Join Haylin and Jamee for our final session on Somatic Self-Care and Releasing Grief.
Haylin will discuss somatic self-care and ways to care for ourselves and nervous systems, touching on boundaries, pleasure, and coming home to ourselves. Their workshop will end with a group guided self bodywork session focusing on acupressure techniques to release tension from the face and neck.
Then Jamee will lead us through a workshop on Qi Gong for Grief and Energetic Balance. Qi gong, cultivation of vital energy, is a low-impact movement practice that originates from China and draws on martial arts forms. There are a wide range of benefits one can experience including calming the nervous system, reducing pain, increasing energy, and improving mood. In this workshop we will be learning qi gong movements and Chinese medicine theory to help process grief, balance our vital energy (qi), and deepen our connections to ourselves and our communities. The movements can be done seated, standing, and with various modifications.
Please join us for this session in comfortable clothing, with somewhere to sit, water, a snack, a journal, and anything else you might want to feel held.
Haylin Belay (she/her) is a trauma-informed bodyworker, sexual health educator, and pleasure witch whose work is focused in teaching people of all ages practical skills for a healthier, more pleasurable life. In addition to over a decade of experience in developing research-based health education programming and providing professional development for clinicians, educators, and activists, she offers workshops, trainings, and one-on-one coaching from an integrated mind-body-spirit perspective.
Jamee Pineda (he/him) is a hilot binabaylan, acupuncturist, and Chinese medicine practitioner. His practice is informed by his identity as a queer, trans, non binary, Tagalog person living in the U.S. With the combination of his lived experience and training, his goal is to help individuals and communities live their fullest lives by offering a decolonizing approach to medicine rooted in traditional and ancestral practices.