for another person. Therefore, I do not try to understand what to do by diagnosis and theory. Instead, I focus on helping people to feel into themselves through their body sensations and their natural life process. My work is now more like education than therapy.
– Bill Palmer

ACCREDITATIONS

Accreditation will be requested from KTNO (among others NVST) and ZHONG (category 1). LVNT and SVN automatically recognize our training courses.

PRAKTICAL INFORMATION

15, 16 en 17 of November 2024
At KenKon
Nieuwe Kanaal 11, Wageningen
Times: 10 to 17 o’clock

Investment: €395,-,
€95,- upon registration, the remainder before the start.

(For people familiar with our school: this training really is in Wageningen! And not in our current working space in Nijmegen.)

ARTICLE

Read the article “The Six Forms Of Touch”, that Bill wrote. You find more articles at https://seed.org/article-archive/

SIGN IN

Are you in? You can sign in with the button below. You pay the registration fee €95,- when signing in. For the rest you will receive an invoice later.

(NB: If you ar from an other country than The Netherlands, you better send me an e-mail, so I can sign you in manually. Mail me: jaana@handsontao.nl )