Training & meeting each person, each body, each moment with loving talk, touch, movement, listening, leverage, prayer & play.
Bodies Helping Bodies is a four-full-day, in-person, small-group training immersion in skillful human-to-human helping: talk, touch, movement, listening, communication, breath, presence, leverage, experimentation, prayer, play & embodied relationship.
It comes out of 16+ years of bodywork practice but it isn't only for bodyworkers.
A sequence tells us at start where to put our hand next, but what about what the person & body in front of you is asking for.
So this training is technique & intuition, it's learning the relationship between the two.
Roughly 9am to 6pm each day spending time giving, receiving, practicing, repeating, communicating, experimenting, being coached & encountering different bodies not sitting through lectures.
The honest version: four full immersion days can be enough to begin practicing and to get your body and your hands in the momentum of the moment & to genuinely change what you notice, what you can do & how you keep learning afterward too.
Current massage therapists, bodyworkers, movement teachers, trainers, coaches, aspiring practitioners anyone whose work involves bodies, care, or human relationship and those who want to start in such services or to add a tool to their belt
Partners, friends, family anyone who wants to get better at helping, touching, listening to & caring for the people they love.
Some people come to start a profession. Some come to expand one. Some will never charge anyone for this work professionally but will change the way they are with their beloved close friends and family. All three are legitimate.
Joey came to this work unusually. After a heart surgery in his early 20s, he walked into a three-hour introductory Thai massage class & had the immediate experience: "Oh. This is real. I'm actually doing something useful."
With little money for formal training, he spent the next year & a half learning through service, curiosity & honest experimentation. Sixteen years & thousands of hours of hands-on work later, he has trained roughly 150 people as practitioners & simply-humans alike.
"I spent five years as a preschool teacher and have been a dancer since I was five... my work has always come back to the body: how we move, feel, process, and connect. Now I'm following that thread into psychosomatics and bodywork, something I've been wanting to do for a long time. Along the way I've been learning from someone who's become a very good & trusted friend and teacher, Joey Lundgreen."
The group is intentionally small this is a real training with a real limit of ten people, & 2 places are already taken. Enrollment is about both availability & fit: before confirming your place, we'll have a conversation to see how this could be a great fit for you & the group right now. Reach out to connect & see if it's a fit. A deposit claims your spot before they're gone.
If something in you has been thinking that come say hi & tell me a little about yourself. No pressure, no countdown timers. Just a conversation about whether this is a fit.
Reach out to connect & see if it's a fit. A deposit claims your spot before they're gone.
1-408-750-7173 · @BodiesHelpingBodies
Maybe I'll see you in Marin.